Where to brunch in Madrid: morning rooms worth the queue.
Where to brunch in Madrid. The morning rooms worth the queue, and the kitchens still doing it right at noon.
Federal Cafe on Plaza de las Comendadoras in Madrid's Conde Duque is the Australian-style all-day brunch room since 2014, with avocado toast.
Order: Smashed avocado on sourdough toast with poached eggs
Tip: Walk-in only; the weekend brunch fills up by 11:30. The Sunday breakfast set with bottomless filter coffee runs 18 euros.
Mision Cafe in Madrid's Conde Duque is the specialty third-wave room with a focused brunch carte; eggs benedict, avocado toast and smashed-egg plates.
Order: Eggs benedict on house sourdough with cured Iberico
Tip: Walk-in only; the Sunday brunch fills up by 11:30. The brunch sets run 14 to 19 euros; cortado at 2.20.
Ojala in Madrid's Malasana is the daytime brunch and evening cocktail bar with the basement Ojala Beach (sand floor and palm trees), serving brunch plates.
Order: Avocado toast with poached egg and pulled jamon
Tip: Walk-in only; the basement Ojala Beach with sand floor is the seat to ask for. The smashed-avocado plate runs 14 euros.
Toma Cafe in Madrid's Malasana is the city's pioneer specialty third-wave room since 2011, with house-roasted single-origin coffees, a focused brunch carte.
Order: Smashed avocado on house sourdough toast
Tip: Walk-in only; the weekend brunch fills up by 11:00. Flat white runs 3.50; brunch sets 12 to 16 euros.
HanSo Cafe in Madrid's Malasana is the Korean-Spanish specialty third-wave brunch room since 2015, with matcha lattes, Korean-toasted-egg plates.
Order: Korean egg toast with matcha latte
Tip: Closed Mondays. Walk-in only; the weekend brunch fills up by 11:00. Korean-egg toast plus matcha runs 14 euros.
Panaderia Mision in Madrid's Conde Duque is the bakery-and-brunch room by the Mision Cafe team since 2020, with house-baked sourdough toasts.
Order: House sourdough toast with Iberico jamon and tomato
Tip: Walk-in only. The sourdough-and-jamon toast plus cortado runs 10 euros; whole loaves to take home from 5 euros.
East Crema Coffee Hermosilla in Madrid's Salamanca is the specialty-coffee-and-brunch room from the East Crema roaster, with a spacious counter.
Order: Brunch set with specialty coffee and house pastry
Tip: Walk-in only. Brunch runs until 13:00 daily; the 11.50-euro set (coffee, juice, toast, pastry) is the order.
La Bicicleta Cafe on Plaza de San Ildefonso in Madrid is the laptop-and-flat-white coworking brunch room since 2009, with a sofa-strewn back room.
Order: Smashed avocado on toast with poached eggs
Tip: Walk-in only. The back-room sofas are the laptop seats; the front terrace is for the social-brunch crowd.