Loft 39 in Madrid's Salamanca is the design-led specialty brunch room since 2014, with white-marble counters, a focused brunch carte and a Sunday brunch buffet that fills up by 11:30.
Must order: Eggs Florentine on house brioche
Tip: The brunch buffet (24 euros all-you-can-eat) Sundays only is the headline; carte brunch 15 to 22 euros daily.
Address: Calle Velazquez 39, 28001 Madrid
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, brunch counter and a Mahou tap on weekends.
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.
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, smashed-egg plates and a focused specialty coffee bar.
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 with the house-roasted single-origin coffee.
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 upstairs and the palm-shaded basement downstairs.
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 and a flat-white-plus-avocado-toast Madrid morning.
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 and a focused weekend brunch carte.
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.
