Design-led brunch roomEUR 15-24salamancaDaily 09:00-22:00Walk-in or website
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.
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.
Laptop-friendly brunchEUR 12-18malasanaDaily 09:00-24:00Walk-in only
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.
All-day brunch, AustralianEUR 15-22chuecaDaily 09:00-22:00Walk-in only
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.
Specialty coffee plus brunchEUR 14-19chamberiDaily 09:00-20:00Walk-in only
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.
All-day brunch, beach-themed basementEUR 12-18malasanaDaily 09:30-24:00Walk-in only
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.
Specialty coffee plus brunchEUR 12-16malasanaMon-Fri 08:00-19:00, weekends 09:00-19:00Walk-in only
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.