Best neighborhood beer bar among the ones listed below in order using criteria listed. Good food,…read moregood beer selection, good prices and excellent service 1. Cerveceria Thomas - Overall best 2. Irreale - Best beer selection, limited food selection but good, service is good not excellent 3. Cerveceria Plaza Mayor 4. Chinaski Lavapies 5. La Tape 6. El Pedal 7. El Boliche

This place is a hidden gem. This Tapas bar is where the locals go to hang out, have a drink and…read moretastes some excellent Tapas. La Caña de Gonzalo does not disappoint! The staff is friendly and if you ask they also have their menu in English. We tried various Tapas like patatas bravas, pork steak with fries, tuna with tomato sauce on a baguette, mini hamburgers and some great local beers. Definitely would go back again if I had the chance. The place is small and always crowded but you will always find somewhere to sit and eat.

This is a great place to walk to have an incredible micro craft beer and couple appetizers. It also…read morehas great meat plates and fabulous deserts. They speak English but we were the only English speakers here. Get the cheesecake it will be the best you have EVER had in your life.

We were attending orientation for our abroad program and decided to ditch. We began walking and…read morestopped to ask a nice woman walking her two dogs a local place to grab some beer and grub. She pointed us in the direction of La Lidia and told us that everything there is awesome. She was right. We probably had about 3-4 beers each and a ration of huevos rotos and the guy kept coming with more small tapas. Awesome and would go again, maybe after a bullfight

Don't remember much because we got pretty plastered here. It was the only bar near our hotel Nueva…read moreBoston. We walked here. Seemed pretty far on he way there. But on the way back we were pretty drunk so it didn't matter. It's a nice little Irish dive bar. Who would've thought Spain would have Irish bars? Also kind of reminded me of Cheers, the TV show. Well, our first night in Madrid after my buddy and i picked up our third buddy from the airport, we went straight to the bar to celebrate our arrival in Spain. We ordered shots and supposedly shots are called "chupitos" in Spain. The lady bartenders laughed at us. I think they were 3 or 4€s. After that we had beers, i think Heinekens which were 2€s. Nothing special. Just a good ol' Irish pub. We were excited that this place closed at 4am but then we realized that's just standard out in Spain.

So yes this was the only bar close to the Hotel Nuevo Boston and we thought it couldn't possibly be…read morethat bad. Well it's not that bad if you only have drinks here. The nachos we ordered had cold stadium type nacho cheese on them with a small side of artificial guacamole. The burger we ordered was incredibly rare to the point where we didn't know if that's how they do it in Spain or if they just don't know how to cook a hamburger. We gave up and ate the bread. Fish and chips were soggy but edible. Have a few drinks, the place is busy but don't eat the food.