Do we Spanish really go to bed so late? How much truth is in the rumors that qualify us as party-lovers? Well, the truth is that quite a lot. Although things are not as they were years ago, we love staying up late, (we go to bed at around midnight on a business day, and we have no limits in the weekends). With all these free hours, it is normal that we look for something to do. These are some of the places in Madrid that make us the favor of taking us during the night hours.
Populart
Prestigious Jazz Café founded more than 25 years ago and located in the heart of the Literary Quarter. Artists like Compay Segundo, Paquito D'Rivera, Loy Bennet, Eddie Henderson and Canal Street Band, have played the best of jazz, blues and soul music on its mythical stage, open every day of the year.
Café Central
Tete Montoliu, George Adams, Don Pullen, Art Farmer, Tal Farlow, Jeanne Lee, Lou Bennett, Mal Waldron, Sam Rivers, Stephen Franckevich, Randy Weston, Barry Harris, Ben Sidran, or Chano Domínguez are just some of the artists who have played at the Central Café, a well-known jazz café that turned 30 in 2012.
Teatro Circo Price
This auditorium has its origins in the nineteenth century when the city lived a real heyday of the circus arts. Since then, the Price, as it’s known in the city, has lived many lives up to what it is today, a leader in Madrid’s cultural life and a beautiful concert hall in which to enjoy the best circus acts and international artists concerts. Do not forget to check it’s theater programme ... it’ll surprise you!
Galileo Galilei
If you want to know what is happening in the Spanish music scene beyond the big record companies, this is your concert hall. With 40 years of history behind it, the stage of Galileo Galilei welcomes not only musicians, but also book presentations, poetry, cultural events against violence ...
Casino Gran Madrid
If gambling is your thing, in this impressive casino, located in the heart of Madrid, you will find everything you want. Table games, slot machines, electronic tables ... and all accompanied by the best gastronomic menus. Everything needed for a heart-stopping night up to late in the morning (concretely until 6:00am)
Fortuny Restaurant and Club
At night, this painstaking restaurant, gets transformed into one of the most exclusive clubs in town. It is characterized by its good atmosphere and music, which combines the latest house with commercial hits of the moment, and to be the best showcase for the "it people" of the city. Its decor is inspired by some of the finest clubs in London.
Joy Eslava
This club located in an old theater just off the Puerta del Sol, opened in 1981, the day after the coup d'état in the Congress of Deputies. That’s the reason why it became one of the symbols of the fledgling democracy and the modernization of Spain after Franco’s dictatorship. Today is one of the busiest nightclubs in Madrid and the one that concentrates the greatest number of famous people per square meter.
Teatro Kapital
Also in the center of the city, one of Spain’s most emblematic clubs. With 7 independent floors offering different kinds of music, and decorations: VIP Room, Karaoke, Funky / R & B music, Cocktail Bar, Party zone, Mojito and Cuba Libre area and The Terrace, with a lounge bar and smoking area.
Tablao Flamenco Villa-Rosa
Madrid has been and is the capital of flamenco since the early twentieth century. The first companies were formed here, and the flamenco genre enshrined as we understand it today. If we could return to Madrid in the 20s and we were to ask an amateur for the most emblematic flamenco places, quite possibly the first name that he would mention would be that of Villa-Rosa, a tablao opened in 1911 that still remains a reference in Madrid's flamenco night.
La Taberna de Pinkleton
Opened as Flamenco Show in 1961, this peculiar establishment currently offers a show of casual and different flamenco, while enjoying the best products of Spanish cuisine and a spectacular selection of wines, champagnes and spirits.
