This likeable, cramped café with a lovely façade is good for coffee and cake (chocolate or carrot), though prices are a tad high. Head upstairs to a low-beamed room with red leather chairs and old opera posters, overlooking the plaza. The café was a particular haunt of intellectuals, artists and actors in the '80s, but it's popular with a wider crowd these days.

Café del Real
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Details
- Address
- Plaza de Isabel II, 2
- Madrid
- 28013
- Transport:
- Opera (M: L2, L5)
- Price:
- €20
- Opening hours:
- Mon-Thu 9am-12.30am; Fri-Sat 9am-2.30am; Sun 9am-12.30am
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