Start the night at the BIBO bar.
some will call it leave after work , but we like it better, when the time comes, to say: "Who's having a drink?" Something abstract, broad, generic, that can start as a beer and end up as a gin and tonic... or vice versa, who knows. It can be a cocktail with a lid or without a lid.
What is clear is that the christmas dates They incite and invite you to leave the office and have a drink with or without your boss, a light business dinner, standing up, informal in which there is only one rule: it is forbidden to talk about work. Well, and one more rule: nobody talks about what happened last night after work… or having a drink.
Here is a list of afterworks, plans, bars, places or whatever you want to call it, to go for drinks even with bosses.
** RÊVER CLUB (C/ Manuela Silva, 6) **
Parisian atmosphere in a traditional setting, this ** cabaret club in the heart of Chamberí ** is a great option for a few first drinks and to break the ice with your drag queens show and music from the 60s to the 90s. That is, those great successes that we all know and end up humming. Inside, the place is cozy like a house in Paris from the beginning of the last century and that warmth adds to the time of sitting down at ease and starting the night with cocktails.
To break the ice with a show.
** S!RACUSA (C/ del Dr. Fleming, 23) **
It's not a focaccia and it's not a pizza either, it's called pinsa and it is halfway between the two, it comes from the USA and could have been the origin of the Italian-American pizza that we know today. S!RACUSA is the place that has discovered them for us and in addition to being open for lunch and dinner, **they take care of the afterwork hours every Thursday (from 7 to 9pm)** so you can drink and also eat (which, sometimes, in front of the bosses we forget): for each consumption of aperol, glass or cane a portion of pinsa. During these pre-Christmas days they also have **cocktail menus for groups (€25) ** and reserved for 12 people.
Pinsa and aperol, Italian-American afterwork.
**GENERATOR MADRID (C/ San Bernardo, 2) **
Going for a drink doesn't mean not taking a breath, and this new hostel with rooftop you have both options. Their terrace open every day until 22 precisely for these afterwork hours, with stoves to warm up and a wide selection of liquid menu. At Christmas they have several cocktail menus and also the possibility of hiring an open bar in case relations with the bosses are already very close.
You can also practice indoor afterwork.
** CLAW BAR (Plaza de España, 18) **
one of the corners coolest in Madrid for its decoration, its impressive bar with bottles up to the ceiling, its velvet sofas and that dim light that soon takes you into the night. There is a snack card to be able to continue trying, without resentful, the cocktails designed by Andrei Gherman that invents drinks by season.
**LONG LIVE MADRID (C/ Manuel Fernández y González, 7) **
At the time I was casting this year Salmon Gurú among the 50 best bars in the world, Diego Cabrera reopened and reinvented this classic tavern in Madrid opened in 1856 . During the day, he sends the aperitif and the vermouth; at night the most classic and at the same time avant-garde cocktail bar with bloody mary, pisco punch, old cuban… An experience that takes away the laziness of going to the heart of the city.
Let the bubbles run!
** BARBARA ANN (C/ Santa Teresa, 8) **
Rock soul and bar spirit, this is how this place is that has already established itself as an afterwork option in Madrid. Between your drinks the classics (dry Martini, old fashioned…), but also those that the barman adds to his menu: Glow, Gin fizz, Prince… very appetizing names. Also they bites from your letter short but precise to eat: lots of dishes to share (nachos, Korean fried potatoes...) and finger food (Japanese Iberian dumplings and free-range chicken...).
You'll come out singing the Beach Boys.
** BIBO (Paseo de la Castellana, 52) **
we still celebrate the three stars of Dani García of the restaurant that bears his name in Marbella and what better way to do it than to toast at his place in Madrid, in BIBO, in his brilliant ** afterwork hours (every day from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.) ** with a menu that pairs his most spectacular cocktails with some of his most special stages. Four pairing trips to get the night off to a good start in the company of the boss.
The already mythical oxtail brioche.
** SAN MATEO CIRCUS (C/ San Mateo, 6) **
For nostalgic wanting to party. old saint matthew reopened its doors this year completely renovated. The circus thing is because it maintains a stage or set on which there are performances of all kinds, but in essence it is still that bar with a wide and spacious bar where start or end the night. Surely you share memories with office colleagues and bosses of this place.
San Mateo Circus is the result of the project of a group of friends who lost count of the nights they spent in this place