Slow Café Madrid — Restaurant in Madrid

I really liked the coffee place at first. I've been there 3 times working at the table nearby the window and maybe 2 times with my friends, seeing people working around the place. However, today - Friday, I was told that I'm not allowed to work there, sitting as usual at the window table. The cafe was half-empty. I got used to the fact that here in Madrid you are not allowed to work in cafes during weekends but I don't think it's an ideal strategy for a place visited by many international people to be so unreasonable and rude in half-empty cafe. I'm never going to that place again - it was humiliating. Also, you have no sign or label saying that you cannot work there. So I'm not sure if I only had a bad luck with horrible waiter or what...

The name is well chosen because, as a group of four, we sure did wait - about 30 minutes for one espresso and two cappuccinos, then another 20 minutes for a slice of cake and pan con tomate. By the time the food arrived, we were basically part of the furniture. We kept thinking about leaving, but the servers passed by so often that we always assumed we’d be next.

The cappuccino was decent, but the espresso? So sour it could have been used to pickle vegetables. If it had been mine, I’d have asked for a redo, it was clearly under-extracted, leaving nothing but sharp acidity behind. The place itself had a cool vibe, but that massive, low table was a challenge, even for someone used to sitting on tiny stools all over...

Cute little cafe. Coffee was really good, I just tried to toast with tomato and olive oil, it was yummy with good bakery quality bread. The rest of the menu looks good with decent prices. It’s laptop friendly with good wifi and a few power outlets laying around. I didn’t talked much with the baristas because my Spanish sucks but they seems friendly haha If I had only one negative thing to say is the lack natural light getting in, but it’s because of the location of the street, they can’t really do anything about, they still deserved they 5 stars, anyway on a winter day it doesn’t make any...