Madrid · Lisbon · Rome

We know a place.

A curated guide to stays, tables, drinks and trips. Addresses worth knowing, written to be used on the day — not bookmarked and forgotten.

17 places in Madrid · 9 guides · see them on the map

Your Next Stop

Templo de Debod, the free sunset. Javier Perez Montes · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where we are

The home city. Flat, late, cheap to eat in, and built for leaving the house.

Home city

17 places · 3 guides

A hill city that rewards walking badly and eating often.

10 places · 3 guides

A city with too much in it. The skill is choosing what to skip.

9 places · 2 guides

Drinks

low lights, good drinks, no rush to leave.

Not the loudest rooms in the city — the ones where you can still hear each other at midnight.

Itinerary

There is a correct way to spend Sunday in this city and it ends with you achieving nothing. Here is the route.

Notebook

Three cities, one habit that makes all of them better, and it costs nothing.

TripsSponsored

The same square can be unbearable at two and close to empty at half past seven. Almost all Rome advice is really timing advice.

Stays

Central Madrid does not get quiet until about four. That single fact should decide your booking.

Tables worth planning a day around. Markets, counters and the one street everyone ends up on.

Restaurants · Market
Mercado de la Cebada
A working market under a wave of green roofs, with bars wedged between the fish counters.
La LatinaMadrid1/4
Restaurants · Food hall
Time Out Market Lisboa
The city's nineteenth-century market hall, half of it now a curated food court.
Cais do SodréLisbon2/4
Restaurants · Pizza by weight
A pizza al taglio counter in Trastevere
Sample entry: trays in the window, cut with scissors, sold by weight.
TrastevereRome1/4Sample
Restaurants · Market
Mercato Testaccio
The neighbourhood market that is worth crossing the city for, especially at lunchtime.
TestaccioRome1/4