Somehow we only ended up with the one photo from El Rincon, which is quite sad, as it was one of those places you look at and immediately know it will be right. Full of weird old stuff and lots of happy looking customers. We stumbled across it while looking for lunch and respite from a blistering summer day in Madrid. Details of what we ate have been lost in the shuffle, but the fond memories have not been. No website we can find, but the real address is 26, Calle Espiritu Santo. Stop on by...
I hadn’t been back to Madrid for almost 10 years, and so finding Hotel De Las Letras on the Gran Via was a lovely surprise, among many, in how central Madrid seems to have changed. De Las Letras has redesigned a classic central Madrid building. The literary concept of the place could have gone terribly wrong, but they’ve kept it clever rather than pretentious. The rooftop bar is worth a pricey Tinto de Verano for the view of the surrounding city and the somewhat surreal mix of people who gather there.
Sadly, our photos of the room didn’t come out, but this was the view from our window and little balcony.
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