I’ll start by saying two things: one, I don’t trust people who say they don’t like croquettes and two, that you ask me “what sign are you?” on a first date is a red flag for me. But after visiting this cocktail bar, perhaps the latter is more of a beige flag I don’t care so much, because if a Tinder hookup had taken me to this clandestine cocktail bar, we would have had a second date.
The reason is that this clandestine cocktail bar is much more than one of those places that It has become fashionable because they throw you the tarot (I insist that I do not believe too much in these things, I am rather empirical in life), but the truth is that it is much more. It is a hidden gem in Madrid for its baroque decoration, its cocktails that are actually potions and for its atmosphere.
We are talking about La Santoría, a clandestine and different cocktail bar in which to hide from the bustle of the city with a good drink in hand. A Great plan for a weekend with friends in Madrid if it rainsFor example.
The Santoría, the place to be from Madrid
The owners are Argentinian and they met in Buenos Aires. Mariano Amor is one of the owners, Diego is the mixologist, and Giuli Despósito, the tarot reader who reads two days a week every week. On Mondays and Thursdays La Santoría smells of Palo Santo smoke, but any day is a good one to visit this site, because the place is crazy beautiful. Full of neon lights, stamps, colored rosaries and endless details with careful thematic decoration. With its soft light, its flowers everywhere and its esoteric atmosphere, it wants to become the place to be of Madrid, whether or not you believe in the spirituality they promulgate.
Sitting at one of its tables and ordering a cocktail, you don’t need anything else to spend a pleasant and different time in this hidden gem in Madrid. Each one of them seeks to remedy what is not going well in your life with names like Seven Powers, Overcome Everything, Abre Caminos or Don’t Forget Me. They are almost charms or rather potions. Like the one that illustrates this article, which is called Amansar and is a cocktail with bubbles, spicy and acid, which seeks, in the words of its authors, “to tame a personal objective, a job, a desire”. I don’t know if the cocktails have magical powers, but they are very good.
Where is La Santoría in Madrid
Located in the Barrio de la Letras, in Huertas and close to Plaza Santa Ana, the place is open from 6:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m., from Wednesday to Sunday. Specifically, at number 30 Lope de Vega street. But a recommendation: go early, because it is becoming so fashionable that queues to enter even during the week.
Of course, they have made me want to set up a coven every Thursday just with the excuse of trying a new cocktail every day in a place that is as original as it is interesting. Who knows, I might end up asking for the letters to be read to me, without me being any of that.
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