[Home](https://thesteep.app/) › [Situations](https://thesteep.app/situations) › Serious espresso, Spanish pace # Serious espresso, Spanish pace Four cafes here take espresso seriously in a city that spent decades perfectly happy with a fast café con leche at the bar. Sorted by Coffee Quality, not overall score. 5 matches. - [Hola Coffee Fourquet](https://thesteep.app/cities/madrid/hola-coffee-fourquet) Steep Pick La Latina / Lavapiés · Madrid · Steep Index 9.4/10 A small, easy-to-miss specialty cafe in Lavapiés, run by a Spanish Barista Champion, and one of the more serious coffee stops in Madrid. - [Ruda Café](https://thesteep.app/cities/madrid/ruda-cafe) Steep Pick La Latina / Lavapiés · Madrid · Steep Index 9.0/10 A small specialty café hidden in the narrow streets of La Latina, near the Rastro market, with rotating single-origin coffees and baristas who can actually tell you why they chose the beans on the counter. - [Misión Café](https://thesteep.app/cities/madrid/mision-cafe) Steep Pick Conde Duque · Madrid · Steep Index 9.0/10 A specialty café and bakehouse in Conde Duque with a direct-trade coffee programme, a cortado worth going out of your way for, and avocado toast made from bread they baked that morning. - [Toma Café](https://thesteep.app/cities/madrid/toma-cafe)Malasaña · Madrid · Steep Index 8.5/10 One of the original specialty roasteries in Madrid, running out of a small Malasaña room since 2011. The flat white is honest, the cinnamon pastry will cost you a second coffee, and the solo experience is better than most. - [Cero Coffee Roasters](https://thesteep.app/cities/madrid/cero-coffee-roasters)Goya · Madrid · Steep Index 7.5/10 A specialty roaster and takeout counter in Salamanca with solid single-origin sourcing and an owner who knows the supply chain from seed to cup. The cup on this visit did not quite match the conversation. [All situations →](https://thesteep.app/situations)