The best specialty coffee shops in Madrid during CoffeeFest 2026

If you’re in Madrid for CoffeeFest 2026, you’ll spend most of your day at IFEMA. The event runs February 14 to 16 in Pabellón 14. It brings together roasters, baristas, producers, equipment manufacturers, and coffee professionals from across Spain and further afield. There are competitions, talks, tastings, and product launches. It’s focused, intense and three full days of coffee.

But the exhibition hall isn’t the whole story.

If you’re attending CoffeeFest, these are the best specialty coffee shops in Madrid to visit while you’re in town. All drive times are approximate taxi journeys from IFEMA Madrid under typical traffic conditions.

Toma Café

About 20 to 25 minutes by taxi from IFEMA

Toma Café helped define what good coffee means in Madrid. Founded in 2011 in Malasaña by Argentine couple Santi Rigoni and Patricia Alda, it arrived before “specialty” was a common word in the city. Their Blend Santo became a gateway coffee for many locals, and they steadily introduced pour-over, single origins, and a more thoughtful approach to sourcing and service. Today they roast their own beans and operate Toma Café 2 in Chamberí, pairing serious coffee with seasonal toasts, brunch, and occasional evening sessions with natural wine. They also run classes, a radio studio, and their own distribution network across Madrid.

Hola Coffee

About 15 to 20 minutes by taxi from IFEMA

Hola Coffee is not just another Madrid café with a roaster in the back. Founded by Spanish Barista Champion Pablo Caballero and roaster Nolo Botana, it has grown from a two-friend project into one of the most respected names in Spanish specialty coffee. Ranked 12th in The World’s 100 Best Coffee Shops 2025, Hola Coffee Lagasca is the highest-placed Spanish entry.

HanSo Café

About 20 minutes by taxi from IFEMA

HanSo Café began as a bakery in Usera before Nicho Han and his wife Eva brought their focus fully to coffee in Malasaña. The pastries built the audience. The coffee kept it. Today, HanSo serves some of the most consistent espresso and filter in the neighborhood, often featuring roasters such as Nomad, Gardelli, Bonanza, and April. The space blends industrial minimalism with an Asian touch, and weekends draw long lines. Come for the single origins, stay for the rice flour waffles and thousand layer cakes. If you want it quieter, go mid afternoon.

Acid Café

About 15 to 20 minutes by taxi from IFEMA

Acid Café opened in 2017 because Fede Graciano wanted the kind of coffee shop he couldn’t quite find in Madrid at the time. A place built around properly sourced specialty coffee. Transparent about where it comes from. Serious about how it’s roasted and served. The space is stripped back and calm. You go there to slow down. In the morning it’s coffee with tomato toast or a bowl of granola. Later, maybe Turkish eggs or a sandwich. By afternoon, it’s whatever came out of Acid Bakehouse that day. Croissants. Pain au chocolat. The cardamom bun. They brew La Cabra from Denmark.

Misión Café

About 20 to 25 minutes by taxi from IFEMA

Misión Café gets called Instagram worthy a lot, and yes, it photographs well. White brick. Clean lines. A Modbar machine sunk into the counter. But it’s more than a backdrop. The coffee comes from Hola Coffee. There’s an open kitchen and bakery, so you see the work happening. People come back for the vegan cookies, the porridge, the praline brioche. The menu shifts with the seasons. Cold brew or dirty horchata in summer. Pumpkin spice when it cools down.

Madrid beyond the exhibition hall

CoffeeFest will no doubt show you the industry at full volume. Stands. Launches. Competitions. That’s useful. But it’s only half the picture.

The other half is a quiet table in Malasaña. A bar in Chamberí. A bakery counter in Justicia. It’s watching how a city actually drinks coffee when nobody is judging it.

Go once the day at IFEMA is done. Or before it starts. Sit down. Order whatever they recommend. Pay attention to how it’s made and how it’s served. And that will tell you more about Madrid’s coffee scene than any stage ever could.