Azotea del Círculo Madrid

Azotea del Círculo sits on the roof of the Círculo de Bellas Artes at Calle del Marqués de Casa Riera. It is a five-minute walk from Gran Vía and provides a Mediterranean and Italian-inflected seafood menu served above the street-level congestion of Centro.

The room runs smart and relies on the terrace to distinguish itself from the informal tapas bars crowding the surrounding blocks. While the bill is expensive, the high volume of positive feedback from nearly ten thousand guests suggests that diners value the altitude and the view as much as the menu. This is the place to head when the tourist crush at ground level becomes overbearing, as the vantage point offers a physical distance from the city that cheaper, busier restaurants cannot provide.