La Buena Pinta

La Buena Pinta is a craft beer bar located in the lively Mercado de San Fernando, a neighborhood market which once faced practical abandonment but which has since become home to young craft producers ranging from local beers and unfiltered wines to homemade Greek food and artisan breads. La Buena Pinta has a solid selection of Spanish and international craft brews, with a selection of six or so mainly-Spanish beers on tap (including some of the Spanish craft beer classics like La Virgen or Dougall’s) and a huge selection of America, British, German, Czech, and Belgian bottled beers in the fridge and on the shelf.

Cutting-edge craft beer and traditional Spanish markets usually don’t mix. But the regular rules rarely apply in boho Lavapiés, especially when it comes to the barrio’s San Fernando Market. What was once a bustling smorgasbord of fruit and veg and chorizo and cheese, had – like many traditional markets in Madrid – lost the battle to the evil supermarkets. But recently the town hall offered the empty market stalls to new tenants at bargain basement prices. And suddenly San Fernando sprung back to life. Alongside the longtime occupants – red-faced butchers and gabby fishmongers – are a batch of young upstarts selling everything from organic cheese, to fill-your-own-local-wine to second hand books by weight.