Spain’s capital is also its most ebullient city. To experience Madrid is to explore its restaurants and eateries, prop up its countless bars, and be swept up in its nocturnal charms. In this diverse and open-armed city is a thriving restaurant scene with menus serving dishes of infinite variety in the most innovatively designed settings. Readers will find the most fashionable destinations for enjoying the eating and reveling Madrid is famous for in this flexi-bound little guide. Recipes are interspersed among the lavishly illustrated profiles.

Aurora Cuito is an architect and writer based in Barcelona. The author of several titles in teNeues Archipockets’ series, she has also worked in architecture and interior design firms in New York and Barcelona.

• A guide to Madrid’s coolest restaurants, bars and lounges
• Attractively designed with sample recipes, flexicover, and over 130 color photographs