Ella Sky Bar Madrid

Ella Sky Bar sits on Gran Vía, directly above the busy thoroughfare. It is a ten-minute walk from the Puerta del Sol and roughly fifteen minutes from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.

The room runs smart, aiming for a formal register that sets it apart from the casual drop-in bars common to this stretch of Madrid. While the menu offers a broad mix of Mediterranean and international plates, the draw is the vertical distance from the street. You choose this for the height, which provides a clean sightline over the city that the ground-level cafes on Gran Vía cannot match. It lacks the intimate, lived-in character of the neighborhood’s older taverns, but it succeeds as a quiet vantage point for those looking to see the capital from above.