Some places simply make sense from the moment you discover where they are. Museo del Jamón Cava de San Miguel is one of them. Located on one of the streets that best captures the character of Madrid, just a few steps from Plaza Mayor and right in the heart of the historic Madrid de los Austrias district, this new venue welcomes La Tasca.
La Tasca is a new Museo del Jamón space created to bring back that unmistakably Madrid way of meeting around a bar, sharing something to eat and letting lunch or dinner last a little longer.
It is not simply another address. La Tasca has its own personality while staying true to everything that has defined Museo del Jamón for decades: ham, Iberian cured meats, familiar flavours and a relaxed, approachable way of enjoying Madrid’s food culture.
La Tasca: a new place to rediscover traditional Madrid
Madrid has changed enormously over the years, but some customs remain an essential part of the city’s identity.
Meeting for a vermouth, ordering a few toasts to share, standing around a bar, enjoying a gilda or sitting down in front of a traditional stew are small rituals that continue to define everyday life in Madrid.
La Tasca was created precisely with this spirit in mind.
Its menu brings together toasts, gildas, vermouth, stews and other traditional Madrid flavours, accompanied, of course, by a carefully selected range of ham and Iberian cured meats.
Ham remains one of the main features of the experience, preserving the strong connection with the product that has always characterised Museo del Jamón.
The result is a place designed for people to simply walk in and enjoy themselves. A space for sharing lunch, stopping during a walk through central Madrid, meeting friends or sitting down to enjoy flavours that immediately feel connected to the city.
Sometimes there is no need to reinvent things. It is enough to do them the way we have always enjoyed them here.
Cava de San Miguel, a street that tells the story of Madrid
The location is an essential part of the La Tasca concept.
Cava de San Miguel is not just another street in central Madrid. It runs behind Plaza Mayor and preserves one of the most recognisable views of the historic city centre, with its narrow, elongated buildings adapting to the slope surrounding the square.
Even its name takes us several centuries back in time.
The defensive moat of the old city once ran through this area. As Madrid expanded, the land was gradually transformed, but the old structure left its mark on the street layout and on the distinctive shape of some of its buildings.
Walking along Cava de San Miguel today means discovering the kind of Madrid that is best explored on foot: narrow streets, historic façades, corners leading towards Plaza Mayor and a relationship with bars and restaurants that seems inseparable from the neighbourhood itself.
It is difficult to imagine a more fitting setting for a traditional Madrid tavern.
A historic address: Cava de San Miguel, 11
La Tasca is located at Cava de San Miguel, 11, an address that also has its own place in Madrid’s cultural history.
Spanish novelist Benito Pérez Galdós chose this building as the fictional home of Fortunata, one of the main characters in his celebrated novel Fortunata y Jacinta.
The connection is so well established that Madrid City Council installed a commemorative plaque on the building dedicated to the character during events marking the centenary of the writer.
This detail makes the location more than simply an address close to Plaza Mayor.
Literature, urban history and gastronomy all come together within just a few metres.
And now, in this corner so closely connected to traditional Madrid, Museo del Jamón begins a new chapter with La Tasca.
A traditional Madrid tavern with the Museo del Jamón identity
Stepping inside La Tasca means discovering something new, yet instantly familiar.
Ham remains at the heart of the experience, alongside Iberian cured meats and the figure of the ham specialist, while the concept expands towards a style of cooking closely connected to Madrid’s traditional tavern culture.
Toasts, gildas, vermouth and stews help create a menu centred on flavours people in Madrid have enjoyed for generations.
The space itself follows the same idea.
La Tasca features a ham counter, bar and two dining rooms, allowing guests to enjoy the venue in different ways: from a quick stop at the bar to a longer and more relaxed meal at the table.
The concept is not about moving away from what Museo del Jamón represents.
Quite the opposite.
La Tasca brings together some of the simplest and most recognisable elements of Madrid’s food culture and gives them a new home within Museo del Jamón.
Come and discover La Tasca
If you are visiting Plaza Mayor or exploring central Madrid, you only need to walk over to Cava de San Miguel, 11.
La Tasca is open Monday to Sunday, from 1:00 pm to 11:30 pm, making it a great place for both a midday stop and an evening meal after exploring the city.
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From historic Madrid to the table
One of the best ways to understand Madrid may simply be to walk through it and stop somewhere to eat.
From Plaza Mayor to the streets surrounding it, much of the city’s history exists alongside markets, shops, taverns and meeting places.
That combination of everyday life and historical heritage continues to be one of the defining features of central Madrid.
The arrival of Museo del Jamón Cava de San Miguel fits naturally into this way of experiencing the city.
La Tasca does not try to recreate Madrid somewhere else.
It is exactly where it should be, becoming part of a street that has watched generations of Madrileños and visitors pass by.
A new space, perhaps, but built around a very old idea: getting together around a table and enjoying good food without making things more complicated than they need to be.
We look forward to welcoming you to La Tasca
Museo del Jamón has been part of Madrid’s food culture since 1978 and continues to grow while staying connected to the spirit with which it began.
In 2026, La Tasca joins that story as a new concept right in the centre of Madrid.
A place to enjoy a vermouth, share a few gildas, try some traditional toasts, enjoy a stew or simply sit down in front of a good plate of ham.
All of this at Cava de San Miguel, 11, with Plaza Mayor just around the corner and the historic streets of Madrid de los Austrias all around you.
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From Madrid to the sky, with a stop at Museo del Jamón along the way.
