Top 4 places for when:
- you’re missing home
- you’re craving high-fructose corn syrup and preservatives
- you want to eat your feelings
- you’d kill someone for peanut butter/ a bagel with salmon & cream cheese/ Reeses
1. Happy Day Bakery
A very cutesy, colorful bakery & American market that takes you back to New York cerca 1960’s: from the furniture, the wallpaper, and the classic oldies playing in the background.
What you can find: cupcakes, muffins, cookies, brownies, bagels, cakes, ice cream, hot dogs, candy, smoothies, milkshakes, etc.
The bakery also sells American products: Campbell’s Soup, Dr. Pepper, Lucky Charms, Cheerios, peanut butter, Hershey’s chocolate syrup, Reeses, Macaroni & Cheese, Vanilla Coke, Jack Daniels Barbecue Sauce, pancake mix & syrup, cake mixes, and brownie mixes.
Cakes:
Carrot Cake
NY Cheesecake
Super-Chocolate
Red Velvet
Brownie
There’s no better cure to home-sickness than stuffing your face with a NY cheesecake.
Buy a slice, or better yet, an entire cake and pretend like you’re going to share it with friends.
2.Peggy Sue’s American Diner
An amazing 1950’s American-style diner with WORKING jukeboxes. Jam to 50’s classics as you stuff your face with the James Brown Hamburger (a personal favorite), fries smothered in ketchup and mustard, and a chocolate milkshake. What’s not to love about this place.
3. J&J Books and Coffee
In 2003, an American girl and her Spanish husband decided to convert a Chinese restaurant in Madrid into their dream Bookstore/ Coffee shop/ Pub.
A place to go when you’ve given-up learning Spanish (yet again). A nice place to grab drinks, chat with travellers, expats, friends, and later relax with a good book in their library / bookstore downstairs. Browse through their huge collection of second-hand books in English. You can also buy & sell books.
4. Taste of America
Where you can find tons & tons of American products in their brick-and-mortar & online stores.
Website: www.tasteofamerica.es
Madrid Locations:
- Metro: Republica Argentina or Nuevos Ministerios| Serrano 149
- Metro: Isla Filipinas| C/CEA Bermudez 60, Madrid 28003
- Metro: Las Suertes or La Gavia| Avd. Ensanche de Vallecas 4749
- Avd. de Europa 23, Pozuelo de Alarcón
- C/ Francisco Umbral 14, Majadahonda