Black & White

About this place Black & White

Black & White on Calle de la Libertad is one of Chueca's most famous and consistently busy bars — renowned for its diverse crowd (men, women, trans, drag queens, and their friends), its famously generous happy hour, and the go-go dancers that appear on weekend nights. The bar has the kind of social energy that is specific to the great neighbourhood gay bar: unpretentious, welcoming, reliably populated, and structured around the simple pleasures of good drinks in a good room with good people. Calle de la Libertad runs through the heart of Chueca parallel to Calle Pelayo and contains several of the neighbourhood's better bars; Black & White is the most celebrated. The happy hour pricing policy has made it a Madrid institution among visitors on a budget; the weekend go-go entertainment gives it a performance energy that the quieter bars on Pelayo do not offer. For visitors doing a Chueca bar circuit, Black & White is the natural anchor.