Chocolateria San Ginés
Chocolateria San Ginés
SINCE 1894 The end of a long and rumbly night Located in one of the oldest passageways in Madrid, between Arenal and Mayor streets, there used to be an inn and inn, Lázaro López, which in 1894 was converted into a churrería. Today it is still a very popular place.
...The passageway was the ideal place for “clashes of swords” with which to launder honor and the setting used by Valle-Inclán to provoke the imprisonment of Max Estrella, back in 1920 in his “Bohemian Lights”. Its location next to the Eslava Theater and the Church of San Ginés has provided a large clientele for many years who, after the performance or mass, drank a chocolate with churros. Opening until late at night, it attracted life-savers, night owls, intellectuals and revelers, as well as numerous artists, film and theater actors, poets and writers, who found a meeting point here
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