Best 6 Flamenco shows in Madrid

THE OLDEST TABLAO AROUND THE WORLD.

This legendary flamenco tablao, founded in 1911, will leave you speechless with the careful decoration: Andalusian murals, wooden arches, polychrome tiles, pointed finishes and impressive columns that dress up the tablao every night to welcome the audience hungry for flamenco. In addition, this building, have served for numerous film productions.

The affection of the people of Madrid.

The people of Madrid have a special affection for this tablao because outside and inside murals and the centenary decoration is almost like a museum. One of the best flamenco experience in an impressive venue around the world. A beauty that cannot be missed.

Artists from all the cities of Spain.

What makes this flamenco tablao unique is the artists that compose it. The best professionals of dance, singing and flamenco guitar, brought from all over Spain. It is currently the only one that accepts the weekly travel and accommodation expenses of artists who do not live in Madrid, to bring them to the show.

The best show at the moment?

This probably is the best flamenco show at present. You only have to consult their programming and do a little research in the biography of these artists to check it out. In this Tablao, artists are capable of generating a brutal and wild energy that connects with the audience being different in each of the sessions.

Names of remarkable artists in their recent shows.

Among the most notable artists they have brought recently, we can highlight Farruquito, Remedios Amaya, Antonio Canales, Alfonso Losa, Karime Amaya, El Yiyo, Fuensanta La Moneta, Pepe Tores, El Choro Molina, etc.

Essence, tradition and modernity.

The Tablao Flamenco Cardamomo keeps the essence and the roots combined with modernity. Pioneer in modern details, Cardamomo moves away from the idea that flamenco is exclusively for experts and although it has a large part of their audience that is tourist, both Spanish from other provinces and foreigners, it offers artists worthy of the Teatro Real, but for an audience 10 times smaller.

Cardamomo Flamenco Madrid is located at Calle Echegaray number 15, a few meters from Puerta del Sol.

The Flamenco Cultural Center of Madrid opens its doors in 2019 in a 19th century manor house recently restored, but preserving its granite and solid brick walls, although from the outside its appearance is like another building in the city center. Located in the neighborhood of Chueca, Calle del Conde de Xiquena 6, we find an intimate and small space to experience flamenco up close from seats like those of a theater.

The venue, before accessing the show space, has an exhibition of paintings, fans, shawls and castanets. In addition to their shows, they offer book and record presentations, conferences, flamenco fashion shows, painting and photography exhibitions, etc., making it a multiple space.

Casa Patas is another tablao where you can enjoy a good flamenco show in Madrid. Located in Street Cañizares number 10 we find this castizo nook through which many of the great flamenco lineage have passed.

Casa Patas is divided into two areas: the tavern restaurant and the flamenco tablao. The clients can combine them, watching the show at the same time as they taste an exquisite traditional and select food, or use only one of them.

El Corral de la Morería is a family-owned flamenco tablao founded in 1956, located in the centre of the city and known worldwide. It is the place chosen by numerous Hollywood actors, high government officials, members of royal families, etc. to experience Flamenco. Recently, the Corral has marked a milestone in the flamenco tablaos with the acquisition of a Estrella Michelín. And it’s no surprise, because their food is exquisite.

The Michelin star has been the icing on the cake with which the gastronomy of this flamenco tablao has been crowned, as it had previously been awarded up to six times for its delicious and varied menus.

Headed by the chef David García, the Corral de la Morería has become a Tablao – Restaurant that also has one of the most attractive wine cellars in Spain, where you can enjoy a high quality flamenco show while delighting your palate. Without a doubt, the best mix between flamenco and culinary art.

El Corral Has marked a milestone among the tablaos to acquire the Estrella Michelín

The Café de Chinitas in Malaga was known by flamencos from all over Spain, one of its most remarkable clients was the poet Federico García Lorca, who contributed greatly to making known the place through the popular composition “Café de Chinitas” (1931) in form of legend.

This little flamenco corner was closed by the authorities in the middle of the Civil War. And fifty years later, the Verdasco family decided to move their show to Madrid.

This Tablao Flamenco can be found in street de la Torija number 7, in an 18th century palace. An elegant and folkloric place to enjoy live flamenco.

Flamenco mestizo y diverso

Essential Flamenco is located in a place that opened its doors in 1990 as a discotheque, combining this activity with that of a flamenco tablao show a few years ago and baptizing it with the Anglo-Saxon name Essential Flamenco. The venue is recently renovated and has a pleasant atmosphere, and although the space dedicated to the shows is very small, it has a total of 500 m2 in which it also houses a quality Spanish souvenir store and a flamenco bookstore.

Near the legendary bullring of Ventas we find another good quality tablao, closely related to the world of the bullfighting. La Quimera, is characterized by being strictly conservative in the classic art of flamenco.

Conservative and purist Art

La Quimera is affordable for all the budgets.

From their direction they propose different options to enjoy the show, with or without dinner. It is important to mention that it is one of the few flamenco tablaos in which we find the option of having lunch while watching the show.