1862 Dry Bar sits on Calle del Pez in Malasaña, takes its name from the year Jerry Thomas published The Bar-Tender's Guide (the first cocktail recipe book), and operates as a defence of the classical cocktail canon at a time when most cocktail bars are competing on novelty. The room is small, the menu is short, and the bar's identity is in how well it makes drinks that other bars make badly. Here are ten classics 1862 makes correctly that you should compare every other Madrid cocktail bar against.
