Editorial place profile
Toma Café
At a glance
TOMA 1 at Calle Palma 49 is a specialty-coffee cafe in Madrid’s Malasaña neighbourhood. The address combines a long coffee history with the current roaster’s cafe, retail-bean and subscription business.
Practical details
- Choose it for
- A Malasaña coffee stop with roots in Madrid’s early specialty scene
- Format
- Exact Palma 49 cafe and wider roaster retail business
- Planning detail
- TOMA 1 daily 08:00-20:00; Proper Sound is a separate collection location
Part of Madrid’s early coffee wave
El País covered the independent Palma 49 cafe in 2012, placing it in Madrid’s early specialty-coffee scene. This history gives the address a place in the city’s coffee story.
Cafe service and collection are different
TOMA 1 publishes daily 08:00-20:00 and +34 917 049 344. TOMA 2 is a separate cafe at Santa Feliciana 5. TOMA 3/Proper Sound at Raimundo Lulio 16 is listed Monday-Friday 10:00-16:00 for coffee collection only.
Beans, subscriptions and training enquiries
The current site offers roasted coffee, subscriptions and wholesale enquiries, with info@tomacafe.es as its email. Its training page says coming soon, so class dates need a separate enquiry.
Sources: Toma: current cafe addresses, phone and hours, Toma: training page
Contact and published information
- Official coffee business information
- Call Toma Café: +34 917 049 344
- info@tomacafe.es
- Toma’s current training information
- Address: Calle de la Palma 49, 28004 Madrid, Spain
- Published hours: Daily 08:00-20:00 at TOMA 1 Palma 49
Where this place fits
Mentioned in our guides
Sources and review dates
- Toma: current cafe addresses, phone and hours — Operator website — checked 2026-10-19. Palma 49 cafe hours and phone, separate locations, retail coffee and subscriptions.
- Toma: training page — Operator website — checked 2026-10-19. Training information currently marked coming soon.
- El Pais: early reporting on Toma in Malasaña — Published reporting — checked 2026-10-19. Contemporary 2012 reporting on the independent Palma 49 cafe; used for historical context.
Author and corrections
Sarah Haddad is responsible for this profile. It is based on the published sources cited here; no firsthand visit or independent service test is claimed.