La Fontana de Oro, is a Cuban bar (hence the use of the word Fontana instead of Fuente) right off of Plaza del Sol (Calle de la Victoria, to be quite precise), but calls itself an Irish pub (this is a common thing for reasons I don’t care to contemplate).

They play music videos of mostly 90s music on TVs all over the main floor, there’s a more secluded, quiet area downstairs where there are booths to sit in. The only time I saw these in use it contained questionable content not suitable for all ages, so really everyone is on the ground floor drinking cheap bear and bumping to early JLo. Everyone is kind of grooving and having a great time.

There’s a disco ball, obviously that’s of the utmost importance.

Trinh and my first experience with this bar was watching a Cavaliers game with my uni friends Marc from everywhere and Alex from Chicago. It was great to have a wee baby slice of American life at such a vibrant place.

This was definitely one of our favorite places to pop into for one drink on the way to other things.
As talked about in the last post, making friends with promoters is sometimes a good idea. We befriended one who liked to drink here, too. He promoted for a few places, and new a lot of bouncers because of that, so when we went to La Fontana on a weekend, we could skip any line to get in if we were with him. Very handy.

Here’s my Yelp! review of the place
https://www.yelp.com/biz/la-fontana-de-oro-madrid-2