Museo Chicote opened on Gran Vía 12 in 1931 as the personal project of Perico Chicote, a bartender who had spent the 1920s working at the Ritz and the Palace and had decided he wanted his own room. The bar became, almost immediately, the centre of the city's foreign-correspondent and film-star drinking circuit, and stayed there for forty years. The interior - mahogany, brass, the Art Deco fittings of 1931 - has been kept largely intact. The bar's identity is in the people who used it. Six matter most.
