This sleek, modern chocolatier in Chueca is a good place to refuel between splurges at the area’s trendy shops. The sweets range from traditional truffles to interesting blends of chocolate with herbal teas and adventurous combos like black-olive or Jamaican-pepper bonbons. It’s also an excellent place to pick up a luscious gift for friends back home.

This sleek, three-story concept store in the heart of Salamanca has a basement level with cult cosmetic and fragrance lines like Natura Bissé and Diptyque. Upstairs are displays with men’s and women’s fashions and on the third level is a café and housewares section. There is another outlet at Calle de las Infantas 19.

This modern wine emporium in the Salamanca district carries just about every Spanish vintage there is, supposedly packing more bottles into its airy duplex than you’ll find in any other store in Europe. A great place to purchase for a home collection, Lavinia also has its own café and tasting bar.

Chueca’s central market occupies a sleek modern building and inside are tons of vegetable and cheese and salami sellers mixed in with tapas bars and coffee stalls.

Located in a soaring 1916 steel-and-glass structure that just completed a long renovation a few years back, the Mercado San Miguel is now the chicest place to shop for food in central Madrid. Its tenants include everything from traditional fresh produce purveyors and fishmongers to gourmet bakeries and wine bars. Stop by after an afternoon of sightseeing to enjoy some tapas and a traditional caña (a small draft beer) with a local crowd.

This heavenly cheese shop (sister to the yummy Poncelet Cheese Bar restaurant) sells an incredible assortment of fresh-off-the-farm cheeses. They have ones that have been aged in in mountain caves and others that are drizzled in honey, sweetened with lavender or rolled in ash or rosemary. Among the musts to try are tetilla from Galicia and payoyo from Andalucia. There are always lots to taste and the staff can steer you.