Toma Café 3 / Proper Sound

toma café 3 and proper sound share a space on calle de raimundo lulio, a quiet chamberí street that doesn't attract much tourist foot traffic, which tends to keep the atmosphere honest. chamberí has that quality in general, residential and unhurried in a way that gran vía never will be, and a roaster operating here is making a choice about who it wants to serve. the roasting side matters: when a café controls its own supply chain back to green beans, you're tasting decisions made weeks before you walked in, not just that morning. locally, the place has built a real reputation without needing to shout about it. worth timing your visit for a morning espresso before the neighborhood fully wakes up on raimundo lulio.