Java Junction

We stayed one night at the B&B and loved it. Great room, clawfoot tub, sweet back porch. Well-​equipped and homey. Would recommend it, and would go back. Merritt, who checked us in from the coffee shop downstairs, was so welcoming we felt like honored guests!

This place has amazing iced coffee! They even make their ice cubes with coffee, which adds an extra touch. And you must try their caramel brownie… one of the best gooey, delicious, perfect consistency brownies we’ve ever had. On top of all this, the place is absolutely adorable. If you’re visiting Madrid, (we are tough critics from NY), I highly recommend you stopping by here.

This place is awful, unless you love stale pastries, sour-​faced waitstaff, and flavorless coffee.
Keep on drivin’. There are better places for coffee in either direction.

Coffee was amazing and the breakfast burritos were quite yummy. The B & B was super cozy and Nancy was very sweet and accommodating. Definitely a great place to soak up the awesome hospitality of this lovely New Mexico town.

Cute space, nice people. However, the lattes tasted more like high fructose corn syrup than coffee. I’m not sure mine actually contained any coffee. Seriously, sweeter than Starbucks. I cannot stress this enough. I have not tried just plain coffee, but I would recommend trying that over the «winter lattes.»

I stopped in Madrid on the way from Santa Fe to Albuquerque. I had read a bit about its history, how it became a ghost town and how it got another life through hippies moving in. I very honestly didn’t think much of Madrid when I got there, in my opinion it is not any different from other tourist traps and it really had nothing going for it, at least not in my option. The only place that stood out to me and that I liked was Java Junction: good coffee, excellent cheesecake, friendly lady behind the counter, cool T-​shirts and other stuff.

Awesome coffee drinks and cool atmosphere. Great way to start our visit to Madrid NM. Actually, it was so good that we got more coffee on the way back out too! I really liked the coffee ice cubes on the cold drinks. Nice touch.
They could use a nicer bathroom though.

Imagine a B&B with only one guest room, and that guestroom takes up the entire top floor of a historic two-​story building. That’s what this place is! Downstairs is a good coffee shop that closes in the late afternoon, so you have the property to yourself in the evening. Charming, rustic, and adorable. The room is actually more like a characterfully furnished studio apartment and includes a kitchen, vaulted ceilings, skylights, and a private balcony. Nancy was a very gracious host. In fact, when the next morning the water was cut off to the property through no fault of the owners, the owners on their own initiative immediately offered to credit the cost of the stay.
One important note is that we had no cell service with either AT&T or T-​Mobile in the town of Madrid or anywhere nearby. (The room has Wi-​Fi, so don’t worry about that.) So you need to make sure that you make arrangements to get the key in advance because the coffee shop closes in the afternoon, and you may not have a way to call the owner if you wait until you get to Madrid. We would certainly stay here again if we needed a place to stay in Madrid.

I had an iced coffee and my girl got a cappuccino. The cappuccino was more like a latte and my iced coffee was good enough, it had coffee ice cubes which is novel. I’d get an iced coffee again but the espresso was not up to par with what I usually get in Albuquerque and I can brew better coffee at home. Not everybody is a coffee snob though right?
It’s a nice places to hang out and really fits the Madrid character.

The Java Junction coffee shop was a memorable stop on our drive from Albuquerque to Santa Fe. Not to be missed if you’re on the Turquoise Trail.
Friendly staff and a neat shop full of curiosities. The town is also worth exploring. Sadly the nearby coal mine museum was closed when we stopped by, but it seems to be the main attraction.

I stayed in the B&B and loved every second of my stay there. Need to get back to Madrid!

I drive all the way from Santa Fe just to get their FRAPPUCCINOS! Both chocolate & vanilla varieties are soooo gooood.
Plus, you get to hang out with the local Madroids. That’s a 5-​star right there.
Honorable mentions: They have wifi (cuz you cant get ANY RECEPTION in Madrid ANYWHERE) & while refrigerator magnets tend to be the most trite form of human communication ever contrived, every refrigerator magnet you WOULD even possibly want can be found here. Absolutely hilarious… while you wait for your frappuccino to finish whirling in the blender.

Java Junction has really great coffee (the ice for the iced coffee is made with coffee!), the iced tea (black) was refreshing and delicious. They also have delicious green chile burritos (which they are happy to warm up for you) and the beef and bean chimichanga was a perfect snack. The barista was super sweet and awesome to us. To top it off they had really cute one of a kind clothing! They also have a nice selection of souvenir food items. Apparently, there is also a room on the second floor that you can rent weekly or nightly. There are only two other places I know of to stay in this awesome little town. You really should stop here if you are driving on this route. I will definitely be back.

Hippie spot for sure. I’ll be back on my HOG real soon

The is essentially the second floor of the coffee shop in Madrid, Java Junction. The room is spacious, equipped with satellite TV and wireless Internet. There’s a back porch that looks out on the hills surrounding the town.
Minuses are few but significant. There is no shower, just a big tub, and during our stay fumes of raw sewage from a port-​a-​potty outside occasionally wafted on to the porch and into the bathroom when the wind was right (or wrong, depending on how you look at it).
Having said that, the room is spacious, and beautiful without being touristy, i.e., you know you’re in Madrid, an unincorporated village along the «Turquoise Trail,» state highway 14 which meanders between Santa Fe and east Albuquerque. Big plus, there’s a coffee-​shop downstairs and the coffee is excellent and breakfast is included in your stay.
Unfortunately, probably due to the currently-​depressed economy, they denied my companion a second cup of coffee on the house, and when I had to make a change in plans suddenly they enforced the 48 hour cancellation policy even though I had stayed one of the two nights I reserved and I gave them all of the advance notice that I had. Also, I have to say, there’s no reason for the person manning the coffee shop to be as surly as she was. It was impossible to get her to smile, even though I was as cooperative as I could be.
But, These things aren’t high on my list of values for places to stay, so I still think this place is worth a visit if you need a cozy room with good WiFi in Madrid. It’s just unfortunate that in a town that relies entirely upon the tourist trade for it’s economic base treats us like intruders and sources of irritation.
But, if you’re like me and refuse to hold that kind of petty short-​sightedness against a B&B, you’ll enjoy your stay here. They also reserve you a place to park your car, which can be quite a perk in Madrid, particularly during weekend days. The wifi Internet is fast and they paint a strong signal in the room.

OK coffee but the bagel was stale. Also, their costumer bathroom is a portable bathroom outside. That is fine, but it always drives me crazy when places treat their costumers like second class citzens. They clearly have a running bathroom inside.
That being said, there are some cute items at the gift shop but nothing that cant be found elsewhere.

Once again (and as it should be) the journey was more surprising than the destination! Traveling from Albuquerque to Santa Fe on the Turquoise Trail I fell in love with Madrid! A dusty, funky town the Java Junction is the best. I still use the mug I bought here — you’ll love it.

Mix one part bed and breakfast, one part great coffee joint, one part joke gift shop, one part alternative art and clothing boutique together, and you still wouldn’t have the specialness of java junction. Nestled in the little town of Madrid, New Mexico, population 149, artist’s escape and old mining town, this little store is trying to be 5 things at once and has a little attitude to boot. There was definitely a bit of sass from the barista, but she was oh so fun and the store was a great mix of things, many with a definite point of view. Plus, they have a little B & B upstairs for those who find themselves charmed by the little town.