T4 is where you find Bubó Barcelona’s glossy pastry counter
Right in Terminal T4, Bubó Barcelona runs like a fast city café with airport pricing to match: expect about €3–€4 for a croissant or small pastry and €2–€3 for an espresso. It’s post-security, so this is a last-minute sugar and caffeine stop before Schengen departures out of T4.
The draw is the pastry case: sleek cakes, macarons, and chocolates styled like jewelry, plus more standard items like croissants and cookies. Coffee is serviceable rather than destination-level, but still better than most generic stand-alone machines in MAD T4. Figure €6–€8 for a basic coffee-and-pastry combo.
If you want something you can carry onto an Iberia long-haul out of T4S, grab boxed chocolates or individually wrapped pastries; they survive the train ride from T4 to T4S and a few hours in the overhead bin. Fresh cream cakes sit in a chilled case and really only hold up for a short layover of 60–90 minutes.
Lines spike around the morning wave of departures between 07:00 and 09:00, when every other spot in T4 also queues up. Service stays takeaway-focused, so even then you’re usually out in under 10 minutes. Seating nearby is just standard gate chairs a short walk away, not a dedicated lounge area.
One practical tip: pay contactless and ask them to pack your order in a rigid box if you’re connecting onward; anything soft in a paper bag tends to get flattened on the automatic people-movers between T4 and T4S.