# Best Restaurants in Chamberí > Eighteen restaurants across Madrid's Chamberí district, from Mario Sandoval's two-Michelin-star Coque to Ponzano pintxos bars and market stalls in Vallehermoso. - **Canonical URL:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/best-chamberi - **City:** Madrid, Spain - **Published:** 2026-09-27 - **Updated:** 2026-10-04 - **Author:** Justin Mota, Guidavera founder - **Reading time:** 13 min ## Introduction Mario Sandoval's Coque moved into a converted space on Calle del Marqués del Riscal in 2017, its tasting menu now pairing sixteen dishes with contemporary artworks across six connected rooms. Eighteen restaurants across Madrid's Chamberí district make this list, from that two-Michelin-star room to a stand inside the Mercado de Chamberí selling tacos with a tandoori twist. ## Key picks at a glance - **Best splurge** — [Coque](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/coque): Mario Sandoval's two-Michelin-star Eat with Art tasting menu in Almagro. - **Best casquería specialist** — [La Tasquería](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-tasqueria): Javier Estévez's offal-only menu in Ríos Rosas, one Michelin star since 2019. - **Best new opening** — [EMI](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/emi): Rubén Mosquero's Gaztambide counter, a Michelin star within months of its August 2025 debut. - **Best market stall** — [Tripea](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/tripea): Roberto Martínez's Peruvian-Asian tasting menu from stall 44 inside Mercado de Vallehermoso. - **Best Ponzano pintxos bar** — [Arima](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/arima): Basque bar with a weekend vermouth ritual and the family-history Gilda Joxefa. - **Best Bib Gourmand value** — [Gala](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/gala): cocina de mercado on Calle de Espronceda, eight consecutive years with a Bib Gourmand. ## A guide to Chamberí in Madrid ### Where is Chamberí? Chamberí is a central Madrid district made up of six wards: Trafalgar, Almagro, Ríos Rosas, Arapiles, Gaztambide and Vallehermoso. It sits north of the old city centre, between Barrio de Salamanca to the east and Moncloa-Aravaca to the west. ### What is Calle Ponzano known for? Calle Ponzano, running through the Ríos Rosas ward, is one of Chamberí's busiest restaurant streets, lined with bars and kitchens that range from Basque pintxos to Argentine pizza. ### What are Mercado de Vallehermoso and Mercado de Chamberí? Both are neighbourhood food markets with individual kitchen stalls rather than produce stands alone. Mercado de Vallehermoso, on Calle de Vallehermoso, houses stalls including Tripea and Batch; Mercado de Chamberí, on Calle de Alonso Cano, houses stalls including Insurgente. ### What is casquería? Casquería is Spanish for offal cooking, dishes built from tripe, trotters, tongue and other cuts many kitchens set aside. La Tasquería in Ríos Rosas builds its entire menu around it. ### What does a Michelin Bib Gourmand mean? A Michelin Bib Gourmand marks a restaurant the guide considers good value rather than star-worthy, a separate distinction from a Michelin star. Several restaurants in this guide hold one, including Gala, Bacira and Las Tortillas de Gabino. > "In Chamberí, the range runs from Mario Sandoval's two-Michelin-star Coque to an Argentine pizza counter on Calle Ponzano and a taco stand inside the Mercado de Chamberí." ## How we built this list We built this list starting from the Chamberí restaurants we've profiled, spread across the district's six wards, then checked it against Guía Repsol's own roundup of Chamberí restaurants, an esMadrid tourism-board guide to the district, and a feature on Calle Ponzano's restaurant strip, to see which of our restaurants got cited and where the real gaps were. Every entry has a verified address inside one of Chamberí's six wards, not just a citywide reputation, and we mixed a handful of Michelin-starred anchors with far more of the casual kitchens, market stalls and neighbourhood tabernas locals actually eat at day to day. A number of bars and restaurants that outside sources cite repeatedly, including Santerra Neotaberna and several smaller Ponzano addresses, aren't currently among the Madrid restaurants we've profiled, so they don't appear here. Where we couldn't verify a claim against a restaurant's own listing or a source we could quote directly, we left it out rather than guess. ## The 18 best Restaurants in Chamberí, compared | # | Restaurant | Neighbourhood | Price | Distinction | Signature dish | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | [Coque](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/coque) | Almagro | €€€€ | Michelin 2-Star · Repsol 3 Soles | Eat with Art tasting menu | | 2 | [Smoked Room](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/smoked-room) | Ríos Rosas | €€€€ | Michelin 2-Star · Repsol 2 Soles | Quisquillas in beurre noisette | | 3 | [La Tasquería](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-tasqueria) | Ríos Rosas | €€€ | Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles | Veal tongue in shiso escabeche | | 4 | [EMI](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/emi) | Gaztambide | €€€€ | Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 1 Sol | Smoked kelp with tofu and eel | | 5 | [Lakasa](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/lakasa) | Ríos Rosas | €€€ | Michelin Selected · Repsol 2 Soles | Idiazábal fritters | | 6 | [Gala](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/gala) | Ríos Rosas | €€€ | Michelin Bib Gourmand · Repsol Recomendado | Sanabria-style matanza croquette | | 7 | [Bacira](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/bacira) | Trafalgar | €€€ | Michelin Bib Gourmand · Repsol Recomendado | Corvina ceviche | | 8 | [Fismuler](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/fismuler) | Trafalgar | €€ | Michelin Selected · Repsol 1 Sol | Escalope San Román | | 9 | [Tripea](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/tripea) | Vallehermoso | €€€ | Repsol 1 Sol | Hot mussel ceviche | | 10 | [Batch](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/batch) | Arapiles | €€ | Repsol Recomendado | — | | 11 | [Insurgente](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/insurgente) | Almagro | €€ | — | Crispy chicken tacos with tandoori and mango glaze | | 12 | [Arima](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/arima) | Ríos Rosas | €€€ | Repsol 1 Sol | Gilda Joxefa | | 13 | [Sala de Despiece SDD1](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/sala-de-despiece-sdd1) | Ríos Rosas | €€ | Repsol Recomendado | — | | 14 | [Picsa](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/picsa) | Ríos Rosas | €€ | Repsol Solete | — | | 15 | [99 Sushi Bar - Ponzano](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/99-sushi-bar-ponzano) | Ríos Rosas | €€€€ | Repsol Recomendado | — | | 16 | [Puntarena](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/puntarena) | Arapiles | €€€ | Michelin Selected · Repsol Recomendado | Pulpo Enamorado | | 17 | [Las Tortillas de Gabino](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/las-tortillas-de-gabino) | Almagro | €€ | Michelin Bib Gourmand | Velazqueña tortilla | | 18 | [Los Arcos de Ponzano](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/los-arcos-de-ponzano) | Almagro | €€ | — | Cocido madrileño | ## The 18 best Restaurants in Chamberí in Madrid ### 1. Coque *Mario Sandoval's two-Michelin-star family kitchen, moved from Humanes in 2017* - **Neighbourhood:** Almagro - **Address:** Calle del Marques del Riscal, 11, 28010 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 2-Star · Repsol 3 Soles - **Website:** https://www.restaurantecoque.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/coque Coque is the Sandoval family's two-Michelin-star restaurant on Calle del Marqués del Riscal in Almagro. The name honours the brothers' grandfather, a rancher known as Coque, and their parents opened a rotisserie under that name in Humanes de Madrid in 1976. Chef Mario Sandoval trained at elBulli in 1999, and in 2017 the third generation moved the restaurant into a roughly 1,100-square-metre space in central Madrid, with Juan Diego running the dining room and Rafael the wine cellar. The current tasting menu, Eat with Art, pairs sixteen dishes with fifteen contemporary artworks and runs through six connected spaces, from a cocktail bar to the wine cellar and an open kitchen. It costs €495 per person, with a €395 vegetarian version. Coque holds two Michelin stars, a Michelin Green Star for its sustainability research, and three Repsol Soles. **Order:** - Eat with Art tasting menu > "top establishments, taking diners on a voyage which revolves around flavours and innovation" — esMadrid ### 2. Smoked Room *Dani García's hidden 14-seat fire omakase, two stars on debut* - **Neighbourhood:** Ríos Rosas - **Address:** Hotel Hyatt Regency Hesperia, Paseo de la Castellana 57, 28046 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 2-Star · Repsol 2 Soles - **Website:** https://smokedroomrestaurants.com/en/madrid/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/smoked-room Smoked Room is hidden inside Dani García's Leña Madrid, in the Hotel Hyatt Regency Hesperia in Ríos Rosas. It opened in 2021 as a nearly hidden fourteen-seat space, a Japanese-style bar for six plus two tables in a semi-hidden area, and within six months it won two Michelin stars at once, something the restaurant says no Spanish establishment had done since 1936. García backs the project; chef Massimiliano Delle Vedove runs the kitchen, cooking a fire omakase where every dish passes through embers and smoke. There is no separate waitstaff: the sommelier and chefs serve every course themselves. Tasting menus run from Hachi at €180 to Hoshi at €500, with wine pairings built dish by dish. Smoked Room holds two Repsol Soles and serves lunch and dinner Wednesday to Saturday, closed Sunday to Tuesday. **Order:** - Quisquillas in beurre noisette - Smoked risotto with white truffle ### 3. La Tasquería *Javier Estévez's casquería-only kitchen, one star since 2019* - **Neighbourhood:** Ríos Rosas - **Address:** Calle Modesto Lafuente, 82, 28003 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles - **Website:** https://latasqueria.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-tasqueria La Tasquería is chef Javier Estévez's restaurant built entirely around casquería, Spanish offal cooking, on Calle Modesto Lafuente in Ríos Rosas. Estévez opened it in January 2015 and won the Revelation Chef award at Madrid Fusión 2016; the Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand in 2017 and 2018, then a star in the 2019 edition, which it kept after moving to this address in 2024. The house slogan is #somoscasqueros, and the kitchen counts its output by the tonne: more than 52,000 pig's tails and 72,000 kilos of tripe, leg and snout across its first ten years. The carta covers nearly every cut, veal, lamb, pork, rabbit, tripe, trotters, tongue and brains, built for sharing. Three menus run from €69 to €115. La Tasquería holds one Michelin star and two Repsol Soles, and is closed Saturday dinner and all of Sunday. **Order:** - Veal tongue in shiso escabeche - Rabbit kidneys stroganoff - Pig's snout with brava sauce ### 4. EMI *Rubén Mosquero's 2025 opening, a star within months in Gaztambide* - **Neighbourhood:** Gaztambide - **Address:** C/ Gaztambide, 64, 28015 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 1 Sol - **Website:** https://emimadrid.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/emi EMI is chef Rubén Mosquero's restaurant on Calle Gaztambide, in the ward it's named after. Mosquero, from the village of Reina in Badajoz, spent over a decade cooking at Noma, Geranium and Azurmendi and ran research and development at Atomix in New York before opening EMI in August 2025. Within months it won a Michelin star in the 2026 guide, and Mosquero and the restaurant both took Revelation prizes at the 2025 Premios Metrópoli. The single tasting menu runs about fourteen courses, three snacks through to petit fours, applying New Nordic principles alongside Japanese and Korean technique; dishes have included smoked kelp with tofu and eel and sea bream with white kimchi and squid. Sommelier Miguel Ángel Millán, formerly of DiverXO, built the wine list. EMI holds one Michelin star and one Repsol Sol, and it's closed Tuesday and Wednesday. **Order:** - Smoked kelp with tofu and eel - Sea bream with white kimchi and squid ### 5. Lakasa *César Martín's market-led Ríos Rosas kitchen, prices kept in reach* - **Neighbourhood:** Ríos Rosas - **Address:** Plaza del Descubridor Diego de Ordás, 1. A la altura de la calle Santa Engracia, 120 - Madrid - 28003, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin Selected · Repsol 2 Soles - **Website:** https://lakasa.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/lakasa Lakasa is chef César Martín's restaurant on Plaza del Descubridor Diego de Ordás in Ríos Rosas, run with his wife Marina Launay since 2012 and moved to this larger space in 2016. Martín built his reputation cooking game, and the carta, which the restaurant spells Lakarta, changes constantly with the season: wild mushrooms and stews in autumn, calçots in winter, bonito in summer. Most dishes come as a full or half portion, built for grazing across the menu rather than committing to one plate. The Idiazábal fritters have been a house classic since 1996, and the Solomillo Wellington runs only at Friday and Saturday lunch. Lakasa is listed in the Michelin Guide, holds two Repsol Soles and a strong wine-by-the-glass programme, and it's closed Sunday and Monday. **Order:** - Idiazábal fritters - Roast wood pigeon - Solomillo Wellington (Friday and Saturday lunch only) > "this establishment which offers refined cuisine is based on careful ingredient selection and attentive service" — esMadrid ### 6. Gala *Cocina de mercado since 1989, eight straight years as Bib Gourmand* - **Neighbourhood:** Ríos Rosas - **Address:** C. de Espronceda, 14, Madrid, 28003, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin Bib Gourmand · Repsol Recomendado - **Website:** http://www.restaurantegala.com - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/gala Gala has kept the same identity since it opened on Calle de Espronceda in Ríos Rosas in 1989: cocina de mercado, market cooking led by chef Pablo Lozano that depends on what's good that day, with the carta renewed each season. It has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand for eight consecutive years, from 2018 to 2025. The summer carta has run from bites like scallop, sea urchin and duck foie to Ibérico presa, Galician mussels, wild red snapper, black cod and a 45-day-aged Alistana-Sanabresa beef chop. A seasonal tasting menu runs €60 with a glass of Verdejo included, and there's a set Menú Gala at €47. The cellar holds more than 100 references. Gala is closed Sunday and Monday, open for lunch and dinner the rest of the week, and the entrance is wheelchair accessible. **Order:** - Sanabria-style matanza croquette - 45-day-aged Alistana-Sanabresa beef chop - Menú Gala > "sophisticated market cuisine, with every dish lovingly prepared from first-rate ingredients" — esMadrid ### 7. Bacira *Three chef-partners fusing Mediterranean and nikkei technique, Bib Gourmand* - **Neighbourhood:** Trafalgar - **Address:** C/ Del Castillo, 16, 28010 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin Bib Gourmand · Repsol Recomendado - **Website:** https://bacira.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/bacira Bacira is the joint project of three chefs working as equal partners in Trafalgar: Carlos Langreo, who came up through La Maruca, 99 Sushi Bar and Nikkei 225; Vicente de la Red, whose résumé runs through El Celler de Can Roca and Aponiente; and Gabriel Zapata, a Chilean sushiman who worked at Nikkei 225 and Distrito 798. The three chef-partners have run it since July 2014. Together they cook Mediterranean-Japanese fusion built for sharing, from Daniel Sorlut oysters and corvina ceviche to duck gyozas, hake kokotxas and nigiri like Bilbao-style sea bass and flambéed unagi with foie. The tasting menu runs eight courses for €56 or eleven for €72. Bacira holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and it's a hard table to get; when you can't, Bacira en Casa delivers the same cooking at home. It's closed Mondays. **Order:** - Corvina ceviche - Duck gyozas - Bilbao-style sea bass nigiri ### 8. Fismuler *elBulli alumni's Trafalgar kitchen, home of the escalope San Román* - **Neighbourhood:** Trafalgar - **Address:** C. Sagasta, 29, 28010 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Distinction:** Michelin Selected · Repsol 1 Sol - **Website:** https://www.fismuler.com/en/madrid/contacto - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/fismuler Fismuler opened on Calle Sagasta in Trafalgar in 2016, founded by three cooks out of elBulli, Nino Redruello, Patxi Zumárraga and Jaime Santianes, and belongs to the La Ancha group. Zumárraga left at the end of 2022 to open Haramboure. The cooking is seasonal and built for the table to share, and two dishes have become Madrid signatures: the escalope San Román, a breaded pork schnitzel named after a regular and served with egg and truffle, and a cheesecake built from three cheeses, fresh, smoked Idiazábal and blue. The wider carta has run to little gem lettuce from the house garden, burrata with green mole, baby-squid carbonara and suckling-lamb shoulder. Fismuler is listed in the Michelin Guide with one Repsol Sol, and the room is casual, industrial and candlelit, often with live music. **Order:** - Escalope San Román - Three-cheese cheesecake - Baby-squid carbonara ### 9. Tripea *Peruvian-Asian tasting menu from a Mercado Vallehermoso stall* - **Neighbourhood:** Vallehermoso - **Address:** Puesto 44, Mercado Vallehermoso, C/ Vallehermoso, 36, Madrid 28015, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Distinction:** Repsol 1 Sol - **Website:** https://www.tripea.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/tripea Tripea runs an eight-course tasting menu from stall 44 inside Mercado Vallehermoso, an unpretentious setting for ambitious cooking. Chef Roberto Martínez blends Peruvian technique with Asian-influenced plating, built around ceviches, dumplings and grilled meats, including a hot mussel ceviche. ACYRE, the Madrid chefs' and pastry-chefs' association, named it the city's best market stall at its 50th gastronomic competition. For a single market stall this well regarded, a table can be surprisingly hard to get: it runs single sittings, lunch at 14:30 and dinner at 21:30, and tables are hard to secure, so book ahead. Tripea holds one Repsol Sol and is closed Sunday and Monday. **Order:** - Hot mussel ceviche > "Peru meets Southeast Asia in a jungle of intense flavours" — esMadrid ### 10. Batch *Natural wines and house-made ferments from a Vallehermoso market stall* - **Neighbourhood:** Arapiles - **Address:** Mercado de Vallehermoso, calle de Vallehermoso, 36, 28015 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Distinction:** Repsol Recomendado - **Website:** https://www.batchmadrid.com/reservas/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/batch Batch is a stall inside the Mercado de Vallehermoso in Arapiles rather than a restaurant with its own front door, and it leans into that: come to the market, see what they're doing, eat in or carry it out. Cook Daniel Varea and fermenter Nacho García opened it in December 2020. The house sums up its own offer as natural wines, homemade ferments and market cooking, and the ferments are the unusual part, made in house rather than bought in. It's listed as Recomendado in the Guía Repsol. Batch runs Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 to 16:00 and 18:30 to 23:30, and Saturday from 10:00 to 16:00 and 18:30 to 23:00, closed Sunday and Monday. ### 11. Insurgente *Latin American tacos with an Asian twist, Mercado de Chamberí stall* - **Neighbourhood:** Almagro - **Address:** Calle de Alonso Cano 10, 28010 Madrid, stall inside the Mercado de Chamberí, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://www.cocinainsurgente.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/insurgente Insurgente is a stand inside the Mercado de Chamberí on Calle de Alonso Cano in Almagro, run by Genaro Celia, from Colombia, and Agustín Mikielievich, from Argentina, both trained at Le Cordon Bleu Madrid. It's their first venture on their own after years working together at the now-closed Fayer. The menu pulls its Latin American base toward Asian technique: crispy chicken tacos with a tandoori hint and a spicy mango glaze, grilled beef gizzard, Mexican-style stewed meat pasties, and a shredded meat focaccia. It's stand-style with no reservations, at Puesto 6 inside the market. **Order:** - Crispy chicken tacos with tandoori and mango glaze - Grilled beef gizzard > "is shaking up our gastronomy experience" — esMadrid ### 12. Arima *Basque pintxos bar and vermutería, a Ponzano weekend ritual* - **Neighbourhood:** Ríos Rosas - **Address:** Calle de Ponzano, 51, 28003 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Distinction:** Repsol 1 Sol - **Website:** https://arimabasquegastronomy.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/arima Arima sits on Calle de Ponzano in Ríos Rosas, owned by Nagore Irazuegi with Rodrigo 'Rodri' García. It opened in 2016, and head chef Diego Hernán leads the kitchen. The name means soul in Euskera, and the menu carries family history: Irazuegi's great-grandmother Joxefa left the Basque Country for Uruguay, and the bar's Gilda Joxefa, piparra-pepper mayonnaise on puffed bread with olive paste, anchovy and olive-oil pearls, is named for her. The bar runs traditional gildas, Stilton croquettes and a house pastrami brioche, while the sit-down carta goes further, chipirones in their ink, hake in tempura in the style of Eneko, and a roast old-cow striploin sold by the 500 grams. Its vermouth service, including a granizado version in warm weather, has become a weekend ritual for regulars. Arima holds one Repsol Sol and is closed Sunday and Monday. **Order:** - Gilda Joxefa - Chipirones in their ink - Hake in tempura, Eneko-style ### 13. Sala de Despiece SDD1 *Javier Bonet's original creative-tapas room, styled after a cutting stall* - **Neighbourhood:** Ríos Rosas - **Address:** Calle de Alonso Cano, 28, 28003 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Distinction:** Repsol Recomendado - **Website:** https://www.saladedespiece.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/sala-de-despiece-sdd1 Sala de Despiece SDD1 is chef Javier Bonet's original creative-tapas restaurant, on Calle Ponzano in Ríos Rosas. It opened in 2013. The room is staged as an old market cutting stall, with metal warehouse doors, butchers' aprons, knife cabinets, ceiling hooks and a glass-fronted fridge showing the day's produce. The cooking is creative Spanish tapas built on high-quality produce bought daily, meat-forward in Bonet's carnivorous style, served on wax-papered trays at communal tables, with a tasting menu also on offer. It's listed as Recomendado in the Guía Repsol, and booking runs through the group's own site. > "uno de los actores principales en el escenario del #ponzaning" — Con El Morro Fino ### 14. Picsa *Argentine wood-fired pizza on Ponzano, dough and cheese made in-house* - **Neighbourhood:** Ríos Rosas - **Address:** Ponzano, 76, 28004, Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Distinction:** Repsol Solete - **Website:** https://casapicsa.com - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/picsa Picsa is an Argentine pizza restaurant on Calle Ponzano in Ríos Rosas, working from a traditional Argentine recipe with its own dough. Much of what goes on top is made in-house too, including the cooked ham and a cheese blended from Galician varieties plus others the house keeps to itself. The pizzas bake in a wood-fired oven built by Jumaco & Maestro, a fourth-generation Madrid oven-maker, fired with controlled-felling holm oak, and the coffee comes from Toma Café on an Italian machine brought from Milan. Picsa holds a Repsol Solete, the room is cosy and low-key, and there's a terrace. > "masas gruesas (pero bien ligeras), y combinaciones explosivas" — Con El Morro Fino ### 15. 99 Sushi Bar - Ponzano *A 99 Sushi Bar branch on Ponzano's northern stretch, family-friendly* - **Neighbourhood:** Ríos Rosas - **Address:** Calle Ponzano, 99. 28003 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Repsol Recomendado - **Website:** https://www.99sushibar.com/99-sushi-bar-ponzano/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/99-sushi-bar-ponzano 99 Sushi Bar Ponzano is one branch of the 99 Sushi Bar group, on Calle Ponzano in Ríos Rosas, a residential stretch of the street where the eating answers more to locals than visitors. It is a cosy room that suits a family table, with unhurried service. Lunch runs every day from 13:30 to 16:00, and dinner Monday to Saturday to 23:30, with no Sunday dinner; its own site notes it closes on public holidays. It holds a Recomendado listing in the Guía Repsol. Prices run over €100 per person. ### 16. Puntarena *Mexican Pacific-coast seafood inside the Casa de México, Arapiles* - **Neighbourhood:** Arapiles - **Address:** C. Alberto Aguilera 20, 28015 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin Selected · Repsol Recomendado - **Website:** https://puntarenamadrid.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/puntarena Puntarena cooks Mexican seafood inside the Casa de México on Calle Alberto Aguilera in Arapiles. It opened in October 2018. It bills itself as a refuge of the Mexican coast, cooking that celebrates the sea with fusion and tradition side by side: ceviches, fresh cocktails and artisanal tacos, alongside signatures like Pulpo Enamorado and pescado a la talla, fish done traditional-style with some fusion touches. The room is modern and warm, with a terrace, and the attached bar keeps its own hours and its own booking link, running later than the dining room. Puntarena is listed in the Michelin Guide, with an entry in the Guía Repsol, and both the entrance and seating are wheelchair accessible. **Order:** - Pulpo Enamorado - Pescado a la talla ### 17. Las Tortillas de Gabino *Made-to-order tortillas from the family behind La Ancha, since the 1960s* - **Neighbourhood:** Almagro - **Address:** Calle de Rafael Calvo 20, 28010 Madrid (Chamberí), Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Distinction:** Michelin Bib Gourmand - **Website:** https://www.tortillasdegabino.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/las-tortillas-de-gabino Las Tortillas de Gabino traces back to the tortillas Gabino made at La Ancha on Calle Velázquez in the 1960s, with callos, with clams, and the classic version, which became a Salamanca-district favourite. Decades later the family built a whole restaurant around them on Calle de Rafael Calvo, in Almagro by the Chamberí border, which chef Nino Redruello opened in 2005 as his first restaurant. It belongs to Familia La Ancha, the Redruello family's group, whose history runs back to a first family taberna in 1919; the fourth generation, Nino Redruello in the kitchen and Santiago in management, cooks updated traditional food. Every tortilla is made to order, from the classic Velazqueña to versions with sailor-style clams, Torta del Casar cheese, or stewed with tripe. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and it's closed Sunday. **Order:** - Velazqueña tortilla - Tortilla with sailor-style clams - Tortilla stewed with tripe ### 18. Los Arcos de Ponzano *70-plus years of Castilian cooking and cocido on Ponzano's north end* - **Neighbourhood:** Almagro - **Address:** Calle Ponzano, 16, 28010, Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://losarcosdeponzano.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/los-arcos-de-ponzano Los Arcos de Ponzano has been open on Calle Ponzano, in Almagro, for more than seventy years, a family-run restaurant built around Castilian home cooking and roasts. It has been open since 1952. The house signature is its cocido madrileño, made with Valseca chickpeas and a slow-cooked broth, served in the traditional courses; it runs as the set lunch on Wednesdays, or other days by reservation for parties of four or more. The kitchen also sets up group menus and private rooms for celebrations. It is open every day, from morning until midnight, at prices in the €10 to €50 range, one of the older, more traditional addresses on a street now known mostly for its newer bars. **Order:** - Cocido madrileño > "Su cocina está compuesta por tapas y raciones típicas de la cocina castellana" — 65ymas ## Honourable mentions - **[Saddle](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/saddle)** (Almagro) — Almagro's grand à la carte revival on the site of the old Jockey restaurant, one Michelin star and two Repsol Soles. - **[El Invernadero](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-invernadero)** (Ríos Rosas) — Chef Rodrigo de la Calle's vegetable-led 'gastrobotánica' kitchen on Calle de Ponzano, one Michelin star. - **[Quimbaya](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/quimbaya)** (Almagro) — Chef Edwin Rodríguez's contemporary Colombian tasting menus in Almagro, one Michelin star held since 2022 and a Repsol Sol. - **[CLOS](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/clos)** (Ríos Rosas) — Marcos Granda's wine-focused Ríos Rosas restaurant, relaunched in late 2025 under chef Dani Villoria, one Michelin star. - **[Sisapo](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/sisapo)** (Trafalgar) — Fusion cooking on Calle de Trafalgar crossing Asian technique with South American and Spanish produce, a Michelin Bib Gourmand for four consecutive years. - **[Nájera](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/najera)** (Gaztambide) — A quiet, classic Spanish kitchen on Calle de Guzmán el Bueno in Gaztambide, a Repsol Solete away from the district's busier strips. - **[El Ingrediente](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-ingrediente)** (Ríos Rosas) — Daytime-only traditional Spanish small plates on Calle Alenza in Ríos Rosas, off the Ponzano circuit, listed as Recomendado in the Guía Repsol. ## The Chamberí scene in Madrid Chamberí's restaurant scene splits between the tasting-menu rooms clustered in Almagro and Ríos Rosas, Coque, Smoked Room, La Tasquería and EMI among them, and a much larger set of neighbourhood kitchens spread across the district's six wards. Calle Ponzano, running through Ríos Rosas and into Almagro, carries the heaviest concentration of bars and restaurants, home to Arima's Basque pintxos, Sala de Despiece SDD1's cutting-stall tapas, Picsa's Argentine pizza and 99 Sushi Bar Ponzano, plus Los Arcos de Ponzano, open more than seventy years at its northern end. The two indoor markets add another layer: Tripea and Batch both work from stalls inside Mercado de Vallehermoso, and Insurgente serves Latin American tacos from a stand in Mercado de Chamberí. Trafalgar and Gaztambide lean more residential, with Fismuler and Bacira in the first and EMI in the second, while Almagro carries Coque's tasting menu, the everyday tortillas at Las Tortillas de Gabino and Los Arcos de Ponzano's cocido. ## Know before you go ### 1. EMI opens bookings on the 1st of each month for the following month, online only, and Smoked Room seats just fourteen a service, so plan ahead for either. ### 2. Bacira is a hard table to get in Trafalgar. If you can't book in, Bacira en Casa delivers the same menu at home. ### 3. The market stalls, Tripea and Batch inside Mercado de Vallehermoso, and Insurgente inside Mercado de Chamberí, keep their own hours and limited sittings, so check before you go. ### 4. Closed days vary a lot here: Lakasa and Gala both take Sunday and Monday off, while Arima and Fismuler run later into the night. ### 5. Price bands stretch wide, from Los Arcos de Ponzano's cocido at €10 to €50 up to Over €100 tasting menus at Coque, Smoked Room and EMI. ## Glossary - **Casquería** — Spanish for offal cooking, nose-to-tail dishes like tripe, trotters and tongue. - **Cocina de mercado** — Market cooking that follows what's good that day rather than a fixed menu. - **Bib Gourmand** — A Michelin Guide distinction for good food at moderate prices, separate from a star. - **Vermutería** — A bar built around vermouth service, often alongside pintxos or small plates. - **Solete** — The Guía Repsol's entry-level quality distinction, below a full Sol. ## Frequently asked questions ### What are the best restaurants in Chamberí, Madrid? It depends on the night. For a splurge, Coque holds two Michelin stars in Almagro and EMI won one within months of its 2025 opening in Gaztambide. For something more everyday, Gala has held a Bib Gourmand for eight straight years, and Tripea and Batch both run from stalls inside Mercado de Vallehermoso. ### Is there a Michelin-starred restaurant in Chamberí? Yes, several. Coque and Smoked Room each hold two Michelin stars, and EMI and La Tasquería each hold one, along with other starred restaurants in the district. ### Where can I eat well on Calle Ponzano in Chamberí? Ponzano carries the district's densest run of bars and restaurants. Arima serves Basque pintxos, Sala de Despiece SDD1 runs a creative-tapas room styled like a cutting stall, Picsa bakes Argentine pizza, and El Invernadero, a one-Michelin-star vegetable-led restaurant, is also on the street. ### What's a good market stall to try in Chamberí? Tripea and Batch both work from stalls inside Mercado de Vallehermoso, Tripea for an eight-course Peruvian-Asian tasting menu, Batch for natural wines and house-made ferments. Insurgente serves Latin American tacos from a stand inside Mercado de Chamberí. ### What's a casual, affordable option in Chamberí? Los Arcos de Ponzano in Almagro runs €10 to €50 for Castilian cooking and cocido, and Batch's Mercado de Vallehermoso stall sits in the €30 to €50 range. ### Which restaurant in Chamberí focuses on offal or casquería? La Tasquería, chef Javier Estévez's one-Michelin-star restaurant in Ríos Rosas, builds its entire menu around casquería, with a carta covering nearly every cut from tripe to tongue. ### Is there a Bib Gourmand restaurant in Chamberí? Yes. Gala, Bacira and Las Tortillas de Gabino all hold Michelin Bib Gourmands, and Sisapo, in Trafalgar, holds one too. ### Where's a good spot for Mexican food in Chamberí? Puntarena cooks Mexican Pacific-coast seafood inside the Casa de México on Calle Alberto Aguilera in Arapiles, known for dishes like Pulpo Enamorado and pescado a la talla. ## About the author **Justin Mota** — Guidavera founder Justin Mota is the founder of Guidavera. He has lived in Spain for over 10 years and runs a native AI agency alongside building this platform. Food has always been the way Justin connects with friends, and Guidavera started as the list he kept sending to everyone visiting Barcelona. He built it for himself and his friends first, and now hopes it can transform the way people discover great food experiences everywhere. More: https://guidavera.com/about --- This guide is the canonical machine-readable version of https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/best-chamberi. Every claim is verifiable against the linked restaurant profiles. Source: Guidavera (https://guidavera.com).