# Best Cochinillo in Madrid > Fourteen Madrid restaurants worth booking for roast cochinillo, from Botín's original 18th-century wood oven to Coque's Michelin-starred version of the dish. - **Canonical URL:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/best-cochinillo - **City:** Madrid, Spain - **Published:** 2026-09-27 - **Updated:** 2026-10-04 - **Author:** Justin Mota, Guidavera founder - **Reading time:** 12 min ## Introduction Cochinillo asado, roast suckling pig, is the dish Castilian roast houses built themselves around long before Madrid had much of a fine-dining scene at all. Fourteen Madrid restaurants make this list, from Botín, whose firewood oven has run since 1725, to Coque, where roasted suckling pig is the enduring signature of a two-Michelin-star tasting menu. ## Key picks at a glance - **Best classic wood-fired cochinillo** — [El Pedrusco de Aldealcorvo](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-pedrusco-de-aldealcorvo): the Trafalgar asador named most consistently across independent Spanish coverage of the dish. - **Best historic address** — [Botín](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/botin): Guinness World Records' oldest restaurant, still roasting cochinillo from its original 1725 firewood oven. - **Best Michelin-starred version** — [Coque](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/coque): two Michelin stars and a suckling pig course the kitchen calls its enduring signature. - **Best for lechazo alongside cochinillo** — [Villoldo](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/villoldo): the only entry with dedicated Cochinillo and Lechazo sections on the same menu. - **Best for taking it home** — [El Senador](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-senador): packages its roasted cochinillo and lamb so you can finish them yourself. - **Best modern, casual take** — [Coquetto Bar](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/coquetto-bar): the Sandoval family's gastrobar version, served as torreznos and a taco rather than a whole roast. ## A guide to Cochinillo in Madrid ### What is cochinillo asado? Cochinillo asado is roast suckling pig, a milk-fed piglet roasted whole rather than butchered into cuts first. The Castilian tradition cooks it slowly, usually in a wood-fired oven, until the skin turns dark, crisp and crackling while the meat underneath stays soft. ### What's the difference between cochinillo and lechazo? Cochinillo is milk-fed suckling pig. Lechazo, also called cordero lechal, is milk-fed lamb. Both come from the same Castilian roasting tradition, cooked the same way, and a number of the asadores on this list serve both. ### Why is cochinillo associated with Segovia? Segovia and the wider Castilian plateau are the traditional home of cochinillo asado, and Segovia carries its own denomination of origin for the suckling pig raised there. This guide covers Madrid city restaurants only, but a few of them, including El Pedrusco de Aldealcorvo and El Senador, source suckling pig carrying that Segovia denomination directly. > "The cochinillo tradition here runs from El Pedrusco de Aldealcorvo's century-old wood-fired oven to Coque's Michelin-starred plate finished with spring onion and balsamic." ## How we built this list We built this list by pulling every Madrid restaurant that independent Spanish food coverage names for cochinillo, then cross-checking each one against the Madrid restaurants we've profiled and keeping only those that are currently open and whose own menu or detail page confirms cochinillo, or in a couple of cases lechazo, as a genuine dish they serve. Three sources did the heaviest lifting: Los 5 Mejores' roundup of Madrid's best cochinillo asado, IFEMA Madrid's own guide to where to eat it in the city, and an OKDiario piece on the Michelin Guide's take on the dish. One name that comes up repeatedly in that coverage, Horno de Juan in Goya, isn't included here because we haven't yet profiled it; we've noted that gap rather than guessing at its details. Beyond the classic Castilian asadores, we've also included a handful of Michelin-starred kitchens, Coque, Gaytán and Saddle among them, where cochinillo appears as a genuine, named dish within a wider tasting or à la carte menu rather than the whole draw. ## The 14 best Cochinillo, compared | # | Restaurant | Neighbourhood | Price | Distinction | Signature dish | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | [El Pedrusco de Aldealcorvo](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-pedrusco-de-aldealcorvo) | Trafalgar | €€€ | Michelin Selected · Repsol Recomendado | Segovia suckling pig roasted in a wood-fired oven | | 2 | [Botín](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/botin) | Palacio | €€€ | Repsol Recomendado | Roast suckling pig | | 3 | [Coque](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/coque) | Almagro | €€€€ | Michelin 2-Star · Repsol 3 Soles | Suckling Pig | | 4 | [El Senador](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-senador) | Palacio | €€€ | — | — | | 5 | [Casa Pedro](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/casa-pedro) | Valverde | €€ | Repsol Recomendado | Roast suckling pig | | 6 | [Villoldo](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/villoldo) | Castellana | €€€ | Repsol 1 Sol | Low-Temperature Roasted Cochinillo | | 7 | [Los Galayos](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/los-galayos) | Sol | €€ | Repsol Recomendado | — | | 8 | [Las Cuevas de Luis Candelas](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/las-cuevas-de-luis-candelas) | Sol / Plaza Mayor | €€€ | — | — | | 9 | [Taberna del Capitán Alatriste](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/taberna-del-capitan-alatriste) | Palacio | €€€ | — | — | | 10 | [Gaytán](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/gaytan) | El Viso | €€€€ | Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 1 Sol | Ávila suckling pig cooked two ways with Mediterranean flavors | | 11 | [Saddle](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/saddle) | Almagro | €€€€ | Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles | Crispy suckling pig | | 12 | [El Triciclo](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-triciclo) | Barrio de las Letras | €€€ | Repsol 1 Sol | Confit suckling pig cooked as Manolo de la Osa taught them | | 13 | [Coquetto Bar](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/coquetto-bar) | Almagro | €€€ | Michelin Selected · Repsol Recomendado | Iberian suckling-pig torreznos | | 14 | [Ferretería Restaurante](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/ferreteria-restaurante) | Barrio de las Letras | €€ | Michelin Selected · Repsol Recomendado | — | ## The 14 best Cochinillo in Madrid ### 1. El Pedrusco de Aldealcorvo *Segovia cochinillo from a century-old wood-fired oven* - **Neighbourhood:** Trafalgar - **Address:** C/ Juan de Austria 27, 28010 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin Selected · Repsol Recomendado - **Website:** https://www.elpedruscorestaurante.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-pedrusco-de-aldealcorvo El Pedrusco de Aldealcorvo is a traditional Castilian asador in Madrid's Trafalgar neighbourhood, named after a fifteen-metre rock on the edge of Aldealcorvo, the Segovia village the founding family came from. The family opened their first taberna in 1956 and inaugurated this restaurant in 1984, and the kitchen still turns on a century-old wood-fired oven, fired with holm oak. The house signature is cochinillo de Segovia, roasted suckling pig, priced at €42 per person, alongside cordero lechal, milk-fed roast lamb. It's Michelin Selected and holds a Repsol Recomendado. Of the restaurants on this list, it's the one that comes up most consistently across independent Spanish food coverage of where to eat cochinillo in the city. **Order:** - Segovia suckling pig roasted in a wood-fired oven > "Impecable el cochinillo asado en horno de leña" — Los 5 Mejores ### 2. Botín *Guinness-listed oldest restaurant, roasting cochinillo since 1725* - **Neighbourhood:** Palacio - **Address:** Calle de Cuchilleros 17, 28005 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Distinction:** Repsol Recomendado - **Website:** https://botin.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/botin Botín is a traditional Castilian roast house on Calle de Cuchilleros, near Plaza Mayor in Madrid's Palacio neighbourhood. Guinness World Records lists it as the oldest restaurant in the world, open since 1725, and cochinillo asado, roast suckling pig, is what it's known for: it still comes out of the original firewood oven, in a building that runs to four floors keeping their eighteenth-century interiors. The carta lists Roast suckling pig at €32.50, alongside battered suckling-pig trotters as a starter at €10. It's listed as Recomendado in the Guía Repsol. Two independent Spanish sources on where to eat cochinillo in Madrid both single it out, one calling its version among the best-rated for the way it's cooked. **Order:** - Roast suckling pig > "prepara uno de los cochinillos mejor valorados ya que su forma de cocinarla es excelente" — IFEMA Madrid ### 3. Coque *Two Michelin stars, cochinillo as the enduring signature* - **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 in Almagro, holding three Repsol Soles and a Michelin Green Star. The name goes back to the brothers' grandfather; their parents opened a rotisserie called Coque in Humanes de Madrid in 1976, and the third generation, chef Mario Sandoval, sommelier Rafael and dining-room director Juan Diego, moved it into central Madrid in 2017. Its current tasting menu, Eat with Art, pairs 16 dishes with contemporary artworks, and its enduring signature is roasted suckling pig, served under a course named Suckling Pig, finished with spring onion, balsamic and lettuce. It's the fine-dining name that comes up most often in independent Spanish coverage of where to eat cochinillo in the city. **Order:** - Suckling Pig > "El cochinillo lacado, realmente único, posiblemente el mejor de España" — Los 5 Mejores ### 4. El Senador *A Palacio asador built entirely around the roast* - **Neighbourhood:** Palacio - **Address:** Plaza Marina Española, 2, 28013, Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Website:** http://www.restaurantesenador.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-senador El Senador is an asador on Plaza de la Marina Española, in the Palacio quarter near Plaza de España. The kitchen roasts cochinillo with Segovia's denominación de origen and cordero asado, alongside high-quality seasonal fish, seafood, salads and homemade desserts, with a considered wine list. It's built around the roast, in the tradition of the Castilian roast houses, takes bookings for anything from a dinner for two to a full celebration, and also offers its cochinillo and lamb as packs to finish at home. It's one of the restaurants named in IFEMA Madrid's own guide to where to eat cochinillo in the city, which notes its wood-fired oven prepares Segovia-origin suckling pig in the Castilian style. > "En el horno de leña preparan cochinillos de origen segoviano al estilo castellano" — IFEMA Madrid ### 5. Casa Pedro *A 1702 pilgrims' inn still roasting cochinillo today* - **Neighbourhood:** Valverde - **Address:** Calle Nuestra Senora de Valverde, 119, 28034 Madrid (Fuencarral-El Pardo), Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Distinction:** Repsol Recomendado - **Website:** https://casapedrofuencarral.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/casa-pedro Casa Pedro traces back to 1702, when the family opened a pilgrims' inn in what was then the village of Fuencarral, trading first as Casa de la Pascuala. Three centuries on it's the same kitchen, a Castilian roast house in Valverde run by Pedro Guiñales, and a member of Madrid's Asociación de Restaurantes y Tabernas Centenarios. The menu lists Roast suckling pig at €30 among its meats, alongside lamb shoulder, baby lamb chops and other oven roasts. It's Recomendado in the Guía Repsol, and Guiñales received the Academia Madrileña de Gastronomía's lifetime achievement recognition in 2025. It's named in Spanish coverage of where to eat cochinillo in Madrid, cited for its wood-fired lechazo and cochinillo roasts. **Order:** - Roast suckling pig > "Los asados en horno de leña: lechazo y cochinillo" — Los 5 Mejores ### 6. Villoldo *A dedicated cochinillo and lechazo menu section* - **Neighbourhood:** Castellana - **Address:** Calle Lagasca, 134, 28006 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Distinction:** Repsol 1 Sol - **Website:** https://villoldomadrid.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/villoldo Villoldo is a traditional Castilian restaurant in Madrid's Castellana neighbourhood, run by sisters Pilar and Mercedes Pedrosa of the Fierro-Pedrosa family, who relocated from Palencia to open it. It opened in July 2013. It won the Academia Madrileña de Gastronomía's Premio a la Cocina Regional en Madrid in 2022 and holds one Repsol Sol. The menu splits its roasts into two dedicated sections: Cochinillo lists a Low-Temperature Roasted Cochinillo at €30, and Lechazo lists a Half-Roasted Lechazo Shoulder at €35, alongside fried lechazo chops, braised shanks and battered sweetbreads. That's a rarer setup than most of the entries on this list, where suckling pig is one dish among many rather than its own menu category. **Order:** - Low-Temperature Roasted Cochinillo - Half-Roasted Lechazo Shoulder ### 7. Los Galayos *A Plaza Mayor institution where cochinillo leads* - **Neighbourhood:** Sol - **Address:** C/ Botoneras, 5 - Plaza Mayor, 1. 28012 - Madrid (España) - **Price:** €€ - **Distinction:** Repsol Recomendado - **Website:** https://www.losgalayos.net/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/los-galayos Los Galayos has operated right off Plaza Mayor since 1894, per the venue's own site. It splits into a formal restaurant with five private salons and terrace seating onto the square, and a separate historic tavern built around a hand-carved 17th-century wooden counter. Castilian roasts anchor the formal dining room, with cochinillo the restaurant's own description of its headline dish, while the tavern side runs reliable classics like ensaladilla rusa and cocido. It holds a Repsol Recomendado, and Timeout Madrid rated it 4 out of 5 stars, noting that despite its position on the edge of Plaza Mayor, it isn't a tourist-hunting spot. ### 8. Las Cuevas de Luis Candelas *An 1860 cave restaurant next to Plaza Mayor* - **Neighbourhood:** Sol / Plaza Mayor - **Address:** Calle de Cuchilleros, 1, 28005 Madrid (Centro, next to Plaza Mayor), Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Website:** https://www.lascuevasdeluiscandelas.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/las-cuevas-de-luis-candelas Las Cuevas de Luis Candelas has been on Calle de Cuchilleros, next to Plaza Mayor, since 1860, and its staff still dress in period costume as the 19th-century bandit Luis Candelas; the restaurant's own line is that everyone who visits is welcomed by Candelas himself. Four dining rooms and a terrace over the Arco de Cuchilleros seat 140. The kitchen roasts suckling pig and suckling lamb in a wood-fired oven, alongside callos a la madrileña, one of the few entries on this list where lamb gets equal billing with the pig rather than a supporting role. It shares its street, Calle de Cuchilleros, with Botín, giving that stretch of Madrid's historic centre two separate wood-fired cochinillo kitchens. ### 9. Taberna del Capitán Alatriste *Golden Age taberna with suckling pig as a signature* - **Neighbourhood:** Palacio - **Address:** Calle de Grafal, 7, 28005 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Website:** https://tabernadelcapitanalatriste.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/taberna-del-capitan-alatriste Taberna del Capitán Alatriste sits in the barrio de los Austrias, at the meeting of Calle de Grafal and Calle San Bruno. The venue dates the building to the 16th century, with original cellars preserved in the basement, and themes the rooms around the Golden Age world of Diego Alatriste and figures like the poet Quevedo. Signatures include roast suckling pig, the house chuletada, and grilled meats and fish. It's one of the few entries on this list built around a literary theme rather than a family lineage, but the roast suckling pig is listed as a signature dish in its own right, not a side note. ### 10. Gaytán *One Michelin star, cochinillo from Ávila cooked two ways* - **Neighbourhood:** El Viso - **Address:** C. del Príncipe de Vergara, 205, Lateral Derecho, Chamartín, 28002 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 1 Sol - **Website:** https://chefjavieraranda.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/gaytan Gaytán is chef Javier Aranda's contemporary Spanish tasting-menu restaurant on Príncipe de Vergara in El Viso, holding one Michelin star and one Repsol Sol. Aranda, from Toledo, opened it in 2016 and named it after his grandfather; he had already earned a Michelin star at 27 with his first restaurant, La Cabra. The room is built around a big open kitchen flanked by original wooden columns, where the tasting menus are cooked in front of the diners. Both menus share a dish called Ávila suckling pig cooked two ways with Mediterranean flavors, alongside a smoked-mackerel gilda with tomato granita and roasted red mullet with a cockle-and-seaweed cream. **Order:** - Ávila suckling pig cooked two ways with Mediterranean flavors ### 11. Saddle *A grand à la carte revival with crispy suckling pig* - **Neighbourhood:** Almagro - **Address:** Amador de los Ríos, 6, 28010 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles - **Website:** https://saddle-madrid.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/saddle Saddle was built in the former home of Jockey, one of the landmark Madrid restaurants of the 20th century, which closed in the summer of 2012 after fifty years under chef Clemencio Fuentes. Saddle opened in the same building in autumn 2019, redesigned by Diego Gronda's studio, and won its Michelin star in the 2021 guide, alongside two Repsol Soles. It was set up to bring back the grand à la carte restaurant at a time when serious dining in Spain had come to mean tasting menus only, with most dishes served in full or half portions. Signatures include the veal shank in tribute to Santi Santamaría, Mont Royal squab, crispy suckling pig, and the callos in tribute to Jockey. **Order:** - Crispy suckling pig ### 12. El Triciclo *Confit suckling pig cooked as a legendary chef taught* - **Neighbourhood:** Barrio de las Letras - **Address:** Calle Santa Maria 28, 28012 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Distinction:** Repsol 1 Sol - **Website:** https://www.restaurantetriciclo.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-triciclo El Triciclo opened on Calle Santa María in Barrio de las Letras in 2013, founded by chefs Javier Goya, Javier Mayor and David Alfonso, who set out to build the restaurant they'd most want to eat at. It's grown into Grupo Triciclo, which won the Academia Madrileña de Gastronomía's Business Project award in 2025, and holds a Repsol Sol. Almost everything on the seasonal carta can be ordered as a full ración, a half or a third. The house classics include confit suckling pig cooked as Manolo de la Osa taught them, at €36, alongside a besugo a la madrileña served barely cooked and an oxtail cannelloni with mushroom sauce and pecorino. **Order:** - Confit suckling pig cooked as Manolo de la Osa taught them ### 13. Coquetto Bar *The Sandoval family's casual take, suckling pig two ways* - **Neighbourhood:** Almagro - **Address:** Calle de Fortuny, 2, 28010 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin Selected · Repsol Recomendado - **Website:** https://coquettobar.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/coquetto-bar Coquetto Bar is chef Mario Sandoval's more casual gastrobar in Almagro, co-directed with his brothers Rafael and Diego, who also run the family's flagship two-Michelin-star restaurant Coque in the same neighbourhood. Opening was announced in 2019 but delayed by COVID-19; it finally opened in June 2020. The kitchen rescues classic recipes like escabeches and daily-rotating stews, alongside a fixed run of suckling pig dishes: Iberian suckling-pig torreznos with a hyssop baste, at €18 for a half portion or €34 for a full one, and a suckling pig taco, three pieces, at €20. It's Michelin Selected and holds a Repsol Recomendado. **Order:** - Iberian suckling-pig torreznos - Suckling pig taco ### 14. Ferretería Restaurante *A former hardware store roasting cochinillo in two stages* - **Neighbourhood:** Barrio de las Letras - **Address:** Calle Atocha 57, 28012 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Distinction:** Michelin Selected · Repsol Recomendado - **Website:** https://www.ferreteriarestaurante.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/ferreteria-restaurante Ferretería Restaurante is a Spanish gastrobar and wood-fire grill in Madrid's Barrio de las Letras, filling a former hardware store that its own site calls the city's oldest. The quieter dining room sits on the floor below the informal Leña-Bar upstairs, across five rooms under brick vaulting. Beyond the cocido and the ham croquetas, the kitchen also serves bacalao al pil pil and a suckling pig cooked in two separate stages. The restaurant bottles its own Picual extra virgin olive oil rather than sourcing it. It's recognised by the Michelin Guide and holds a Repsol Recomendado. ## Honourable mentions - **[La Manduca de Azagra](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-manduca-de-azagra)** (Trafalgar) — A Navarran restaurant best known for its roasted peppers, whose grill also turns out a confit suckling pig alongside baby-lamb chilindrón. - **[El Gran Asador Lecanda](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-gran-asador-lecanda)** (Recoletos) — A Basque grill in Recoletos that lists a Segovia suckling pig carrying its own guaranteed denomination mark, at €98 for two to three people. - **[Marmitón](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/marmiton-bistro)** (Barrio de la Latina) — A small La Latina bistro whose changing market menu includes a low-temperature cochinillo among its rotating mains. ## The Cochinillo scene in Madrid Madrid's cochinillo splits into two clear camps. One is the classic Castilian asador, built entirely around the wood-fired oven: Botín has roasted it on Calle de Cuchilleros since 1725, a claim Guinness World Records recognises as the world's oldest restaurant, while El Pedrusco de Aldealcorvo in Trafalgar and Casa Pedro in Fuencarral both trace their own roast-house lineage back a family generation or three. El Senador, Las Cuevas de Luis Candelas, Los Galayos and Taberna del Capitán Alatriste round out that traditional pole, each with its own historic address in central Madrid. The other camp is the Michelin dining room, where cochinillo turns up as one dish among many rather than the whole menu: Coque's two-Michelin-star kitchen calls roasted suckling pig its enduring signature, Gaytán serves an Ávila version cooked two ways, and Saddle lists a crispy suckling pig among the à la carte revival dishes it built its name on. Villoldo and El Triciclo sit somewhere in between, each giving cochinillo, and at Villoldo lechazo too, its own dedicated line on an otherwise traditional Castilian carta. ## Know before you go ### 1. Prices for a portion of cochinillo vary a lot across this list: €30 at Casa Pedro and Villoldo, €32.50 at Botín, and €42 at El Pedrusco de Aldealcorvo. The Michelin-starred versions at Coque, Gaytán and Saddle come inside a fixed tasting or à la carte menu instead of a standalone price. ### 2. Botín and Las Cuevas de Luis Candelas both sit on Calle de Cuchilleros, next to Plaza Mayor, and both draw heavy tourist footfall. Book ahead, especially for dinner. ### 3. If you want cochinillo to eat at home, El Senador packages its roasted suckling pig and lamb to finish yourself. ### 4. The Michelin-starred kitchens on this list, Coque, Gaytán and Saddle, serve cochinillo as one dish within a longer tasting or à la carte format rather than a whole roasted piglet for the table. Go to one of the traditional asadores if a full roast is specifically what you're after. ## Glossary - **Cochinillo asado** — Roast suckling pig: a milk-fed piglet roasted whole, traditionally in a wood-fired oven, until the skin turns dark and crackling. - **Lechazo / cordero lechal** — Milk-fed lamb, roasted the same way as cochinillo in the Castilian asador tradition. - **Asador** — A restaurant built around a wood-fired oven or grill, with roasting meat as its main style of cooking. ## Frequently asked questions ### What is the best cochinillo in Madrid? El Pedrusco de Aldealcorvo, Botín and Coque all turn up repeatedly across independent Spanish coverage of where to eat cochinillo in the city, each for a different style: El Pedrusco for its century-old wood-fired oven in Trafalgar, Botín for the roast that's defined it since 1725, and Coque for its Michelin-starred version of the dish. ### Where can I eat cochinillo near Plaza Mayor? Botín and Las Cuevas de Luis Candelas both sit on Calle de Cuchilleros, right off Plaza Mayor. Los Galayos is on Plaza Mayor itself, and Taberna del Capitán Alatriste is on Calle de Grafal in the same Centro district. All four serve roast suckling pig from a wood-fired oven. ### What's the difference between cochinillo and lechazo? Cochinillo is roast suckling pig, a milk-fed piglet. Lechazo, also called cordero lechal, is milk-fed lamb. Both are roasted the same way in the Castilian tradition, often in a wood-fired oven, and several restaurants on this list, including Villoldo, El Pedrusco de Aldealcorvo, El Senador and Las Cuevas de Luis Candelas, serve both. ### Do Madrid restaurants serve Segovia-style cochinillo? Yes. Segovia and the wider Castilian plateau are the traditional home of cochinillo asado, and some Madrid asadores source suckling pig carrying Segovia's denomination of origin directly, including El Pedrusco de Aldealcorvo and El Senador. ### Which Madrid restaurant does a modern take on cochinillo? Coque, Gaytán and Saddle, all Michelin-starred, each serve their own version: Coque's tasting menu carries a Suckling Pig course finished with spring onion and balsamic, Gaytán serves an Ávila suckling pig cooked two ways, and Saddle lists a crispy suckling pig among its à la carte revival dishes. ### How much does cochinillo cost in Madrid? Prices on this list range from €30 at Casa Pedro and Villoldo to €32.50 at Botín and €42 at El Pedrusco de Aldealcorvo. The Michelin-starred versions at Coque, Gaytán and Saddle come inside a fixed tasting or à la carte menu rather than at a standalone price. ### Can I order cochinillo to take home in Madrid? El Senador, an asador on Plaza de la Marina Española, packages its roasted cochinillo and lamb so you can finish them yourself at home. ## 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-cochinillo. Every claim is verifiable against the linked restaurant profiles. Source: Guidavera (https://guidavera.com).