Best Huevos Rotos in Madrid

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Casa Lucio has served its huevos estrellados, fried eggs broken over potatoes, on Cava Baja in La Latina since Lucio Blázquez opened the doors in November 1974. The building itself has held a tavern since 1720, when it was the Posada de San Pedro, a haunt of Madrid writers. Blázquez, who still prefers to be called a tabernero, runs the kitchen today with his children María del Carmen, Fernando and Javier. The huevos estrellados sit at €16.50 on the current carta, next to the Revuelto Lucio, eggs scrambled with wild mushrooms and shrimp, at the same price. Casa Lucio holds one Repsol Sol. It runs lively and rustic across two tiled floors, though it's known for filling up fast and running on the pricier side for home-style cooking.

“Llevan preparando los huevos rotos más famosos de Madrid (y casi se podría decir que de España) desde 1974”— Madrid Secreto

Casa Ponzano runs a lively, warmly lit room on Bretón de los Herreros, in Chamberí's Ríos Rosas, alongside croquetas, bravas and a fresh-made Spanish tortilla on its share-plates carta. The huevos rotos here, priced at €17.50, come with garlic prawns sautéed in garlic and guindilla pepper, billed on the menu simply as "the classic". It's a neighbourhood room rather than a destination address. Service is personal and unhurried, and the room handles groups and celebrations without rushing anyone out. At €26 to €50 per person it sits in the middle of the price range on this list.

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Kyoshi Las Cortes is chef Ricardo Sanz's more relaxed fusion room, on the ground floor of the Hotel Las Cortes DoubleTree by Hilton in the Cortes barrio, and it holds one Repsol Sol. Sanz's Japanese-Mediterranean cooking runs through five dishes the group names as its own signatures: huevos rotos with tuna, an egg and truffle nigiri, a bocata de calamares, pa amb tomàquet and a bone-marrow gunkan. The room is polished and understated, lit soft, meant to be a more laid-back version of the group's starred restaurants rather than a formal tasting counter. At €51 to €100 per person, this is one of the pricier huevos rotos on this list, built around raw fish rather than potatoes and ham.

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Ramón Freixa Tradición is chef Ramón Freixa's tribute to Spanish home cooking, on the main floor of Velázquez 24 in Recoletos, right alongside his two-Michelin-star Ramón Freixa Atelier. Among the dishes the menu lists as Ramón's Favourites is carabinero with broken eggs, a fine-dining spin on the same idea served in tabernas across the city. Tradición itself is recommended in the Michelin Guide and holds one Repsol Sol, and the kitchen runs continuously from 13:00 to 00:30 every day of the year with no afternoon break. Its price band is over €100 per person, so this is a special-occasion order rather than a taberna plate.

GastroVía 61 builds its carta around local produce and traditional Madrid recipes, from croquetas postineras to cachopo, on Calle de la Flor Baja near Plaza de España. Its take on the dish, listed as Huevos Rotos Our Way at €21, layers potatoes with boletus mushrooms and foie, tops them with a fried egg, and finishes with grated truffle, a step up from the ham-and-potato versions served elsewhere on this list. At €30 to €70 per person, it sits toward the pricier end for a Madrilenian kitchen, closer in spirit to the fine-dining entries here than to the traditional tabernas.

Casa Mundi keeps to traditional Spanish home cooking on Calle Donoso Cortés, in the Arapiles corner of Chamberí, tiled and wood-panelled inside. Homemade broken eggs sit on the carta at €12.90, alongside the kitchen's other calling cards: callos a la madrileña at €16.50 and a chuletón sold by the kilo. It's closed Mondays, and Sundays run lunch only. At €10 to €50 per person, it's a fair-priced neighbourhood room where the dish sits quietly among heavier Madrid classics rather than being the headline act.

Casa Orellana is a taberna madrileña on Calle Orellana, in the Salesas corner of Justicia, open every day from 12:30 until 1am, later on Friday and Saturday. Broken eggs with tartare is priced at €28.50 on the carta, sitting alongside croquetas caseras, tortilla de patatas and callos a la madrileña. There's a terrace on a quiet central street, unusual for this part of town, plus an indoor dining room that runs late. At €26 to €50 per person overall, it's a lively room built for long nights rather than a quick lunch stop.

Tilda Neotaberna Castiza runs inside Hotel Akeah on Calle de San Bernardo in Malasaña, part of the SmartRental group. The kitchen takes castizo classics and gives them a contemporary spin: croquetas, huevos rotos and torreznos sit alongside Mediterranean plates, a burger and a dedicated VEGGIE TILDA vegetarian section. There's a year-round interior patio for eating and a separate rooftop that's drinks-only, with views over Malasaña. It opens at 07:00 on weekdays, later on weekends, and runs long into the night. At €26 to €50 per person, it's a hotel restaurant reworking the dish for a younger, later-night crowd rather than a traditional taberna sitting.