Photo: NoiBest Italian Restaurants in Madrid
Introduction
The Madrid Italian Restaurants List We Send to Friends
RavioXO, Dabiz Muñoz's pasta and dumpling laboratory inside El Corte Inglés Castellana, is the only Michelin-starred restaurant on this list, and its kitchen was planned around rolling some 4,500 dumplings a day at full capacity. Twelve restaurants make this list, from that single star down through Michelin-listed rooms to Big Mamma's loudest, most-reviewed tables and quieter neighbourhood kitchens doing Sicilian tapas or grandmother-recipe tiramisu.
The short answer
Key Picks at a Glance
In a hurry? These are the essential picks from our full ranking below.
- Best Michelin-starred pastaRavioXO
A Michelin star for Dabiz Muñoz's pasta and dumpling kitchen.
- Best Sicilian kitchenOzio Gastronómico
Michelin-listed Sicilian tradition in Cuatro Caminos since January 2022.
- Best big-group sceneBel Mondo
the Big Mamma group's 900 m² trattoria, with a leafy terrace and a loud room.
- Best neighbourhood SicilianMercato Ballaró
Angelo Marino's two-floor kitchen, Palermo tapas downstairs and seafood-led pasta above.
Before you order
A Guide to Italian Restaurants in Madrid
What's the difference between a Michelin star and a Michelin Guide listing?
A Michelin star is the guide's top distinction, awarded to a small number of restaurants each year. A Michelin Guide listing, sometimes called 'Selected,' means the restaurant is included in the guide's recommendations without holding a star. RavioXO is the only Italian restaurant on this list with a star; Gioia, Ozio Gastronómico, Dantte and Gianna Ristorante are Michelin-listed rather than starred.
What do Repsol Sol, Recomendado and Solete mean?
These are tiers in the Guía Repsol, Spain's national restaurant guide. A Sol ranks above a Recomendado listing, which ranks above a Solete. RavioXO and Don Giovanni hold a Sol; Gioia is Recomendado; Bosco de Lobos holds a Solete.
Is Big Mamma an Italian restaurant group?
Big Mamma is a French-founded restaurant group that runs large, high-volume Italian trattorias across several countries. In Madrid it operates both Bel Mondo, on Calle de Velázquez, and Circolo Popolare, at the foot of Torre Picasso.
How We Built This List
Years of Eating, Asking, and Going Back
We built this list by reading the Michelin Guide's own best-of feature on Italian restaurants in Madrid, alongside pieces from La Gastronoma, Madrid Secreto, Vive la Vida Roca, Un Buen Dia en Madrid and Memories of the Pacific, and cross-checking every restaurant those sources named against the Madrid restaurants we've profiled, keeping only those currently open, matching each one on its street address rather than name alone. RavioXO isn't named in any of those six articles despite holding a Michelin star; we added it anyway because a star is the clearest possible signal of authority for this topic. We left out kitchens whose own cuisine listing is pizza rather than Italian, since those belong on a separate pizza guide, and we left out restaurants named repeatedly in the source articles, including Baldoria, Beata Pasta and Settebello, because they aren't yet ranked in our own system; we've noted that gap rather than guessing at their current details.
More on how we rank: our methodology and quality standards.
At a glance
The 12 Best Italian Restaurants, Compared
Quick reference table. Click any name to jump to the full review.
| # | Restaurant | Neighbourhood | Price | Distinction | Signature dish |
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| 1 | RavioXO | Cuatro Caminos | €€€ |  Michelin | Wontollini soup |
| 2 | Don Giovanni | Jerónimos | €€ | 1 Repsol Sol | Fonduta con caviale di tartufo |
| 3 | Gioia | Justicia | €€€ | Repsol Recommended | Tagliolini 40 tuorli, seasonal truffle and Cacio Nerone |
| 4 | Ozio Gastronómico | Cuatro Caminos | €€ | — | Pesto trapanese con tonno |
| 5 | Dantte | Almagro | €€ | — | Rigatoni all'amatriciana |
| 6 | Gianna Ristorante | Trafalgar | €€ | — | Carbonara croquette |
| 7 | Bosco de Lobos | Chueca | €€ | Repsol Solete | Fried pizza with mortadella, pickle, squacquerone and pistachio pesto |
| 8 | Bel Mondo | Recoletos | €€ | — | Burratina al pesto |
| 9 | Circolo Popolare | Tetuán | €€ | — | Burrata al pistacchio |
| 10 | Pagus | Lista | €€ | — | Caramelle with pesto and boletus |
| 11 | Mercato Ballaró | Almagro | €€ | — | Cozze alla Palermitana |
| 12 | Florentine | Recoletos | €€ | — | Antipasto Grande |
The ranking
12 Best Italian Restaurants in Madrid
RavioXO1. RavioXO — Dabiz Muñoz's Michelin-starred pasta and dumpling laboratory
Michelin
RepsolRavioXO is chef Dabiz Muñoz's pasta and dough-led restaurant inside the Gourmet Experience at El Corte Inglés Castellana in Cuatro Caminos, part of his univerXO group alongside three-Michelin-star DiverXO. It opened in May 2022 and won a Michelin star that November, which El Corte Inglés billed as the first for a department store anywhere in the world; it also holds a Repsol Sol. The kitchen treats the dumpling wrapper itself as the thing worth perfecting, and was planned around rolling some 4,500 a day at full capacity. The menu runs from the wontollini soup to a cold-carbonara 'hangover pasta' with Korean fried chicken and a three-way-cooked Peking Margherita pizza. There's a single tasting menu, 360 Festival, at 165 euros, and no coeliac menu.
Don Giovanni
2. Don Giovanni — Truffle-and-pasta Sicilian-Italian table by the Prado, one Sol
RepsolDon Giovanni cooks Sicilian and Italian food on Paseo de la Reina Cristina in Jerónimos, a few streets from the Museo del Prado, and holds a Repsol Sol. Tumbarello took it over in 2005. Truffle dishes anchor the carta, from a fonduta with truffle caviar and fontina to a fried egg with truffle shavings and truffle pearls, alongside classics like spaghetti carbonara and aubergine parmigiana. Chef Andrea Tumbarello leads the kitchen. It's a family-friendly room with a terrace and a wheelchair-accessible entrance, but tables aren't easy to come by, and only Tuesday's hours are confirmed on the restaurant's own listing, so it's worth checking the rest of the week before you plan a visit.
Gioia
3. Gioia — Davide Bonato's Michelin-listed Italian, pasta and bread made in-house
Gioia is chef Davide Bonato's restaurant on Calle San Bartolomé in Justicia, listed in the Michelin Guide and Repsol's Recomendado. Chef Davide Bonato opened it in 2015. Bonato, from Piedmont, reinterprets Italian cooking with everything made in-house by hand, from the pasta to the bread and desserts. The carta runs to tagliolini with 40 egg yolks, seasonal truffle and Cacio Nerone; mezzemaniche carbonara with pecorino foam and a charcoal crumble; and a Milanese-style risotto finished with 24-karat gold leaf. There are two tasting menus, Essentia and NESSO. The room reads romantic and elegant with a trendy edge, service is polished, and it's closed Mondays and Tuesdays, running to 00:30 the rest of the week.
“Alta cocina italiana de la mano de Davide Bonato. Elevado y creativo”— La Gastronoma
Ozio Gastronómico
4. Ozio Gastronómico — Sicilian tradition in Cuatro Caminos, Michelin-listed since 2022
Ozio Gastronómico has cooked Sicilian-accented Italian food on Calle del Aviador Zorita in Cuatro Caminos since January 2022, listed in the Michelin Guide. Chef Vincenzo Turrisi runs the kitchen, Francesco Moressa directs the dining room and wine, and owner Alberto Andolina carries the Sicilian character through the room. Two tasting menus anchor the carta: Ozio Supremo at 62 euros, running from a Sicilian-wine pairing to pizza Regina Margherita and tiramisu, and the 49-euro Pasta Lovers menu, with pesto trapanese con tonno and a tagliolino al tartufo. The room is quiet, intimate and classic rather than trend-chasing, there's a terrace, dogs are welcome, and it opens Wednesday to Sunday.
“cocina con criterio, sin necesidad de reinventar la rueda”— Vive la Vida Roca
Dantte5. Dantte — 'Bastard Italian Cuisine' with Argentine detours, open past midnight
Dantte sits on Santa Engracia in Almagro and calls its own cooking 'Bastard Italian Cuisine,' Italian roots run through cosmopolitan influences from New York and Buenos Aires. It opened in autumn 2024. It's listed in the Michelin Guide. Chef Dante Liporace, whose track record runs from El Bulli to Argentina's Casa Rosada, leads a kitchen where pasta and risotto do the heavy lifting: rigatoni all'amatriciana, spaghetti aglio e olio al limone and boletus-and-black-truffle ravioli in alfredo, alongside Argentine secondi like milanesa de solomillo and ojo de bife. Down on the lower floor, La Cueva runs as the venue's own speakeasy, with vintage cocktails and a DJ. The room is part industrial, part cosy, dog-friendly, and stays open to 02:00 most nights.
Gianna Ristorante6. Gianna Ristorante — Ignazio Esposito's grandmother-named Italian-fusion room in Trafalgar
Gianna Ristorante is on Calle de Eguilaz in Trafalgar, listed in the Michelin Guide. According to Madrid Secreto, its chef, Ignazio Esposito, previously cooked at DiverXO and RavioXO, and the restaurant is named after his grandmother, whose portrait hangs at the entrance. The carta mixes Italian technique with outside influences without much fuss: a carbonara croquette, cod ravioli with pilpil sauce, and a burrata served Italo-Thai alongside tagliolino with seasonal truffles. The room is intimate, cosy and modern, service is polished and attentive with chef interaction built into how it's served, and it's closed Mondays and Tuesdays, with dinner Wednesday to Saturday and lunch Thursday to Sunday.
“Gianna is a personal project named after Esposito’s grandmother”— Madrid Secreto
Bosco de Lobos
7. Bosco de Lobos — Grupo Tragaluz Italian tucked into an architects' garden
Bosco de Lobos sits in the garden of the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid on Calle de Hortaleza in Chueca, part of Grupo Tragaluz, and holds a Repsol Solete. The house sums up its own kitchen in three words: antipasti, pasta and pizza. The carta runs to a fried pizza with mortadella, pickle, squacquerone and pistachio pesto; parmigiana di melanzane; and a burrata with sauteed asparagus, basil, lemon and hazelnuts, alongside beef and octopus carpaccio. Being tucked inside an institutional building's garden sets the tone, off the street without being far from it. It's open daily from 13:00, to 01:00 Sunday to Thursday and 02:00 on Friday and Saturday, and runs 20 to 30 euros a person.
Bel Mondo
8. Bel Mondo — Big Mamma's 900 m² trattoria, with a leafy Velázquez terrace
Bel Mondo is the Big Mamma group's trattoria and Neapolitan pizzeria at Calle de Velázquez 39, a 900 m² space for more than 300, with an open kitchen led by chef Daniele Tasso. The room is lively and loud, styled like an Italian summer palace with an eighties streak, and its terrace sits surrounded by dense greenery. Some tables are bookable and the rest are kept for walk-ins. The menu runs the group's house style of Italian cooking: burratina from Caseificio Montrone in Puglia with basil pesto, truffle mortadella, and a weekday lunch menu from €15. It runs 26 to 50 euros a person.
“As dogmatically Italian as an Italian restaurant in Italy demands”— Madrid Secreto
Circolo Popolare
9. Circolo Popolare — Big Mamma's room under Torre Picasso, 2,000 bottles on the wall
Circolo Popolare is the Big Mamma group's Italian restaurant at the foot of Torre Picasso on Plaza Pablo Ruiz Picasso, in Tetuán. The menu, published on the Big Mamma group's own site, runs to stracciatella, mortadella al tartufo, coppa nostrana and a burrata al pistacchio with Sardinian pane carasau, alongside a weekday menu of the day from 15 euros. It's open every day for lunch and dinner, bookings run online only through SevenRooms, and it's flagged good for groups, good for families and dog-friendly, at 26 to 50 euros a person.
“Un espectáculo total. Su decoración con más de 20.000 botellas te deja sin palabras”— La Gastronoma
Pagus
10. Pagus — Quiet Lista Italian built on an open kitchen and wine list
Pagus cooks Italian food on Calle de Padilla in Lista, in a room that's quiet, casual and a bit rustic, with an open kitchen in view and a wine list flagged as one of the reasons to be there. It runs two services Tuesday to Sunday and closes Mondays. The carta covers both handmade pasta, like caramelle with pesto and boletus, tortellacci with asparagus and guanciale, and cavatelli alla frissurata, and classic starters such as parmigiana di melanzane and carne salada Trentina. It's vegetarian-friendly and good for groups and families, at 26 to 50 euros a person.
“nos dejó calladas en cuanto llegó el primer plato”— Vive la Vida Roca
Mercato Ballaró
11. Mercato Ballaró — Angelo Marino's two-floor Sicilian, tapas below, seafood above
Mercato Ballaró is Sicilian chef-owner Angelo Marino's restaurant on Calle Santa Engracia in Almagro, named after the oldest market in Palermo as a nod to his home city. The ground floor works as an informal bar for tapas and raciones from the Palermo repertoire, while a calmer upstairs dining room leans on seafood and pasta in a menu that shifts with the season. The carta runs to cozze alla Palermitana in San Marzano tomato, a caponata con burrata, and linguine alla carbonara made with truffle cream, wild asparagus and Iberian pork jowl. It's open daily from noon to midnight, Sunday to 17:00, with a terrace and card payment accepted, at 26 to 50 euros a person.
“Mi favorito absoluto. Cocina siciliana de mercado que te vuela la cabeza”— La Gastronoma
Florentine
12. Florentine — Rooftop Italian sharing plates on Serrano, open to 1am
Florentine sits on Calle Serrano in Recoletos, open every day from 13:00 to 01:00, with a rooftop and a terrace that are as much the draw as the food. The cooking is traditional Italian, built for sharing: an Antipasto Grande platter of cured meats, cheeses and stracciatella; burrata pugliese with Sicilian caponata and crispy carasau bread; and the Holy Carbonara, spaghetti served for two in a wheel of pecorino with crispy guanciale and egg yolk. There's also a caviar and oyster list for those who want to go further. Booking runs online through SevenRooms, and it sits at 26 to 50 euros a person, in a room the venue itself calls elegant and stylish.
Also worth trying
Honourable Mentions
Noi
Castellana
Chef Gianni Pinto's Puglia-rooted kitchen on Calle de Recoletos, listed in the Michelin Guide with a Repsol Sol, held out of the main list only because it closed for renovation over summer 2026 and its own site hasn't confirmed the reopening yet; check before you book.
Alduccio
El Viso
By the Santiago Bernabéu since 1962 and billed by the house as Madrid's first Italian restaurant, still turning out handmade fettuccine, lasagna and gnocchi.
The bigger picture
The Italian Restaurants Scene in Madrid
Madrid's Italian scene runs from a single Michelin star to rooms built for a crowd. RavioXO, inside El Corte Inglés Castellana, is chef Dabiz Muñoz's pasta and dumpling laboratory and the only starred restaurant on this list. A tier below it, Gioia, Ozio Gastronómico, Dantte and Gianna Ristorante all carry a Michelin Guide listing. Sicilian cooking has its own thread, from Ozio Gastronómico in Cuatro Caminos to Angelo Marino's two-floor Mercato Ballaró in Almagro. At the other end of the scale, the Big Mamma group runs two of the most-reviewed rooms in the whole of Madrid's restaurant data, Bel Mondo on Calle de Velázquez and Circolo Popolare under Torre Picasso, both loud, both often booked solid. Grand, old-world dining rooms turn up too, at Don Giovanni's truffle-heavy carta by the Prado, alongside younger, cross-cultural kitchens like Dantte's self-described 'Bastard Italian Cuisine.'
Practical tips
Know before you go
A short survival guide for eating italian restaurants in Madrid— everything we wish we’d known on our first trip.
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Bel Mondo and Circolo Popolare, both from the Big Mamma group, book out fast and take reservations online only through the group's own system.
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Noi closed for renovation over the summer of 2026 and announced a September return; confirm it has reopened before booking.
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Prices swing widely across this list, from 20 to 30 euros a person at Bosco de Lobos to 51 to 100 euros a person at RavioXO and Gioia.
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Florentine leans on outdoor space as much as the kitchen, and its rooftop is worth requesting when you book.
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Don Giovanni, by the Prado, is flagged as hard to book; reserve ahead if you want a table there.
Know the terms
Glossary
The vocabulary you need to order italian restaurants in Madrid like a local.
- Michelin Selected
- A restaurant included in the Michelin Guide's recommendations without holding a star, sometimes shown simply as a guide listing.
- Repsol Sol / Recomendado / Solete
- Tiers in the Guía Repsol, Spain's national restaurant guide. A Sol ranks above a Recomendado listing, which ranks above a Solete.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
All restaurants on this list were independently verified as open and serving the dishes described as of .
Which Madrid restaurant has a Michelin star for Italian cooking?
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RavioXO, chef Dabiz Muñoz's pasta and dumpling restaurant inside El Corte Inglés Castellana, is the only restaurant on this list with a Michelin star, alongside a Repsol Sol.
Where can I get handmade pasta in Madrid?
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RavioXO folds its dumplings and dough by hand daily, and Gioia makes its pasta, bread and desserts in-house.
Which Italian restaurant in Madrid is best for a big group?
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The Big Mamma group runs two of the most-reviewed Italian rooms in the city: Bel Mondo on Calle de Velázquez and Circolo Popolare at the foot of Torre Picasso, both good for groups and dog-friendly.
Is there a Sicilian restaurant among Madrid's best Italians?
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Ozio Gastronómico in Cuatro Caminos and Mercato Ballaró in Almagro both work a Sicilian angle, the first Michelin-listed and led by chef Vincenzo Turrisi, the second run by Sicilian chef-owner Angelo Marino.
Which Madrid Italian restaurant has a rooftop terrace?
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Florentine, on Calle Serrano, has a rooftop alongside its terrace.
What's the difference between Michelin Selected and a Michelin star among these restaurants?
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A Michelin star is the guide's top distinction; a 'Selected' or guide listing means the restaurant is recommended without a star. RavioXO is the only starred kitchen here; Gioia, Ozio Gastronómico, Dantte and Gianna Ristorante are Michelin-listed.
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Justin Mota
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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.
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