Best Menú del Día in Madrid

Terzio is chef Saúl Sanz's informal tapas bar in Barrio de Salamanca (Goya), the casual counterpart to his more formal restaurant Treze next door. At lunch it runs a €15 menú del día built close to the classic template: three tapas, then dessert or coffee, plus a drink, all for one price. The regular carta leans on sharing plates: brioche de chipirones, bravas, saam de oreja and barbecued costillar, with bread from John Torres. It's closed Sunday and Monday, and Saturday is lunch only, so plan around that if you're after the set menu specifically. No Michelin or Repsol listing here, but it's a straightforward, well-priced example of the format done properly.

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Barracuda MX is chef Roberto Ruiz's Pacific Mexican coastal restaurant near Puerta de Alcalá, built around Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco and Baja California cooking, with fresh-nixtamalized corn tortillas made daily. It's listed in the Michelin Guide and holds a Repsol Sol. On weekday lunchtimes it runs a set menu priced at €39, with group menus starting from €70. The regular carta runs from guacamole and aguachile to dobladita de changurro, a Baja California crab specialty, roasted bone marrow with red tuna, and tongue tacos with green tomatillo sauce, alongside a cocktail programme built around tequilas and mezcals. Reservations are essential given demand. Ruiz also founded Punto MX, which he presents as the first Mexican restaurant in Europe to earn a Michelin star.

BiBo Madrid is the capital outpost of chef Dani García's BiBo concept, an Andalusian-international kitchen on Paseo de la Castellana, listed in the Michelin Guide and holding a Repsol Recomendado. Monday to Friday it runs an express lunch menu, alongside a weekend brunch and, on Wednesday evenings, a separate Mexican menu. The 800-square-metre room is strung with lighting that nods to Málaga's feria, and the carta runs from oxtail brioche and Russian salad with fried quail eggs to Robuchon-style king prawns and yellow corvina ceviche. It opened in Marbella in 2014 as García's more accessible answer to his fine-dining work, and reached Madrid in August 2016. Open 13:00 to 01:00 on weekdays, 11:00 to 01:00 at weekends.

Casa Felisa is a Repsol-listed restaurant on Calle de la Beneficencia in Justicia, built around a quiet, dressed-up room for a long, castizo meal. Madrid chef Rafa Cordón took over the kitchen in April 2026. It runs a menú del día Monday to Friday at lunch, and a separate five-course Menú de Felisa Sunday through Thursday evenings, so the format shifts between midday and dinner rather than staying fixed all day. The regular carta pulls from classic Spanish cooking with what the kitchen calls a few eccentric touches: Santoña anchovies, salt cod pavía, Felisa's own Russian salad, grilled artichokes and pulpo a la gallega, with fruit and vegetables sourced from the nearby Mercado Barceló. It's open 13:00 to 17:00 and 19:00 to 23:00 daily.

Badila is a small casa de comidas on the corner of Calle de San Pedro Mártir and Calle Cabeza, just behind Plaza de Tirso de Molina in Lavapiés. Cook-owner Miguel Ventura, a law graduate turned self-taught cook, has run it for around two decades on a single idea: a home-style menú del día that changes daily with the market and the season. It holds a Solete in the Guía Repsol and now serves lunch only, Tuesday to Sunday. There's no website of its own, so booking is by phone. It runs around €26 to €50 a head.

Casa Dani is a tortilla de patata specialist inside the Mercado de la Paz, on Calle de Ayala in Salamanca, holding a Repsol Solete. Daniel García and Dolores 'Lola' Cuerda from Albacete opened it in 1991, and their children Daniel and Noelia run it now. Tortilla is the anchor, sold by the pincho, but the counter's own line is that it's more than just tortilla: croquetas, raciones, breakfasts and montaditos sit alongside it. The menú del día runs on seasonal home cooking, served 13:30 to 15:30, in cocido, lentejas and callos territory. It's priced under €25 per person overall, open Monday to Saturday 07:00 to 17:00, closed Sunday. Casa Dani won the II Campeonato Nacional de Tortillas in Tenerife in 2019 and picked up the Academia Madrileña de Gastronomía's Premio al Bar the same year; Phil Rosenthal filmed there for Somebody Feed Phil.

Mercado de la Reina is a traditional Spanish restaurant on Gran Vía, part of Grupo Mercado de la Reina, open every day from 9am until late. It opened in 2006. Its midday menu, menú de mediodía, runs alongside a wider carta built on classic dishes pulled from across Spain's denominaciones de origen. There's a terrace on Gran Vía and a full cocktail list. The kitchen turns out grilled steak with fries, oxtail stew, salmorejo, whole grilled octopus and a run of croquetas, priced around €20 to €30 per person. It's an easy, central pick for a weekday lunch stop, minutes from the Gran Vía shopping strip.

“Una comida que deja huella”— Madrid Secreto

CIRKuK is a gastrobar in the Guindalera area of Salamanca, open for lunch and dinner on weekdays and closed at the weekend. Alongside its regular gastrobar menu and group menus, it runs a menú del día, and it keeps a full gluten-free carta plus vegetarian options throughout, useful if you're eating with a mixed table. The kitchen has a playful streak: tomato and date tartar with salmorejo, its own ensaladilla rusa with mayokimchi, duck gyozas with hoisin sauce, and a wakame seaweed salad with tempura king prawns. There's a cocktail list too.

“Fue reconocido como el mejor de Madrid en 2023”— Madrid Secreto

Hermanos Míguez sits on Calle de Herminio Puertas in Alto de Extremadura, part of Madrid's Latina district. The family opened it in 1973, and Arturo Míguez runs it now. It has no website of its own, and it turns up repeatedly in roundups of the city's better menú del día spots, this one among them. It's a lunch-only operation, open 13:00 to 17:00 Sunday through Friday and closed Saturday, under €25 per person. The venue's own data flags it as good for groups and families.

“Menú del día completo, tradicional y, claro, de toda la vida”— Madrid Secreto

Flor de Galicia is a Galician restaurant in Barrio de Salamanca, near Goya and the Retiro, built around traditional cooking and produce brought in from the northwest. Alongside its tapas menus, it runs a menú del día. The kitchen's core is Galician seafood: pulpo a la gallega, octopus with onions, lacón a la gallega, and rice dishes such as rice with lobster or chipirones, plus Rubia Gallega beef, tortillas and empanadas. You can eat across the dining room, the bar or the terrace, priced around €26 to €50 per person depending on what you order from the carta.

Distrito 798 is a Japanese-Peruvian nikkei restaurant on the ground floor of the Meliá Castilla hotel, in Tetuán, in a bright, minimalist room with white furniture and a few plants. The weekday set lunch costs €12.95, and there's an omakase where the chef decides the courses, alongside a carta running from ceviches and a bluefin tuna tartare to nigiri and robata dishes. Diners can park free in the hotel's car park.