Best Restaurants near Gran Vía

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Gofio moved in July 2024 to a two-floor space on Calle Caballero de Gracia, just off Gran Vía, after nine years on Calle de Lope de Vega. Chef Safe Cruz, who grew up in a farming family in El Tablero, Tenerife, built the kitchen around the Canarian pantry: rabbit trucha with injected salmorejo and a shrimp dish in cardamom mojo with a creamy millet broth are among the dishes. It earned a Michelin star in November 2019 and holds two Repsol Soles, and in 2025 it won Restaurante del Año at the Premios Metrópoli, with Aída González, who runs the dining room, taking Mejor Dirección de Sala. Three tasting menus run, from Gofio Express at €95 to Canariedad Máxima Plus at €185, with capacity capped at 20 diners a service.

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La Tasquita de Enfrente sits on Calle Ballesta, just off Gran Vía, where eight tables have run for 25 years. It has been there since 1999. Juanjo López Bedmar's father, Serafín, ran a casa de comidas called La Tasquita opposite an old restaurant, La Gran Tasca, giving the place its name, the little tavern across the way. The kitchen holds to radical minimalism, rarely more than three ingredients a dish, drawn from a repertoire of more than 300 dishes that changes daily around what suppliers flag the night before. Beyond the boiled red gamba, look for eel with pear, carabinero with sobrasada and battered kokotxas. It's listed in the Michelin Guide and holds two Repsol Soles; day-to-day leadership has passed to Nacho Trujillo. Two tasting menus run, nine courses at €110 and the 11-course Tasquita Experience at €150.

“un chef que se atreve a innovar, a cambiar y ampliar su carta con productos”— Con el Morro Fino

La Primera sits at Gran Vía 1, in the Cortes barrio at the foot of the avenue. The team, with more than 45 years in hospitality, keeps its Santander roots: Cantabrian coastal entrantes like rabas de Santander and anchoas de Santoña sit alongside more inventive dishes. It's a modern, elegant room with a bar as well as the dining room, and a notable view is one of its listed features. It's listed in the Guía Repsol as Recomendado, and opens every day for lunch and dinner, 13:00 to 16:00 and 20:00 to 23:00, extending to 23:30 on Friday and Saturday.

“En la carta no faltan entrantes clásicos como las rabas de Santander”— OKDIARIO

Ático is the rooftop restaurant and terrace of The Principal Madrid, a hotel on Calle Marqués de Valdeiglesias in the Justicia barrio, right where the street meets the start of Gran Vía. The terrace and the view over the rooftops are the main event, in a room built around creative Spanish and Mediterranean cooking that leans on seasonal produce, alongside a large wine list. It carries a Recomendado in the Guía Repsol, and the service reads as attentive. It's open daily from 11:30 to 23:30, which makes it as workable for a long lunch or an aperitivo before a show as for a sit-down dinner.

“Su carta se recrea en la gastronomía española, y sus productos más típicos”— Con el Morro Fino

Mercado de la Reina has run on Gran Vía, open every day from 9am until late, as part of Grupo Mercado de la Reina. It opened in 2006. The kitchen sticks to classic Spanish dishes pulled from the country's denominaciones de origen, built on quality ingredients and what it calls honest cooking, and it runs a midday menu. There's a terrace on Gran Vía itself and a cocktail list, and the format makes it an easy stop for groups. Dishes on the menu include Cordoban salmorejo with Ibérico ham shavings, old-style patatas bravas, and a wild bluefin tuna tataki from Barbate over ajoblanco.

Bloved is the restaurant of the Catalonia Gran Via Madrid, a hotel in a restored early-20th-century building on Gran Vía known for its carved stone facade and Talavera-tile detailing. The kitchen cooks in an innovative Mediterranean style built around local produce, with dishes like suckling pig and slow-cooked oxtail, plus starters such as salmon tartare with avocado and pinions and corvina ceviche in tiger's milk and passion fruit. A separate Bloved Veggie Corner adds seasonal vegetarian and vegan options. It's open daily for lunch and dinner, roughly 13:00 to 15:30 and 19:00 to 22:30, and the hotel also runs a gastrobar, nnueve 9, with live performances.

Gran Café Shanghai sits at street level of Casino Gran Vía, on Gran Vía itself, one of the casino's on-site gastro-spaces. The kitchen serves traditional Chinese dishes and dim sum in a modern, carefully decorated dining room with several distinct spaces, set up for groups and families. A daily set menu runs €15 and includes a starter, seasonal mushroom soup and egg or vegetable spring rolls among the options, a main like crispy chicken bao with vegetables and spicy sauce or pad thai with prawns, and dessert or coffee with a drink included.

“En él descubrirás la cocina china a un nuevo nivel”— OKDIARIO

Hielo y Carbón sits on the second floor of the Hyatt Centric Gran Via Madrid, with windows over the avenue. Its own site pitches it as a sensory concept rather than a straightforward hotel dining room, combining Spanish cooking with international touches in a modern, ingredient-led style, in a room elegant and quiet enough for a date. A tasting menu for a minimum of two runs €50 per person and includes sea bass tartare with citrus, horseradish and crispy corn toast, a grilled beef croquette with smoked chili, and a 12-hour charcoal-grilled short rib with baby potatoes and red mojo sauce. It's dinner only, daily from 19:00 to midnight, extending to around 01:00 on Saturday and Sunday.

“Vistas increíbles a la arteria principal de la ciudad, la Gran Vía”— OKDIARIO

Restaurante Sichuan 四川饭店 cooks the food of Sichuan, China, on Calle del Caballero de Gracia, just off Gran Vía. Its own site says the chillies and peppercorns are imported directly from the region and the cooks are from Sichuan, for the deep, layered heat the cuisine is known for. The menu runs from crispy duck with Peking sauce and Chinese buns to spicy dishes like Kung Pao shrimp with cashew nuts and a Sichuan-style steamed sea bass with noodles, plus cold dishes such as banban chicken in a spicy sauce. There's no Michelin or Guía Repsol distinction. It's open daily for lunch and dinner, 13:00 to 16:30 and 19:30 to 23:30, closing at 23:00 on Sunday.

El Rincón Abulense brings the cooking of Ávila to Calle Caballero de Gracia, just off Gran Vía, and doubles as the city's Hogar de Ávila, its walls hung with photographs of the province. The house dish is patatas revolconas, Ávila's mashed potatoes with paprika and pork, and the kitchen also serves Iberian ham, charcuterie and homemade plates, with free tapas handed out alongside drinks. It's a homely bar-and-dining-room, bar downstairs and dining room upstairs, that works well for groups, with a daily menu and raciones. It's open Monday to Friday from early morning, plus Saturday middays, and closed Sunday, which makes it a reliable option even outside typical dinner hours.

Angelita is a family-run wine bar, cocktail bar and restaurant on Calle de la Reina, in Chueca. Brothers David and Mario Villalón opened it in 2016 and it's since become one of Madrid's benchmark wine bars, sitting at No. 45 on the inaugural Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026 and on the World's 50 Best Bars extended list. The room spreads over two floors, a modern wine bistro upstairs and a classic cocktail bar below. The kitchen is seasonal and produce-led, much of it grown in the family's own garden: pisto with rosemary-infused alioli and a bull's tail stew reworked as cannelloni sit alongside the signature 'negroni powder' sbagliato cocktail. The wine list runs to more than 2,000 references, with around 60 by the glass.

“una coctelería a la americana con más de 500 destilados para elegir”— Con el Morro Fino

La Barraca has served Valencian rice cooked in the traditional style, on bomba rice with DO Valencia, since 1935, when the Solís family brought it to Madrid; it has stayed in the family across three generations. It sits on Calle de la Reina, a step from Gran Vía, and holds a Repsol Solete. The rice list runs from a classic Paella Valenciana and mixed paella to a baked rice with cocido and a rice with duck and wild mushrooms, alongside dishes like grilled cod and stuffed baby squid in its ink. It opens daily for lunch and dinner.

El Cucurucho del Mar sits on Calle del Postigo de San Martín, near Plaza de Callao, and holds a Repsol Solete. The venue describes itself as the work of two generations of vigueses, people from Vigo, cooking family recipes with a more contemporary touch. Produce-led Galician dishes anchor the carta: fresh zamburiñas, pulpo de Bueu with cachelos, Galician meats, pimientos de Padrón and a revuelto of Finisterre seaweed with sea urchin roe, alongside grilled platters like the mariscada for two or four. It also serves a menú del día alongside the carta. Monday is lunch only; Tuesday to Sunday it runs from late morning through midnight.

Pury serves Korean food, cooked in a traditional register rather than a fusion one, on Calle de las Veneras, near Plaza de Callao. Jinwon Yoon opened it in August 2024. It's vegetarian-friendly, and cocktails are part of what it does. The room is casual and the service reads as warm and attentive. It has no website, so its Instagram, @pury.kr, is the venue's own channel. It's open Monday for dinner only, Tuesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner, closed Sunday, and shuts for a summer break in August.

Alchemist 1967 is a cocktail bar first, on Calle de Veneras near Plaza de Callao, with an eclectic small-plates menu built to sit alongside the drinks rather than compete with them. The cocktail list is high-end, built around signature drinks like Water of Life, Hermetic Art, Fifth Element and Rubedo: Work in Red, alongside a Classic Alchemist 1967 Dry Martini and a non-alcoholic elixir menu. The room is lively and stylish, with the music kept soft in the background. Nothing opens before 19:00 any day of the week, running to 01:00 Sunday through Wednesday and 03:00 Thursday to Saturday, which makes it a late-evening stop rather than an early one.

Mawey Taco Bar Gran Vía is the San Bernardo address of Mawey, a Mexican taco bar rather than a sit-down restaurant, on Calle de San Bernardo in Palacio, toward the Plaza de España end of Gran Vía. The kitchen is set up for quick, efficient service, open from early afternoon through to midnight six days a week, which makes it work for a group celebration as easily as a fast lunch. The menu runs from homemade guacamole with totopos and a yellow fish and shrimp ceviche in passion fruit tiger's milk, to crispy Angus picaña flautas bathed in smoked chipotle chili sauce and cochinita pibil enchiladas. It's closed Tuesdays, open Wednesday to Monday, 13:30 to midnight.

“Un nuevo e innovador concepto de taquerías gastronómicas”— OKDIARIO