Best Restaurants near Retiro Park

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Deessa is chef Quique Dacosta's first restaurant in Madrid, set inside the Mandarin Oriental Ritz on Plaza de la Lealtad, in the Jerónimos neighbourhood. It won its first Michelin star eight months after opening and a second the year after, and now holds two stars, retained in the 2026 guide, plus two Repsol Soles. Two tasting menus run at lunch and dinner: Histórico Quique Dacosta, built on classics from his three-Michelin-star restaurant in Denia, including the cubalibre de foie-gras with lemon frost and wild arugula, and Contemporáneo QD Ritz at €195 per person, created for this room. A shorter Chronos menu lets diners pick their own dishes on weekday services. The dining room sits in the hotel's Alfonso XIII salon, a domed space with gold-leaf detailing and illuminated salt sculptures, with a terrace onto the hotel garden. It's closed Sunday to Tuesday and through August.

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Alabaster is the Madrid restaurant of Grupo Amicalia, the group behind Alborada in A Coruña, on Calle de Montalbán in Jerónimos. Chef Antonio Hernando has led the kitchen since it opened in 2014. It's recommended in the Michelin Guide and holds one Repsol Sol. Antonio Hernando leads the kitchen; Óscar Marcos runs the dining room, having trained at the Hotel Escuela de Colmenar before years at Zalacaín under Custodio López Zamarra and Benjamín Urdiaín. The carta runs Galician: merluza de pincho with lemon pil-pil, huevos fritos especiales con carabinero, grilled octopus, clams stewed in green seaweed sauce and jumbo red prawns with potatoes and fried egg, alongside a Rubia Gallega beef sirloin and roast pigeon with foie royale. Staff skip the word 'pairing' for 'armonías', harmonies instead, drawn from a cellar of more than 1,000 references. A tasting menu runs €85, or €129 with the sommelier's pairing. Open Monday to Saturday, closed Sunday.

“Traen lo mejor de su anterior proyecto Alborada.”— Con El Morro Fino

Palm Court is the all-day dining room of the Mandarin Oriental Ritz, on Plaza de la Lealtad in Jerónimos, set under a crystal canopy ceiling. It's listed in the Michelin Guide, a listing rather than a star. The kitchen, guided by chef Quique Dacosta, reworks classic Ritz dishes across breakfast, lunch and dinner, with vegan options on the menu. It runs from 08:00 to 23:00 every day, a different rhythm from Deessa, the hotel's tasting-menu room, under the same chef. Expect roughly €40 to €100 per person for a kitchen this polished, in a room built around potted palms and green upholstered armchairs, with a three-tier afternoon tea stand among the things that have come off the pass.

Em Sherif is the Madrid room of a Lebanese fine-dining group with sister locations in Beirut, Kuwait, Damascus, London, Monaco, Doha and Oman, on Calle de Alcalá. It opened in January 2026 and runs two sittings a day, 13:00 to 17:30 and 19:00 to 23:30, seven days a week. The cooking is modern, creative and seasonal, handling the Lebanese repertoire rather than simply reproducing it, and the room reads elegant and refined. Expect hot and cold mezze like fattet batenjen and grilled octopus, bokjat jebneh from its own furn and kunafa; the group's Instagram is the most current channel, since the Madrid room has no site of its own. Cards, debit and contactless are accepted, and there's paid parking nearby.

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Barracuda MX is chef Roberto Ruiz's most personal project, opened in 2021 on Calle de Valenzuela, beside the Puerta de Alcalá in Jerónimos. Ruiz founded Punto MX in 2012, which he presents as the first Mexican restaurant in Europe to earn a Michelin star; Barracuda MX is recommended in the Michelin Guide and holds one Repsol Sol. The cooking travels Mexico's Pacific coast, from Sonora and Sinaloa to Nayarit, Jalisco and Baja California, with tortillas made daily from freshly nixtamalized corn. The carta runs from three guacamoles and Yucatán oysters to corvina ceviche with passion fruit, huitlacoche quesadillas and tacos of wild king prawn, rib-eye and Ibérico al pastor, most dishes between €16 and €23. A weekday lunch set menu, Selección Pacífico, runs €39. Reservations are essential.

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García de la Navarra is a family restaurant and vinoteca on Calle de Montalbán in Jerónimos, run by brothers Pedro, in the kitchen, and Luis, on the cellar and dining room. The García de la Navarra brothers opened it in 2011, after running La Taberna de Pedro together. It holds one Repsol Sol. There's no fixed carta; the kitchen works from the day's chef's suggestions, seasonal artichokes, red cardoon Navarra-style, black-truffle croquettes and partridge stewed Toledo-style among them, alongside spoon dishes like chicken broth and verdinas with baby squid and clams. The wine side is the other pillar: more than 700 references and 1,900 labels, kept in climate-controlled cellars so each bottle reaches the table at the right temperature, with wines by the glass chalked up daily on a slate. It's open Tuesday to Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday.

La Gamella is a long-standing restaurant on Calle Alfonso XII in Los Jerónimos, by the Retiro and close to the Prado and Thyssen, open more than twenty years. It calls itself a contemporary classic of creative cooking that fuses American and Spanish in a bistro register: a Caesar salad with a drop of Jack Daniels and American burgers are the signatures, alongside steak tartare, seasonal plates and a small-plate platillos option of four to six mini dishes. The restaurant is wine-focused, with its own vinoteca selling bottles to take home alongside a carta running from Cava and Champagne through Rioja and Ribera del Duero. There's a menú del día alongside the à la carte options, and tables can be booked by phone or online.

“Ideal para momentos en familia o en pareja.”— Con El Morro Fino

Taberna Montalbán opened in 2025 on Calle Montalbán in the Los Jerónimos barrio, by the Retiro. The idea came from Miguel, a fan of traditional cooking; his daughter Paloma now runs it, cooking family recipes meant to bring back the flavours of childhood, with quality ingredients and a modern twist on the classics. There's terrace seating out front, and the room is set up for groups and families, dogs welcome. Hours vary through the week, daytime early on and later at weekends, and reservations run through the restaurant's own site, tabernamontalban.com.

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Kulto is a contemporary Mediterranean restaurant with Asian touches on Calle de Ibiza, founded by Laura López and José Fuentes, who first built the concept in Zahara de los Atunes on the Cádiz coast before bringing it to Madrid. They opened it in December 2015. It holds one Repsol Sol. Almadraba red tuna arrives weekly from Cádiz and runs through the menu: a grilled tuna satay, a creamy Russian salad with almadraba tuna, tuna tacos with guacamole, a lightly smoked tuna tartare and semi-raw tarantelo in a fresh escabeche, alongside Madrid classics like callos a la madrileña and the KultO pepito. There's a bar downstairs, a dining room upstairs and a terrace, and it's open Tuesday to Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday.

“Una cocina divertida, con chispa, de fusiones múltiples.”— Gastroactitud

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Casa Rafa has served seafood on Calle de Narváez in the Ibiza barrio since 1958, opened as a small bodega before growing into today's full-service restaurant. It's now run by the second generation, cousins Rafa and Miguel Ángel De Andrés, sons of founding brothers Rafael and Rodrigo Andrés, and it holds one Repsol Sol, which by its own account it has carried every year from 2018 to 2025. Shellfish depends on what's at its best that day: Santa Pola white prawns, langoustines, spider crab and Garrucha red prawns. The carta also runs to a Cantabrian lobster salpicón, an ensaladilla rusa with bonito belly, wild grilled turbot, and old Madrid stews like veal trotters and snout. It seats just twenty tables and is closed Mondays except on holidays.

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La Montería has cooked in the Ibiza barrio since 1963, founded by Juan José and his wife Mercedes, from Cazorla, he behind the bar and she at the stoves. Their son, Miguel Ángel Román, self-taught from childhood helping his parents, took over in 1987 and still runs it as chef-owner. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and a Repsol Solete. The kitchen is Andalusian at heart, enriched with Catalan, Basque, Navarrese and Galician influences, and puts the product first: game, slow-cooked stews, wild fish and red tuna in every cut. The carta runs from salmorejo with egg and pork loin to boneless oxtail, venison ragout and aged beef loin by the kilo, with most mains between €17 and €25. It's open Monday to Saturday, closed Sunday.

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La Catapa is a Madrid tavern on Calle Menorca in the Ibiza barrio, opened in 2010 by chef Miguel Ángel Jiménez, who stepped away from fine dining to run a more casual, tavern-focused project. It holds one Repsol Sol, and it won the Academia Madrileña de Gastronomía's 2025 award for best bar or taberna. The kitchen blends classical Spanish cooking with contemporary technique, and its Madrid-rooted carta includes potato and truffle croquetas and cecina among the dishes ordered at the bar. Expect to spend €26 to €50 per person, and it's part of the same Ibiza-barrio taberna cluster as Zalamero.

“Desde que Miguel Ángel Jiménez se instaló en la calle Menorca, su barra siempre ha sido una de las más demandadas.”— Gastroactitud

Los Kioskos is the big open-air terrace of Florida Park, the historic leisure complex inside Parque de El Retiro itself, on Paseo de Panamá, and it holds a Solete in the Guía Repsol. Six kiosks serve tapas among the trees: crisp torreznos, Iberian ham croquetas, Retiro-style bravas, Spanish omelette and burgers, with drinks and cocktails alongside, and flamenco artists play live at weekends. It's a warm-weather terrace, open from late afternoon into the night Wednesday to Sunday, though hours shift by season, so it's worth checking current times before heading over. Expect €26 to €50 per person, with the park's own trees directly overhead.

Taberna Marcano is chef David Marcano's restaurant on Calle Doctor Castelo, in the Ibiza barrio on the residential edge of the Retiro. Chef David Marcano has run it since 2012. He trained under Arzak, and the kitchen is built on product quality, with Basque roots and Asian and American influences. It has held a presence in the Michelin Guide since 2015, per its own site, and holds a Repsol Recomendado. The room splits into a dining room and a bar with high seating overlooking the open kitchen. The carta opens with the house gildas and a croqueta of the week, and runs to red tuna tartare with fried egg, squid in its ink and hake with squid in ink following Juan Mari Arzak's recipes, and veal cheeks.