# Best Restaurants in Madrid > The 19 best restaurants in Madrid, from DiverXO's three Michelin stars to Botín's firewood oven, roasting cochinillo near Plaza Mayor since 1725. - **Canonical URL:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/best-restaurants - **City:** Madrid, Spain - **Published:** 2026-09-27 - **Updated:** 2026-09-29 - **Author:** Justin Mota, Guidavera founder - **Reading time:** 17 min ## Introduction DiverXO, chef Dabiz Muñoz's three-Michelin-star fusion restaurant in Hispanoamérica, is the only restaurant in Madrid holding all three stars, and it's just one entry on a list that runs from a firewood oven that's roasted cochinillo since 1725 at Botín to a four-table, one-star room inside a flamenco tablao at Corral de la Morería Gastronómico. Nineteen restaurants make this list, spanning Madrid districts from Chamberí to La Latina, and fifteen of them carry at least one Michelin star. ## Key picks at a glance - **Best overall** — [DiverXO](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/diverxo): Madrid's only three-Michelin-star kitchen, chef Dabiz Muñoz's tasting menu rewritten every service. - **Best classic Madrid experience** — [Botín](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/botin): Guinness World Records' oldest restaurant in the world, roasting cochinillo since 1725. - **Best historic tavern** — [Casa Lucio](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/casa-lucio): Cava Baja institution known for huevos estrellados since 1974. - **Best vegetable-led fine dining** — [El Invernadero](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-invernadero): Rodrigo de la Calle's gastrobotánica pioneer, with a full vegan and vegetarian tasting line. - **Best hotel dining room** — [Deessa](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/deessa): Quique Dacosta's first Madrid restaurant, inside the Mandarin Oriental Ritz. - **Best Japanese** — [Ugo Chan](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/ugo-chan): nigiri technique learned from Ricardo Sanz, served a la carte or as a bespoke omakase. ## A guide to Restaurants in Madrid ### How does the Michelin Guide rank restaurants? The Michelin Guide awards a Bib Gourmand for good food at moderate prices, then one, two or three stars for the kitchens it considers exceptional. A Michelin Selected listing, without a star, flags a restaurant the guide's inspectors recommend without ranking it among the starred kitchens. ### What is a Repsol Sol? The Guía Repsol is Spain's home-grown restaurant guide, running its own scale from a Sol up to three Soles, with a smaller Solete distinction below a full Sol. Several restaurants on this list, like DiverXO and Coque, hold both three Michelin stars and three Repsol Soles. ### Tasting menu or a la carte? Most of Madrid's Michelin-starred restaurants serve one or more fixed tasting menus rather than a printed card you order from freely. A few, including Saddle and Zalacaín, still run a full a la carte menu, in Saddle's case built specifically to revive the grand a la carte restaurant against the tasting-menu tide. ### Where is Madrid's fine-dining scene concentrated? The restaurants on this list cluster in Chamberí, Chamartín and central Centro, with several dining rooms set inside hotels rather than standalone buildings, including Deessa at the Mandarin Oriental Ritz, CEBO at Hotel Urban, and Smoked Room inside the Hyatt Regency Hesperia. > "Nineteen restaurants, fifteen of them Michelin-starred, from a firewood oven that's roasted cochinillo since 1725 to a four-table Michelin-starred room inside a flamenco tablao." ## How we built this list We built this list starting from our own restaurant ranking for Madrid, which scores every restaurant we cover on signals like Michelin stars, Repsol Soles and other professional recognition. Fifteen of the nineteen restaurants here carry a Michelin star, and most sit near the top of our internal ranking. We checked that ranking against five outside sources: Time Out Madrid's 2026 list of the city's best restaurants, AFAR's Madrid dining guide, chef José Andrés's own list of favourite Madrid restaurants, Emma Eats & Explores's guide to authentic Madrid restaurants, and Michelin's own Madrid listings. Where our ranking and those sources agreed, that's the backbone of the list. Where they didn't, we used outside consensus to pull in a few restaurants our ranking alone would have missed, like Botín and Casa Lucio, both named independently by more than one source. We left out restaurants that only a single outside source mentioned and that carry no Michelin or Repsol recognition of their own, and we haven't invented any pricing, hours or dish details beyond what each restaurant's own data confirms. ## The 19 best Restaurants, compared | # | Restaurant | Neighbourhood | Price | Distinction | Signature dish | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | [DiverXO](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/diverxo) | Hispanoamérica | €€€€ | Michelin 3-Star · Repsol 3 Soles | Solid menu | | 2 | [DSTAgE](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/dstage) | Chueca | €€€€ | Michelin 2-Star · Repsol 3 Soles | Beso de carabinero a la sal | | 3 | [Coque](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/coque) | Almagro | €€€€ | Michelin 2-Star · Repsol 3 Soles | Fighting Bull Steak Tartare | | 4 | [Paco Roncero](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/paco-roncero) | Sol | €€€€ | Michelin 2-Star · Repsol 3 Soles | Grand Madrid Menu | | 5 | [Corral de la Morería Gastronómico](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/corral-de-la-moreria-gastronomico) | Palacio | €€€ | Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 3 Soles | Menú Compás | | 6 | [Smoked Room](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/smoked-room) | Ríos Rosas | €€€€ | Michelin 2-Star · Repsol 2 Soles | Hachi | | 7 | [Deessa](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/deessa) | Jerónimos | €€€€ | Michelin 2-Star · Repsol 2 Soles | Cubalibre de foie-gras | | 8 | [El Invernadero](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-invernadero) | Ríos Rosas | €€€€ | Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles | Vegetalia | | 9 | [VelascoAbella](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/velascoabella) | Hispanoamérica | €€€€ | Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles | Hake Loin, Maresme Peas and Onion-Sherry Soup | | 10 | [Desde 1911](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/desde-1911) | Ciudad Universitaria | €€€€ | Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles | Scottish smoked salmon carved tableside | | 11 | [Saddle](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/saddle) | Almagro | €€€€ | Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles | Solomillo Rossini | | 12 | [CEBO](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/cebo) | Cortes | €€€€ | Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles | Santoña anchovy, three versions | | 13 | [Osa](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/osa) | Casa de Campo | €€€€ | Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles | Balotina of black rooster | | 14 | [Ugo Chan](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/ugo-chan) | Nueva España | €€€€ | Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles | Mullet sashimi served on the bone and head with a cold Bilbao sauce | | 15 | [Gofio](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/gofio) | Barrio de las Letras | €€€€ | Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles | Rabbit trucha with injected salmorejo | | 16 | [Sacha](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/sacha) | Nueva España | €€€ | Repsol 2 Soles | Falso canelón de txangurro | | 17 | [Zalacaín](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/zalacain) | El Viso | €€€€ | Michelin Selected · Repsol 1 Sol | Búcaro 'Don Pío' | | 18 | [Casa Lucio](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/casa-lucio) | La Latina | €€€ | Repsol 1 Sol | Huevos estrellados | | 19 | [Botín](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/botin) | Palacio | €€€ | Repsol Recomendado | Roast suckling pig | ## The 19 best Restaurants in Madrid ### 1. DiverXO *Madrid's only three-Michelin-star kitchen, tasting menu rewritten every service* - **Neighbourhood:** Hispanoamérica - **Address:** Padre Damián, 23, 28020, Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 3-Star · Repsol 3 Soles - **Website:** https://diverxo.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/diverxo DiverXO is chef Dabiz Muñoz's fusion tasting-menu restaurant in Hispanoamérica, the only three-Michelin-star kitchen in Madrid. Muñoz opened it in 2007, took his first star in 2010 and his third in 2013, then moved the restaurant into the NH Eurobuilding hotel in 2014. It holds three Repsol Soles and ranked No. 4 in The World's 50 Best Restaurants in both 2024 and 2025. The tasting menu, La Cocina de los Cerdos Voladores (the cuisine of the flying pigs), is rewritten every service rather than by season, and past plates have included xiao long bao served in a Tom Kha soup. The solid and liquid menus each run 450 euros per person and can be taken together or separately. **Order:** - Solid menu - Liquid menu - Xiao long bao in Tom Kha soup ### 2. DSTAgE *Two Michelin stars and three tasting menus in an industrial Chueca loft* - **Neighbourhood:** Chueca - **Address:** Calle Regueros, 8, 28004 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 2-Star · Repsol 3 Soles - **Website:** https://dstageconcept.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/dstage DSTAgE is chef Diego Guerrero's two-Michelin-star, three-Repsol-Sol restaurant in Chueca. The name is short for 'Days to Smell Taste Amaze Grow & Enjoy,' the idea Guerrero built the project around when he opened it in July 2014, after taking El Club Allard to two stars. It has held two stars since the 2017 guide and added a Michelin Green Star in 2025. The room is a discreet industrial loft around an open kitchen, and three tasting menus run through it: Dtaste (16 courses, 195 euros), Dstage (18 courses, 210 euros) and Denjoy (22 courses, 230 euros). Dishes include Beso de carabinero a la sal, a shrimp served on a pink salt stone, and Pepe, a crispy pork bun served in a pig-shaped clay bowl. **Order:** - Beso de carabinero a la sal - Pepe - Ajo Morado ### 3. Coque *Third-generation family kitchen, each dish paired with a piece of contemporary art* - **Neighbourhood:** Almagro - **Address:** Calle del Marques del Riscal, 11, 28010 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 2-Star · Repsol 3 Soles - **Website:** https://www.restaurantecoque.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/coque Coque is the Sandoval family's two-Michelin-star, three-Repsol-Sol restaurant in Almagro, also holding a Michelin Green Star. The name honors the brothers' grandfather Álvaro Huertas, a rancher and hunter known as Coque; their parents opened a rotisserie under that name in Humanes de Madrid in 1976. Chef Mario Sandoval trained at elBulli in 1999 before taking over the kitchen, with brother Diego running the dining room and Rafael the wine, and in 2017 the third generation moved the restaurant into central Madrid after more than forty years in Humanes. The current tasting menu, Eat with Art, pairs sixteen dishes with fifteen contemporary artworks and runs 450 euros per person, alongside a 325-euro vegan and vegetarian version. **Order:** - Fighting Bull Steak Tartare - Red Prawn - Chocolate Wafer from the San Lorenzo de El Escorial Factory ### 4. Paco Roncero *Avant-garde tasting menus above the Real Casino de Madrid since 2000* - **Neighbourhood:** Sol - **Address:** Calle de Alcalá 15, 28014 Madrid (top floor of the Real Casino de Madrid, Centro), Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 2-Star · Repsol 3 Soles - **Website:** https://www.pacoroncerorestaurante.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/paco-roncero Paco Roncero holds two Michelin stars and three Repsol Soles on the top floor of the Real Casino de Madrid, in Sol. The restaurant opened in 1990 as La Terraza del Casino, and Roncero has run the kitchen since 2000, first as chef and later as gastronomic director, with early guidance from Ferran Adrià; it was renamed for him in 2019. He describes the cooking as an image of Madrid itself, castiza y cosmopolita, vibrante y dual: traditional yet cosmopolitan, vibrant and dual. The Grand Madrid tasting menu runs 310 euros, and the Essence menu, served at weekday lunch, 190 euros. A signature truffle pizza on a dry meringue base and a Parmigiano ice cream sandwich that nods to Adrià's original both stay on the menu. **Order:** - Grand Madrid Menu - Truffle pizza - Parmigiano ice cream sandwich ### 5. Corral de la Morería Gastronómico *A one-star room for eight, inside a historic flamenco tablao* - **Neighbourhood:** Palacio - **Address:** Calle de la Morería, 17, 28005 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 3 Soles - **Website:** https://www.corraldelamoreria.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/corral-de-la-moreria-gastronomico Corral de la Morería Gastronómico is the fine-dining room inside Corral de la Morería, the Madrid flamenco tablao that has run since 1956, founded by Manuel del Rey and now run by his wife, bailaora Blanca del Rey, and their sons. It operates as a separate venue within the same building: a quiet room of four tables, no more than eight guests, where chef David García, from Bilbao, cooks a Basque-rooted haute cuisine he calls cocina de raíz, built on broths, stocks and juices. It has held a Michelin star since 2019 and three Repsol Soles since 2023. The single Menú Compás runs 105 euros per person, and the cellar is known for sherry, with more than a thousand references of Jerez wines. **Order:** - Menú Compás ### 6. Smoked Room *Two Michelin stars won at once, hidden inside Dani García's Leña Madrid* - **Neighbourhood:** Ríos Rosas - **Address:** Hotel Hyatt Regency Hesperia, Paseo de la Castellana 57, 28046 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 2-Star · Repsol 2 Soles - **Website:** https://smokedroomrestaurants.com/en/madrid/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/smoked-room Smoked Room is a two-Michelin-star restaurant hidden inside Dani García's Leña Madrid in Ríos Rosas, cooking an omakase-style tasting menu built around fire and smoke. It made its Michelin debut by taking two stars at once, something the guide hadn't done in Spain since 1936. García backs the project, and chef Massimiliano Delle Vedove runs the kitchen with Japanese-influenced technique, including fish aged by Josh Niland's sukibiki method, though the room isn't framed as a Japanese restaurant. It holds two Repsol Soles. Five tasting menus range from Hachi at 180 euros per person to Hoshi at 500 euros, and dishes include quisquillas in beurre noisette and a smoked risotto with white truffle. **Order:** - Hachi - Quisquillas in beurre noisette - Smoked risotto with white truffle ### 7. Deessa *Quique Dacosta's first Madrid restaurant, inside the Mandarin Oriental Ritz* - **Neighbourhood:** Jerónimos - **Address:** Mandarin Oriental Ritz, Madrid, Plaza de la Lealtad 5, Madrid, 28014, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 2-Star · Repsol 2 Soles - **Website:** https://www.mandarinoriental.com/en/madrid/hotel-ritz/dine/deessa - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/deessa Deessa is chef Quique Dacosta's first restaurant in Madrid, the signature dining room of the Mandarin Oriental Ritz in Jerónimos. It earned its first Michelin star eight months after opening and a second the year after, and now holds two Michelin stars and two Repsol Soles. Diners choose between two tasting menus, Historical and Contemporary: one leaning on Dacosta's classics from his three-Michelin-star flagship in Denia, the other newer work built for the room. The cubalibre de foie-gras with lemon frost and wild arugula carries over from Denia, and the kitchen also serves red prawns from Denia and turbot cooked with Jerez wine. **Order:** - Cubalibre de foie-gras - Red prawns from Denia - Turbot with Jerez wine ### 8. El Invernadero *Rodrigo de la Calle's vegetable-led 'gastrobotánica' fine dining in Chamberí* - **Neighbourhood:** Ríos Rosas - **Address:** Calle de Ponzano, 85 - 28003 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles - **Website:** https://elinvernaderorestaurante.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-invernadero El Invernadero is chef Rodrigo de la Calle's vegetable-led restaurant on Calle de Ponzano, in Chamberí, holding a Michelin star and two Repsol Soles. De la Calle pioneered gastrobotánica, cooking that puts vegetables, roots, mushrooms and stems in the starring role and rescues forgotten plant species; animal protein appears as a seasoning rather than the centre of the plate. He opened El Invernadero in 2015 outside Madrid and moved it into the city in 2018. The kitchen runs two lines, an entirely vegan and vegetarian Vegetalia menu at 158 euros and an omnivorous Gastrobotánica menu at 168 euros with meat, fish and shellfish, plus extended Experience versions of each. A tartar of white beets with shiso and black truffle is a signature. **Order:** - Vegetalia - Gastrobotánica - Tartar of white beets with shiso and black truffle ### 9. VelascoAbella *Two Santceloni veterans' first restaurant, a Michelin star within two years* - **Neighbourhood:** Hispanoamérica - **Address:** Víctor Andrés Belaunde, 25, 28016 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles - **Website:** https://velascoabella.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/velascoabella VelascoAbella is chefs Óscar Velasco and Montse Abellà's first restaurant of their own, in the Hispanoamérica neighbourhood. The pair spent close to two decades at the two-Michelin-star Santceloni, which didn't reopen after the pandemic, before opening here in June 2023. It won a Michelin star in the 2025 guide and holds two Repsol Soles. The menu runs from a roasted sweet potato salad with yogurt, red onion, cardamom, mint and cilantro to hake loin with Maresme peas and an onion-sherry soup, smoked razor clams with a cold vegetable medley, and pan-seared foie gras in an Iberian ham consommé. **Order:** - Hake Loin, Maresme Peas and Onion-Sherry Soup - Smoked Tender Onions, Octopus, Grapefruit and Almond - Pan-Seared Foie Gras, Iberian Ham Broth, Dried Apricots and Black Olives ### 10. Desde 1911 *Menu rebuilt daily from the morning catch, no fixed printed list* - **Neighbourhood:** Ciudad Universitaria - **Address:** Calle Vivero, 3, 28040 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles - **Website:** https://desde1911.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/desde-1911 Desde 1911 is a fish-and-seafood restaurant in Ciudad Universitaria, holding a Michelin star and two Repsol Soles. The name marks 1911, when the García Azpíroz family's fish business, Pescaderías Coruñesas, began, not when the restaurant opened. Owner Diego García, the fourth generation, picks the day's catch each morning at the market, so chef Diego Murciego rebuilds the menu daily with no fixed printed list, opening with Scottish smoked salmon carved tableside and Asturian sea urchins grilled in their own juice. The kitchen leans on a wood-fired oven. Set menus run from three to six courses plus a starter, Menu 3+1 through Menu 6+1. **Order:** - Scottish smoked salmon carved tableside - Asturian sea urchins grilled in their own juice ### 11. Saddle *Built in the former Jockey, reviving the grand a la carte restaurant* - **Neighbourhood:** Almagro - **Address:** Amador de los Ríos, 6, 28010 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles - **Website:** https://saddle-madrid.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/saddle Saddle holds a Michelin star and two Repsol Soles in Almagro, built in the former home of Jockey, one of the great Madrid restaurants of the 20th century. It set out to revive the grand a la carte restaurant at a time when serious dining in Spain had come to mean tasting menus only, reworking classic recipes with nods to nouvelle cuisine. Diners can eat a la carte in full or half portions or take the eight-course Estaciones tasting menu, which mixes new dishes with Saddle classics like solomillo Rossini and Madrid-style callos. Israel Ramírez runs the dining room and a wine list of roughly 1,400 to 1,500 references. **Order:** - Solomillo Rossini - Madrid-style callos - Caviar Caspian Pearl Oscietre ### 12. CEBO *A 22-seat tasting room inside Hotel Urban, built on small producers* - **Neighbourhood:** Cortes - **Address:** Carrera de San Jerónimo 34, 28014 Madrid. Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles - **Website:** https://www.cebomadrid.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/cebo CEBO is a one-Michelin-star, two-Repsol-Sole restaurant inside Hotel Urban, in the Cortes quarter. Chefs Javier Sanz and Juan Sahuquillo, the duo behind Cañitas Maite in Albacete, took over the kitchen and won back its Michelin star in the 2024 guide. The 22-seat room leans on its own vegetable garden and small producers around the country, running two tasting menus: the 13-course Menú Clásicos and the 16-course Menú Temporada, the latter adding red prawns from Palamós and young goat with aged rice. Other dishes include Santoña anchovy served three ways, guinea fowl with truffle, and a Cañitas croqueta with acorn-fed pork. **Order:** - Santoña anchovy, three versions - Guinea fowl with Tuber Melanosporum - Acorn-fed pork, the Cañitas croquette ### 13. Osa *Mugaritz-trained duo, tasting menus built on 'product trilogies' by the river* - **Neighbourhood:** Casa de Campo - **Address:** Calle de la Ribera del Manzanares, 123, 28008 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles - **Website:** https://osarestaurante.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/osa Osa holds a Michelin star and two Repsol Soles in a converted riverside cottage along the Manzanares, in Casa de Campo. Chefs Jorge Muñoz and Sara Peral, both trained at Mugaritz, opened it in 2023 and won the star that same November, then took the Cocinero Revelación prize at Madrid Fusión in 2024. The kitchen is research-minded, organizing its tasting menus around what the team calls product trilogies, with a serious charcuterie and aging programme behind it. The charcuterie alone runs to a balotina of black rooster, wild boar head, and pistachio-studded pork belly, alongside Bedón trout smoked over apple wood with roe and rye bread and raw wagyu tongue sliced tableside. The cellar holds around 500 references. **Order:** - Balotina of black rooster - Bedón trout smoked over apple wood - Raw wagyu tongue sliced tableside ### 14. Ugo Chan *Nigiri technique learned from Ricardo Sanz, a la carte or bespoke omakase* - **Neighbourhood:** Nueva España - **Address:** Félix Boix, 6 28036 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles - **Website:** https://ugochan.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/ugo-chan Ugo Chan is a Japanese restaurant in Nueva España holding a Michelin star and two Repsol Soles. Chef Hugo Muñoz opened it in 2021 and won the star about a year later, at the gala for the 2023 guide. He trained under Abraham García at Viridiana and learned nigiri technique from Ricardo Sanz, winning the Emerging Chef award in 2016. The name comes from his grandfather Emilio, who had trading ties with Japan and called him 'Hugochan' as a boy. Alongside the a la carte menu, an omakase is built in the moment around each guest's tastes. Dishes include mullet sashimi served on the bone with a cold Bilbao sauce and Madrid-style callos gyozas. **Order:** - Mullet sashimi served on the bone and head with a cold Bilbao sauce - Madrid-style callos gyozas - Lamb kebab temaki with charred sweetbreads ### 15. Gofio *Canarian cooking that won Restaurante del Año at the Premios Metrópoli 2025* - **Neighbourhood:** Barrio de las Letras - **Address:** C. Caballero de Gracia N 20, 28013 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles - **Website:** https://www.gofiorestaurant.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/gofio Gofio is a Canarian restaurant in Barrio de las Letras, founded in 2015 by chef Safe Cruz, who grew up in a farming family in El Tablero, Tenerife, alongside his partner Aída González, who directs the dining room. It earned a Michelin star in 2019 and holds two Repsol Soles, and in July 2024, after nine years on Calle de Lope de Vega, it relocated to a larger two-floor space at Caballero de Gracia 20. In 2025 it won Restaurante del Año at the Premios Metrópoli. The kitchen is built on the Canarian pantry: three tasting menus run from Gofio Express at 95 euros to Canariedad Máxima Plus at 185 euros, and dishes include rabbit trucha with injected salmorejo and a shrimp dish in cardamom mojo. **Order:** - Rabbit trucha with injected salmorejo - Shrimp in cardamom mojo with millet broth - Gofio Express ### 16. Sacha *A charismatic chef-owner's French bistro on Spanish classics since 1972* - **Neighbourhood:** Nueva España - **Address:** Juan Hurtado de Mendoza, 11, 28036, Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Distinction:** Repsol 2 Soles - **Website:** https://www.restaurantesacha.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/sacha Sacha holds two Repsol Soles in Nueva España, a French bistro that chef-owner Sacha Hormaechea's parents, Carlos Hormaechea and Pitila Mosquera, opened in 1972 as a Botillería y Fogón, naming it after their son. They'd met in Paris and originally opened in Sitges in 1971, but a cholera outbreak forced them to close before they reopened in Madrid. Hormaechea now runs the kitchen himself, a well-known figure on Madrid's dining scene whose regulars let him choose both food and wine rather than order off the card. The cooking keeps Galician and Basque roots: a falso canelón de txangurro, a mock spider-crab cannelloni, tortilla vaga, a pickled oyster, and tarta dispersa, a deconstructed almond cake with cream and raspberry puree. **Order:** - Falso canelón de txangurro - Tortilla vaga - Tarta dispersa ### 17. Zalacaín *A half-century-old dining room, now under a new team as Grupo Urrechu* - **Neighbourhood:** El Viso - **Address:** Calle Álvarez de Baena, 4, 28006 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€€ - **Distinction:** Michelin Selected · Repsol 1 Sol - **Website:** https://zalacain.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/zalacain Zalacaín has been one of Madrid's great gastronomic addresses since it opened in 1973, built into an institution by chef Benjamín Urdiaín and a legendary front-of-house team. It's listed in the Michelin Guide and holds one Repsol Sol. The restaurant is now in a new era under Grupo Urrechu: chef Íñigo Urrechu leads gastronomic direction alongside Jorge Losa in the kitchen, while the dining room stays with Roberto Jiménez, more than 35 years in, and the cellar with sommelier Raúl Revilla, who won Mejor Sumiller at the Premios Nacionales de Gastronomía in 2023. Two dishes carry over from Zalacaín's history: Búcaro 'Don Pío,' a consommé gelée with smoked salmon, quail egg and caviar, and bacalao Tellagorri, salt cod cooked in the restaurant's own style. **Order:** - Búcaro 'Don Pío' - Bacalao Tellagorri - Caviar Imperial 'Beluga' ### 18. Casa Lucio *Cava Baja tavern famous for huevos estrellados since 1974* - **Neighbourhood:** La Latina - **Address:** Cava Baja 35, 28005 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Distinction:** Repsol 1 Sol - **Website:** https://casalucio.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/casa-lucio Casa Lucio is a traditional Madrid institution on Cava Baja in La Latina, opened by Lucio Blázquez in November 1974 in a building that's held a tavern since 1720, when it was the Posada de San Pedro. It's known above all for huevos estrellados, fried eggs over broken potatoes, and a Revuelto Lucio of scrambled eggs with mushrooms and shrimp: unfussy tavern cooking rooted in eggs, guisos and the market. Lucio's children now run the kitchen alongside him, and its tiled dining rooms have drawn politicians, actors and visiting celebrities across five decades, most of them there for the same plate of eggs. It holds a Repsol Sol. **Order:** - Huevos estrellados - Revuelto Lucio ### 19. Botín *Guinness-listed oldest restaurant in the world, roasting cochinillo since 1725* - **Neighbourhood:** Palacio - **Address:** Calle de Cuchilleros 17, 28005 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Distinction:** Repsol Recomendado - **Website:** https://botin.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/botin Botín is a traditional Castilian roast house on Calle de Cuchilleros, near Plaza Mayor, and Guinness World Records lists it as the oldest restaurant in the world, open since 1725. Cochinillo asado, roast suckling pig, is what it's known for, and it still comes out of the original firewood oven, which the house says has never gone out. The building runs four floors that keep their eighteenth-century interiors. It's listed as Recomendado in the Guía Repsol. Roast Castilian lamb and other traditional plates round out the carta, alongside starters like garlic shrimp and croquetas. **Order:** - Roast suckling pig - Roast lamb - Garlic shrimp ## Honourable mentions - **[La Tasquita de Enfrente](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-tasquita-de-enfrente)** (Malasaña) — Michelin-listed with two Repsol Soles, an eight-table Malasaña room open 25 years, where Juanjo López Bedmar left a career in insurance to cook radically minimalist Spanish plates. - **[Ramón Freixa Tradición](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/ramon-freixa-tradicion)** (Recoletos) — Ramón Freixa's all-day tribute to Spanish home cooking on Velázquez, opened in July 2025, listed in the Michelin Guide with one Repsol Sol. - **[Pabú](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/pabu)** (Hispanoamérica) — Chef Coco Montes's one-Michelin-star, vegetable-led tasting menu in Hispanoamérica, trained at Alain Passard's L'Arpège in Paris. - **[Le Bistroman Atelier](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/le-bistroman-atelier)** (Palacio) — A classic French bistro by the Teatro Real, listed in the Michelin Guide with two Repsol Soles, opened in 2019 by chef Stéphane del Río and Miguel Ángel García Marinelli. - **[Lakasa](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/lakasa)** (Ríos Rosas) — Chef César Martín's market-led Ríos Rosas kitchen, two Repsol Soles, run with wife Marina Launay since 2012 and known for game and seasonal produce. - **[Lhardy](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/lhardy)** (Sol) — Open since 1839 in Sol, Madrid's cocido madrileño reference point, still trading under Frenchman Emilio Huguenin Lhardy's original pastry-shop-turned-restaurant. ## The Restaurants scene in Madrid Madrid's top table splits into two overlapping scenes. One is the Michelin and Repsol circuit: fifteen restaurants on this list hold at least one Michelin star, led by DiverXO's three stars and five two-star kitchens, DSTAgE, Coque, Paco Roncero, Smoked Room and Deessa, most of them clustered in Chamberí, Chamartín and central Centro, several inside hotels. The other is Madrid's older guard: Botín's firewood oven since 1725, Casa Lucio's huevos estrellados since 1974, Zalacaín's dining room since 1973, and Sacha's French bistro since 1972, none of them chasing a star, all of them still full. The two scenes share very little beyond the city, but both turn up, independently, across the outside sources checked for this list. ## Know before you go ### 1. Book the smallest room weeks ahead Corral de la Morería Gastronómico runs just four tables for up to eight guests, so it pays to book well ahead. ### 2. Confirm which tasting menu you want Several kitchens on this list, including Smoked Room, CEBO and Gofio, run more than one tasting menu at different price points and course counts, so check which one you're booking before you reserve. ### 3. Historic addresses keep their own rhythm Botín and Casa Lucio have served the same signature dishes for decades and draw heavy walk-in traffic around Plaza Mayor and Cava Baja. Reserve ahead for peak lunch and dinner hours. ### 4. Ask about vegetarian and vegan lines El Invernadero's Vegetalia menu is a full vegan and vegetarian line, not an adaptation of the main menu. ### 5. Some of these are inside hotels Deessa is inside the Mandarin Oriental Ritz, CEBO is inside Hotel Urban, and Smoked Room is hidden inside Dani García's Leña Madrid at the Hyatt Regency Hesperia. Book through the restaurant directly rather than the hotel's general line. ## Glossary - **Michelin Selected** — A Michelin Guide listing without a star, for restaurants the inspectors recommend but haven't awarded a star to. - **Repsol Sol** — Spain's Guía Repsol restaurant distinction, on a scale from one Sol up to three, with a smaller Solete honor below a full Sol. - **Tasting menu** — A fixed, multi-course menu set by the kitchen rather than assembled a la carte. It's the primary format at most of Madrid's Michelin-starred restaurants. ## Frequently asked questions ### What is the best restaurant in Madrid? By our ranking, DiverXO, chef Dabiz Muñoz's three-Michelin-star fusion restaurant in Hispanoamérica, tops the list. It's the only restaurant in Madrid holding all three Michelin stars and ranked No. 4 in The World's 50 Best Restaurants in both 2024 and 2025. ### What is the oldest restaurant in Madrid? Botín, on Calle de Cuchilleros near Plaza Mayor, has served since 1725, and Guinness World Records lists it as the oldest restaurant in the world. It's known for cochinillo asado, roast suckling pig, cooked in its original firewood oven. ### How many Michelin-starred restaurants are on this list? Fifteen of the nineteen restaurants here hold at least one Michelin star, including DiverXO with three stars and five restaurants with two: DSTAgE, Coque, Paco Roncero, Smoked Room and Deessa. ### Where can I eat a classic Madrid dish like huevos rotos? Casa Lucio on Cava Baja in La Latina has built its reputation on huevos estrellados, fried eggs over broken potatoes, since 1974, alongside a Revuelto Lucio of scrambled eggs with mushrooms and shrimp. ### Which Madrid restaurants on this list are inside hotels? Deessa, chef Quique Dacosta's restaurant, sits inside the Mandarin Oriental Ritz in Jerónimos. CEBO is inside Hotel Urban in Cortes. Smoked Room is hidden inside Dani García's Leña Madrid at the Hyatt Regency Hesperia. ### Are there vegetarian or vegan tasting menus at Madrid's top restaurants? Yes. El Invernadero, chef Rodrigo de la Calle's vegetable-led restaurant in Chamberí, runs its Vegetalia menu as a full vegan and vegetarian line, not an adaptation. ### What's a good historic restaurant to try in Madrid besides Botín? Casa Lucio, open since 1974, and Zalacaín, open since 1973, are both decades-old Madrid institutions. Sacha, a French bistro in Nueva España, has run since 1972, still under chef-owner Sacha Hormaechea. ### Do any Madrid restaurants on this list have very limited seating? Corral de la Morería Gastronómico, inside the historic flamenco tablao, runs just four tables for up to eight guests. ## About the author **Justin Mota** — Guidavera founder 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. More: https://guidavera.com/about --- This guide is the canonical machine-readable version of https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/best-restaurants. Every claim is verifiable against the linked restaurant profiles. Source: Guidavera (https://guidavera.com).