Best Seafood Restaurants in Madrid

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Desde 1911 takes its name from the year the García Azpiroz family's fish business, Pescaderías Coruñesas, began, not from when the restaurant itself opened. It's a tribute to founders María Juliana Azpíroz and Evaristo García, and to the Maragato muleteers who once drove oxen and mules on journeys to bring fish to Madrid. Diego García, now fourth generation, picks the day's catch each morning at the markets, so the menu at this Ciudad Universitaria dining room is rebuilt daily with no fixed printed list, while chef Diego Murciego works from a wood-fired oven. It holds one Michelin star and two Repsol Soles, and it topped Guía Macarfi's Top 10 Comunidad de Madrid list for 2025.

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O'Pazo opened in 1969 in Nuevos Ministerios and won a star in Michelin's inaugural Red Guide for Spain, a rare distinction for a Galician marisquería of its kind. Evaristo García took over in 1981, and a 2008 renovation modernized the dining room without changing the house line: 'la búsqueda incansable del mejor producto de nuestras costas,' the relentless pursuit of the best product from Spain's coasts, cooked simply enough to let the flavours speak. Signature dishes include clams from Carril and langoustines from Marín. It holds two Repsol Soles today.

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El Señor Martín, in Alonso Martínez, builds its whole identity around KM 0 sourcing: fish and shellfish that arrive within hours of being caught, from small-scale, inshore Spanish fishing, with each piece chosen individually at source after talking to fishermen and market scouts. The restaurant opened in summer 2018. The kitchen respects fish stops and biological cycles, and the grill is, by its own account, its favourite form of expression. Whole 'unique pieces' go on display and are weighed to order, priced by the kilo. Signature dishes include Bakio anchovies cured in Oloroso sherry and wild red tuna tartare from almadraba fishing. It was named Best Traditional Restaurant in Madrid by Guía Metrópoli in its first year, and it holds one Repsol Sol.

La Trainera has stood on Calle Lagasca in the Recoletos pocket of Salamanca since 1966, founded by Miguel García Gómez, who came from a family in the fish trade and once brought the best catch from Spain's ports into Madrid before moving into restaurants himself. The name comes from the traína, the fine-mesh net old boats used for anchovies and sardines, and the dining room keeps a strongly nautical look to match. The restaurant still works from its own holding tanks at the ports and a wholesale stall at Mercamadrid, with rodaballo, turbot, the dish it hangs its name on. Private dining rooms take groups up to about 50, with an upper floor styled like ship cabins for up to 75.

O'Grelo sits on Calle Menorca in Ibiza, the quiet residential barrio beside Retiro, and has been a reference for Galician food in Madrid for more than thirty years, now run by the founding family's second generation. The room is classic and elegant, and the carta runs from pulpo a la gallega and empanada de bonito to parrilladas de marisco, arroz con bogavante and merluza a la gallega, backed by its own wine list. It runs seasonal shellfish jornadas for spider crab, mussel and lobster through the year. It's listed in the Michelin Guide.

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Casa Rafa opened as a seafood tapa bar in the Ibiza neighbourhood in 1958 and later expanded into its current full-service restaurant, with the same family at the stove throughout. It's now run by cousins Rafa and Miguel Ángel De Andrés, sons of founding brothers Rafael and Rodrigo Andrés. The kitchen turns out dishes like an ensaladilla rusa with bonito belly and a Cantabrian lobster salpicón, served across just twenty tables. It holds one Repsol Sol, which by its own account it has carried every year from 2018 to 2025.

El Pescador, on Calle José Ortega y Gasset in the Lista neighbourhood, is built around a stubborn idea: bring the fish to Madrid, then do almost nothing to it. It opened in 1975. There's no sauce, no garnish, not even lemon, on the grounds that the produce should carry the plate on its own. The fish comes through Pescaderías Coruñesas, the Galician fish business behind Desde 1911, and there's a smart casual dress code, no shorts, flip-flops or caps. It holds a Recomendado listing in the Guía Repsol.

KRUDO is a raw bar and contemporary restaurant inside Mercado de Vallehermoso in Chamberí, run by chef Rafa Bergamo with sommelier Paula Prokopiak. It opened in November 2024. The kitchen works under the tagline 'crudo y con fuego,' raw and with fire, building the menu around raw crudo preparations balanced against fire-based technique, including a tartaleta de atún crudo with miso emulsion and Korean chili vinaigrette. It's recommended by the Guía Repsol, and the format, a steel counter with black stools inside a public market hall, keeps it more casual than most of the higher-end names on this list.

Luzi Bombón is a Grupo Tragaluz brasserie on Paseo de la Castellana, in the Almagro pocket of Chamberí, built around a seafood-focused kitchen with both an oyster bar and a sushi counter alongside sharing plates, rice, pasta, fish and meat. The menu runs from Cantabrian anchovies to lobster croquetas and prawn popcorn. There's a terrace, and the format suits groups, with a full cocktail list alongside the food. It's open every day from 13:00 to midnight, later on Friday and Saturday, and runs roughly €40 to €70 a person. It's listed in the Guía Repsol.

Los Remos, on the Moncloa-Aravaca edge of Madrid in El Plantío, is set up as much for events as for a regular meal, with several private dining rooms taking groups from 12 up to 200 and a recently renovated main room, with large windows, seating around 100. The kitchen runs to arroz con bogavante, salpicón de marisco, almejas de Carril, rodaballo and chuletón de vaca, covering both seafood and meat. There's a terrace with a motorised roof that can close it in. It's listed in the Guía Repsol.

Cardumen grills fish and seafood inside an industrial building on Avenida de la Albufera, in Palomeras Sureste, Puente de Vallecas, a long way from where Madrid's seafood restaurants usually sit. It opened in March 2021, across the way from La Lonjería, the family's canned-fish bar. It's a unit inside the Edificio Vallausa, and it pays to know the door number before you arrive. Inside, the room is elegant, modern and quiet, with an open kitchen, the day's catch on display, and a wine list that stands out. The menu runs to whole fish and shellfish priced by the kilo, grilled over coals. It's listed as Recomendado in the Guía Repsol and closes on Mondays.

The family behind La Lonjería spent more than three decades distributing fish and seafood across Madrid, under the name Pescados Madrid, supplying the hospitality trade before opening a gourmet shop and then this restaurant on Avenida de la Albufera, in the same Palomeras Sureste pocket of Puente de Vallecas as Cardumen. House plates include grilled prawns with coarse salt, red-tuna tataki, cod with goose egg and rodaballo. There's a tapas room with a bar plus a separate private dining room and a terrace. It holds a Repsol Solete, a lower Guía Repsol distinction than a Sol.

La Chalana is the Madrid outpost of an Asturian marisquería group with sister locations on the northern coast, sitting in El Viso, in the Chamartín district near the Santiago Bernabéu. The kitchen works Cantabrian shellfish and fish alongside Asturian veal and cider, with starters like Iberian ham croquettes, seafood broth and an octopus and prawn salad. The room seats groups, with a terrace and a cocktail list alongside the food, and it's listed as open daily from midday to midnight, though it's worth confirming since the timetable reads the same across all seven days.

El Boquerón has served fresh seafood and cañas on Calle de Valencia in Lavapiés since April 1949, and it's run today by Pedro Andrés and his son Dani de Andrés. Gambas a la plancha and boquerones are the stars, with oysters, cigalas, percebes and pan-cooked hake chalked up on the board, in a room that's lively and rustic rather than designed, at roughly €26 to €50 a person. It's closed on Wednesdays and lunch-only on Sundays, and cards and contactless are accepted. It holds a Repsol Solete.