# Best Tortilla de Patatas in Madrid

> Eleven Madrid restaurants for tortilla de patatas, from La Falda's national-championship version to Casa Dani's famous Mercado de la Paz pincho.

- **Canonical URL:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/best-tortilla
- **City:** Madrid, Spain
- **Published:** 2026-09-27
- **Updated:** 2026-10-04
- **Author:** Justin Mota, Guidavera founder
- **Reading time:** 12 min

## Introduction

La Falda's potato tortilla, made Betanzos-style without onion in a small taberna in Lavapiés, is the kind of dish that wins competitions: its own menu credits it as the winner of Spain's Best Tortilla title in 2025. Eleven Madrid restaurants make this list for tortilla de patata specifically, from single-dish specialists like Las Tortillas de Gabino and Casa Dani to classic tabernas and bars where it's simply one dish they do particularly well.

## Key picks at a glance

- **Best national-championship tortilla** — [La Falda](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-falda): its own menu credits the Betanzos-style tortilla as the winner of Spain's Best Tortilla title in 2025.
- **Best dedicated tortilla specialist** — [Las Tortillas de Gabino](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/las-tortillas-de-gabino): a whole carta built around tortilla variations, tracing back to Gabino's 1960s originals at La Ancha.
- **Best classic pincho counter** — [Casa Dani](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/casa-dani): the Mercado de la Paz counter whose own menu bills it as the best tortilla de patata in Spain.
- **Best creative reinterpretation** — [La Tasquería](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-tasqueria): Javier Estévez's Michelin-starred casquería kitchen rebuilds tortilla around potato and brains.

## A guide to Tortilla de Patatas in Madrid

### What is tortilla de patatas?

Tortilla de patata, or tortilla española, is a Spanish omelette of eggs and potatoes, usually cooked slowly in olive oil before being set in a pan. It's one of Spain's most common dishes, sold everywhere from bar counters as a single pincho to full sit-down restaurants, and every cook has their own version.

### Jugosa vs cuajada

The main variable is how set the egg is left. A jugosa or poco cuajada tortilla keeps a soft, almost-liquid centre; a cuajada version cooks the egg through. Both are legitimate styles, and which one a kitchen serves comes down to house tradition and personal taste.

### Con cebolla o sin cebolla

Whether tortilla should include onion is one of Spain's genuinely unresolved food arguments. Onion, cooked slowly until sweet, adds moisture and sweetness; leaving it out lets the potato and egg carry the dish alone. Restaurants on this list serve it both ways.

### The Betanzos style

Betanzos, a town in Galicia, gave its name to a tortilla tradition built on a very runny, almost-liquid centre, usually made without onion. It's a specific, recognised technique rather than just a looser version of the classic recipe.

### Pincho vs whole tortilla

Many Madrid bars sell tortilla by the pincho, a single wedge eaten standing at the counter, as well as a whole tortilla to share at a table. It's a cheap, fast way to try a kitchen's version before committing to a full portion.

> "La Falda's tortilla is Betanzos-style, made without onion, and its own menu credits it as the winner of Spain's Best Tortilla title in 2025."

## How we built this list

We built this list from two Spanish tortilla roundups, Time Out Madrid and ¡Hola!, a MICHELIN Guide feature on tortilla, and a news report on La Falda's national championship win, cross-checked against the Madrid restaurants we've profiled. A venue only made the list if its own page confirms tortilla as a real, named dish, whether that's a priced menu item, a line in its own materials, or its own Instagram description, not just a stray mention. A handful of venues that press coverage names for tortilla specifically, including Pez Tortilla and Juana la Loca, don't have a Guidavera page ready yet. Several other venues we do have pages for turned up as candidates but didn't have their own data confirming tortilla as an actual dish, so we left them out rather than guess.

## The 11 best Tortilla de Patatas, compared

| # | Restaurant | Neighbourhood | Price | Distinction | Signature dish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [La Falda](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-falda) | Embajadores | €€ | — | Potato Tortilla |
| 2 | [Casa Dani](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/casa-dani) | Recoletos | € | Repsol Solete | The best tortilla de patata in Spain (with or without onion) |
| 3 | [Las Tortillas de Gabino](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/las-tortillas-de-gabino) | Almagro | €€ | Michelin Bib Gourmand | Velazqueña |
| 4 | [Bar H Emblemático](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/bar-h-emblematico) | Castellana | €€ | — | Tortilla Pincho |
| 5 | [Bodega La Ardosa](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/bodega-la-ardosa) | Universidad | € | — | Tortilla Pincho |
| 6 | [Alto Bardero](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/alto-bardero) | Barrio de la Latina | €€ | Repsol Solete | Spanish Tortilla (Potato Omelette) |
| 7 | [Taberna Gallega Garelos](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/taberna-gallega-garelos) | Almagro | €€ | — | Betanzos-style tortilla (specialty) - Small |
| 8 | [Colósimo](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/colosimo) | Lista | €€ | Repsol Recomendado | Tortilla de patata with onion |
| 9 | [La Penela](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-penela) | Castellana | €€€ | Repsol Recomendado | Tortilla |
| 10 | [La Raquetista](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-raquetista) | Ibiza | €€ | Repsol Recomendado | Tortilla |
| 11 | [La Tasquería](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-tasqueria) | Ríos Rosas | €€€ | Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles | Tortilla with brains and potato |

## The 11 best Tortilla de Patatas in Madrid

### 1. La Falda

*Betanzos-style tortilla its own menu calls Spain's 2025 champion*

- **Neighbourhood:** Embajadores
- **Address:** Miguel Servet, 4, 28012, Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€
- **Website:** https://www.lafalda.es/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-falda

La Falda is a small taberna in Lavapiés, one of two Madrid branches alongside a sister site in Chamberí, and its potato tortilla is the reason to go. The kitchen makes it Betanzos-style, without onion, and its own menu credits the dish as the winner of Spain's Best Tortilla title in 2025. A version comes topped with Ceboleiro chorizo and turnip greens for a little more. Beyond the tortilla, La Falda calls itself a relaxed taberna with serious cooking, built on modern, creative plates and a wine list the room is proud of.

**Order:**
- Potato Tortilla (€18)
- Potato Tortilla with Ceboleiro Chorizo and Turnip Greens (€19.50)

> "Alejandro Oliveira, chef de La Falda, gana el XVIII Campeonato Nacional Trofeo Tescoma a la mejor tortilla de patatas de España" — Directo al Paladar

### 2. Casa Dani

*Mercado de la Paz counter whose own menu calls it Spain's best*

- **Neighbourhood:** Recoletos
- **Address:** Calle de Ayala, 28, 28001 Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €
- **Distinction:** Repsol Solete
- **Website:** https://www.casadani.es/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/casa-dani

Casa Dani, the counter inside Mercado de la Paz in Salamanca, is built almost entirely around one dish: its own menu bills the item outright as "the best tortilla de patata in Spain," offered with or without onion. Daniel García and Dolores 'Lola' Cuerda from Albacete opened it in 1991, and their children Daniel and Noelia run it now. The house says it won the II Campeonato Nacional de Tortillas in Tenerife in March 2019, and the Academia Madrileña de Gastronomía gave it its Premio al Bar the same year. Phil Rosenthal filmed there for Somebody Feed Phil, and the visit reopened the running con cebolla or sin cebolla argument. It's more of a pincho counter than a sit-down restaurant, open mornings into the afternoon, and under €25 a head.

**Order:**
- The best tortilla de patata in Spain (with or without onion)

> "todo el mundo va con ganas de probar el famosísimo pincho de tortilla de Casa Dani" — ¡Hola!

### 3. Las Tortillas de Gabino

*A whole restaurant built around tortilla, Bib Gourmand*

- **Neighbourhood:** Almagro
- **Address:** Calle de Rafael Calvo 20, 28010 Madrid (Chamberí), Spain
- **Price:** €€
- **Distinction:** Michelin Bib Gourmand
- **Website:** https://www.tortillasdegabino.com/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/las-tortillas-de-gabino

Las Tortillas de Gabino builds its whole menu around one dish. Chef Nino Redruello opened it in 2005 as his first restaurant. In the 1960s, Gabino's tortillas at La Ancha on Calle Velázquez became a Salamanca-district classic; decades later his family built a restaurant entirely around them on Calle de Rafael Calvo, where Almagro meets Chamberí. It belongs to Familia La Ancha, the Redruello family's group, now run by the fourth generation: Nino Redruello in the kitchen, Santiago in management. Every tortilla is made to order, starting from the classic Velazqueña and running through versions with sailor-style clams, prawns in spicy tomato sauce, Torta del Casar cheese, stewed tripe, truffle, Galician-style octopus, and potato chips with salmorejo. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.

**Order:**
- Velazqueña
- With sailor-style clams
- With Torta del Casar cheese
- Stewed with tripe
- Truffled
- Galician-style octopus

> "sabrosa, tradicional e incomparable tortilla española" — Time Out Madrid

### 4. Bar H Emblemático

*Four tortilla formats, from a pincho to whole with tripe*

- **Neighbourhood:** Castellana
- **Address:** Castelló, 83, 28006, Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€
- **Website:** https://www.barhemblematico.es
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/bar-h-emblematico

Bar H Emblemático, on Calle Castelló in the Castellana part of Salamanca, runs tortilla in four different formats: a Tortilla Pincho, a Tortilla Mollete, a straight Spanish Tortilla the menu describes as juicy and with onion, and a Tortilla with Tripe the menu calls "a super classic." The kitchen is billed as clásica actualizada, updated Spanish classics, traditional bar food done carefully. It opened at the start of 2023. It's the Hevia family's tribute to the classic Spanish bar, open from 08:00 on weekdays, until 17:00 Monday to Wednesday and until 00:30 Thursday to Saturday, with Sunday 12:00 to 17:00.

**Order:**
- Tortilla Pincho (€4.00)
- Tortilla Mollete (€4.90)
- Spanish Tortilla (€14.50)
- Tortilla with Tripe (€23.00)

> "tortilla española con callos, un clasicazo" — Time Out Madrid

### 5. Bodega La Ardosa

*1892 bodega whose own materials name tortilla a specialty*

- **Neighbourhood:** Universidad
- **Address:** C/ Colon, 13, 28004 Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €
- **Website:** https://grupoardosa.es/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/bodega-la-ardosa

Bodega La Ardosa has poured on Calle Colón in Malasaña since 1892, when Toledo vineyard owner Rafael Fernández Bagena opened it as one of a chain of Ardosa bodegas selling his own wine and vermut. More than a century on, it's still a bar de toda la vida, and its own materials single out two things it's known for: the vermut on tap and its tortilla de patatas. The menu runs a straight Tortilla Pincho and a Madrid-Style Tortilla made with tripe. Beyond that, the kitchen keeps to rabas, fried squid, salt cod, artichokes and a croqueta lineup, the same classics repeated well enough that people keep ordering them.

**Order:**
- Tortilla Pincho (€3.60)
- Madrid-Style Tortilla (with tripe) (€14.95)

> "jugosa, con patata bien integrada y un cuajado muy meloso" — ¡Hola!

### 6. Alto Bardero

*Confit-onion tortilla pintxo on a cosmopolitan La Latina menu*

- **Neighbourhood:** Barrio de la Latina
- **Address:** Pl. de Prta de Moros, 4, Centro, 28005 Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€
- **Distinction:** Repsol Solete
- **Website:** https://bardero.es/altobardero/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/alto-bardero

Alto Bardero is an international, cosmopolitan restaurant on Plaza de Puerta de Moros in La Latina, part of the bardero.es group and holding a Solete in the Guía Repsol. Chefs León Bonasso and Pablo Paternostro opened it in early 2025. Its pintxos list includes a Spanish tortilla with confit onion for €5, alongside dishes like smoked-salmon tamagoyaki and a fried soft-shell crab taco that give away the kitchen's cross-cultural leanings. "Bardero" is Argentine slang for someone who stirs things up, and the menu runs with that idea, mixing traditions rather than sticking to one. There's a no-reservations bar as well as the dining room, open Tuesday to Sunday and closed Monday.

**Order:**
- Spanish Tortilla (Potato Omelette) (€5.00)

> "lleva cebolla confitada, es muy jugosa, con un bonito tono tostado y poco cuajada" — ¡Hola!

### 7. Taberna Gallega Garelos

*Betanzos-style specialty tortilla, sold small and large*

- **Neighbourhood:** Almagro
- **Address:** Paseo de Eduardo Dato, 5, 28010, Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€
- **Website:** https://www.garelos.es/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/taberna-gallega-garelos

Taberna Gallega Garelos runs its Betanzos-style tortilla as a declared specialty on its own menu, sold in small and large sizes. This is the Paseo de Eduardo Dato branch, in Almagro on Chamberí's edge; Garelos runs four addresses in the area. It's a Galician tavern in the €26 to €50 per-person band, and bookings run through a TheFork widget on the brand's own site.

**Order:**
- Betanzos-style tortilla (specialty) - Small (€13.00)
- Betanzos-style tortilla (specialty) - Large (€16.50)

> "tortilla de Betanzos, casi líquida" — Time Out Madrid

### 8. Colósimo

*Cádiz taberna whose own materials call its tortilla famous*

- **Neighbourhood:** Lista
- **Address:** Calle José Ortega y Gasset 67, 28006 Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€
- **Distinction:** Repsol Recomendado
- **Website:** https://restaurantecolosimo.com/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/colosimo

Colósimo brings Cádiz cooking to Calle José Ortega y Gasset in Lista, the residential end of Salamanca, and its own materials call its tortilla de patata with onion one of the house's specialities, alongside croquetas de puchero and cochinillo confitado. Executive chef Ricardo Romero and head chef Manuel Romero, the team behind Menudeo across the street, run the kitchen. The kitchen leans on Gaditano tradition and slow-fire cooking on seasonal produce, built to share rather than for solo plates. It's listed in the Guía Repsol. It opens every day but Monday, from 11:00 through past midnight, with a terrace.

**Order:**
- Tortilla de patata with onion

> "Patata agria y cebolla bien confitada" — Time Out Madrid

### 9. La Penela

*Galician family kitchen with a Betanzos-style tortilla per press*

- **Neighbourhood:** Castellana
- **Address:** Calle Velázquez, 96, 28006 Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€€
- **Distinction:** Repsol Recomendado
- **Website:** https://www.lapenela.com/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-penela

La Penela, on Calle Velázquez, is the Madrid arm of a Galician family group, the Simón-Barallobre family, that grew from A Coruña out to Madrid and Barcelona. Traditional Galician cooking is the whole project: the group buys fish and shellfish daily at the A Coruña lonja, grows its own potatoes and legumes, and bottles its own Albariño Barallobre from the Pazo de Ximonde in DO Rías Baixas. Tortilla is on the menu alongside a bonito tuna empanada and croquettes. It's listed in the Guía Repsol, and family members often serve the tables themselves.

**Order:**
- Tortilla

> "su poco cuajada tortilla de Betanzos" — Time Out Madrid

### 10. La Raquetista

*Seasonal-potato tortilla with Galician eggs and sweet onion*

- **Neighbourhood:** Ibiza
- **Address:** Doctor Castelo, 19, 28009 Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€
- **Distinction:** Repsol Recomendado
- **Website:** https://www.laraquetista.com/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-raquetista

La Raquetista opened in the summer of 2015, when brothers Javier and Paco set it up on Doctor Castelo in the Ibiza part of Retiro, as a double homage: to Bodegas Santurce, the winery that had just closed after 53 years, and to the pelota players in their maternal family. Its own Instagram describes the tortilla as made with seasonal potatoes, free-range Galician eggs and sweet onion, cooked fresh to what the caption calls the exact point of melosidad, that soft, semi-set texture. Tapas and market cooking fill out the rest of the menu, seasonal and product-led, and it's listed in the Guía Repsol.

**Order:**
- Tortilla

> "cremosa, con el interior muy jugoso y ese punto exacto que conquista" — ¡Hola!

### 11. La Tasquería

*Michelin-starred casquería kitchen's brains-and-potato tortilla*

- **Neighbourhood:** Ríos Rosas
- **Address:** Calle Modesto Lafuente, 82, 28003 Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€€
- **Distinction:** Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 2 Soles
- **Website:** https://latasqueria.com/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-tasqueria

La Tasquería, Javier Estévez's casquería-focused restaurant on Calle Modesto Lafuente, treats tortilla as one more canvas for offal: its own menu has listed a version built from potato and brains. It's a fitting dish for a kitchen that's built its identity, and a Michelin star, around cooking the parts of the animal most fine-dining rooms skip. Estévez opened it in 2015, moved to Modesto Lafuente in 2024, and the Michelin Guide has kept the star through the move since it was first awarded for the 2019 edition. The rest of the carta runs into lamb brains, veal tongue, calf's testicles and rabbit kidneys, all built for sharing.

**Order:**
- Tortilla with brains and potato

## The Tortilla de Patatas scene in Madrid

Tortilla de patata shows up all over Madrid, but the restaurants on this list treat it differently. Las Tortillas de Gabino and Casa Dani are built almost entirely around it, with Gabino running a whole carta of variations and Casa Dani's own menu billing its version as the country's best. La Falda is known specifically for a Betanzos-style technique, no onion, left semi-liquid inside, the kind of tortilla that can win a national title, which is exactly what its own menu says happened in 2025. A longer list of classic bars and tabernas, from Bodega La Ardosa's 1892 room to newer arrivals like Colósimo and La Raquetista, simply do tortilla well enough alongside everything else that it's worth ordering. Con cebolla or sin cebolla remains a genuine, unresolved house-by-house choice, and both styles turn up across this list.

## Know before you go

### 1.

Jugosa (runny) is the house style at several entries here; La Falda leaves the centre deliberately semi-liquid, in the Betanzos style, and La Raquetista's own Instagram describes a soft, semi-set texture. If you'd rather it set through, it's worth asking before you order.

### 2.

Con cebolla or sin cebolla is a matter of house style, not right or wrong. Colósimo and Alto Bardero serve theirs with onion; La Falda serves its own without.

### 3.

Las Tortillas de Gabino makes each tortilla to order rather than holding one ready, so it can take longer to arrive than the rest of the table's food.

### 4.

Casa Dani and Bar H Emblemático both sell tortilla by the pincho, a single wedge at the counter, which is a cheap way to try a kitchen's version without committing to a full portion.

### 5.

Bar H Emblemático closes at 17:00 from Sunday to Wednesday and only stays open into the evening Thursday to Saturday.

## Glossary

- **Jugosa / poco cuajada** — A tortilla left deliberately soft or almost liquid in the centre, rather than cooked all the way through.
- **Betanzos-style** — A Galician tortilla tradition from the town of Betanzos, built on a very runny centre and usually made without onion.
- **Pincho de tortilla** — A single wedge of tortilla sold individually at a bar counter, rather than a whole tortilla ordered to share.

## Frequently asked questions

### What's the difference between a jugosa and a cuajada tortilla de patatas?

Jugosa or poco cuajada leaves the egg semi-liquid in the centre; cuajada sets it through. Several entries on this list, including La Falda and Alto Bardero, are made runny by design, in the Betanzos or confit-onion styles.

### Which Madrid restaurant has actually won a national tortilla competition?

La Falda, in Lavapiés with a sister branch in Chamberí, whose own menu credits its Betanzos-style tortilla as the winner of Spain's Best Tortilla title in 2025.

### Is there a Madrid restaurant built entirely around tortilla de patatas?

Las Tortillas de Gabino, in Almagro on the Chamberí border, runs its whole menu around tortilla variations, from the classic Velazqueña to versions with truffle or Galician-style octopus, and holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.

### Where's the famous tortilla pincho counter in Madrid?

Casa Dani, inside Mercado de la Paz in Salamanca, whose own menu bills its dish as "the best tortilla de patata in Spain."

### Where can I get tortilla con cebolla in Madrid?

Colósimo in Lista and Alto Bardero in La Latina both serve theirs with onion; Alto Bardero's version uses confit onion specifically.

### Where can I get tortilla sin cebolla in Madrid?

La Falda makes its tortilla without onion, in the Betanzos style, left semi-liquid inside.

### Is there a creative or fine-dining take on tortilla in Madrid?

La Tasquería, Javier Estévez's Michelin-starred casquería restaurant, has listed a version built from potato and brains, in keeping with its offal-forward menu.

## 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.

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