# Best New Restaurants in Madrid

> 11 Madrid restaurants that opened in 2025-2026, from Ramón Freixa's Atelier to a family taberna by the Retiro, each with a verified opening date.

- **Canonical URL:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/new-openings
- **City:** Madrid, Spain
- **Published:** 2026-09-27
- **Updated:** 2026-10-04
- **Author:** Justin Mota, Guidavera founder
- **Reading time:** 13 min

## Introduction

Ramón Freixa opened two restaurants on Calle Velázquez in July 2025: Atelier, his ten-seat, two-Michelin-star tasting counter, and Tradición, an all-day room built on Spanish home cooking. A few kilometres away in Gaztambide, chef Rubén Mosquero opened EMI that August and picked up his own star in the 2026 Michelin Guide. Those three anchor a wider wave of 2025 and 2026 Madrid openings, from Sergio Monterde's omakase counter to a family-run taberna by the Retiro, all confirmed here by an actual opening date rather than a 'trendy' tag alone.

## Key picks at a glance

- **Best new Michelin two-star** — [Ramón Freixa Atelier](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/ramon-freixa-atelier): Ramón Freixa's ten-seat tasting counter won two stars in its first Michelin cycle after opening in July 2025.
- **Best Restaurante Revelación winner** — [EMI](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/emi): chef Rubén Mosquero's EMI won the award outright in 2025 and a Michelin star in the 2026 guide.
- **Best new omakase counter** — [Bakko](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/bakko): sushiman Sergio Monterde's nigiri and charcoal grill, open since around March 2025.
- **Best new neighbourhood taberna** — [Taberna Montalbán](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/taberna-montalban): a family-run Los Jerónimos spot opened in 2025, with a set lunch menu under 20 euros.

## A guide to new restaurants in Madrid

### What counts as a 'new' restaurant on this list?

We only included restaurants with a confirmed 2025 or 2026 opening date, either from the venue's own site and FAQs or from a dated news article. A 'trendy' tag from diner reviews wasn't enough on its own to count as new, and it ruled a number of otherwise-qualified candidates out.

### What is the Restaurante Revelación award?

It's a category at Madrid's annual Premios Metrópoli awards. Two restaurants on this list were recognized in it in 2025: EMI won outright, and Tetsu was shortlisted.

### Does a Michelin star mean a restaurant just opened?

No. The Michelin Guide added two of this list's restaurants, Ramón Freixa Atelier and EMI, to its 2026 edition, but Michelin recognition and a restaurant's actual opening date are separate facts. We checked each venue's own opening date rather than assuming Michelin timing tracks newness.

### Where are most of these new restaurants?

Several cluster in Salamanca and the neighbouring Recoletos and Castellana: Ramón Freixa's two restaurants, Qorte, Bakko and OME all sit within that stretch.

> "Ramón Freixa opened two restaurants on the same stretch of Calle Velázquez in July 2025, and one of them picked up two Michelin stars within its first year."

## How we built this list

We started from a set of Madrid restaurants flagged as 'trendy' by diner reviews, but a trendy tag isn't proof a place is new, so we didn't treat it as one. Instead we checked each venue's own site, FAQs and 'good to know' notes for an actual opening date, and cross-checked against outside sources where we had them: the 2025 Premios Metrópoli Restaurante Revelación shortlist, the Michelin Guide's 2026 additions, and La Gastronoma's July 2026 roundup of new Madrid restaurants. Only restaurants with a 2025 or 2026 opening date confirmed one of those ways made the list. That left us with 11 restaurants rather than a rounder number: several other restaurants we looked at either opened well before 2025, including some longstanding restaurants that simply changed chefs or relaunched recently (we've noted a couple of those separately rather than counting them as new), or didn't have a confirmed opening date anywhere we could check. We'd rather publish an honest 11 than pad the list with guesses.

## The 11 best New Restaurants, compared

| # | Restaurant | Neighbourhood | Price | Distinction | Signature dish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Ramón Freixa Atelier](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/ramon-freixa-atelier) | Recoletos | €€€€ | Michelin 2-Star · Repsol 3 Soles | Origen |
| 2 | [EMI](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/emi) | Gaztambide | €€€€ | Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 1 Sol | Smoked kelp with tofu and eel |
| 3 | [Ramón Freixa Tradición](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/ramon-freixa-tradicion) | Recoletos | €€€€ | Michelin Selected · Repsol 1 Sol | — |
| 4 | [Bakko](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/bakko) | Castellana | €€€€ | Michelin Selected · Repsol Recomendado | Cocido Gyoza with Cured Egg Yolk |
| 5 | [Tetsu](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/tetsu) | Recoletos | €€€€ | Michelin Selected · Repsol Recomendado | Sea bass-cocido madrileño |
| 6 | [Qorte](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/qorte) | Recoletos | €€€ | Michelin Selected | Red prawn carpaccio with amontillado oil and lemon |
| 7 | [BAS](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/bas) | Ibiza | €€€ | — | Handmade tagliolini, chilto sauce, carabinero prawn, white vermouth |
| 8 | [Nolita](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/nolita) | Almagro | €€ | — | Nolita's Burger |
| 9 | [ŌME](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/ome) | Goya | €€€ | — | Chef's Table (8-course tasting menu) |
| 10 | [Taberna Gallega Garelos](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/taberna-gallega-garelos) | Almagro | €€ | — | Pulpo a feira with cachelos (Galician boiled potatoes) |
| 11 | [Taberna Montalbán](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/taberna-montalban) | Los Jeronimos | €€ | — | Secreto (pork) with potatoes |

## The 11 best New Restaurants in Madrid

### 1. Ramón Freixa Atelier

*Freixa's ten-seat counter, two Michelin stars in its first year*

- **Neighbourhood:** Recoletos
- **Address:** C/ Velázquez 24, 28001 Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€€€
- **Distinction:** Michelin 2-Star · Repsol 3 Soles
- **Website:** https://ramonfreixaatelier.com/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/ramon-freixa-atelier

Ramón Freixa opened Atelier in July 2025 on Calle Velázquez, after closing his long-running two-star restaurant at the Hotel Único. It's his most personal room: one U-shaped table for a maximum of ten diners a night, facing an open kitchen, where he works both the kitchen and the dining room himself. It won two Michelin stars in the 2026 guide, plus three Soles in the Guía Repsol. Two seasonal tasting menus run, Origen and a fully vegan and vegetarian Origen Vegetalia, both €250, with a classic wine flight, a grand-wines flight or a non-alcoholic pairing alongside. Freixa calls every plate a precise composition, poetic and aesthetic as much as it's about flavor. Dinner only, Wednesday to Saturday from 20:30.

**Order:**
- Origen
- Origen Vegetalia (100% vegano)

### 2. EMI

*Rubén Mosquero's New Nordic counter, a Michelin star within a year*

- **Neighbourhood:** Gaztambide
- **Address:** C/ Gaztambide, 64, 28015 Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€€€
- **Distinction:** Michelin 1-Star · Repsol 1 Sol
- **Website:** https://emimadrid.com/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/emi

EMI is chef Rubén Mosquero's restaurant in Gaztambide, opened in August 2025 after more than a decade of cooking abroad: Noma and Geranium in Copenhagen, Azurmendi, Luca Fantin in Tokyo, José Andrés's Minibar, and R&D at New York's Atomix, where the restaurant climbed from 118th to 6th in the world under his watch. It won a Michelin star in the 2026 guide, and Mosquero took Cocinero Revelación at the 2025 Premios Metrópoli, the same year EMI itself won Restaurante Revelación outright. The single tasting menu runs about 14 courses for €195, built on New Nordic technique filtered through Japanese and Korean ingredients, including a smoked kelp and tofu course with eel. Bookings open on the 1st of each month, online only.

**Order:**
- Smoked kelp with tofu and eel

### 3. Ramón Freixa Tradición

*Freixa's all-day home-cooking room, opened alongside Atelier*

- **Neighbourhood:** Recoletos
- **Address:** c/ Velázquez, 24. 28001. Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€€€
- **Distinction:** Michelin Selected · Repsol 1 Sol
- **Website:** https://ramonfreixatradicion.com/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/ramon-freixa-tradicion

Ramón Freixa opened Tradición in July 2025 at Velázquez 24, the same building as his two-Michelin-star Atelier, but built for a different pace: an all-day room running 13:00 to 00:30 with no afternoon break. It's listed in the Michelin Guide, holds one Repsol Sol, and placed 263rd in the OAD Europe Top Restaurants 2025. Freixa frames it as a return to his roots, a deep knowledge of traditional Spanish recipes cooked over slow fire, running from Iberian acorn-fed ham and croquettes through stews, rice dishes and casseroles to a catch of the day. Aperitif, bread and olive oil service costs €4.50 per person, and the entrance, seating and restroom are wheelchair accessible.

### 4. Bakko

*Sushiman Sergio Monterde's omakase counter, open since around March 2025*

- **Neighbourhood:** Castellana
- **Address:** C/ López de Hoyos, 9, 28006 Madrid (Barrio Salamanca), Spain
- **Price:** €€€€
- **Distinction:** Michelin Selected · Repsol Recomendado
- **Website:** https://www.bakkomadrid.es/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/bakko

Bakko opened around March 2025, the work of lawyer-turned-gastronomic-influencer Alberto de Luna, who put sushiman Sergio Monterde in charge of the kitchen. It's listed in the Michelin Guide, holds a Repsol Recomendado, and placed on the OAD Europe Top Restaurants 2025 list at #614. Fish comes from Galicia, Cádiz and Japan, and the room works two ways, a casual nigiri counter or a full omakase sitting. Beyond the raw fish, the kitchen runs gyoza stuffed with cocido madrileño, tonkatsu pork topped with cured egg yolk, and wagyu cuts like picaña and sobrecostilla off the charcoal grill, with a sake and wine list running past 600 references. Two set omakase menus run €95 and €135. Sittings only, closed Sunday.

**Order:**
- Cocido Gyoza with Cured Egg Yolk
- Toro, Bone Marrow and Caviar
- Charcoal-Grilled Eel with Kyuri

### 5. Tetsu

*Three culinary-school grads running a teppanyaki counter since January 2025*

- **Neighbourhood:** Recoletos
- **Address:** Calle Marqués de Villamagna 1, 28001 Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€€€
- **Distinction:** Michelin Selected · Repsol Recomendado
- **Website:** https://restaurantetetsu.es/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/tetsu

Tetsu opened on January 28, 2025, in Recoletos, founded by three culinary students from the MOM Culinary Institute: Miguel de Aguilar, João Kather and Sergio Tamayo. It's listed in the Michelin Guide, holds a Repsol Recomendado, and got a mention in the Restaurante Revelación category at the Premios Metrópoli 2025. The format is teppanyaki, Japanese-Mediterranean fusion cooked live at a counter of five chrome griddles. The carta runs to dishes like sea bass with cocido madrileño, chanterelle with egg yolk and payoyo cheese, and a piquillo pepper and lobster plate, alongside two omakase menus, a 10-course version at €90 and a 12-course at €110. It placed #576 in the OAD Europe Top Restaurants 2025.

**Order:**
- Sea bass-cocido madrileño
- Chanterelle - egg yolk - payoyo cheese
- Piquillo pepper-lobster

### 6. Qorte

*Contemporary Mediterranean seafood and rice on Calle de Castelló since 2025*

- **Neighbourhood:** Recoletos
- **Address:** Castelló, 9, 28001, Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€€
- **Distinction:** Michelin Selected
- **Website:** https://qorte.es/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/qorte

Qorte opened in 2025 on Calle de Castelló in Recoletos, and it's listed in the Michelin Guide. It's a partnership between chef Ricard 'Capo' Tobella and José Tomás Arribas. The kitchen works fish and seafood the venue's own site calls less common in Madrid, alongside rices, stews and grill, with a design taking its cue from the dynamism of New York over a Mediterranean menu. The carta runs from an anchovy and cured-egg-yolk brioche and a red prawn carpaccio with amontillado oil to a Gandía-style fideuà with white prawn and hake kokotxas in pil-pil sauce. It's open every day for lunch and dinner, 13:00 to 16:00 and 20:00 to 23:00, and takes cards, with a wheelchair-accessible restroom and seating. Spend runs roughly €51 to €100 a head.

**Order:**
- Red prawn carpaccio with amontillado oil and lemon
- Gandía-style fideuà with white prawn
- Hake kokotxas in pil-pil sauce

### 7. BAS

*Argentine cooking near the Retiro from two owner-chefs, open since spring 2026*

- **Neighbourhood:** Ibiza
- **Address:** C. de Lope de Rueda, 41, Madrid, 28009, Spain
- **Price:** €€€
- **Website:** https://basrestaurante.es
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/bas

BAS opened in spring 2026 near Parque del Retiro, the first restaurant from chefs Gastón Dahir and Juan Patricio Campbell. The name plays on 'bass,' the instrument that holds a jazz band together, and the owners run the floor themselves so guests feel known rather than numbered. The cooking is Argentine at heart with Italian and Spanish threads, seasonal and product-led: handmade tagliolini with carabinero prawn and white vermouth, a grilled sweetbread with burnt lemon escabeche and razor clams, and a lamb and pistachio terrine with fig mole. La Gastronoma named it among Madrid's new restaurants for 2026, singling out its beef tongue and seasonal plates paired with small-producer wines. It closes for a summer break from 1 to 25 August.

**Order:**
- Handmade tagliolini, chilto sauce, carabinero prawn, white vermouth
- Grilled sweetbread, burnt lemon escabeche, razor clams
- Lamb and pistachio terrine, fig mole, horseradish crème, mint

> "la mejor lengua de Madrid y platos actuales regados con vinos de autor" — La Gastronoma

### 8. Nolita

*Global, Mediterranean-leaning plates and a loud bar, a 2026 new opening*

- **Neighbourhood:** Almagro
- **Address:** Calle de Ponzano, 11, 28010 Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€
- **Website:** https://www.nolitamadrid.com
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/nolita

Nolita sits on Calle de Ponzano in Chamberí, named for the New York neighbourhood its kitchen and dining-room team were exploring when the idea came together. La Gastronoma listed it among Madrid's new restaurants for the first half of 2026, praising its confort food and its burger in particular. The cooking is global with a Mediterranean base, built for sharing: a smoked Caesar with grilled red lettuce and Idiazábal, Thai-style disco fries in massaman curry, and Nolita's Burger, a pretzel-bun beef burger capped at 11 orders a service. Upstairs runs loud with surprises, downstairs is more intimate, and the kitchen goes late into the weekend, to 02:30 on Friday and Saturday. It's closed Monday and Tuesday.

**Order:**
- Nolita's Burger
- Smoked Caesar
- Thai Disco Fries

> "confort food de nivel, hamburguesa con nivelón" — La Gastronoma

### 9. ŌME

*Chef Roberto Ortiz's blind chef's-table counter, a 2026 new opening*

- **Neighbourhood:** Goya
- **Address:** Lombía, 6, 28009, Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€€
- **Website:** https://omerestaurante.com/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/ome

OME sits on Calle de Lombía in Salamanca, cooking Mexican food at a spend of €51 to €100 a head. La Gastronoma named it among Madrid's new restaurants for the first half of 2026, describing it as a place where diners sit at chef Roberto Ortiz's counter and let him lead, blind, course by course. It runs two tasting formats, a Chef's Table with a short eight-course menu at €120, and an ŌMEkase Bar with a six-course base menu at €100, both food only, with drinks charged extra on top. The room itself leans candlelit and intimate, built around that counter format rather than an open floor of tables.

**Order:**
- Chef's Table (8-course tasting menu)
- ŌMEkase Bar (6-course tasting menu)

> "aquí te sientas en la barra del chef Roberto Ortiz a ciegas y te dejas llevar" — La Gastronoma

### 10. Taberna Gallega Garelos

*Galician pulpo and empanada near Eduardo Dato, a 2026 new opening*

- **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 sits on Paseo de Eduardo Dato in Almagro, with a spend running roughly €26 to €50 a head. La Gastronoma named it among Madrid's new restaurants for the first half of 2026, calling out its Atlantic feel, the octopus and the empanada by name. The menu runs classic Galician taberna fare: pulpo a feira with cachelos, a Betanzos-style tortilla served small or large, a Galician empanada, steamed mussels, grilled queen scallops with citrus juice, and monkfish with king prawn and Arzúa cheese risotto. Desserts run to tarta de Santiago, D.O. Arzúa cheese with quince paste, and caramelized filloas, the Galician answer to crêpes.

**Order:**
- Pulpo a feira with cachelos (Galician boiled potatoes)
- Betanzos-style tortilla
- Galician empanada

> "esencia atlántica (ese pulpo, esa empanada...)" — La Gastronoma

### 11. Taberna Montalbán

*A family-run taberna by the Retiro, opened in 2025*

- **Neighbourhood:** Los Jeronimos
- **Address:** Calle de Montalbán, 3, 28014, Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€
- **Website:** https://www.tabernamontalban.com/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/taberna-montalban

Taberna Montalbán opened in 2025 in the Los Jerónimos barrio, by Madrid's Retiro park. It's a family project: the idea came from Miguel, a fan of traditional cooking, and his daughter Paloma now runs it. The kitchen serves traditional recipes with a modern twist, plus a terrace out front and room for groups and families, dogs included. The menu runs simple and affordable, with a full lunch menu at €16 and a half menu at €13, covering gazpacho, carbonara pasta, grilled chicken, secreto with potatoes and steamed hake, finished with a dessert of the day or yogurt with granola and red berries. Close, personal service is what the family leads on.

**Order:**
- Secreto (pork) with potatoes
- Steamed hake with pan-fried potatoes
- Carbonara pasta

## Honourable mentions

- **[CLOS](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/clos)** (Ríos Rosas) — A one-Michelin-star Ríos Rosas restaurant open since 2017 that relaunched in late 2025 with new executive chef Dani Villoria (ex-DiverXO) and a flexible, market-led format. Not counted as new since the restaurant itself predates 2025.
- **[Umiko](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/umiko)** (Cortes) — A Japanese-Spanish restaurant founded in 2015 that closed in December 2025 and reopened on 24 September 2026 under new management, Experience Group. Not counted as new since the restaurant itself dates to 2015.

## The new restaurants scene in Madrid

The 2025-2026 wave leans toward chef-driven, single-location projects rather than group expansions. Ramón Freixa split his return into two restaurants on the same building rather than one, Rubén Mosquero came home from a run of Michelin-starred kitchens abroad to open EMI. Michelin and the Premios Metrópoli both moved fast on some of these: EMI won a star and the Restaurante Revelación award within about a year of opening, and Ramón Freixa Atelier picked up two stars in its first Michelin cycle. Other openings, like Taberna Montalbán and Taberna Gallega Garelos, sit at the more neighbourhood end, without awards attached yet, but with confirmed 2025 or 2026 opening dates of their own.

## Know before you go

### 1.

Several of these, including Ramón Freixa Atelier and EMI, run single nightly tasting menus with limited seats. Book as far ahead as the venue's own system allows.

### 2.

Ramón Freixa Atelier and Ramón Freixa Tradición share a building at Velázquez 24, so it's easy to mix them up when booking. They're two separate restaurants with separate menus and separate price points.

### 3.

A couple of these close for part of the year: BAS takes a summer break from 1 to 25 August.

## Glossary

- **Restaurante Revelación** — A category at Madrid's Premios Metrópoli awards. EMI won it outright in 2025; Tetsu was also shortlisted.
- **Omakase** — A Japanese dining format where the chef chooses the courses rather than the diner ordering à la carte. Bakko and Tetsu both run omakase-style tasting formats.

## Frequently asked questions

### What are the newest highly rated restaurants in Madrid?

Ramón Freixa Atelier and EMI, both opened in 2025, each won a Michelin star in the 2026 guide, the fastest recognition on this list.

### Which new Madrid restaurant won a Michelin star fastest?

Ramón Freixa Atelier, opened July 2025, won two stars in the 2026 guide. EMI, opened that August, won one star the same cycle.

### What's the newest restaurant on this list?

BAS, an Argentine restaurant near the Retiro from chefs Gastón Dahir and Juan Patricio Campbell, opened in spring 2026.

### Is Umiko a new restaurant?

No. Umiko was founded in 2015, closed in December 2025, and reopened on 24 September 2026 under new management. It's a reopening, not a new restaurant, so it isn't on this list.

### Which new Madrid restaurants won an award in their first year?

EMI won the 2025 Premios Metrópoli Restaurante Revelación award outright. Tetsu was also shortlisted in the same category that year.

### Where can I find a newly opened taberna in Madrid?

Taberna Montalbán, near the Retiro in Los Jerónimos, and Taberna Gallega Garelos, in Almagro, both opened within this 2025-2026 window.

### Are all of Madrid's 'trendy' restaurants actually new?

No. Several restaurants tagged trendy by diners have been open for years. We only counted a restaurant as new here if its own site or a dated article confirmed a 2025 or 2026 opening.

## 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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