Tasting menus, Michelin stars and the chefs redefining Madrid.
Tasting menus, Michelin stars, and the kitchens redefining what fine dining means in Madrid.
DiverXO at NH Eurobuilding hotel in Madrid is David Munoz's three-Michelin-star room. Tasting menu €365. Book 8 weeks ahead. At Calle de Padre Damian 23.
Order: The full 14-canvas tasting menu only; no carte.
Tip: Bookings open exactly two months ahead at midnight CET on the website. Set an alarm; the first 30 seconds sell out.
Coque in Madrid's Chamberi is the Sandoval brothers' two-Michelin-star room, with the tasting menu staged across five spaces: cellar, kitchen, sacristy.
Order: The full Caminos del Coque tasting (5 spaces, around 18 dishes) only. The roast suckling pig is the signature.
Tip: Allow 4 hours for the full experience; arrive on time as the journey through spaces is choreographed start to finish.
DSTAgE in Madrid's Chueca is Diego Guerrero's two-Michelin-star room, an open kitchen at the back, a 30-cover dining room around it. Tasting menu €195.
Order: The full Days tasting menu (16 dishes) only. The mole verde and the eel-and-foie torchon are signatures.
Tip: Closed Sunday and Monday. The counter seats facing the kitchen are first-come on booking; ask when you reserve.
Deessa inside the Four Seasons Madrid is Quique Dacosta's two-Michelin-star Madrid outpost, running the Universos and DNA tasting menus that brought him.
Order: Choose Universos (12 dishes, €235) or DNA (16 dishes, €280); both run the Dacosta canon.
Tip: Book through the hotel concierge or guide.michelin.com link. The dining room overlooks the Centro Canalejas; ask for window.
Saddle in Madrid's Almagro district is the modern grand-bistro by chef Adolfo Santos, the 2018 Michelin-starred room with a tortilla cart, French-Spanish.
Order: The truffle tortilla finished table-side from the silver cart.
Tip: Closed Sunday; bookings via website or directly. The truffle tortilla supplement runs 28 euros and is worth the spend.
Clos Madrid in the Chamberi district is the one-Michelin-star room by sommelier-chef Marcos Granda, with a market-led carte and a wine list of 700 references.
Order: The 8-course tasting (€110) with the wine pairing (€65).
Tip: The cellar dining room downstairs seats 6 for private dinners. Ask for the wine pairing; the cellar is the room's headline asset.
Kabuki Wellington at the Wellington hotel in Madrid's Salamanca is Ricardo Sanz's one-Michelin-star room, the canonical Mediterranean-Japanese fusion: nigiri.
Order: The tasting omakase (€165) or carte highlights: huevo Kabuki, nigiri de pez mantequilla, usuzukuri de toro.
Tip: Closed Sunday; the counter seats 8 facing chef Sanz and is the room to book. Book three weeks ahead for weekend dinner.
Alabaster in Madrid's Retiro is Inaki Bretal's one-Michelin-star Galician seafood room, with daily-changing fish landed in the Bretal family's Pontevedra.
Order: The tasting (€95) with the seafood that lands that morning.
Tip: Closed Sunday; ask for the corner table near the window. The owner-chef circulates between courses to talk fish.
Yugo The Bunker in Madrid's Las Letras is Julian Marmol's one-Michelin-star sushi-and-tapas room, with the public dining counter upstairs and the private.
Order: Yugo tasting omakase (€165) upstairs. The signatures are the nigiri de bonito and the toro tartare.
Tip: Closed Sunday; the upstairs counter seats 12. The downstairs bunker is members-only but the upstairs experience is the public one.
Ramon Freixa Atelier on Calle de Velazquez 24 in Madrid's Salamanca is the Catalan chef's new ten-seat counter (opened July 2025, awarded 2 Michelin stars.
Order: The Atelier tasting menu (225 euros).
Tip: Book four weeks ahead; Wed-Sat dinner only, ten seats per service. The companion Tradicion room next door does the day-and-evening carte.
El Invernadero on Calle Ponzano in Madrid is Rodrigo de la Calle's one-Michelin-star vegetable-only room, the canonical Spanish gastrobotanica tasting.
Order: Choose the 9 or 14-course vegetable-only tasting.
Tip: Closed Sunday and Monday. The chef's table by the open kitchen seats 4 and is the seat to ask for when booking.
Editor picks in Madrid include DiverXO, Coque, DSTAgE, plus the full fine dining chapter on TableJourney.