Tasting menuChef Diego Guerrero€€€€€195Wed-Sat 13:30-15:30 and 20:30-23:00Book 3 weeks ahead
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.
Tasting menuChef Quique Dacosta€€€€€235Tue-Sat 13:30-15:30 and 20:00-22:30Book 4 weeks ahead
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.
SpanishChef Adolfo Santos€€€€€145Mon-Sat 13:30-15:00 and 20:00-22:00Book 2 weeks ahead
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.
SeafoodChef Marcos Granda€€€€€110Tue-Sat 13:30-17:00 and 20:30-24:00Book 2 weeks ahead
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.
MediterraneanChef Ricardo Sanz€€€€€165Sun 09:00-17:00Book 3 weeks ahead
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.
SpanishChef Inaki Bretal€€€€€95Mon-Wed 12:00-17:00 and 19:30-24:00; Thu 12:00-19:00 and 19:30-24:00; Fri-Sat 12:00-17:00 and 19:30-24:00; Sun closedBook 2 weeks ahead
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.