11 editor picks in Madrid.
11 splurge places in Madrid, editor-picked. tasting menus and the full big-night-out treatment in Madrid. All Madrid food.
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.
OrderThe full 14-canvas tasting menu only; no carte.
TipBookings 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.
OrderThe full Caminos del Coque tasting (5 spaces, around 18 dishes) only. The roast suckling pig is the signature.
TipAllow 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.
OrderThe full Days tasting menu (16 dishes) only. The mole verde and the eel-and-foie torchon are signatures.
TipClosed 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.
OrderChoose Universos (12 dishes, €235) or DNA (16 dishes, €280); both run the Dacosta canon.
TipBook through the hotel concierge or guide.michelin.com link. The dining room overlooks the Centro Canalejas; ask for window.
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.
OrderThe Atelier tasting menu (225 euros).
TipBook four weeks ahead; Wed-Sat dinner only, ten seats per service. The companion Tradicion room next door does the day-and-evening carte.
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.
OrderThe truffle tortilla finished table-side from the silver cart.
TipClosed Sunday; bookings via website or directly. The truffle tortilla supplement runs 28 euros and is worth the spend.
Kabuki Wellington at the Wellington hotel in Madrid's Salamanca is Ricardo Sanz's one-Michelin-star room, the canonical Mediterranean-Japanese fusion: nigiri.
OrderThe tasting omakase (€165) or carte highlights: huevo Kabuki, nigiri de pez mantequilla, usuzukuri de toro.
TipClosed Sunday; the counter seats 8 facing chef Sanz and is the room to book. Book three weeks ahead for weekend dinner.
El Invernadero on Calle Ponzano in Madrid is Rodrigo de la Calle's one-Michelin-star vegetable-only room, the canonical Spanish gastrobotanica tasting.
OrderChoose the 9 or 14-course vegetable-only tasting.
TipClosed Sunday and Monday. The chef's table by the open kitchen seats 4 and is the seat to ask for when booking.
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.
OrderThe 8-course tasting (€110) with the wine pairing (€65).
TipThe cellar dining room downstairs seats 6 for private dinners. Ask for the wine pairing; the cellar is the room's headline asset.
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.
OrderThe tasting (€95) with the seafood that lands that morning.
TipClosed 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.
OrderYugo tasting omakase (€165) upstairs. The signatures are the nigiri de bonito and the toro tartare.
TipClosed Sunday; the upstairs counter seats 12. The downstairs bunker is members-only but the upstairs experience is the public one.
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