Lokale in Madrid

Speakeasy-calm classic cocktails on Calle del Pez

High-end Tokyo-style sushi and robata in Salamanca

The Villalón brothers' wine temple just off Gran Vía

Six-table San Sebastián cooking on the Ponzano corridor

Arzábal's garden restaurant inside the Reina Sofía

1921 English-club cocktail bar of Buñuel and Dalí

The Cava Baja institution of huevos estrellados since 1974

Pescaderías Coruñesas' Salamanca seafood institution

Steamship-styled seafood house in the business north

Seasonal market cooking and a cult cheesecake in stripped-back Chamberí

Mediterranean-leaning Japanese with a six-seat sushi bar

Cantabrian cooking in a minimalist-chic Salamanca townhouse

Juanjo López's seasonal cocido house by the Retiro

Navarrese vegetable and produce temple in Justicia

Michelin-starred offal, reimagined with elegance

César Martín's modern Spanish cooking with cult croquetas

Madrid's 1839 grande-dame restaurant for cocido

Arzak-trained signature cooking on Doctor Castelo

Three-decade Galician seafood house near the park

An 1886 building reworked by Lázaro Rosa-Violán, beside Retiro

Japanese-Mexican fusion in residential Chamartín

The chefs' beloved cult bistro of Chamartín

Nose-to-tail tapas served in an industrial cutting room on Ponzano

DiverXO's three-star chef's wild street-food counter

Small wine-led tapas tavern off the Retiro

Peruvian-Asian tasting counter inside Mercado de Vallehermoso

Michelin-starred creative Canary Island cuisine