Restaurant in Madrid

The Retiro-edge canteen of Castellanos and Morales

Arzábal's garden restaurant inside the Reina Sofía

Persian market cuisine from a one-woman kitchen

1827 taberna on Cervantes' old street

Madrid's championship tortilla inside Mercado de la Paz

The Cava Baja institution of huevos estrellados since 1974

A 1920 taberna reborn, ibérico-and-truffle croquetas and noble menú del día

1941 bullfighting tavern famed for its fried merluza

Reborn 1950s vermouth tavern on an 8-metre marble bar

Refined Uruguayan parrilla over oak and vine shoots

An eight-seat Michelin room hidden inside the world's great tablao

Madrid's only three-star, Dabiz Muñoz's avant-garde theatre

Pescaderías Coruñesas' Salamanca seafood institution

Steamship-styled seafood house in the business north

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

The chef who brought Nikkei to Spain, on his own terms

Yong Wu Nagahira's Japanese-Spanish fish maturation

Cantabrian cooking in a minimalist-chic Salamanca townhouse

1929-rooted tin-bar taberna by the Retiro

Juanjo López's seasonal cocido house by the Retiro

Navarrese vegetable and produce temple in Justicia

Classic seafood and casa-style tapas on Ponzano

Bohemian all-day kitchen with a Michelin-pedigree hand

César Martín's modern Spanish cooking with cult croquetas

Home-style Senegalese on Plaza Nelson Mandela

Arzak-trained signature cooking on Doctor Castelo

The credible Turkish kitchen Madrid actually has

Beirut-rooted Levantine cooking, modernised in Chueca

Tiny Georgian bistrot for khachapuri and khinkali

Three-decade Galician seafood house near the park

Japanese-Mexican fusion in residential Chamartín

The barrio's benchmark for biryani and cheese naan

Two-star chef's most personal 10-seat room in Salamanca

The world's oldest restaurant, a once-in-a-lifetime cochinillo pilgrimage

Wood-fire asador with a Neapolitan oven in Chueca

The chefs' beloved cult bistro of Chamartín

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

A Chamartín izakaya with a 12-seat omakase counter

Madrid's oldest tavern, untouched since before 1787

Madrid's second-oldest tavern, beloved of Lorca's generation

Small wine-led tapas tavern off the Retiro

Neo-taberna with sharp Spanish tapas on the Conde Duque edge

Three-chef Bib Gourmand with half-portion freedom

Peruvian-Asian tasting counter inside Mercado de Vallehermoso