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

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

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

1929-rooted tin-bar taberna by the Retiro

Juanjo López's seasonal cocido house by the Retiro

Classic seafood and casa-style tapas on Ponzano

Bohemian all-day kitchen with a Michelin-pedigree hand

Madrid's 1839 grande-dame restaurant for cocido

Three-decade Galician seafood house near the park

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

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

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

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

Small wine-led tapas tavern off the Retiro

Three-chef Bib Gourmand with half-portion freedom

1941 bullfighting tavern famed for its fried merluza

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

Home-style Senegalese on Plaza Nelson Mandela

Tiny Georgian bistrot for khachapuri and khinkali

Wood-fire asador with a Neapolitan oven in Chueca