Mekane in Madrid

The Villalón brothers' wine temple just off Gran Vía

The Retiro-edge canteen of Castellanos and Morales

Arzábal's garden restaurant inside the Reina Sofía

The Cava Baja institution of huevos estrellados since 1974

Pescaderías Coruñesas' Salamanca seafood institution

Steamship-styled seafood house in the business north

Juanjo López's seasonal cocido house by the Retiro

Classic seafood and casa-style tapas on Ponzano

Madrid's 1839 grande-dame restaurant for cocido

1931 gourmet grocer with 1,500-plus wines

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

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

Wood-fire asador with a Neapolitan oven in Chueca

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