Mekane 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

The Retiro-edge canteen of Castellanos and Morales

Arzábal's garden restaurant inside the Reina Sofía

Persian market cuisine from a one-woman kitchen

Calle Argumosa's alternative tapas terrace

1921 English-club cocktail bar of Buñuel and Dalí

1892 bodega, vermut de grifo and one of Madrid's best tortillas

1827 taberna on Cervantes' old street

The Cava Baja institution of huevos estrellados since 1974

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

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

Churros con chocolate in a marble-and-tile room since 1894

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

A 19th-century Salamanca palace with two Michelin stars downstairs

Iron-and-glass design five-star with a Michelin-starred kitchen

Plaza de San Ildefonso specialty café and work-friendly hub

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

Quiet old-school tapas bar beside the Conde Duque centre

1922 sherry-only bar frozen in Civil War Madrid

César Martín's modern Spanish cooking with cult croquetas

Bohemian Basque pintxo bar on Cava Baja since the 1980s

Malasaña's mid-century living room, all day into the night

House-macerated spirits workshop between Chueca and Malasaña

Home-style Senegalese on Plaza Nelson Mandela

Arzak-trained signature cooking on Doctor Castelo

Mezcal-leaning cocktail den tucked into Conde Duque

The credible Turkish kitchen Madrid actually has

Chueca's real food market with a rooftop terrace

Lavapiés's real neo-Mudéjar market, from fishmongers to natural wine

Tiny Georgian bistrot for khachapuri and khinkali

Three-decade Galician seafood house near the park

Lázaro Rosa-Violán-designed mansion hotel in Salesas

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

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

A 32-room 19th-century mansion on a quiet Chamberí street

Reborn Castellana grande dame with Jesús Sánchez's Amós

The chefs' beloved cult bistro of Chamartín

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

A former adult cinema reborn as a cultural bar-cinema

World's-50-Best cocktail craft on Echegaray

Belle Époque ducal palace-hotel with a private garden

A 'wine cult' with 400+ wines by the glass on Ponzano

Beam-and-stone Cava Baja wine taberna with a deep Spanish list

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

Small wine-led tapas tavern off the Retiro

Cava Baja vermut taberna with the secret 'Manuela' pour, since 1996

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

1908 tiled-facade tavern for vermouth and tapas

Three-chef Bib Gourmand with half-portion freedom

Madrid's first boutique five-star, in a 1915 neoclassical townhouse