Στέκια in Madrid

High-end Tokyo-style sushi and robata in Salamanca

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

The Cava Baja institution of huevos estrellados since 1974

Refined Uruguayan parrilla over oak and vine shoots

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

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

Classic seafood and casa-style tapas on Ponzano

César Martín's modern Spanish cooking with cult croquetas

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

Japanese-Mexican fusion in residential Chamartín

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

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

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

Small wine-led tapas tavern off the Retiro

Michelin-starred creative Canary Island cuisine

Wood-fire asador with a Neapolitan oven in Chueca