Στέκια 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

1921 English-club cocktail bar of Buñuel and Dalí

The Cava Baja institution of huevos estrellados since 1974

Refined Uruguayan parrilla over oak and vine shoots

One-star Mediterranean-Japanese bistro by Juan D'Onofrio

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

Michelin-starred creative Canary Island cuisine

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

Michelin-starred offal, reimagined with elegance

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

Mezcal-leaning cocktail den tucked into Conde Duque

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

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

World's-50-Best cocktail craft on Echegaray

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

Peruvian-Asian tasting counter inside Mercado de Vallehermoso