Places in Madrid

Speakeasy-calm classic cocktails on Calle del Pez

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

The Rastro's snail institution since 1942

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

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

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

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

1929-rooted tin-bar taberna by the Retiro

Juanjo López's seasonal cocido house by the Retiro

Navarrese vegetable and produce temple in Justicia

1922 sherry-only bar frozen in Civil War Madrid

House-macerated spirits workshop between Chueca and Malasaña

Mezcal-leaning cocktail den tucked into Conde Duque

Chueca's real food market with a rooftop terrace

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tiny Georgian bistrot for khachapuri and khinkali

Belle Époque ducal palace-hotel with a private garden