Restaurant in Madrid

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

1827 taberna on Cervantes' old street

Madrid's championship tortilla inside Mercado de la Paz

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

Refined Uruguayan parrilla over oak and vine shoots

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

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

César Martín's modern Spanish cooking with cult croquetas

Arzak-trained signature cooking on Doctor Castelo

The credible Turkish kitchen Madrid actually has

Beirut-rooted Levantine cooking, modernised in Chueca

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

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

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

Small wine-led tapas tavern off the Retiro

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

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

Home-style Senegalese on Plaza Nelson Mandela

Tiny Georgian bistrot for khachapuri and khinkali

Wood-fire asador with a Neapolitan oven in Chueca