Adresses in Madrid

Speakeasy-calm classic cocktails on Calle del Pez

The Villalón brothers' wine temple just off Gran Vía

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

Herzog & de Meuron culture house with a vertical garden

1827 taberna on Cervantes' old street

The Rastro's snail institution since 1942

Madrid's championship tortilla inside Mercado de la Paz

Loewe's house-like flagship in a 19th-century Serrano building

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

Specialty-coffee espresso bar in Salamanca

Communal-table specialty coffee with an Asian-vintage touch

Lavapiés roaster supplying the city's best specialty bars

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

Lavapiés's avant-garde cultural centre with a rooftop terrace

1929-rooted tin-bar taberna by the Retiro

Juanjo López's seasonal cocido house by the Retiro

Bohemian all-day kitchen with a Michelin-pedigree hand

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

1931 gourmet grocer with 1,500-plus wines

Arzak-trained signature cooking on Doctor Castelo

Mezcal-leaning cocktail den tucked into Conde Duque

The credible Turkish kitchen Madrid actually has

Salamanca's real neighbourhood food market

Chueca's real food market with a rooftop terrace

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

Chamberí's 1933 market reborn as a boundary-pushing food hall

From-scratch artisan gelato on Calle Goya

The canonical Spanish painting collection — Velázquez, Goya, Bosch

Spain's modern-art museum and the home of Guernica

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

The barrio's benchmark for biryani and cheese naan

Artisan sourdough bakery across from the Conde Duque centre

Eco specialty coffee and all-day brunch in Lavapiés

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

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

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

1908 tiled-facade tavern for vermouth and tapas

The roaster that lit Madrid's specialty-coffee fuse, since 2012

Toma's Chamberí roastery room near Plaza de Olavide

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