Restaurant in Madrid

Arzábal's garden restaurant inside the Reina Sofía

Persian market cuisine from a one-woman kitchen

The Cava Baja institution of huevos estrellados since 1974

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

Steamship-styled seafood house in the business north

The chef who brought Nikkei to Spain, on his own terms

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

Classic seafood and casa-style tapas on Ponzano

Bohemian all-day kitchen with a Michelin-pedigree hand

The credible Turkish kitchen Madrid actually has

Beirut-rooted Levantine cooking, modernised in Chueca

The barrio's benchmark for biryani and cheese naan

Two-star chef's most personal 10-seat room in Salamanca

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

Madrid's oldest tavern, untouched since before 1787

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