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

Madrid's championship tortilla inside Mercado de la Paz

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

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

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

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

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

Small wine-led tapas tavern off the Retiro

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

Home-style Senegalese on Plaza Nelson Mandela

Tiny Georgian bistrot for khachapuri and khinkali