Lugares in Madrid

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

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

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

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

Juanjo López's seasonal cocido house by the Retiro

Arzak-trained signature cooking on Doctor Castelo

Chueca's real food market with a rooftop terrace

Tiny Georgian bistrot for khachapuri and khinkali

Lázaro Rosa-Violán-designed mansion hotel in Salesas

An 1886 building reworked by Lázaro Rosa-Violán, beside Retiro

A 32-room 19th-century mansion on a quiet Chamberí street

Reborn Castellana grande dame with Jesús Sánchez's Amós

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

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