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Barrio de Salamanca
Polished, monied, classic

Barrio de Salamanca

Madrid's old-money quarter, where luxury retail meets white-tablecloth classics and the city's finest seafood.

Laid out on a strict 19th-century grid, Salamanca is Madrid's address for old money and serious appetite, where the luxury flagships of Calle Serrano and Velázquez sit above white-tablecloth classics and some of the city's best seafood and sushi. This is where the Pescaderías Coruñesas houses land Galician catch each morning and where a tortilla at Mercado de la Paz can matter as much as a tasting menu. For an Istanbul visitor it reads as the Nişantaşı analogue: composed, monied and quietly demanding.

Highlights

Calle Serrano luxury flagships Pescaderías Coruñesas seafood houses Casa Dani tortilla at Mercado de la Paz Modernist mansions and embassies Refined sushi and steak rooms
18 places
5 Categories

Restaurant

10 places

Saddle Restaurant
Saddle - Restaurant in Barrio de Salamanca, Madrid
Restaurant
White Tablecloth Gueridon Service Grown Up
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Michelin-starred revival of grand-hotel dining-room luxury

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Ramón Freixa Atelier Restaurant
Ramón Freixa Atelier - Restaurant in Barrio de Salamanca, Madrid
Restaurant
Chef Driven Intimate Counter Avant Garde

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

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El Pescador Restaurant
El Pescador - Restaurant in Barrio de Salamanca, Madrid
Restaurant
Product First Classic Shellfish

Pescaderías Coruñesas' Salamanca seafood institution

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Casa Dani Restaurant
Casa Dani - Restaurant in Barrio de Salamanca, Madrid
Restaurant
Market Tortilla Local Canteen

Madrid's championship tortilla inside Mercado de la Paz

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BaniBanoo Restaurant
BaniBanoo - Restaurant in Barrio de Salamanca, Madrid
Restaurant
Chef Owner Persian Daytime

Persian market cuisine from a one-woman kitchen

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La Bien Aparecida Restaurant
La Bien Aparecida - Restaurant in Barrio de Salamanca, Madrid
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Design Led Cantabrian Wine List

Cantabrian cooking in a minimalist-chic Salamanca townhouse

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StreetXO Restaurant
StreetXO - Restaurant in Barrio de Salamanca, Madrid
Restaurant
Chef Driven High Energy Fusion
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DiverXO's three-star chef's wild street-food counter

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Kabuki Restaurant
Kabuki - Restaurant in Barrio de Salamanca, Madrid
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Sushi Counter Japanese Refined
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Mediterranean-leaning Japanese with a six-seat sushi bar

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Gaman by Luis Arévalo Restaurant
Gaman by Luis Arévalo - Restaurant in Guindalera / Salamanca, Madrid
Restaurant
Nikkei Chef identity Omakase

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

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Shop

3 places

Casa Loewe Shop
Casa Loewe - Shop in Barrio de Salamanca, Madrid
Shop
Design Led Craft Heritage House
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Loewe's house-like flagship in a 19th-century Serrano building

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Mercado de la Paz Shop
Mercado de la Paz - Shop in Salamanca / Recoletos, Madrid
Shop
Food market Local Historic ironwork

Salamanca's real neighbourhood food market

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Cafe

2 places

Gallery

1 place

Museo Lázaro Galdiano Gallery
Museo Lázaro Galdiano - Gallery in Barrio de Salamanca, Madrid
Gallery
Museum Old Masters Mansion

A collector's mansion of Old Masters and decorative arts

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Hotel

2 places

Rosewood Villa Magna Hotel
Rosewood Villa Magna - Hotel in Barrio de Salamanca (Castellana), Madrid
Hotel
Design Led Five Star Art

Reborn Castellana grande dame with Jesús Sánchez's Amós

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Hotel Único Madrid Hotel
Hotel Único Madrid - Hotel in Salamanca, Madrid
Hotel
Palatial Design Led Discreet

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

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