Restaurant in Madrid

High-end Tokyo-style sushi and robata in Salamanca

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

1827 taberna on Cervantes' old street

Madrid's championship tortilla inside Mercado de la Paz

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

Rodrigo de la Calle's green haute cuisine - one Michelin star plus a Green Star

Pescaderías Coruñesas' Salamanca seafood institution

Steamship-styled seafood house in the business north

Seasonal market cooking and a cult cheesecake in stripped-back Chamberí

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

Yong Wu Nagahira's Japanese-Spanish fish maturation

Mediterranean-leaning Japanese with a six-seat sushi bar

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

Navarrese vegetable and produce temple in Justicia

Classic seafood and casa-style tapas on Ponzano

Bohemian all-day kitchen with a Michelin-pedigree hand

Michelin-starred offal, reimagined with elegance

Market-driven Madrid cooking, a chef's cult on Calle Ballesta

César Martín's modern Spanish cooking with cult croquetas

Madrid's 1839 grande-dame restaurant for cocido

Arzak-trained signature cooking on Doctor Castelo

The credible Turkish kitchen Madrid actually has

Beirut-rooted Levantine cooking, modernised in Chueca

Three-decade Galician seafood house near the park

Coco Montes' L'Arpège-trained microseasonal star near Bernabéu

Japanese-Mexican fusion in residential Chamartín

The barrio's benchmark for biryani and cheese naan

Spain's first Michelin-starred Colombian author cuisine, eight tables only

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

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

The chefs' beloved cult bistro of Chamartín

Michelin-starred revival of grand-hotel dining-room luxury

Nose-to-tail tapas served in an industrial cutting room on Ponzano

A Chamartín izakaya with a 12-seat omakase counter

DiverXO's three-star chef's wild street-food counter

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

Three-chef Bib Gourmand with half-portion freedom

Peruvian-Asian tasting counter inside Mercado de Vallehermoso

Michelin-starred Spanish-twist Japanese counter

Santceloni heirs' market cuisine, starred in 18 months

Michelin-starred izakaya with a WWII-bunker speakeasy below

1941 bullfighting tavern famed for its fried merluza

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

One-star Mediterranean-Japanese bistro by Juan D'Onofrio

Diego Guerrero's two-star creative loft in Salesas

Michelin-starred creative Canary Island cuisine

Home-style Senegalese on Plaza Nelson Mandela

Tiny Georgian bistrot for khachapuri and khinkali

Wood-fire asador with a Neapolitan oven in Chueca