Best restaurants in Madrid 2026: 15 tables worth booking

The best restaurants in Madrid in 2026 come down to 15 tables, from DiverXO, the city's only three-star restaurant, to a La Latina tavern where a nine-dish menu costs €51. If you book one table first, make it DiverXO, which the Michelin Guide Spain 2026 kept at three stars.

Madrid has rarely had this many serious kitchens. The Michelin Guide Spain & Andorra 2026, presented on 25 November 2025, gives the city one three-star restaurant and six with two stars, one of them, Ramón Freixa Atelier, new at that level. The other Madrid, of taverns, cocido and fried squid, is the subject of our guide to what to eat in Madrid. This list of the best restaurants in Madrid takes ten tables from the tasting-menu city and five where the bill stays lower, two of them more than 180 years old.

Prices are per person for food, before drinks, and come from the restaurants' own menus or recent published listings; Spanish menu prices include VAT. The map also moves: Santerra, one of the starred names in the 2026 guide, stopped trading in September, so it is not here.

Madrid's most expensive menu costs €450; its oldest dining room still roasts suckling pig for about €28.

Best restaurants in Madrid to book first: DiverXO, Chamartín

Dabiz Muñoz's restaurant occupies part of the NH Collection Eurobuilding hotel at Calle del Padre Damián 23, in the business district north of the centre. It is the only restaurant in Madrid with three Michelin stars, a position the 2026 guide confirmed, and the kitchen works in a loud, maximalist register that borrows from Asian street food, Spanish classics and whatever Muñoz is chasing that season.

The tasting menu costs €450 per person before drinks, after a 23% rise in 2025, and the meal lasts three to four hours. Wine pairings start at €300. Book through the restaurant's website, as far ahead as you can.

Coque, Chamberí

The Sandoval brothers ran Coque in Humanes, south of Madrid, for more than four decades before moving it to Calle del Marqués de Riscal 11 in 2017: Mario cooks, Juan Diego runs the dining room and Rafael a cellar of some 3,000 references. The restaurant holds two Michelin stars and the green star it received in 2022, partly for produce from the family's farm near El Escorial.

The current Madrid menu runs to 17 courses through the city's culinary history. Madrid's tourism board places Coque in its top price band, above €60 a head; ask for the current menu price when you book. It serves dinner every day and lunch on Saturday.

Deessa, Los Jerónimos

Quique Dacosta, whose restaurant in Dénia holds three stars, runs the gastronomic dining room of the Mandarin Oriental Ritz at Plaza de la Lealtad 5, next to the Prado. Deessa holds two Michelin stars and serves two long menus at lunch and dinner: Históricos, a retrospective of Dacosta's best-known dishes, and Contemporáneo, new work built around the Mediterranean and Extremadura.

Both cost €255 per person. On weekdays a shorter Chronos menu costs €150, one of the cheapest ways into a two-star dining room in the city. Book through the hotel.

Paco Roncero, Sol

Paco Roncero cooks on the top floor of the Casino de Madrid, a 19th-century club at Calle de Alcalá 15, a few minutes from Puerta del Sol. The restaurant holds two Michelin stars, and much of the cooking is built on olive oil and on the city's bar culture.

The restaurant's website lists three menus: Gran Madrid, 25 creations, for €310; Madrid, Madrid, Madrid, 23 creations, for €240; and Esencia, 15 creations, for €190 at Thursday and Friday lunch and €280 in the evening and on Saturday. Wine pairings run from €125 to €295.

DSTAgE, Salesas

Diego Guerrero opened DSTAgE in 2014 in a former industrial building at Calle de los Regueros 8, between Chueca and Alonso Martínez, and won two Michelin stars within three years. The room keeps its brick walls, high ceilings and an open kitchen; the cooking pulls ingredients from around the world into dishes designed to trick the eye.

There are three menus, Dtaste, Dstage and Denjoy; when the restaurant turned ten in 2024 they cost €175, €200 and €220 for 16, 18 and 22 dishes. It closes on Sunday and Monday and serves lunch only on Friday and Saturday.

Smoked Room, Chamberí

Dani García's restaurant sits inside the Hyatt Regency Hesperia at Paseo de la Castellana 57, with its own entrance and 14 seats: six at the bar and eight in the room. It won two Michelin stars six months after opening, in the 2022 guide, and keeps them in 2026. Massimiliano Delle Vedove runs the kitchen, where almost everything passes through fire and smoke, with Japanese technique.

Madrid's tourism board lists the Kõsei no Hi menu at €195 and Matsuri at €250. It opens Wednesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner; book through the restaurant's website.

Ramón Freixa Atelier, Salamanca

Ramón Freixa closed his two-star restaurant at the Hotel Único and moved to a 600-square-metre space at Calle de Velázquez 24 with two restaurants under one roof, Tradición and Atelier. Atelier, ten seats facing the open kitchen, received two Michelin stars in the 2026 guide five months after opening, plus three Repsol Suns.

It serves dinner only, with two 17-course menus at €230 each: Origen, which follows the season, and Vegetalia, entirely plant-based. Pairings cost €190, or €420 for the grand wines.

La Sociedad Gastronomika, Los Jerónimos

The newest table on the list. Eneko Atxa, whose Azurmendi near Bilbao holds three stars, opened it in summer 2026 on the ground floor of the Mercer Hotel at Calle de Ruiz de Alarcón 5, behind the Prado; it is his second Madrid address. The main room seats 12 in front of the stoves, and the menu of seafood, hake, beef and an ice cream made from yesterday's bread costs €165, VAT included.

It opens Tuesday to Saturday for lunch and on Friday and Saturday for dinner, and bookings go through the hotel. Atxa is also among the chefs who have just pledged to keep farmed salmon off their menus.

Desde 1911, Moncloa

The restaurant of Pescaderías Coruñesas, the fish merchant that has supplied Madrid's tables since 1911, fills an old industrial building at Calle del Vivero 3, near Guzmán el Bueno. It has held a Michelin star since the 2024 guide. Abel Valverde runs the dining room and Diego Murciego the kitchen, which works with wild fish that arrives from the ports each day: turbot, sea bream, grouper.

The menu changes daily: you choose three to six starters, then the fish of the day and cheese or dessert. Expect €120 to €150 per person.

La Tasquería, Chamberí

Javi Estévez built his name on casquería, Madrid's offal cooking, served in jars and glasses and taken seriously. La Tasquería has held a Michelin star since 2019 and moved in March 2024 to Calle de Modesto Lafuente 82.

A €59 menu, according to El Español in March 2026, includes the dish the house is known for, half a confit and fried suckling pig's head, one of the cheapest starred menus in Madrid. Its offshoot, La Barra de la Tasquería, joined the Bib Gourmand list in the 2026 guide.

Lhardy, Sol

Open since 1839 at Carrera de San Jerónimo 8, a few steps from Puerta del Sol, Lhardy is the city's classic dining room, with a street-level shop that sells consommé to take away. It nearly closed in 2021 when it entered insolvency proceedings; that May, Grupo Pescaderías Coruñesas, the owner of Desde 1911, bought the business and the building and kept its 40 staff.

Order the cocido madrileño, served in three stages with a soufflé to finish, for €68. The dining room opens Monday to Saturday and for lunch on Sunday.

Sobrino de Botín, Plaza Mayor

Founded in 1725 at Calle de Cuchilleros 17, just below Plaza Mayor, Botín has been recognised by Guinness World Records since 1987 as the oldest restaurant in the world. Its wood-fired oven roasts suckling pig and lamb, and Pérez Galdós and Hemingway both put the house in their novels.

Roast suckling pig costs around €28, roast lamb about the same. It opens daily for lunch and dinner and takes bookings by phone and on its website.

Casa Lucio, La Latina

Lucio Blázquez opened his restaurant at Cava Baja 35 on 4 November 1974, and his children run it today. The order is huevos estrellados: fried eggs broken at the table over slow-cooked potatoes, the version the rest of Madrid copies.

Madrid's tourism board puts the bill at €45 to €60 a head. Book for lunch or dinner; the restaurant closes in August.

Trèsde, La Latina

Three childhood friends, the chef Aitor Sua with Lucas Fernández and Miguel Vallés, run this neo-tavern at Cava Alta 17, one street over from Casa Lucio. The Michelin Guide added it to its Bib Gourmand list in the 2026 edition, and the Guía Repsol gives it one Sun. The cooking leans on vegetables, French technique and natural wine.

The nine-dish menu costs €51; à la carte, plan on €30 to €60 a head. It is the best-value table among the best restaurants in Madrid on this list.

Sala de Despiece, Chamberí

On Calle de Ponzano 11, the busiest eating street in Chamberí, this bar is fitted out like a butcher's cutting room: steel benches, high stools and cutlery hanging from the ceiling. You order, give your name and wait for your plate to be called.

The average bill is €15 to €20 a head. It takes no bookings, so arrive early or late.

Best restaurants in Madrid: frequently asked questions

Which restaurant in Madrid has the most Michelin stars? DiverXO, the only three-star restaurant in the city in the Michelin Guide Spain 2026. Six more hold two stars: Coque, Deessa, DSTAgE, Paco Roncero, Ramón Freixa Atelier and Smoked Room.

How much does a starred dinner cost in Madrid? From €59 for La Tasquería's early-week menu to €450 at DiverXO, before drinks. Among the two-star rooms, Deessa's weekday Chronos menu at €150 is the lowest entry price.

Do I need to book? Yes for every starred restaurant here, and for Botín, Lhardy and Casa Lucio. Sala de Despiece does not take reservations.

Where should I eat cocido or suckling pig in Madrid? Cocido at Lhardy, for €68 with a soufflé; suckling pig at Botín, for around €28, or as half a fried head at La Tasquería.

How we chose

We started from the Michelin Guide Spain 2026 selection for Madrid and its new Bib Gourmands, added the classic houses that still define the city's cooking and one opening from 2026, and kept only restaurants open in autumn 2026 with a published menu or a recent price. Places we could not verify were left out, as was Santerra after its closure.

This list of the best restaurants in Madrid was last checked on 2 October 2026 against the restaurants' websites, the Michelin Guide, Madrid's tourism board and the Guía Repsol.