Sexto opens its 20-seat tasting menu in Madrid

Sexto, a 20-seat tasting-menu restaurant from chef Juan Suárez de Lezo, opened on 1 September on the seventh floor of Madrid's Kapital building.

The address is better known for nightlife: Grupo Kapital runs a seven-storey nightclub at Atocha 125, and Sexto is its first serious push into fine dining. Suárez de Lezo previously ran the kitchen at Quintoelemento, an immersive dining concept in the same building, and has worked in kitchens tied to Juan Mari Arzak and Gastón Acurio.

Sexto's menu draws on four cities

They'll come. There isn't much on offer at this level in Madrid right now.

The restaurant seats 20 diners and serves a single 12-course tasting menu, available only at lunch, priced at €150, with a wine pairing at €90. The wine list favours small producers from Spain and France.

Courses move between Córdoba, the chef's hometown, and stops in Peru, Tokyo, the United States and Paris. Early courses include a reworking of Córdoba-style soups; the menu closes with a passion-fruit cream and yoghurt.

José Domingo, marketing director for Kapital's gastronomic division, frames the ambition plainly: "They'll come. There isn't much on offer at this level in Madrid right now."

A Michelin bet in a crowded Madrid

Sexto now shares Atocha 125 with Quintoelemento, marking the first time Grupo Kapital operates two independent gastronomic concepts under one roof. The group is better known for its nightclub than its kitchens, which makes the wager on a tasting-menu address unusual for it.

Madrid has no shortage of new tables chasing recognition this autumn, and the city's Michelin count for 2026 will not be settled until the guide's November gala. Elsewhere in Spain, the traffic runs both ways: Slow & Low in Barcelona recently gave up its star to refocus on tapas.

Sexto's wine list leans on small growers at a time when Spanish producers face thinner margins; olive oil prices are sitting low ahead of the next harvest, a reminder that the ingredients behind any tasting menu come from a supply chain under its own pressure.

For now, Sexto has twenty seats, one lunch seating seven days a week, and a chef betting that a menu built from memory outlasts the nightclub several floors below.