The Best Italian Food in Madrid

Fresh pasta gets made in the basement, which feels like the right order of priorities. Manifesto 13 is a casual Italian bistro near Glorieta de Bilbao with an open kitchen, a bar counter, and a room that splits the difference between industrial loft and neighborhood hangout. The menu moves through tapas, sharing plates, and pasta with a light creative touch, and it holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A glamorous pizza restaurant in Madrid's Golden Mile, where the room splits into two wings around a large bar and live music plays every evening. The pizzas come in Neapolitan and Padellino styles, built mostly from Italian ingredients with the occasional nod to Spain. The wine list reads like a tour through Italian regions, and the cocktails get the same attention. It landed at number eight on 50 Top Pizza World.

1. 50 Top Pizza #8 · 50 Top Pizza World
2. 50 Top Pizza #2 · 50 Top Pizza Europe

Neapolitan dough meets Madrid noise at this neighborhood pizzeria, where closely packed tables and quick, easy service keep the room humming. The crust is thick-rimmed and long-leavened, and the fried starters, supplì and frittatine, are taken as seriously as the pies. The wine list leans southern Italian and artisanal, kept short and affordable. It ranks 11th in Europe on 50 Top Pizza, which in a city of jamón and cocido is either an achievement or an argument.

1. 50 Top Pizza 2025 · Best Fried Food · 50 Top Pizza World Special Awards
2. 50 Top Pizza #54 · 50 Top Pizza World
3. 50 Top Pizza #11 · 50 Top Pizza Europe

A small bistro near Glorieta de Bilbao where the chef's handmade pasta doubles as the entire point of coming. The team trained under Dabiz Muñoz at DiverXo, and the Italian instincts are intact, though a Thai-inflected burrata or a cod-and-pil-pil ravioli suggests the kitchen isn't above a detour. The menu is short on purpose, long on handmade pasta, and the whole room reads like a love letter to a Neapolitan grandmother, which is exactly what it is.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Handmade pasta built from a family recipe is the whole argument here, and a Piedmontese chef making it in Madrid gives the room a quietly confident feel. Gioia is a small Italian restaurant where the menu runs à la carte or a tasting menu that riffs on the overlap between Italian and Spanish cooking. Truffle turns up often, and the tagliatelle made with forty egg yolks is the dish regulars tend to mention unprompted.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Tucked at the end of a quiet alley lined with luxury boutiques, this intimate contemporary restaurant is easy to walk past and hard to forget. The two chefs, one from Madrid and one from Rome, cook a short menu that folds Spanish and Italian traditions together without making a fuss about the concept. The room is small, the menu tighter still, and the cooking lands with the confidence of people who don't need the extra words.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The dining rooms lean into a retro Italian pop aesthetic from the 1970s, all considered and a little theatrical. This contemporary Italian restaurant in Recoletos is run by a chef from Puglia who steers well clear of the pasta-and-pizza comfort zone, cooking his way through Italy's regions with some seriousness. The set menu called "From South to North" does roughly what it says. A room that knows what it is, which is rarer than it sounds.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Authentic Sicilian pottery lines the shelves, which sets the tone before a single plate arrives. This small, contemporary Italian restaurant is a Madrid offshoot of an original in Palermo, and the kitchen leans into that southern Italian lineage, reworking traditional recipes with a modern eye. Both the à la carte and tasting menus come with optional wine pairings, so you can commit to the full Sicilian afternoon whether or not you planned to.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A suspended fireplace floats over a communal table near the Congress of Deputies, which sets the tone: this is a pizza restaurant that takes the room as seriously as the dough. The style is Nordic, long-fermented and airy, topped with San Marzano tomatoes and cured meats from the Lessinia valley. Italian artisanal ice creams close things out. It holds a spot on the 50 Top Pizza Europe list, which the politicians next door have yet to replicate.

1. 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza Europe Excellent Pizzerias

Roman pinsa dough is the foundation here, lighter and crispier than its Neapolitan cousin, served at a casual pizza spot tucked onto a side street in Chamberí. The kitchen opens directly onto the dining room, cartoon murals cover the walls, and a few sidewalk tables catch the afternoon sun. Toppings lean international rather than purist, and the beer selection is broad enough that choosing one becomes its own small project.

1. 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza Europe Excellent Pizzerias

A neighborhood pizzeria in Chamberí run the way a Neapolitan kitchen runs at home: eggplant parmigiana, ragù, and handmade pasta before the pizza even arrives. The dough follows the Neapolitan school, and the salsiccia e friarielli, a pairing you rarely find done right outside Campania, is the thing to order. Prices sit below the Madrid average, which the regulars have clearly figured out.

1. 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza Europe Excellent Pizzerias

The wood-fired oven takes up most of the back wall and sets the agenda from the moment you walk in. This is a small, warmly Italian pizzeria in Chamberí, the kind where the dough follows Neapolitan rules and the menu runs from antipasti through dessert in the way a Roman grandmother would approve. The namesake pizza, loaded with San Marzano tomatoes and Parma ham, is the move. Recognized by 50 Top Pizza Europe.

1. 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza Europe Excellent Pizzerias

Checkered tablecloths and walls plastered with Italian nostalgia set the scene at this old-school Roman-style trattoria on Fernando VI. The wood-fired oven turns out thin, unfussy pies built on well-sourced ingredients, and the tiramisù has a minor cult following among regulars. It's been around forever, which in Madrid's churning restaurant scene means something. A 50 Top Pizza Europe listing confirms the pizza is not just atmosphere talking.

1. 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza Europe Excellent Pizzerias