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Dabiz Muñoz named his tasting menu "The Kitchen of the Flying Pigs," which tells you most of what you need to know. This is a creative fine dining restaurant with three Michelin stars and a spot at number four on the World's 50 Best list, where the food careens between Goan coastlines, Jerez bodegas, and the Pyrenean ecosystem without stopping to explain itself. Spanish ingredients collide with Asian technique, and the paired drinks menu is called Metamorphosis, presumably without irony.

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The open kitchen runs the length of the room, framed by original wooden columns, so watching the team work feels less like dinner theater and more like sitting in on something. This is a tasting-menu restaurant with a Michelin star, the kind where each course comes with an explanation of the techniques behind it. Seasonal ingredients drive the menus, with the longer format peeling back the cooking process for anyone who wants that layer.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

Near the Santiago Bernabéu, this Michelin-starred creative French restaurant runs two surprise tasting menus named after the chef's parents, which is a level of sentimentality that somehow reads as charming rather than precious. Coco Montes trained under Alain Passard at Arpège in Paris, and the menu shows it: vegetables carry most of the weight, textures are delicate, and the sourdough and cheese course both pull their own.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

The name comes from chef Hugo Muñoz's childhood nickname, which is either charming or a very on-brand move for a Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant in Madrid. Counter seating faces an open kitchen where the menu shifts constantly, with an omakase option alongside à la carte. The cooking is Japanese at its bones, but Madrid tripe finds its way into gyozas and nothing stays fixed long enough to feel like a greatest hits set.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
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The smoked ricotta ravioli with Oscietra caviar made the move here from Óscar Velasco's beloved former restaurant, and regulars noticed. This is a fine dining room in northern Madrid where seasonal, market-led cooking gets equal measures of technique and warmth, with a tasting menu, à la carte, and half-plate options. A private dining room called El Apartamento operates off its own kitchen. The place holds a Michelin star.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

A Bib Gourmand-holding dining room on Avenida de Brasil where the cooking leans into traditional Spanish recipes without apology. The room has a contemporary feel with just enough polish to signal that someone cares, and the menu gives you a choice: order à la carte or lean into one of two tasting menus, one built around the classics, one tracking the seasons. Neighborhood regulars and office lunchers from the surrounding streets fill it comfortably.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

The open kitchen anchors a room that manages to feel both relaxed and quietly polished, which suits what Quinqué is doing: Spanish home cooking sharpened by chefs who trained at serious restaurants. The menu shifts with the season and the morning's fish auction, so the à la carte and tasting menu change accordingly. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of neighborhood spot where the food is the whole point.

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The name reaches back to what the Basque Country was called in the 11th century, which tells you how seriously this contemporary Basque restaurant takes its roots. The menu changes constantly around what the market offers that week, with a tasting menu alongside the à la carte. A shaded terrace handles aperitivo hour in the San Sebastián tradition, pintxos and all. The kind of room where the cooking feels personal because it is.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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The dessert trolley alone will slow you down: house-made sweets wheeled to the table the old-fashioned way. This Mediterranean dining room sits inside the NH Collection Eurobuilding hotel, run by the team behind the Estimar restaurants. The cooking leans into seasonality, with pasta, stews, and serious fish doing most of the heavy lifting. Croquetas de jamón ibérico and baked wild sea bass show up often and for good reason.

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The escabeches and slow-cooked stews are the whole point here, a traditional Spanish restaurant where the kitchen leans hard into time-honored technique and offal has a genuine seat at the table. Fish and meat come straight from the daily auction, so the menu shifts with the catch. The room runs with the kind of front-of-house attentiveness that feels almost old-fashioned now, which is exactly the draw for the regulars who clearly plan their week around lunch.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A large, white-toned traditional restaurant on the Castellana, with a garden-style internal terrace that feels removed from the avenue outside. The cooking runs on Cantabrian instincts, meaning the sea shows up reliably this far inland, from fish soups to whatever came off the boat. The fish soup, served two ways, is the thing regulars circle back for. Think Sunday lunch crowd, unhurried, on the right side of the bill.

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The aesthetic leans hard into the Strait of Gibraltar, which is an unexpected decorating choice for a bistro on the Castellana, but the food makes the argument. This is a casual, sharing-plates spot where the kitchen blends Cádiz coastal cooking with Japanese and Latin American influences, the kind of menu where dogfish ends up in a saam and tuna gets a roasted chili and tomato chutney. Informal, unhurried, and selected by the Michelin Guide.

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The wood-heavy dining room, dressed like a South American hacienda that took the brief seriously, sets the tone for what follows: a grill-focused restaurant where the fire does most of the talking. Angus and Wagyu cuts arrive in Brazilian, Argentine, and European configurations, and the terrace, shaded by actual trees, is the kind of outdoor room that makes Madrid's long evenings feel well-spent.

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The room used to be one of the concert venues of Movida Madrileña, and the bones of that history are still visible in the bioconstruction fit-out. Tramo is a contemporary Spanish restaurant with a social mission baked into the model, employing people who face real barriers to the jobs market. The menu runs on ingredients from small Spanish farmers and local producers, which gives the cooking a grounded, unfussy quality that suits the space.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Behind an electric-blue façade on a quiet Chamartín street, this old-school bistro has been drawing Madrid's chefs on their nights off for decades, which tells you most of what you need to know. The dining room runs to black-and-white prints, white tablecloths, and wooden chairs kept simple on purpose. Classic French-ish fare anchors the menu: onion soup, sole meunière, pig's ear, and a steak tartare that regulars treat as non-negotiable.

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