Madrid Restaurants


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  1. Official Tourism Site: Dining In Madrid
  2. Concierge.com: Madrid Restaurants  WARNING: Pop-ups
  3. Frommer's: Madrid Restaurants
  4. Fodor's: Madrid Restaurants WARNING: Pop-ups
  5. Yahoo! Travel: Madrid Restaurants
  6. Travel + Leisure: Restaurants In Madrid
  7. Zagat: Madrid Restaurants  WARNING: Paid subscription required for full access
  • NOTE: Restaurants mentioned on this page plotted on Google Maps


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Madrid High-End Restaurants

    • Fodor's Choice WARNING: Pop-ups: "It's particularly known for using the best and freshest seasonal products available, as well as for having the best service in town."
    • Zagat Well Rated WARNING: Paid subscription required for full access: "'It’s seldom that a restaurant can keep its standards up for more than 30 years'..."
  • Santceloni Mediterranean, Phone: 91-210-88-40 Google Map
    • Concierge.com Recommendation WARNING: Pop-ups: "The setting, the dining room of Hotel Hesperia (Madrileños love hotel restaurants), is a skylit cellar, elegantly appointed with warm, rich wood and stone, checkerboard tiles, and ample fresh bouquets."
    • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "Santi Santamaría is ranked among the top three chefs of Spain, along with his chief rivals, Juan Mark Arzak and Ferrán Adriá. Santamaría gets my vote as the leader of the "troika," as these chefs are often called by food critics."
    • Fodor's Choice WARNING: Pop-ups: "Lighter and more original than Arzak, less playful and bizarre than Adrià, Santamaría serves up exquisite combinations of Mediterranean ingredients accompanied by a comprehensive and daring wine list."
    • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "Deluxe ingredients, personally selected by the chef and changed to take advantage of the best in any season, are fashioned into some of the capital's most flavor-filled dishes."
    • Fodor's Choice WARNING: Pop-ups: "The minimalist dining room allows you to concentrate on the hot-cold, surf-turf counterpoints of the seasonal menu."
  • Viridiana International, Phone: 91-531-52-22 Google Map
    • Frommer's Recommended: "Menu specialties are contemporary adaptations of traditional recipes, and they change frequently according to availability."
    • Fodor's Review WARNING: Pop-ups: "This place has a relaxed, somewhat cramped bistro feel, its black-and-white scheme punctuated by prints from Luis Buñuel's classic anticlerical film, the restaurant's namesake."
    • Zagat Well Rated WARNING: Paid subscription required for full access: "[C]onsidered 'one of Madrid’s best', it’s 'worth taking out a mortgage for.'"

Madrid Moderate Restaurants

  • Casa Lucio Spanish/Portuguese, Phone: 91-365-32-52 Google Map
    • Concierge.com Recommendation WARNING: Pop-ups: "When you want to eat nothing that's been deconstructed or otherwise engineered, when you yearn for honest Castilian food in a simple setting, there's nowhere better than Lucio Blásquez's restaurant near Plaza Mayor."
    • Frommer's Highly Recommended: "Dozens of cured hams hang from hand-hewn beams above the well-oiled bar. Among the clientele is a stable of sometimes surprisingly well-known public figures -- perhaps even the king of Spain."
    • Zagat Well Rated WARNING: Paid subscription required for full access: "'[V]ery good' food is found at this popular Castilian in Latina, where an 'attentive' staff serves 'classic' dishes..."
  • Casa Paco Steaks/Chops, Phone: 91-366-31-66 Google Map
    • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "Located in the Old Town, this two-story restaurant has three dining rooms, but reservations are imperative. If you face a long wait, sample the tapas at the bar in front. Around the walls are autographed photographs of notables."
    • Fodor's Review WARNING: Pop-ups: "This Castilian tavern wouldn't have looked out of place two or three centuries ago. Squeeze past the old, zinc-top bar, crowded with Madrileños downing shots of Valdepeñas red wine, and into the tile dining rooms."
  • El Mentidero de la Villa International, Phone: 91-308-12-85 Google Map
    • Frommer's Highly Recommended: "One notable dessert is the sherry trifle. The postmodern decor includes trompe l'oeil ceilings, exposed wine racks, ornate columns with unusual lighting, and a handful of antique carved merry-go-round horses."

Madrid Affordable Restaurants

  • Viuda de Vacas Spanish/Portuguese, Phone: 91-366-58-47 Google Map
    • Frommer's Highly Recommended: "Service is informal, and ultratiled walls and basic wooden tables complete the unspoiled castizo setting. Inventive dishes, accompanied by an excellent-value Jumilla house wine, are the order of the day."
    • Fodor's Review WARNING: Pop-ups: "Simplicity is key, from the furnishings, which still preserve some of the old tiles, to the traditional, high quality food -- cooked in a coal kitchen."
  • Iroco International, Phone: 91-431-73-81 Google Map
    • Condé Nast Official Selection: "At the back of the long room is that rarest of Madrid rarities, a private garden with a few tables. (In summer, it goes without saying, these are among the most sought-after and fought-over in town)."
    • Frommer's Highly Recommended: "This well-run and popular Salamanca restaurant, known for its nueva cocina (nouvelle cuisine), attracts businessmen and -women for its lunch and a trend-setting and younger crowd in the evening."
    • Fodor's Review WARNING: Pop-ups: "Círculo de Bellas Artes, feels more like a private club than a café; expect a bustling, intellectual crowd."
  • Automatico Spanish/Portuguese, Phone: 91-530-99-21 Google Map
    • Frommer's Highly Recommended: "This classic tapas hangout is among the most popular in Lavapiés, and in summer its terrace -- one of many in lively Argumosa street -- draws animated crowds of habitués and visitors."

Madrid Local Cuisine

    • Zagat Well Rated WARNING: Paid subscription required for full access: "[I]t’s 'quite expensive' but the experience is 'incomparable.'"

Madrid Vegetarian Restaurants

  • El Estragon Phone: 91-365-89-82 Google Map
    • Frommer's Recommended: "The menu offers an eclectic choice of vegetarian dishes, from a vegetable-filled risotto verde to soy albóndigas (meatballs) -- even a cordon bleu steak that contains no meat (only vegetables)."
  • Ceres Phone: 91-553-77-28 Google Map
    • Frommer's Recommended: "Opened over a decade ago in the northwestern corner of the city, this is one of the longest-running green restaurants in Madrid, with a dedicated and faithful band of regulars so best to book a table before calling in."
  • Artemisa Phone: 91-429-50-93 Google Map
    • Frommer's Recommended: "There are two branches of this very popular and established vegetarian establishment. The most popular is probably this modern and simply decorated eating spot in the heart of bohemian Huertas parallel to Calle Echegaray."

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