Madrid is one the best cities in the world to try the dishes of famous Michelin star chefs. There are 27 restaurants with this distinction and it’s a hard task to choose which one to dine in. From typical local cuisine, often elevated to the next level with modern cooking techniques, to sophisticated creations from the Japanese kitchen, all of them are undoubtedly the best Michelin star restaurants in Madrid. Here we present the list of our favourite ones so that you can find the perfect spot that fits your personal tastes.
Our Top Picks
- A must-try: DiverXo
- Best for local cuisine: Saddle
- Best for seafood: Desde 1911
- Best oriental: Smoked Room
- Best veggie: El Invernadero
1. DiverXo
The Madrid-born extravagant chef Dabiz Muñoz' (Best Chef in the World 2021, 2022 and 2023) flagship restaurant is the third best in the world according to the “Worlds 50 Best“. The three Michelin star and three soles Repsol chef offers very creative dishes, with its famous tasting menu as the absolute star of the show, combining round and intense flavours with daring and exotic mixtures and widely different textures.
Not only that, it's this season's most talked about menu and one of the most expensive worldwide. Gastronomic influencer Mark Wiens claims DiverXo has the best potato tortilla (Spanish omelette) in Spain.
Address: NH Eurobuilding, C. del Padre Damián, 23, Chamartín, 28036 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 570 07 66
2. Coque
Mario Sandoval, the chef of the elegant Coque restaurant in Madrid, has two Michelin Stars, three Repsol Suns, and three “M” from the Metrópoli Guide. His credentials guarantee creative cuisine and a continuous explosion of flavours.
The cuisine is based on locally sourced products and two peculiar ingredients: fermented food and the omnipresent egg. As it should be, the Sandoval brothers serve their customers with elegance and discretion. As for the testing menu, it's filled with surprises that impact not only gastronomically but also visually.
Address: C. del Marqués del Riscal, 11, Chamberí, 28010 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 604 02 02
3. DSTAgE
A two Michelin stars Gastronomic restaurant in an industrial loft in Chueca offers creative meals created by Diego Guerrero. At DSTAgE, you first notice the avant-garde style of the place, with brick walls, a modern bar, and a kitchen open to the living room, which provides a slightly hypnotic touch.
Its two tasting menus (“Dstage” and “Denjoy”) represent an exquisite gastronomic journey worldwide with Spanish cuisine as a home base and always surprises with just a perfect mix of flavours.
Address: C. de Regueros, 8, Centro, 28004 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 702 15 86
4. Paco Roncero
This restaurant, awarded with two Michelin stars and three suns from the Repsol Guide, is located a few meters from Puerta del Sol in the famous 1910 building Casino de Madrid. It boasts a spectacular terrace with some of the city's best views. Not one iota less stunning than two testing menus: “Esencia” (Essence) and “Afirmación” (Affirmation). Chef Paco Roncero defends a highly unique and creative signature cuisine.
If it's a sunny day, which in Madrid almost always is, we recommend having vermouth on a terrace before lunch.
Address: C. de Alcalá, 15, Centro, 28014 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 532 12 75
5. Ramon Freixa
The chef Ramón Freixa has high-quality cooking in his blood: he was trained in the family restaurant in Barcelona since he was a child. Nowadays, he manages an exclusive 2 Michelin stars and 3 Repsol suns venue in the Salamanca district next to the secret garden of the Hotel Único Madrid.
But, of course, the show's stars are his three tasting menus (RFM Temporality, Discovering RFM, and Freixa Universe) with a spectacular mix of flavours and unbeatable presentation. Ramon Freixa is a restaurant where you go to live a different and sublime experience, and it does not disappoint you.
Address: C. de Claudio Coello, 67, Salamanca, 28001 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 781 82 62
6. La Tasquería
La Tasquería is a tavern with a Michelin star specializing in offal, conjuring highly creative dishes from such an orthodox source. Obviously, La Tasquería is a perfect restaurant for meat lovers. Though, a variety of meat dishes are not the only offering. In the chef's words, Javi Estévez: “we are ‘casqueros' (a cook specialized in offal), but we also do other things.”
The tasting menu is arguably one of the best offal Haute cuisine menus worldwide, prepared in different ways and served in various forms, all impressive and excellent. The interior design is more of a casual aesthetic, even with some high tables with stools.
Address: C. del Duque de Sesto, 48, Salamanca, 28009 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 451 10 00
7. A'Barra
As the venue's name suggests, as soon as you enter, there's a big and inviting circular bar to the right, with a capacity of 21 people. Then, experience a new proposal in Madrid: a tasting menu served simultaneously to all seated after the “Show Cooking” act.
This Michelin Star restaurant's roadmap is to invest in excellence continuously so that you can expect top quality at each step of your culinary journey in the A'Barra. The Iberian pig products are one of the highlights of the continental-style and innovative dishes. Working days at noon, it is a benchmark place for business lunches.
Address: C. del Pinar, 15, Chamartín, 28006 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 021 00 61
8. Clos
Marcos Granda, the famous Asturian sommelier, opened his already Michelin-starred restaurant to demonstrate that a traditional Haute kitchen is compatible with good value for money.
The venue has three menu options: a classic one with a starter, a main, and a dessert, the almost obligatory and high-level, complete, and homogeneous Tasting Menu, and a lunch Menú Clósicos. Of course, timely waiters-sommelier will always recommend the best wine pairing.
Address: C. de Raimundo Fernández Villaverde, 28, Chamberí, 28003 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 064 88 05
9. Deessa
A laureate chef Quique Dacosta offers four degustation menus (two contemporary and two historical) in his refined two Michelin-starred restaurants at the luxury Mandarin Oriental Ritz Madrid, the first gastronomic hotel in the capital.
A truly controlled explosion of flavours is quite an event that makes your sensory experience unbeatable and leaves you with the feeling of receiving much more than what is paid.
Address: Pl. de la Lealtad, 5, Retiro, 28014 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 701 68 20
10. Gaytán
In his Michelin Star restaurant located in the Madrid district of Chamartín, Chef Javier Aranda offers a live kitchen concept, where clients observe what's being prepared and the fantastic technique of the chefs working in the fancy and open oval kitchen.
Tasting menus are replete with innovation and surprising flavours, all wrapped in a spectacular atmosphere in a venue whose decoration has been awarded. The pairing is divine, in a perfect menu to share and try many dishes without breaking the bank.
Address: Lateral Derecho, C. del Príncipe de Vergara, 205, 28002 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 348 50 30
11. Saddle
The worthy heir of its famous predecessor (“Jockey,” one of the most iconic restaurants in the capital), the Saddle restaurant continues the tradition both in a location and as a meeting point for the creamiest of the society.
A Michelin Star venue proposes traditional and contemporary cuisine, with dishes thoughtfully prepared and presented with a perfect flavour intensity. Even the restaurant's chosen name pays homage to the legendary Jockey.
Address: C. de Amador de los Ríos, 6, Chamberí, 28010 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 216 39 36
12. Desde 1911
This northern seas seafood restaurant, a project of Pescaderías Coruñesas, is a “dream-come-true” of the four-generation fisherman family from A Coruña that extended the business to Madrid, and the legendary fish temple was born. Extreme measures are taken to source only the best fish and shellfish from the national fish markets so that the daily tasting menu can always be at least slightly different.
Spacious and bright premises, a very exclusive minimalist environment but with a cosy touch, and a lovely terrace, perfect for long summer evenings in the capital.
Address: C. del Vivero, 3, Moncloa – Aravaca, 28040 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 545 72 86
13. El Invernadero
The famous chef Rodrigo de la Calle, one of the fathers of “gastrobotany“, defines his creations in his green haute cuisine Michelin-stared restaurant as “vegetable taming.” Only seasonal fresh vegetables are used for crafting a spectacular tasting menu, often described as pure magic.
All the dishes lead to a true explosion of flavours in your mouth, and the combinations with the fermented kombucha and kefir elevate them into another dimension. Turning “simple” vegetables into something extraordinary is one of the mysteries worth discovering each season in El Invernadero (“The Greenhouse”).
Address: C/ de Ponzano, 85, Chamberí, 28003 Madrid
Phone: +34 628 939 367
14. Smoked Room
The “Omakase” is the type of tasting menu typical of the most luxurious Japanese restaurants, where the client leaves the decision of what he will put in his mouth in the hands of the expert cook. It means: trust and letting go. The Smoked Room acknowledges this with perfect execution in every one of the dishes drawing inspiration from various cultures, with two Michelin stars being the recognition for its Omakase gastronomic proposal.
Furthermore, exclusivity is guaranteed, with only a handful of 14 seats divided between the tables and the bar. The venue is located in the Hyatt Regency Hesperia Hotel in Madrid's Paseo de la Castellana.
Address: Hotel Hyatt Regency Hesperia, P.º de la Castellana, 57, Chamberí, 28046 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 108 62 77
15. Yugo the Bunker
This Michelin-stared exclusive Japanese venue brings to Madrid the essence of the traditional taverns (Izakayas) that are meeting points in the day-to-day of any Japanese. This is the best place to enjoy the Japanese purity that seeks excellence in the flavour of nigiri, sashimi, usuzukuri, gyozas, and other Japanese haute cuisine dishes.
The raw material is unbeatable, and the elaboration is pure perfection. The basement is the space exclusively for members designed as a World War II bunker, which is also used for clients with a reservation when the main room is full.
Address: Calle de San Blas, 4, Centro, 28014 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 444 90 34
How We Choose These Dining Establishments?
Our team elaborated this selection based on the diners' feedback, chef interviews, the Michelin guide, and drawing from their own experiences. Our aim was to select the best restaurants in Madrid, prioritizing criteria such as culinary excellence, flavour profiles, attentive service, inviting ambience, and convenient situation. Our guide gathers a variety of dining options, tastes and preferences so that each reader can find their perfect culinary haven. In the end, only those restaurants delivering exceptional gastronomy, impeccable service, and an unforgettable dining ambience secured a spot on our list.
For more information about our methodology, please read our editorial policy.
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Last Updated on April 23, 2024 by Editorial Team
