Every Michelin-Star Restaurant in Madrid (2026): the Full List, Ranked

The 2026 map

Madrid enters 2026 with one three-star restaurant, six two-stars and around twenty-four one-stars inside the city, plus four more stars scattered in the region’s towns. That makes the capital Spain’s densest eating destination after San Sebastián — and, crucially for travellers, the one where the stars sit closest to the cheap beds: half the list is within a short taxi of Sol.

Two names joined the constellation this year — Èter and EMi — and the pattern of the last decade holds: creative tasting-menu houses at the top, and an increasingly interesting one-star tier where Japanese counters, Colombian kitchens and even a vegetarian restaurant hold stars.

The top 10, ranked

1. DiverXO (three stars, Chamartín) — Dabiz Muñoz’s self-described "hedonistic brutality" remains Spain’s hardest table and Madrid’s only three-star: a four-hour, theatre-piece tasting menu inside the NH Collection Eurobuilding. Book the moment the calendar opens, months out.

2. Deessa (two stars, Mandarin Oriental Ritz) — Quique Dacosta’s Madrid flagship in the restored Ritz: the most polished dining room in the city and the two-star most worth the ceremony.

3. DSTAgE (two stars, Chueca) — Diego Guerrero’s exposed-brick loft is the anti-Ritz: sneakers, open kitchen, and the most consistently surprising food in the two-star tier.

4. Coque (two stars, Chamberí) — the Sandoval brothers run a whole building: cocktail in the cellar, tour through the wood-oven kitchen (the suckling pig is a dynasty heirloom), then the dining room.

5. Smoked Room (two stars, Salamanca) — Dani García’s fire-and-smoke counter: a dozen seats, everything touched by ember. The easiest two-star to love on a first exposure.

6. Paco Roncero (two stars, Sol) — tasting-menu haute cuisine above the Casino de Madrid on Calle de Alcalá, with the dining room’s balcony views thrown in. The most central two stars in Spain.

7. Ramón Freixa Atelier (two stars, Salamanca) — the Catalan’s reinvented atelier format: fewer tables, more author. Classical technique wearing modern clothes.

8. Desde 1911 (one star) — the Pescaderías Coruñesas family’s temple to fish, where the menu is decided by that morning’s boats. Widely tipped for its second star.

9. La Tasquería (one star, €€€) — Javi Estévez turned offal into a starred cuisine, and it remains one of Europe’s cheapest Michelin tasting menus. The value pick of the whole list.

10. El Invernadero (one star) — Rodrigo de la Calle’s "gastrobotany": the vegetable-first (and optionally fully green) menu that made vegetarian fine dining serious in Spain.

The full one-star list (2026)

Creative and modern: CEBO (Hotel Urban), OSA, Pabú, EMi, Gofio (Canarian, a cult favourite), Chispa Bistró, Èter, Clos Madrid, Gaytán, Saddle, VelascoAbellà, Santerra and Corral de la Morería Gastronómico — the only starred kitchen inside a flamenco tablao, and the best excuse to combine both in one night.

The Japanese and fusion axis — Madrid’s quiet speciality: Ricardo Sanz Wellington, Yugo The Bunker, Toki, Sen Omakase, Ugo Chan and RavioXO, Dabiz Muñoz’s dumpling playground, the affordable gateway into his universe. Add A’Barra (classic product cooking), Quimbaya (Colombian) and La Tasquería, Desde 1911 and El Invernadero from the top 10, and you have the city’s complete one-star tier.

Stars outside the city

Four stars live in the wider region and pair beautifully with day trips: Montia in San Lorenzo de El Escorial (mountain larder, natural wines — book it onto an Escorial day), Chirón in Valdemoro (castizo dishes rebuilt with technique), Ancestral in Pozuelo de Alarcón (fire-driven, fifteen minutes out) and La Casa de Manolo Franco in Valdemorillo.

The move: monastery in the morning, starred lunch, sierra walk after. No other European capital lets you attach a Michelin meal to a mountain day trip this casually.

How to eat a star without a €300 bill

The arithmetic favours lunch: several one-stars run weekday midday menus at a fraction of the evening tasting, and La Tasquería’s full menu still undercuts a main course at the top tier. RavioXO gets you Muñoz’s ideas for a tenth of the DiverXO cheque, and Corral de la Morería bundles the star with a flamenco show.

Booking windows are the other currency: DiverXO releases months ahead and vanishes in minutes; the two-stars need two to six weeks for a weekend; most one-stars will seat a Tuesday lunch booked the same week. Sleep central, book the cheap bed with the money you saved, and spend the difference at the counter.