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Eating and drinking in Madrid

  • Tuesday, 3 June, 2025
    ReviewFT Globetrotter
    Offally good: La Tasquería, Madrid

    Javi Estévez’s Michelin-starred restaurant puts a haute cuisine spin on the tripe, kidneys, livers and pig’s heads traditionally associated with Spain’s peasantry

    Black and white photo of a busy kitchen, with chef Javi Estévez writing ingredients on a pad, while three other people in chef whites work behind him
  • Saturday, 3 May, 2025
    Travel
    Postcard from Madrid: lunch at the world’s oldest restaurant

    Botín has been going strong for 300 years — but can it avoid being a tourist trap?

    Watercolor illustration of the exterior of Restaurante Sobrino de Botín in Madrid, Spain, showing people dining at outdoor tables beneath red awnings, with a suited waiter standing in the doorway
  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Madrid’s best — and possibly biggest — croquetas? Try Rocablanca’s

    The Spanish staple is the star at a family-run local whose history mirrors its colourful neighbourhood’s own

    Three croquetas on a plate and a man’s hand holding a piece of toast at Rocablanca
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    What the world’s best chef serves you for €450

    Kimchi ice cream and hare sushi: the Madrid flagship restaurant of Dabiz Muñoz, Spain’s punk superchef, is an ‘amusement park for adults’

    Chef Dabiz Muñoz of DiverXO photographed in profile, with a dyed-blond Mohican and ear pierced from lobe to upper cartilage
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    FT SeriesThe FT Magazine’s Guide to the Business Lunch
    The FT foreign correspondents’ guide to business dining around the world

    The top tables for breaking bread and sealing deals in great global cities

  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    A taste of Madrid’s traditional tapas bars

    Tabernas that offer colour and history alongside delicious snacks — and are always reassuringly packed with locals

    Plates of tapas and glasses of beer photographed from above on a table at Los Huevos de Lucio; a man’s hand holding a spoon, another holding a plate and a woman’s varnished fingernails are visible at the sides of the image
  • Wednesday, 6 March, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Madrid’s top six plant-based restaurants

    This famously carnivorous city is increasingly exploring its herbivore side — to delicious effect

    A close-up of a delicate dish of sliced cucumber, aubergine and dollops of puree, topped with small purple flowers, resting on slices of courgette, at Mudrá, Madrid
  • Tuesday, 27 February, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
    Ryan ‘Mr Lyan’ Chetiyawardana’s favourite bars around the world

    From Madrid to Melbourne via Colombo, Copenhagen and Cartagena: 13 of the cocktail maestro’s top watering holes

    Ryan ‘Mr Lyan’ Chetiyawardana
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
    A tour of Madrid’s artiest districts with ARCOmadrid director Maribel López

    The woman at the helm of the world-leading contemporary art fair shows us the neighbourhoods brimming with cool galleries – and great eateries

    ARCOmadrid director Maribel López in a red and black dress, sitting on a chair looking up out of a window, cradling her face with one hand
  • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    Memo from Madrid: tastes of the real capital at a top tapas festival

    Not even biblical downpours could stop our writer from celebrating the local and global flavours of the multicultural Lavapiés district

    Antonio Jose Pereirz in the doorway of his Tostas & Bacalao bar in the Madrid district of Lavapiés
  • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    Six Madrid bars showcasing stellar local wines 

    Where to sample exciting new labels from the capital region that are making waves across Spain — and beyond

    Madrid Shelves of wines on a wall at Bendito wine bar, Madrid
  • Monday, 19 December, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    FT readers: where to eat and drink in Madrid

    Your favourite places for everything from paella to a beer — and the food markets you love the most

  • Monday, 12 December, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    An ode to the churro, Madrid’s favourite snack . . . 

    . . . and where to find the iconic fried-dough pastry at its most delicious — and authentic

  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    Four of Madrid’s most mouthwatering menus of the day

    The lunchtime menú del día is a Spanish institution, offering classic dishes at great prices. Here are a few of the capital’s best

  • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    Where to drink vermouth in Madrid

    Sample the capital’s favourite aperitif in four of its most characterful, colourful vermuterías

  • Monday, 14 November, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    Madrid with the FT

    Tapas, flamenco and world-class art in the Spanish capital

  • Monday, 14 November, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    Where to find the best seafood in Madrid

    Madrileños love their mariscos. Here are four places to enjoy the finest in the Spanish capital

    A lobster held up by a hand at La Gaditana
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