Country guide

Iconic restaurants
in Spain

A personal selection of 9 memorable dining rooms in Spain: places chosen for their architecture, history, atmosphere and enduring sense of place.

Barcelona, Spain

7 Portes

I selected it as an essential place to experience.

View this place →Navarra, Spain

Café Iruña

I selected it as an essential place to experience.

View this place →Bizkaia, Spain

Café Iruña

I selected it for its distinctive setting, atmosphere and sense of place.

View this place →Salamanca, Spain

Café Novelty

I selected it for its distinctive setting, atmosphere and sense of place.

View this place →Barcelona, Spain

CafePalau

I selected it for its distinctive setting, atmosphere and sense of place.

View this place →A Coruña, Spain

La Terraza, Sada

I selected it for its distinctive setting, atmosphere and sense of place.

View this place →Madrid, Spain

Sobrino de Botín

Its exceptional continuity, literary associations and still-working historic oven make it more than an age record: it is part of Madrid’s living memory.

View this place →Madrid, Spain

Lhardy

A rare nineteenth-century restaurant interior that remains both luxurious and culturally specific: Madrid’s public life, haute cuisine and salon culture are embedded in its rooms.

View this place →Barcelona, Spain

Los Caracoles

Its beauty is accumulated rather than designed in one gesture: a large, theatrical sequence of rooms that could only belong to old Barcelona and has survived under the founding family.

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