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Considered the best restaurant in town. If you’re here on Wednesdays, all the better because chef Manuel Miguez’s cocido madrileño (see Cocido Madrileño) is renowned. Summer terrace.

An elegant restaurant, set in an 18th-century building designed by Juan de Villanueva, architect of El Escorial, no less. Grilled meats cooked to perfection.

Reasonably priced restaurant also in an 18th-century building near El Escorial’s Teatro Coliseo, hence the theatre memorabilia. Castilian cooking, featuring dishes such as rabo de toro (bull’s tail). Set-price menu.

Classy restaurant with wonderful vistas of the sierra – book a terrace table in summer. First-class international cuisine.

Grilled fish is the speciality of this hotel-restaurant in an 18th-century palace.

This café-restaurant was once the royal coach-house. Castilian fare with bacalao (cod) the house speciality.

The game specialities in this formal but reasonably priced restaurant are a reminder that El Pardo was once a royal hunting lodge. Wonderful desserts. Summer terrace.

A traditional restaurant serving heart-warming country fare, for example stew made with beans and hare (fabes con liebre ) and roast kid (cabrito asado ).

This Castilian restaurant, with traditional wood-fired oven, is as good a place as any to savour roast lamb, suckling pig or kid.

This pleasant restaurant serves up basic but tasty home cooking including jamón Ibérico . The terrace is open in summer.