Restaurant in Madrid, Spain
Strong value, tighter booking window than it looks.
ConSentido is the sharper value choice in central Madrid's modern Spanish scene: a Michelin Plate kitchen at €€€, ranked #577 in Europe by Opinionated About Dining (2025), with a tasting menu built around Salamanca produce and Castilian recipes. Lunch runs five days a week; dinner is Friday and Saturday only. Book ahead for weekend evenings.
If you are comparing ConSentido against Madrid's better-known modern Spanish tables, the honest answer is: this is the sharper value play. The €€€€ rooms at DiverXO, Coque, and Deessa demand a serious financial and logistical commitment. ConSentido sits at €€€, holds a Michelin Plate (2025), and ranks #577 on the Opinionated About Dining Leading Restaurants in Europe list for 2025 (up from #516 in 2024, which represents movement in the right direction). For a food-focused traveller who wants technical cooking with genuine regional identity rather than a full tasting-menu marathon, this is the booking to make in the Huertas quarter.
ConSentido is on Calle de las Huertas 22, just off Plaza de Matute, in the literary and cultural core of central Madrid. The Huertas neighbourhood sits between the Prado and the Retiro, which means you are in an area dense with reasons to spend a full day before dinner. The location is not coincidental to the cooking: chef Carlos Hernández del Río builds his menu around Salamanca province produce, including vegetables from the restaurant's own organic garden and ingredients from its own vineyards. The cocktail and drinks programme draws from the same harvest. This is a kitchen that has committed to a specific geography rather than casting wide for trend-driven ingredients, and the room reflects that focus. Sitting at the counter with the kitchen visible behind it is the most direct way to engage with that process — you watch the cooking unfold in front of you, which is the kind of transparency that makes the food make more sense.
The visual experience of the counter is also the most practical argument for solo dining here. Rather than a table for one facing a wall, you get the kitchen as the view. For a food-focused traveller, that is a feature, not a consolation prize.
The menu runs two ways. The à la carte includes half-plate options, which lowers the commitment and allows you to cover more ground without committing to a full tasting sequence. The tasting menu, called "The Pillars of our Surroundings," runs to nine plates and can be expanded with supplementary courses. The name is not just branding: the menu is structured around Castilian recipes and Salamanca produce, and the kitchen treats this regional framework as the actual editorial spine of the meal rather than a marketing footnote.
One dish cited in the venue record — grilled spring onions from the banks of the River Tormes with oregano and pistachio , gives a clear signal about the kitchen's approach: simple primary ingredients, specific provenance, restrained composition. This is not maximalist tasting-menu cooking. It is precise and ingredient-led, which makes it more interesting at this price tier than a more generic contemporary Spanish format would be.
Service is attentive and informed. A documented behaviour worth noting: the chef will often flag dishes not on the printed à la carte and recommend specific plates directly to guests. This is either exactly what you want or slightly disorienting depending on how you prefer to order. If you are the kind of diner who likes to be guided, lean into it. If you arrive with a fixed plan, be ready to adapt.
ConSentido is open for lunch Tuesday through Sunday (1:30–3:30 pm) and for dinner on Friday and Saturday only (8:30–10:30 pm). That dinner availability is deliberately narrow , two nights a week, with a two-hour service window. Booking difficulty is rated Easy overall, but the Friday and Saturday dinner slots are the ones to target and move on quickly, particularly if you are visiting over a weekend. Lunch from Wednesday to Sunday is more accessible and, given Spanish lunch culture, arguably the correct format for a meal of this structure. The kitchen is at full expression at lunch; this is not a venue where dinner feels like the only serious option.
Book at least one to two weeks out for lunch, and further ahead for weekend dinners. Walk-ins are not documented as available, and with the tight service windows, assuming flexibility is a risk.
Address: Calle de las Huertas 22, Pl. de Matute, 1, 28014 Madrid. Reservations: Book ahead; Friday and Saturday dinner slots fill faster than lunch. Budget: €€€ , accessible relative to Madrid's €€€€ tasting-menu tier. Dress: Smart casual is appropriate for a Michelin Plate venue in this neighbourhood; there is no documented formal requirement. Hours: Lunch Tuesday to Sunday 1:30–3:30 pm; dinner Friday and Saturday 8:30–10:30 pm; closed Monday.
The Huertas neighbourhood gives ConSentido a specific local identity that matters to the cooking. Salamanca produce arriving in a restaurant steps from the literary heart of Madrid is not an accident of geography , it is a positioning statement. The area draws both serious food travellers and locals who know the neighbourhood well, and the restaurant's regional focus gives it a more grounded character than the hotel-restaurant fine dining operations further west toward Gran Vía. If your Madrid itinerary includes the Prado, the Thyssen, or the Retiro, ConSentido is the natural dinner or lunch anchor for that side of the city. For other options in the same register, Santerra and DSTAgE are worth considering as comparators in the modern Spanish space.
For those building a wider Spanish food trip, ConSentido sits in useful company alongside venues like La Botica de Matapozuelos in Castile, or further afield at Arzak in San Sebastián, Azurmendi in Larrabetzu, El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Cocina Hermanos Torres in Barcelona, Martin Berasategui in Lasarte-Oria, and Aponiente in El Puerto de Santa María. Internationally, the same technically precise, ingredient-led ethos is visible at Le Bernardin in New York City.
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Smart casual is the right call. ConSentido holds a Michelin Plate at the €€€ tier in a central Madrid neighbourhood , there is no documented formal dress code, but the setting and service level mean you will feel underdressed in trainers and a t-shirt. Think neat, considered clothing rather than black tie. The same standard applies to lunch and dinner.
Yes, if you want the full picture of what the kitchen is doing. The nine-course "Pillars of our Surroundings" menu is structured around Salamanca produce and Castilian culinary tradition, which makes it a more coherent and purposeful sequence than many generic contemporary tasting menus at this price level. The à la carte with half-plate options is the better choice if you prefer flexibility or are dining with someone who wants to pick and choose. At €€€, either format represents stronger value than the €€€€ tasting rooms at Coque or Deessa.
Lunch is the more practical and culturally appropriate choice. Spanish fine dining at this level is built around the midday meal, and the kitchen runs lunch five days a week versus dinner only on Friday and Saturday. The two-hour lunch window (1:30–3:30 pm) is tight, so arrive on time. Dinner is worth pursuing for the atmosphere if you are in Madrid on a Friday or Saturday and have already done lunch elsewhere, but there is no evidence to suggest the dinner menu or experience is materially different from lunch.
At €€€, yes. The Michelin Plate recognition, the OAD ranking at #577 in Europe (2025), and the ingredient provenance story , own organic garden, own vineyards, region-specific produce , add up to a kitchen taking its brief seriously. Compared to the €€€€ tier in Madrid, you are getting a genuinely focused regional cooking programme at a price that does not require the same financial commitment as DiverXO or Coque. The Google rating (3.9 from 66 reviews) is modest, which suggests the experience rewards diners who come with the right expectations: this is ingredient-led, technically precise cooking, not a crowd-pleasing format.
Yes, and the counter is specifically worth requesting. Sitting at the counter with the kitchen behind it means you watch the cooking in real time, which turns a solo meal into an active experience rather than a passive one. The chef's documented habit of recommending off-menu dishes directly to guests also works in favour of solo diners who want engagement. Half-plate options on the à la carte let you cover more ground without over-ordering.
No specific dietary policy is documented in the available data. Given that the menu is tightly built around Salamanca produce and Castilian recipes, and that the tasting menu follows a set sequence, it is worth contacting the restaurant directly before booking if you have significant dietary requirements. The à la carte with half-plate options offers more flexibility than the tasting menu for diners with restrictions.
Yes, with the right expectations. The counter seats and attentive service make it a good fit for a food-focused celebration , a birthday dinner for someone who cares about provenance and technique, or an anniversary lunch for a couple who wants a genuine regional cooking experience rather than a generic special-occasion format. For a larger group celebration or a more theatrical dining environment, the €€€€ venues like Coque or Deessa may better fit the occasion. ConSentido is the right choice when the food itself is the event.
| Venue | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|
| ConSentido | €€€ | — |
| DiverXO | €€€€ | — |
| Coque | €€€€ | — |
| Deessa | €€€€ | — |
| Paco Roncero | €€€€ | — |
| Smoked Room | €€€€ | — |
How ConSentido stacks up against the competition.
The venue data does not specify a dress code, and ConSentido's Huertas neighbourhood setting and Michelin Plate recognition put it in smart-casual territory without being formal. Avoid overly casual clothing — this is a technically driven kitchen with attentive, professional service. Err on the side of neat rather than dressed up.
Yes, if you want to follow the kitchen's logic from start to finish. The 'Pillars of our Surroundings' menu runs 9 plates and can be expanded, with a tight focus on Salamanca produce, including ingredients from ConSentido's own organic garden and vineyards. If you prefer to graze, the à la carte with half-plate options gives you more control at the same €€€ price point — a flexibility most Madrid tasting-menu rooms don't offer.
Lunch is the more reliable slot: it runs Tuesday through Sunday (1:30–3:30 pm), giving you six windows per week. Dinner is only available Friday and Saturday (8:30–10:30 pm), which makes those slots fill faster. For a first visit, a Friday or Saturday dinner gives the fuller experience, but a weekday lunch is the practical fallback if your schedule is tight.
At €€€, ConSentido holds up well against Madrid's modern Spanish competition. It carries a 2025 Michelin Plate and ranked #577 in Europe on Opinionated About Dining 2025 (up from #516 in 2024), which puts it in credible mid-fine-dining territory without the price inflation of a starred room. For Salamanca-sourced, technically driven cooking at this price band, the value case is solid.
Yes. Counter seating at the kitchen gives solo diners a direct view of the cooking process, and the service is described as attentive and professional in discussing wine and dishes. The half-plate à la carte format also suits solo diners who want to cover more of the menu without overeating or over-spending.
The venue data does not document a specific dietary restriction policy. Given that the chef is known to highlight off-menu dishes and make tailored recommendations at the table, the most practical step is to flag restrictions clearly at the time of booking so the kitchen can plan around them.
It works well for a small-group or couples occasion where the food is the centrepiece. The counter option adds a participatory element that suits occasions where the meal itself is the event. Friday and Saturday dinner slots are the better choice over lunch for a celebratory feel. For large groups or formal corporate dining, Madrid's private-room options at Coque or Deessa are better suited.
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