Restaurant in Valladolid, Spain
Creative seasonal cooking, good value, easy to book.
Suite 22 earns its Michelin Plate with creative modern cooking inside the barrel-vaulted stables of a 15th-century Valladolid palace. At €€, it delivers more atmosphere and culinary ambition than most of its same-price competitors. Book for a date or celebration dinner; booking is easy but reserve a week ahead for weekends.
If you're comparing Suite 22 against Trigo for a special dinner in Valladolid, the choice comes down to budget and room. Trigo is a tier up in price (€€€) and polish; Suite 22 sits at €€ and delivers a more personal, self-taught cooking style in a more dramatically spatial setting. For a date night or celebration where you want atmosphere and creative modern cooking without the higher bill, Suite 22 is the stronger call.
Suite 22 operates inside the former stables of the Palacio del Marqués de Castromonte, a 15th-century palace in the centre of Valladolid. The dining room is barrel-vaulted stone, which means you eat inside a genuine historic structure rather than a contemporary room with heritage gestures. The contrast between the architecture and the modern plating is part of what makes this a strong special-occasion choice: the setting does visual work before the food arrives, and the scale feels intimate rather than grand. For a celebration or a date where the room matters as much as the menu, this physical context is a real advantage over more conventional dining rooms in the city.
The kitchen is led by Chef Emilio Martín, whose approach is contemporary and seasonal. The menu spans à la carte, several set menus, and sharing formats, which gives a table flexibility depending on how you want to eat. Martín draws on Iberian pork as a recurring anchor ingredient, and the menu incorporates references to French technique (a pâté en croûte appears) and Asian influence (a chipirones kimchi dish has been noted). The Michelin Guide singles out the Corchifrito pincho as a dish not to skip. This is not a kitchen operating within a single tradition: the cooking mixes personal instinct with international reference points, which is either a selling point or a reservation depending on what you want from a meal.
The venue holds a Michelin Plate for 2025, which signals consistent quality and a level of technical seriousness without the pressure or price premium of a starred room. On Google Reviews, Suite 22 scores 4.6 across 965 reviews, a strong and credible signal at that volume. For Valladolid, a city with a serious food culture anchored in Castilian tradition and Ribera del Duero wine, this is a restaurant that sits clearly above the mid-market but remains accessible in price.
Booking difficulty at Suite 22 is rated Easy, which is useful context for planning a trip around it. You are unlikely to need to book months in advance, but for weekend dinner — especially Friday and Saturday — reserving a table a week or two out is sensible given the 4.6 rating and the venue's profile as a special-occasion destination. The most comfortable option for a date or celebration is a weekday evening, when the room is less crowded and the pace is more relaxed. If you are visiting Valladolid in spring or autumn, when the city sees more tourist traffic and the local dining scene is at full pace, booking ahead becomes more important. The barrel-vaulted room has a specific atmosphere in the evening: the architecture reads better under low light, so a lunch visit, while possible, delivers less of the spatial impact that makes Suite 22 worth choosing for a celebratory meal.
Phone and website details are not listed in the available data, so the most reliable booking route is to contact the venue directly or use a Spanish restaurant reservation platform. The address is C. de Fray Luis de León, 22, 47002 Valladolid. For context on what else is in the area, see our full Valladolid restaurants guide, our full Valladolid hotels guide, our full Valladolid bars guide, our full Valladolid wineries guide, and our full Valladolid experiences guide.
Suite 22 occupies a clear position: it is the best-value creative modern dining room in Valladolid for the money. Trigo and Alquimia - Laboratorio both charge more (€€€) and offer a more refined, structured experience. If you want the full tasting-menu treatment with higher service polish, either of those is the appropriate choice. Suite 22 undercuts them in price while holding a Michelin Plate, which makes it the call for diners who want creative cooking in a memorable room without spending at the leading of the market.
At the same price tier, La Cocina de Manuel and Dámaso are the natural alternatives. La Cocina de Manuel leans traditional Castilian, which means the cooking is more conservative and the room less dramatic. Dámaso takes a farm-to-table approach, which is a different culinary register. Suite 22 is the right pick over both if your priority is spatial atmosphere and creative, boundary-pushing cooking. If you want a more grounded, locally rooted meal, La Cocina de Manuel is a reasonable alternative.
For context across Spanish modern cuisine at higher levels of recognition, rooms like Quique Dacosta in Dénia, El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, and Arzak in San Sebastián set the benchmark for what the country's leading creative kitchens do. Suite 22 is not operating at that tier, but it shares the same instinct to work outside established culinary norms, which makes it a coherent choice if you're exploring Spain's broader modern cooking scene beyond the headline destinations.
Suite 22's format is not built for off-premise eating. The barrel-vaulted dining room is an integral part of the experience, and the sharing and set-menu formats are designed for table service. The cooking draws on careful plating and ingredient combinations , including the Corchifrito pincho and the chipirones kimchi , that are oriented toward restaurant presentation. There is no available data on a delivery offering, and given the venue's positioning as a special-occasion, sit-down room, that is what you should plan for. Book a table rather than expecting off-premise options.
| Venue | Cuisine | Price | Booking Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suite 22 | Modern Cuisine | €€ | Easy |
| Trigo | Modern Cuisine | €€€ | Unknown |
| Alquimia - Laboratorio | Creative | €€€ | Unknown |
| La Cocina de Manuel | Traditional Cuisine | €€ | Unknown |
| Villa Paramesa | Contemporary | €€ | Unknown |
| Dámaso | Farm to table | €€ | Unknown |
Side-by-side comparison to help you decide where to book.
Dress neatly but not formally. Suite 22 is a €€ modern restaurant — not a black-tie venue — though the barrel-vaulted dining room inside a 15th-century palace lends a certain atmosphere worth dressing up for slightly. Think well-put-together casual rather than a suit.
Yes, at the €€ price range, Suite 22 delivers Michelin Plate-recognised cooking from a chef with a personal, self-taught style and a seasonal menu that shifts with produce. For creative modern dining in Valladolid without the higher spend of Trigo, it is good value. The sharing dishes and set menu options give you flexibility on what you spend.
Booking difficulty is rated Easy, so you are unlikely to need weeks of lead time. A few days' notice should secure a table in most cases, though if you are visiting on a Friday or Saturday evening, booking a week out is sensible to avoid the risk of missing out.
The sharing dishes format makes Suite 22 a practical fit for groups of four or more who want a social table. The set menu options also help coordinate ordering at scale. check the venue's official channels to confirm group capacity and any private dining options, as specific details are not documented in available venue data.
If you want to see what chef Emilio Martín is doing with seasonal ingredients, a set menu is the better route than ordering à la carte — his cooking is most legible as a sequence. The Michelin Plate recognition (2025) gives some external validation that the kitchen is operating at a consistent level. His recommended Corchifrito pincho is specifically flagged, so order it regardless of which format you choose.
Trigo is the natural step up: higher price, more formal, stronger critical credentials — book it for a special-occasion dinner where budget is not the constraint. Alquimia - Laboratorio is the other creative modern option worth comparing. La Cocina de Manuel and Dámaso skew more traditional. Villa Paramesa is worth considering if you want a wine-forward experience. Suite 22 sits in the clearest value position of the group for modern cooking at a mid-range spend.
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