Restaurante Gaytán — Restaurant in Madrid

This is a Spanish-French fusion restaurant by the youngest Michelin-starred chef, Javier Aranda. It was awarded one Michelin star in 2017. The exterior is quite unassuming, resembling a typical apartment building, but the interior is elegant, centered around a circular open kitchen where you can watch the chefs carefully prepare each dish. There aren’t many seats, clearly a deliberate choice to ensure that every table faces the kitchen counter.

I ordered the Gran Menú Javier Aranda, which is divided into five sections: Seasonal welcoming snack, Vegetarian sequence, Seafood sequence, Terra firma sequence, and Sweet sequence—featuring around 25 small courses. Each dish was creative and full of flavor. My personal highlights were the Maresme tear peas, hake kokotxa in pil-pil sauce, slow-cooked suckling pig, and roe deer loin infused with Madrilenian stew. These plates offered a fresh and inventive take on classic flavors. The desserts were also beautifully presented, flavorful, and refreshingly light. In total, with four glasses of wine, the bill came to about 295 EUR.

If you want to experience modern Spanish cuisine with a unique and thoughtful twist, this is the place to go. The chef clearly brings deep culinary expertise and creativity to every detail. There are not many seats available, so you need to make a reservation first, and the menu changes seasonally, so you can always taste...

Short story: don't bother, far from the city center and they won't take you in if you come in half an hour earlier than your reservation. Long story: I made a reservation two months in advance, flew in Madrid from the US, modified our dinner plans for that day, paid $60+ for a cab back and forth from the hotel and we left without eating. We arrived half an hour earlier and they wouldn't even let us sit outside on the patio let alone inside and wait and it was raining outside. Owner and staff, just for future reference you are in the hospitality business for crying out loud, you're supposed to welcome customers not turn them away. I know we arrived before our reservation time but you don't send the customers away especially when you run a $100 per plate restaurant, you improvise and try to accomodate the customer, you're not a street tacos stand I know you're smarter than that. If you ever dreamed about opening in the US don't, the restaurant business is way tougher, you wouldn't last a week after opening. I don't doubt the food and the chef are amazing but customer service wise is a total disaster. Stay there in Europe, you're good, you won't make it as a restaurateur here in the US in my...

We had booked a meal to celebrate our recent wedding and were very much looking forward to it. Unfortunately on the morning of the booking my wife was very unwell. I communicated this at the first opportunity to cancel or at least reschedule the booking for when we would be back in Madrid. I was told to cancel online and should not incur the cancellation fee, however a couple of days later I received a charge on my credit card for €200. Disappointed at this, I contacted management explaining that we acted in the best interests of the business as not to put other customers at risk. Management were very slow to respond and after several follow up emails explained they could not do anything about the charge (including not offering a voucher to use in the future) with very little explanation. It is very disappointing that there is a lack of discretion and professionalism at what claims to be a high end establishment. €200 for a cancellation that was communicated and out of our hands is wholly disproportionate. If this is how they treat potential customers, then I will leave it to you to decide whether you would like to give them...