David Laredo

The Place Established in 1993 by the Laredo family, the restaurant operates from Calle del Dr. Castelo, an address tied to a Madrid idea of eating that keeps food and wine in close conversation. Its form is a classic taberna, not as decoration but as a working structure: Spanish cooking, a serious wine selection, and dishes meant to hold their ground at a table where the bottle matters. That setting gives the chef’s role its shape. As Executive Chef, Laredo’s work is not presented through a long list of named signature plates; it is defined by a house grammar of Spanish wine-bar cooking and by the particular demands of a kitchen serving drinkers who are paying attention to wine. The food has to support the glass without disappearing beside it.

The Method His specialty is Spanish wine-bar cooking at the restaurant, with traditional stews named as part of that repertoire. Those stews give the cooking a grounded center: a category built for appetite, patience, and a table that can settle in rather than hurry through. The method is also explicitly practical. Classic Spanish wine-bar food here is designed to support serious wine drinking, which means the craft is measured at the point where plate and bottle meet. The cooking is framed in a classic taberna format and paired with a serious wine selection, so the kitchen’s rhythm is tied to the cellar’s seriousness. Nothing in that description needs ornament. The important materials are the format, the cooking, and the wine culture around them. Laredo’s kitchen belongs to a Madrid address where traditional stews and Spanish wine-bar food are not side notes to the selection; they are part of the same act of hospitality.

The Range Recognition has come through both dining and wine channels. The restaurant received an Opinionated About Dining Casual Europe ranking in 2024 and again in 2025, placing its casual format within a broader European dining conversation. In 2026, it had Star Wine List dual placements, and the same year it also received Star Wine List recognition. Taken together, those honors point to the specific range of the house: a kitchen known for Spanish taberna cooking and a wine program serious enough to be noticed on its own terms. The range, then, is not about breadth for its own sake. It is the distance between a traditional stew and a serious bottle, between an address founded by the Laredo family in 1993 and a current kitchen led by an Executive Chef working inside that inheritance.