Portrait of Pedro Garcia
i. Biography
Traditional Spanish cooking is the working brief at Restaurante Vinoteca García de la Navarra in Madrid, Spain, where Pedro Garcia serves as Head Chef. The restaurant’s standing on the Opinionated About Dining Casual Europe list — #683 in 2024 and #654 in 2025 — recognizes a kitchen organized around fundamentals, vegetables, and a wine-forward format that gives food and bottles equal billing.
The Sunday letter
Read Made By's new profiles every Sunday.
Meet the chefs, winemakers and sommeliers behind the places we cover. See a sample below before you subscribe.
See a sample of the Sunday emailOne email a week. Unsubscribe from any issue.
The Route
The chef’s role is defined by continuity of practice: he leads a Madrid kitchen where the craft is rooted in national tradition, handled with contemporary restraint rather than trend-led revision.
The Work Today
The Head Chef position places Pedro Garcia inside a format where the dining room is both culinary and vinous. Food and bottle selection carry equal weight, so the kitchen’s work has to hold its line beside the wine program rather than sit underneath it. Traditional Spanish cooking is the stated specialty. Its value here is in command of foundations: familiar structures, clear flavors, and enough restraint to keep the cuisine legible. Vegetables of many colors give the menu its center of gravity, with him noted for that love of produce. The result is a cuisine viewed through vegetables, restraint, and confidence in established forms.
Career - Chef — Restaurante Vinoteca García de la Navarra, Madrid, Spain
Signature
Signature dishes include Borraja Navarra.
Recognition
Recognition from Opinionated About Dining places Restaurante Vinoteca García de la Navarra on the Casual Europe list at #654 in 2025 and #683 in 2024, with Pedro Garcia’s honors attached to that ranking.
FAQ What does Pedro Garcia currently do? Pedro Garcia is chef at Restaurante Vinoteca García de la Navarra — Traditional Spanish. What recognition has Pedro Garcia received? Opinionated About Dining Casual Europe list, ranked #654 for Restaurante Vinoteca García de la Navarra (2025). What is Pedro Garcia known for? Traditional Spanish cooking.
The Sunday letter
Get the next Made By profile in your inbox.
We send one email every Sunday morning with the people we profiled that week.
See a sample of the Sunday emailOne email a week. Unsubscribe from any issue.