Rafa

About Rafa

Rafa is one of Madrid’s benchmark seafood restaurants, on Calle de Narváez, next to Plaza de Dalí and Ibiza metro, with a Repsol Sun from 2018 to 2025. Its story begins in 1958, when the first generation of the Andrés family opened a small wine bar with the great classic wines of the day, the seed of one of the city’s most acclaimed bars. Six decades later, with the second generation at the helm, it is a temple of shellfish and a meeting point for figures from politics, business and the arts, with twenty tables, devoted floor service and produce chosen daily at the country’s best fish markets. Its philosophy is respect for seafood, “we are mere intermediaries for its finest specimens”, and for closed seasons, with produce from the land in season: Santa Pola white prawns, Garrucha red prawns, spider crab, fine clams, Cantabrian lobster salpicón, open carabinero omelette, hake cheeks in salsa verde, Madrid-style sole fillets or veal trotters and snout. It has a bar, private rooms and valet parking.

Rafa menu
No published prices; shellfish depends on the season and available quality.

Shellfish: Santa Pola white prawns, prawns, spider crab, Garrucha red prawns, oysters, fine clams and shrimp.
Starters: Joselito ham, Iberian loin, Cantabrian lobster salpicón, prawn and carabinero salpicón, Russian salad with tuna belly, garlic clams, grilled octopus, open carabinero omelette with young garlic.
Fish: wild turbot, roast sea bass, Madrid-style sole fillets, baked hake with potatoes, cod pil pil, hake cheeks in salsa verde, sea bass and bluefin tuna tartares.
Meat: Madrid-style veal trotters and snout, beef tenderloin, garlic free-range chicken, milk-fed lamb chops, old-style meatballs, steak tartare, stuffed lamb trotters.
Desserts: rice pudding, Manchego cheesecake, tocino de cielo, apple tart…

Opening hours
Tuesday to Saturday, 1:30 pm to 4 pm and 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm. Sunday, lunch only. Mondays (except public holidays), closed. Booking ahead is recommended.

Before you go
Valet parking. Wheelchair accessible.
Metro: Ibiza (L9) and Príncipe de Vergara (L2, L9).

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