Vegan Restaurants in Madrid
Vegan Restaurants in Madrid: the Vegetalia Line at El Invernadero
Vegetalia, our vegetable line, is served 100 % vegan when you request it at booking: 158 € per diner, 218 € as Vegetalia Experience.
A Fully Vegan Vegetalia, Requested at the Moment You Book
- 01Vegetalia served 100 % vegan when the request reaches us at booking: 158 € per diner
- 02Vegetalia Experience, the longer vegetable sequence, at 218 € per diner
- 03One MICHELIN Star since 2011 in a kitchen where the vegetable leads the plate
- 04Dinner in two sittings, 19:00 and 21:30, Tuesday to Saturday and public holidays; lunch on Saturdays and public holidays at 14:00
- 05Mixed tables work without friction: vegan guests take Vegetalia, omnivorous guests take Gastrobotánica
One MICHELIN Star since 2011, the MICHELIN Green Star and 2 Repsol Suns. World's Best Vegetable Restaurant since 2024. Rodrigo de la Calle, chef and owner, is the creator of gastrobotánica and the author of everything served. Calle de Ponzano 85, 28003 Madrid (Chamberí). Reservations on +34 628 93 93 67 or reservas@elinvernaderorestaurante.com.
The Vegetalia Line, in Figures and Conditions
- VegetalVegetalia — 158 € per diner
- Our vegetable tasting menu. It is served 100 % vegan, or vegetarian, when the request is made at the moment of booking.
- VegetalVegetalia Experience — 218 € per diner
- The longer vegetable sequence, with the same condition: the vegan service is prepared in advance, on request at booking.
- OmnivoreGastrobotánica — omnivorous, not adaptable
- The other line of the house includes meat, fish and shellfish, and it cannot be turned into a vegan or vegetarian version. A vegan guest should book Vegetalia.
- ESP. 04Service times
- Dinner Tuesday to Saturday and public holidays, in two sittings at 19:00 and 21:30. Lunch on Saturdays and public holidays at 14:00 only.
How Guests Usually Plan a Vegan Dinner Here
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One evening in Madrid
Travellers with a single free night tend to take the 19:00 sitting, which leaves the rest of the evening open. The vegan request goes in with the booking, so nothing has to be negotiated on arrival.
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A table with mixed diets
Vegan guests take Vegetalia while the rest of the table takes Gastrobotánica. Both menus are served at the same rhythm, so the table eats together from start to finish.
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Saturday lunch
The only daytime service under our name is at 14:00 on Saturdays and public holidays. It suits guests who prefer natural light and an unhurried afternoon afterwards.
«Vegetarian cooking of the very highest level. Animal protein takes a back seat (or disappears) and it gives you the chance to try new and unique flavours. What they do with produce from the garden, with superfoods and even with their pairings is very interesting.»
«All the food delicious, the tasting menu practically 100 % plant-based, quite generous, very attentive service, and a good wine list.»
Frequently asked questions about vegan dining in Madrid
Is El Invernadero a vegan restaurant?
It is a MICHELIN-starred plant-based fine dining house, which is not quite the same thing. The Vegetalia line is vegetable cooking and is served 100 % vegan on request, while the Gastrobotánica line is omnivorous, with meat, fish and shellfish.
How much does a vegan dinner cost?
Vegetalia is 158 € per diner and Vegetalia Experience is 218 € per diner. Both prices are per diner, and both menus can be served fully vegan.
Do I have to say I am vegan in advance?
Yes. The vegan or vegetarian version of Vegetalia is prepared only when the request is made at the moment of booking. Once you are seated the menu is already built, so a late request cannot be honoured.
Can the Gastrobotánica menu be made vegan?
No. Gastrobotánica is conceived as an omnivorous menu and it does not adapt. If everyone at your table eats plant-based, book Vegetalia or Vegetalia Experience.
Where exactly are you, and can I eat here on a weekday lunchtime?
We are at Calle de Ponzano 85, 28003 Madrid, in the Chamberí district north of the city centre. Under the name El Invernadero we serve dinner Tuesday to Saturday and public holidays at 19:00 and 21:30, plus lunch at 14:00 on Saturdays and public holidays. There is no weekday lunch service.
The vegan question has a precise answer in this house, and its name is Vegetalia. It is our vegetable line, at 158 € per diner, with a longer version, Vegetalia Experience, at 218 € per diner. Both are tasting menus, and both can be served entirely free of animal products when the request reaches us at the moment of booking. The timing is the whole point: a vegetable dish that has to give up its dairy or its egg is rebuilt from the base, and the kitchen needs that information before the day of service, not at the table.
Rodrigo de la Calle is the creator of gastrobotánica and the author of everything served here, and that authorship explains why a fully vegan dinner does not read as a menu with pieces removed. Vegetable cooking at this level rests on fermentation and on the slow ageing of vegetables to concentrate their sugars, with savoury depth drawn from vegetable sources rather than animal stocks. The vegetable is the centre of the plate from the first idea, not a substitution arranged afterwards.
One clarification prevents more disappointment than any description of a dish. The house runs two lines with opposite premises. Vegetalia is vegetable cooking and is served 100 % vegan or vegetarian on request. Gastrobotánica is an omnivorous menu, with meat, fish and shellfish, and it does not adapt under any circumstance. A vegan guest who books Gastrobotánica cannot be moved to a vegetable version once seated, so the choice between the two lines belongs to the booking, not to the evening itself. For a table with mixed diets this is good news: each diner chooses their own line and the service runs at the same pace for everyone.
The practical frame is short. Only tasting menus are served, so the decision you make in advance is which menu and how long a sequence you want. Dinner runs Tuesday to Saturday and on public holidays, in two sittings at 19:00 and 21:30; lunch happens on Saturdays and public holidays at 14:00. Weekday lunches are not part of El Invernadero's service. We are at Calle de Ponzano 85, in Chamberí, a residential district north of the city centre whose main street, Ponzano, is one of the streets Madrid is known for eating in. Visitors arriving with a tight itinerary usually take the 19:00 sitting; those who prefer a long evening take 21:30. Either way, tell us about the vegan requirement while you are booking and the menu will be built around it.
Vegan restaurants in Madrid: where the Vegetalia line fits
Our vegetable line, Vegetalia, is served 100 % vegan when the request is made at the moment of booking.
Vegetalia, 158 € per diner, as a full vegan tasting sequence
Vegetalia is our vegetable cooking, built by Rodrigo de la Calle as an autonomous cuisine rather than as a reduced version of something else. Served in its vegan form, nothing is removed and nothing is replaced by an apology: the sequence is conceived from the plant, so the dishes hold their structure without dairy, egg or honey. For a vegan traveller who is used to arriving at a restaurant and negotiating substitutions with a waiter, that changes the evening entirely. You are not asking the kitchen to work around you; the kitchen was already working in that direction. The price is 158 € per diner, and the vegan option must be indicated when you reserve, not once you are seated.
Vegetalia Experience, 218 € per diner, for a longer vegetable sequence
Vegetalia Experience is the extended version of the same line, at 218 € per diner, and it follows the same rule: it is served 100 % vegan if you say so at booking. It suits the diner who has travelled to Madrid specifically for this table and wants the fullest reading of what vegetables can do at this level, rather than a shorter introduction. Both formats belong to the same culinary language, so the decision is one of length and depth, not of ambition.
One warning worth reading before you reserve
We keep two lines in the house, and only one of them is vegetable. Gastrobotánica is our omnivorous menu, with meat, fish and shellfish, and it cannot be adapted to a vegan or vegetarian version under any circumstances. If you book that line expecting plant-based cooking, there is no way to correct it at the table. The vegan diner should reserve Vegetalia or Vegetalia Experience and state the vegan option in the reservation itself. We also work without an à la carte offer: the house serves tasting menus only, which is precisely why the choice you make when reserving carries so much weight.
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Plant-based haute cuisine with a MICHELIN Star: a very narrow niche
The reason this page exists is simple: a vegan diner searching for starred cooking finds very few doors open anywhere in the world.
Why starred vegetable cooking is so hard to find
High gastronomy has historically been organised around animal stocks and animal fats, so a vegan guest at that level usually receives an improvised plate while the rest of the table receives the menu the kitchen actually believes in. We hold One MICHELIN Star, awarded in 2011, for a house whose core discipline is vegetable cuisine, and we were also distinguished as the World's Best Vegetable Restaurant in 2024. The house additionally holds the MICHELIN Green Star, the sustainability distinction, which we explain in full on our About Us page. What matters here is the practical consequence for you: the vegan sequence is not a courtesy version of the evening. It is the evening.
Gastrobotánica, the discipline behind the vegetable menus
Rodrigo de la Calle is the creator of gastrobotánica and the author of everything served in this house. That authorship explains why the plant-based line has a technical identity rather than a dietary label attached to it: the vegetable is treated as the main product, with its own ripening, its own textures and its own intensity, and the menu is written from there. Understanding this also helps you set expectations before you sit down. If you are looking for imitations of meat, this is not that kind of table; if you want to see how far a vegetable can be pushed by a kitchen that has spent fifteen years on the question, it is.
Where to eat vegan in Madrid on a Michelin-starred evening
Our service structure is deliberately narrow, and it is worth knowing before you plan the day.
Dinner in two sittings, 19:00 and 21:30
Dinner is served from Tuesday to Saturday and on public holidays, in two sittings: 19:00 and 21:30. The early sitting works well for visitors who have spent the day walking the city and prefer an unhurried meal; the later one sits closer to Madrid's own dining rhythm, which surprises many travellers used to eating earlier at home. There is also a lunch service on Saturdays and public holidays at 14:00. El Invernadero does not serve weekday lunches; the booking page has the full timetable. The complete timetable and the reservation process are set out on our booking page.
Planning a vegan dinner into a trip to Madrid
Travellers building an itinerary usually face the same problem: the starred tables go into the calendar first, and the vegan question is left to be sorted out later, when the seat is already confirmed and the kitchen has little room to manoeuvre. Here the sequence is reversed. Choose the vegetable line, state the vegan option when you reserve, and the menu is planned that way from the start. We are in Calle de Ponzano 85, in the Chamberí district north of the city centre, on a street Madrid knows as one of its main eating axes. Reservations are handled through CoverManager from this site, with the sitting time chosen at the moment of booking.
What we do not do, said plainly
We are a restaurant and only a restaurant: no private events, no catering and no delivery. There is no à la carte offer either, so every guest at the table is following one of the tasting menus. Groups planning a visit should know that the vegan indication applies per diner, so a mixed table can combine the vegetable line with the omnivorous one, provided each guest is registered correctly in the reservation. Our vegetarian page covers the vegetarian variant of Vegetalia in more detail, and the full list of menus with their prices per diner lives on its own page.
