DiverXO
Dabiz Muñoz sends out about twenty courses across four hours, and the drunken Sichuan prawn arrives in palo cortado with blue-crab yangnyeom and hot Joselito mayonnaise.2 It is the only three-star room in Madrid, and the menu is called The Kitchen of the Flying Pigs.1
Why go
Muñoz opened DiverXO in 2007, in a small room on Francisco Medrano, a side street in Tetuán. He had spent the years before that cooking at Hakkasan, Nobu, Nahm and Locanda Locatelli in London.34 The chef who told Madrid he was coming was Abraham García of Viridiana, where the Muñoz family used to eat when he was a boy.4 The third star landed in 2013 and gave the city a three-star room for the first time in twenty years.6 Muñoz told his father he would own a restaurant people queued around the block for, and his father said sure, and pigs might fly.4 The kitchen builds each menu as lienzos, canvases, and the plate is white ceramic so the food reads as paint.6
Order this / avoid
- There is one menu and you take it. It ran to nearly twenty courses over about four hours when Alberto Luchini ate it in May 2026. Some arrive with a printed sheet explaining what you are looking at.2
- Metáfora de Getaria, baby squid cooked Pelayo-style with piparras and sea bream.2
- The steamed Peking crepe, which rebuilds lacquered duck out of the offal.2
- Metamorfosis, the alcohol-free pairing of stocks, infusions and ferments, which the guide calls radical in concept and which costs what the food costs.1
- Avoid planning the meal. The menu is redrawn several times a year and the kitchen decides.
What locals & experts say
- Alberto Luchini, in 7 Caníbales in May 2026, on nineteen years of watching it: "el de 2026 es el mejor DiverXo de nunca." The 2026 DiverXO is the best there has ever been. On what changed: "el viaje por las gastronomías del mundo que propone ya no es a bordo de una montaña rusa, sino de un elegante crucero de gran lujo." The tour of the world's cooking is no longer a roller coaster, it is a luxury cruise.2
- The MICHELIN inspector, holding three stars in the 2026 Spanish selection:
The hedonistic cuisine of Dabiz Muñoz is fun and irreverent in many details, and breaks the barriers of the gastronomic avant-garde to enter a highly personal dreamlike plane, inviting the diner to live a roller coaster of emotions.
1 - The World's 50 Best Restaurants put it fourth in the world in 2025, and The Best Chef Awards named Muñoz the best chef in the world in 2021, 2022 and 2023.43
- Time Out Madrid, in its February 2025 list of the city's best:
This 'punk' restaurant with three Michelin stars redefined the standards of luxury and fine dining in Madrid, and it remains the most disruptive force on the city's gastronomic scene.
5 - Muñoz himself, on his own cooking:
complete, honest, and without distractions. A kind of Cirque du Soleil performance.
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Good to know
- The room has a lease and an end date. The planned move to La Finca collapsed in June 2024. Muñoz and Minor Hotels extended the lease in February 2025, to the end of 2027.3
- He has not decided whether there is another one after this. Asked about it by Gastroeconomy in February 2025, he said "todavía no tenemos una respuesta." We still do not have an answer.3
- The cost, as Luchini read it in May 2026: 450 euros for the food, and pairings at 300, 600 or 900. Metamorfosis costs the same as the menu.2
- Tomás Ucha runs the cellar and Marta Campillo runs the floor.2
- The door is inside a hotel. Padre Damián 23, at ground level in the NH Collection Madrid Eurobuilding, up by Cuzco.6
- Hygiene: I have not read a Spanish inspection record for this room, so I have nothing to report either way.
Jeff's take (his words)
- Note: "One of THE best restaurants in the world; three michelin stars."
Verdict
must-visit — The menu runs to about twenty courses over four hours and costs 450 euros, and there is no short version. Book it well ahead and give the evening to it. The alcohol-free pairing, Metamorfosis, costs as much again. Muñoz told Gastroeconomy in 2025 that he does not know whether this room has a successor.