Starting to watch what you eat doesn’t have to mean taking your tupperware with you if you’re not at home, there are already enough healthy restaurants in Madrid to relax about it.
Counting calories is out of fashion – it’s about time – but that doesn’t mean that for many other reasons we don’t pay attention to what we eat. Salads are also outdated as the only healthy option, and that’s where the restaurants on this list bring freshness. The range of recipes, new ingredients and dishes has opened up, and the healthy now has many approaches, from comfort food to vegan options, to desserts with plenty of chocolate.
1. Mafrens
At Mafrens you can have breakfast, lunch and snacks without restrictions. Its menu has been designed by nutritionists and, on this safe basis, you can choose the ingredients of the Mafrens Kitchen, a combined dish with all the macronutrients.
This healthy food restaurant in the neighborhood of La Latina also proposes to combine your food and drink with the experience of creating. Every so often they announce on their Instagram account the dates for their plate painting workshops, PintArte. A great plan to share with a group.
📍 Plaza de Cascorro, 11 (Latina)
2. Zest
At Zest they put a twist on classic dishes to make everything healthier. Patatas bravas, ham croquettes, pasta and pizza are the stars of their menu, but with a healtytwist. By avoiding fried foods and refined flours, they can turn bomb dishes into light recipes. Their desserts are no slouches either, there are donuts and cakes, although none of them have sugar.
fernando el Santo Street, 4 (Chamberí) and Recoletos Street, 10 (Salamanca district)
3. BumpGreen
At Bump Green they are committed to slow cuisine , in which the origin of the product and, of course, its preparation are taken care of. The chefs in charge of the kitchen are David Ariza and Jordi Bresó. The former is an expert in cooking with wild plants, rice and fish; while Bersó is an expert pastry chef or trainer and gastronomic disseminator, a specialist in Foodpairing – in which ingredients are chosen according to how they combine with each other.
Although its menu is vegetarian on Mondays, the rest of the week follows a balance in which meat is present, but it is not the main protagonist.
💶 Average price: 30€
📍 Calle Velázquez, 11 (Salamanca neighborhood)
4. Flax & Kale
The name may sound more familiar to you from their popular kombucha, but they also have a restaurant in Chamberí. His maxim is that all dishes are designed with not only gastronomic pleasure in mind, but also their nutritional value. Eighty percent of the menu is made with vegetable ingredients and the remaining 20% are recipes that include oily fish.
The culmination of their healthy dishes is an option they call Flexy Meals, which are customizable monthly menus, validated by their nutritionists, perfect for when you’ve run out of ideas.
💶 Average price: 25€
📍 Calle de Trafalgar, 1 (Chamberí)
5. Naked & Sated
Naked & Sated is one of the restaurants that soccer players have Ibai Gómez and Marco Asensio with businessman Marino Cid. The recipes of this healthy food restaurant are signed by Roberto Bosquet, executive chef and star on Instragram with more than 1 million followers.
Gluten has no place in its menu this is great news for celiacs, but it’s not the only thing, you won’t find added sugars or refined flours either. None of this prevents pizzas from being on the menu -with a quinoa base, of course- and the star of the menu is its berlin-shaped dessert: the Donakeds.
💶 Average price: 20€
📍 Calle de Serrano, 110 (Salamanca district); calle del Maestro Victoria, 5 (downtown) and calle de Estébanez Calderón, 3 – 5 (Tetuán)
6. Arce Sisters
The Arce Sisters, Elena and Ana, have achieved a balance between cafeteria and restaurant that is difficult to find. A Nordic touch, French spirit and Mediterráneo cuisine where everything is made on site, from bread to cakes.
One fact that reflects this very well is that it does not have a microwave. Although their breakfasts are well known for their homemade pastries -their cookies are the sugary treat you need to indulge in-, meals are their strong point, so much so that they don’t serve dinner: they close at 5.30pm.
between 20 and 25€💶 Between 20 and 25€ 💶 Between 20 and 25€
📍 Calle Marqués de Monasterio, 6 (Salesas)
7. Run Run Run Run
Run Run Run is one of the most attractive health food restaurants in Madrid. Its décor will make even the most reticent ones wonder whether to upload a photo to social networks, but its menu with organic, local and seasonal products is not far behind in praise. Chef Taut Repsy’s preparations are low-temperature and long cooking, following clean eatingrecommendations.
As a curious fact, and pointing to the premises of its name, they have a running group that trains in Santander Park, near the restaurant, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm.
average price: between 15 and 20€
📍 Plaza de Juan Zorrilla, 1 (Ríos Rosas)
8. Roots Lamarca
Roots Lamarca is attached to the multi-brand retailer with a focus on sports and beauty apparel, and surrounder of Siclo and Tracy Anderson, two gyms for women. I mean, wellness soaks into the concept and the food they serve here, and of course it’s almost always crowded with people in sportswear. Recently, it has also opened another location in the Salamanca neighborhood.
Mainly, they sell bowls of ingredients to choose from or already thought out, and that you can also buy to go in glass jars. One of the curiosities is that they make glasses that you can eat. Nothing more environmentally friendly.
💶 Average price: 20€
fernando VI Street, 10-21 (Salesas) and Ayala Street, 44 (Salamanca neighborhood).
9. Mama Campo
Mama Campo’s claim is: “from traditional to healthy” and they are consistent with it. Located in the Plaza de Olavide and with a wonderful terrace, the menu of this restaurant includes roasted leeks with cecina crumbs as well as a quinoa salad (with or without salmon).
Their catering can arrange a party for you at any time. They also rent their spaces, in case you don’t want to stain your house either.
💶 Average price: 25€
📍 Calle de Trafalgar, 22 (Chamberí)