The Railway Museum will host the first edition of this major culinary festival on 23 and 24 May 2026, which makes haute cuisine accessible to all. This event will bring together chefs from restaurants boasting Michelin Stars and Repsol Suns, who will adapt their most iconic dishes to a street food format in a creative and surprising way.
Madrid Food Fest offers visitors an experience that goes beyond cuisine. It is a space where gastronomy goes hand in hand with culture, music and innovation. During the festival, there will be a market with artisan producers, offering a careful selection of signature cheeses, wines from Madrid, kombucha tea start-ups, protein chocolates or zero-waste products, among others. The experience is rounded off with showcooking, live music, live podcasts and interactive workshops that invite gastronomy to be discovered in a participative way.
Chefs taking part in this first edition include Rafa Bergamo (Kuoco), Miguel Carretero (Santerra), Coco Montes (Pabú), Edwin Rodríguez (Quimbaya) and Jhosef Arias (Hasaku), Madrid’s ambassador of Peruvian cuisine). There will also be market stalls, such as Tripea (Rober Martínez), Insurgente (Genaro Celia & Agus Mikielievch), Gustoo (Jorge Cal & Aldo Sebastianelli).
Furthermore, the Guadarrama Sierra will be represented by Montia (Dani Ochoa), the cuisine of Ancestral (Victor Infantes & Saúl González), Chispa Bistró (Juan D'Onofrio) and Marmitón (Pablo Sánchez & Lalo Zarcero), as well as cuisine from further afield, such as El Llar de Viri with Elvira Fernández (Asturias), Epílogo with Rubén Sánchez Camacho and Retama with M. Ángel Expósito from Ciudad Real, among others.
In this way, Madrid Food Fest aspires to become one of the major gastronomic events in spring, as an event designed to savour some of Spain’s Michelin Star and Repsol Sun restaurants under the same roof and on the same weekend.
The full list of participating chefs brings together a total of 10 Michelin Stars, 1 Green Star and 12 Repsol Suns, as well as other awards:
- Coco Montes (Pabú)
- Jhosef Arias (Humo/Hasaku/Piscomar)
- Lucía Grávalos (Desborre)
- Miguel Carretero (Cocina Vanguardia)
- Miguel Ángel Expósito (Retama)
- Pablo Sánchez and Lalo Zarcero (Marmitón)
- Xandra Luque (Univ. Clinic of Navarra)
- Víctor Infantes (Ancestral)
- Irene Amat (Itama)
- Elvira Fernández (El Llar de Viri)
- Edwin Rodríguez (Quimbaya)
- Rafa Bérgamo (Kuoco/Krudo)
- Juan D'Onofrio (Chispa Bistró)
- Dani Ochoa (Montia)
- Javier Estévez (La Tasquería)
In addition to the impressive line-up of chefs, Madrid Food Fest offers an experience that goes far beyond the dishes. There will be a full programme of activities throughout the weekend to experience gastronomy with the five senses: showcookings and outreach sessions; Farmers’ Market; Culture and Podcasts featuring live recordings of shows like Disruptiva (with Tania de Anta); and live music, DJs, interactive workshops and special tastings.
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