Tasting Menu Madrid
Tasting Menus in Madrid, Priced per Diner
Four tasting menus, all priced per diner: Vegetalia 158 €, Gastrobotánica 168 €, and their Experience versions at 218 € and 228 €. Set menus only.
The four tasting menus, menu by menu
- 01Four menus with a closed price per diner: 158 €, 168 €, 218 € and 228 €
- 02Vegetalia is the vegetable line and can be served 100 % vegan or vegetarian when requested at the time of booking
- 03Gastrobotánica is the omnivorous line and is never adapted, so no one sits down to the wrong menu
- 04One format in the house: tasting menus, with no carta and no individual plates
- 05Every menu is written by Rodrigo de la Calle, creator of gastrobotánica and author of everything served
Both lines are signed by Rodrigo de la Calle, who created gastrobotánica and is the author of everything that leaves the kitchen. The house holds 1 MICHELIN Star, 1 MICHELIN Green Star and 2 Repsol Suns, and has been World's Best Vegetable Restaurant since 2024. Calle de Ponzano 85, 28003 Madrid (Chamberí). Phone +34 628 93 93 67.
What the guides say
Fifteen years of recognition
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2011
1 Estrella MICHELIN MICHELIN Guide -
2016
2 Soles Repsol Guide -
2020
Estrella Verde Sustainable cooking · MICHELIN Guide -
2024
Mejor restaurante de vegetales Nº 1 del mundo · We're Smart World
Three independent guides, the same verdict
The four menus and their prices
- VegetalVegetalia — 158 € per diner
- The vegetable line of the house. It can be served 100 % vegan or 100 % vegetarian when the request is made at the time of booking.
- VegetalVegetalia Experience — 218 € per diner
- The Experience version of the vegetable line, at 218 € per diner. It follows the same dietary rule: the vegan or vegetarian version is only possible if it is asked for with the reservation.
- OmnivoreGastrobotánica — 168 € per diner
- The omnivorous line, with meat, fish and shellfish on the menu. It is not adapted to vegan or vegetarian versions.
- OmnivoreGastrobotánica Experience — 228 € per diner
- The Experience version of the omnivorous line, at 228 € per diner. Like the base menu, it is served as written and admits no dietary adaptation.
Why the house works this way
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Set menus, no carta
The dining room serves tasting menus and nothing else. Guests choose a line and a price, not a list of plates.
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Two lines with opposite premises
Vegetalia is vegetable cuisine that can be made fully vegan or vegetarian on request when booking. Gastrobotánica is omnivorous and fixed. Knowing which is which before you reserve avoids the only real mistake a guest can make here.
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One author behind every plate
Rodrigo de la Calle created gastrobotánica as a discipline and writes everything that is served. The menus are not compiled from a trend; they come from a body of work that carries his name.
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A price you can plan around
All four menus are quoted per diner, between 158 € and 228 €. Travellers building an itinerary around a single dinner in Madrid know the figure for the menu before they reserve.
Frequently asked questions about our tasting menus
How much does a tasting menu cost?
Vegetalia is 158 € per diner and Vegetalia Experience 218 € per diner. Gastrobotánica is 168 € per diner and Gastrobotánica Experience 228 € per diner. All four prices are per person.
Can I order individual dishes instead of a full menu?
No. The house has no carta: the kitchen serves tasting menus only, in the four versions listed above. Each guest chooses one of them.
Can the Gastrobotánica menu be served vegan or vegetarian?
No. Gastrobotánica is the omnivorous line, with meat, fish and shellfish, and it is not adapted under any circumstances. The menu that can be served 100 % vegan or vegetarian is Vegetalia.
How do I request the vegan or vegetarian version of Vegetalia?
It has to be asked for at the time of booking, not on arrival. Say so when you reserve your table and the kitchen prepares the menu accordingly.
Where are these tasting menus served?
At Calle de Ponzano 85, 28003 Madrid, in the Chamberí district, in our own dining room. The menus are served there only: we do not do private events, catering or delivery. For any question about them, call +34 628 93 93 67.
There is no carta here. The kitchen works with tasting menus only, and the whole offer fits into four names: Vegetalia, Vegetalia Experience, Gastrobotánica and Gastrobotánica Experience. Every price is quoted per diner, so what you read is what each person pays for the menu itself. The two lines are not two lengths of the same idea: they follow different philosophies, and choosing between them is the one decision worth making before you sit down at Ponzano 85, in the Madrid district of Chamberí.
Vegetalia is the vegetable line, at 158 € per diner, with Vegetalia Experience at 218 € per diner. This is where the plant world carries the menu from the first plate to the last, and it is the line that admits a dietary version: it can be served 100 % vegan or 100 % vegetarian when that is requested at the time of booking, not once the service has started. Guests travelling to Madrid on a strict plant-based diet should read that sentence twice, because it is the route the house offers and the request has to arrive with the reservation.
Gastrobotánica, at 168 € per diner, and Gastrobotánica Experience, at 228 € per diner, form the omnivorous line: meat, fish and shellfish appear alongside the vegetable work that gives the house its name. This line is not adapted under any circumstances. If someone at your table eats no animal produce, the menu to ask about is Vegetalia; there is no vegan version of Gastrobotánica and none can be improvised in the dining room. We would rather say that clearly on a web page than explain it to a guest who has already travelled to Madrid for the evening.
Gastrobotánica is also the name of the discipline Rodrigo de la Calle created, and he is the author of everything served in the dining room, both lines included. That authorship is why the format stays closed. A tasting menu is written as a sequence, with each plate placed where it is for a reason, and it loses its argument the moment plates are swapped in and out at will. Guests used to choosing dish by dish sometimes read this as a restriction; in practice it is what allows the kitchen to hold a single line of thought across a whole dinner. For visitors planning a trip around one dinner in Madrid, the practical part is short: decide the line, then state any dietary requirement when the table is reserved.
Tasting Menus in Madrid: Four Set Menus, All Priced per Diner
El Invernadero de Rodrigo de la Calle serves four tasting menus and nothing else. Two vegetable lines, two omnivore lines, each with a longer Experience version.
Vegetalia, 158 € per diner, and Vegetalia Experience, 218 € per diner
Vegetalia is the vegetable line of the house: cooking built around plants as the centre of the plate, not as a garnish or a substitution exercise. It is served fully vegan or vegetarian when you ask for it at the moment of booking, which is the one detail worth getting right before you arrive. Vegetalia Experience follows the same idea at greater length, at 218 € per diner. If you are travelling to Madrid with a vegetarian or vegan diner in your party and you are tired of being offered a single plate of grilled vegetables in an otherwise excellent dining room, this is the line that solves that problem.
Gastrobotánica, 168 € per diner, and Gastrobotánica Experience, 228 € per diner
Gastrobotánica is the omnivore line, and it includes meat, fish and shellfish. It does not come in a vegan or vegetarian version under any circumstance, and that limit is worth stating plainly rather than discovering at the table. Gastrobotánica Experience extends the same menu at 228 € per diner. The name is not decorative: gastrobotánica is the discipline Rodrigo de la Calle created, and he is the author of everything served in this house.
What the two lines mean when you are choosing for a table of four
Most groups arrive with mixed diets, and the honest answer is that the two lines are not interchangeable. A table can combine both, with each diner on the menu that suits them, but a diner on Gastrobotánica will be served meat, fish and shellfish, and a diner who needs a fully plant-based meal belongs on Vegetalia with the request made at the time of booking. Prices are always per diner, so a mixed table simply pays for each menu chosen.
Seguir leyendoWhy There Is No À la Carte Option Here · Tasting Menus at a Michelin-Starred Kitchen on Ponzano
Why There Is No À la Carte Option Here
The house rule is straightforward and it shapes everything else.
Set menus only, with no separate dishes list
El Invernadero works exclusively with tasting menus. There is no separate list of dishes to order from, and no possibility of assembling a meal plate by plate. That is a deliberate decision about how the kitchen builds a sequence: the order of the courses, the progression of intensity and the point at which a dish makes sense are part of the composition. Choosing a menu is choosing the whole arc.
What that changes for a visitor planning an evening in Madrid
If you are used to scanning a menu at the table and deciding then, the decision here happens earlier. You pick your line and its length when you book, and you tell the house at that moment about any dietary requirement on the Vegetalia side. Diners who need a fully vegan or vegetarian meal cannot resolve it once seated, which is why the request belongs in the reservation. The Book a Table page sets out the booking mechanism and the service times in full.
Length, price and what separates a menu from its Experience version
Each line exists in two lengths. Vegetalia at 158 € per diner and Gastrobotánica at 168 € per diner are the standard sequences; Vegetalia Experience at 218 € per diner and Gastrobotánica Experience at 228 € per diner are the extended ones. The choice is one of duration and depth rather than of category, so a diner who wants the longest possible version of the vegetable cooking takes Vegetalia Experience, and a diner who wants the same from the omnivore line takes Gastrobotánica Experience.
Tasting Menus at a Michelin-Starred Kitchen on Ponzano
The context around these four menus is part of what you are booking.
A vegetable kitchen with a star, on Calle de Ponzano in Chamberí
The restaurant sits at Calle de Ponzano 85, in Chamberí, one of the residential districts of central Madrid, on a street known locally as a dining axis. The house holds 1 MICHELIN Star and has been named World's Best Vegetable Restaurant since 2024. Those distinctions matter here because plant-based cooking at this level is a very narrow field, and the menus above are its working expression rather than a marketing position.
Booking a tasting menu from abroad
Visitors travelling to Madrid usually plan a fine dining evening weeks ahead and want the practical questions answered before they commit: which menu, at what price per diner, and whether a dietary requirement can be accommodated. All four prices are per diner and stated in full above, and the dietary answer is Vegetalia, requested when you book. For anything about service times, dates or the reservation itself, the booking page carries the detail. Written enquiries go to reservas@elinvernaderorestaurante.com, and the telephone is +34 628 93 93 67.
