Nobu Hotel Madrid Opens First Nobu Restaurant in Spain

Nobu Hotel Madrid will open its doors on 1 September 2026, bringing Chef Nobu Matsuhisa's Japanese Peruvian cooking to the Spanish capital for the very first time. The restaurant sits at the centre of the hotel's food and beverage programme, occupying the upper level of a three storey dining space that has been designed to feel like a destination in itself rather than a hotel amenity. Full details on the property are available on the official Nobu Hotels website.

Inside, bronze toned ceilings meet dark stone flooring and timber panelling, while floor to ceiling windows let Madrid's evening light spill across the room. An open kitchen sits at the heart of the space, giving diners a direct view of the culinary team at work, and an eight seat sushi bar adds a more intimate counter for those who want to watch each dish take shape up close.

The Nobu Restaurant Madrid Menu

The Nobu Restaurant Madrid menu leans on dishes the brand has built its reputation on for decades, Black Cod Miso, Yellowtail Jalapeño and Rock Shrimp Tempura among them. What makes this opening distinct is how those signatures sit alongside ingredients pulled directly from Spanish waters and coastlines, including Canarian sea bass and Mediterranean tuna, a pairing that grounds the restaurant firmly in its new setting rather than simply exporting a formula.

The wine list follows the same instinct, mixing Spanish producers with established international labels and smaller, lesser known discoveries. It is a menu built to feel local without losing the identity that has carried Nobu's name across dozens of cities worldwide.

Nobu Hotel Madrid Opening and Its Wider Spaces

The Nobu Hotel Madrid opening extends well beyond the main restaurant. On the lower ground floor, a cocktail bar named 26 makes deliberate use of the building's past life as a bank, incorporating original vault walls and safety deposit boxes into its design. A high fidelity vinyl DJ system anchors the room's sound, with live sessions running from Wednesday through Saturday, and the drinks menu focuses on martini style cocktails served alongside dishes like Nobu Style Gildas and Blue Cheese Croquetas with Toro.

Seven floors up, The Rooftop at Nobu opens onto panoramic views across the city. Its food and drink offer draws on Mediterranean influences, with aperitivo style cocktails including spritzes and highballs, and a sharing menu built around dishes such as Sea Bass and Coconut Ceviche, Quisquilla Shrimp with Shiso Salsa, and a Salmon Bikini finished with caviar. The rooftop is set to run from 5pm until 11pm daily, with live DJs joining the lineup later in the week.

At ground level, the Lobby Lounge takes on a quieter role, open from 8am until 11pm and built around speciality coffee developed in partnership with local roasters. The food menu here stays lighter, offering light lunches alongside Nobu's own take on a club sandwich, a small but telling detail of how the brand adapts its signature style even to the most casual corner of the hotel.

Nobu Hotel Madrid Spain and the Brand's Growing Footprint

Nobu Hotel Madrid Spain now joins a portfolio that already includes properties in Barcelona, Ibiza Bay, Marbella and San Sebastián, making the capital the latest and arguably most symbolic addition to Nobu Hospitality's presence in the country. Madrid has long lacked a dedicated Nobu restaurant despite the brand's strength elsewhere in Spain, and this opening closes that gap directly in the heart of the city.

The hotel itself is modest in scale, fifty guestrooms and suites, alongside private fitness facilities and event spaces, which places the emphasis firmly on the dining and social venues rather than room count. It is a structure increasingly common among lifestyle hotel openings, where four distinct food and beverage spaces are asked to carry as much of the identity as the rooms upstairs. That instinct to root a global food brand in local character is not unique to Madrid, as seen in this report on the Vienna Beef restaurant and factory store opening in Chicago's Bucktown, another example of a well known food name planting a flagship deeply tied to its city.

What This Signals for Nobu Hospitality Spain

Nobu Hospitality Spain now operates across some of the country's most recognisable coastal and urban markets, and the Madrid opening reflects a broader pattern across the hospitality industry, where global culinary brands are choosing capital cities not merely for footfall but for cultural relevance. A restaurant carrying Nobu Matsuhisa's name in Madrid signals a certain confidence in the city's dining scene, one increasingly comfortable holding its own against London, Paris and Milan on the international culinary map.

Whether the Madrid property becomes as defining to the brand as its London or New York counterparts will depend on how consistently it holds its own against a dining city that rarely settles for imitation. What is certain, on opening night, is that four rooms across one building, a sushi counter, a vaulted cocktail bar, a rooftop terrace and a quiet lobby lounge, will each be asking the same question in a different register, whether Madrid is ready to make room for one more table at the centre of its evenings.