Gayagum Restaurant

If you're Korean and grew up in a family that values quality ingredients and loves cooking and eating, you'll immediately recognize the worth of this place.
We ordered 오징어 볶음 (spicy stir-fried squid), 설렁탕 (ox bone soup), and 떡볶이 (spicy rice cakes).
Impressively, they even make their own 떡 (which I like to call rice noodles) and 설렁탕 broth.
The vegetables are sourced from their own farm, explaining the incredibly fresh and delicious taste. The food tastes like home—balanced flavors without being too salty, sweet, or overloaded with MSG.
If you're looking to experience authentic Korean cuisine, this is the place to go.
The owner was exceptionally friendly, making me feel right at home.
I can't wait to return to Madrid just for this restaurant!

Solo travel from California! Super legit Korean Food.
The Korean Cold noodles is better than anything I can find in San Francisco.
Super flavorful without MSG.
After the guided tour at Palacio Real Madrid, this satisfies my Asian appetite and cools me down.

There are so many lackluster, inauthentic, and not great restaurants out there, and so many during our travels through Europe with strangely inexplicable high ratings.
Whether it is Italian, French, Chinese, etc.
My guess is that many people with no taste buds eat there.
🙄 As far as this restaurant goes—it is an actual, authentic Korean restaurant with traditional Korean food.
Not fusion.
Not modern Korean food (like fried chicken and corn dogs).
This is KOREAN food.
In Madrid.
I teared up eating it after weeks of traveling Europe and eating bland lackluster food, even at a Michelin restaurant.
The owners grow a lot of the Korean vegetables in order to make many of the dishes.
We had to come two nights in a row.
This is soul food.
So proud they did not butcher Korean food and try to make it more palatable for the Spanish or other international travelers.
🙌🏽