Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Marbella from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Marbella
Our guide counts 4 Michelin-starred restaurants in Marbella and 5 Michelin stars citywide. Skina in Old Town, Messina in Avenida Severo Ochoa, and Nintai in Marbella center are among them.
Skina in Old Town holds two Michelin stars for 2026 and an exceptional wine program with an extensive list. Chef Mario Cachinero cooks creative Andalusian food from local seasonal ingredients. Formats include a tasting menu, à la carte, and a set menu, with a wine-forward Grand Crú format among them. Sommelier-owner Marcos Granda keeps two cellars.
Messina in Avenida Severo Ochoa holds one Michelin star for 2026. Chef Mauricio Giovanini cooks modern Mediterranean fine dining, with tasting menus and an à la carte built on juices, concentrates, and natural thickening agents. The kitchen opens onto the dining room, and a four-seat Chef's Table offers dishes unavailable to the main room. Sommelier Pía Ninci runs the wine list.
Nintai in Marbella center holds one Michelin star for 2026. The restaurant runs a single seasonal tasting menu as omakase, itamae-style, and dishes change with market availability. Sommelier Marcos Granda oversees the format. A sake program sits with the wine list, and the sake list ranks among the most considered in Spain.
Our guide counts 10 exceptional wine programs in Marbella citywide, and one Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. D-Wine Marbella, Sea Grill, and Adivino Wine Bar are the picks here.
D-Wine Marbella in Nueva Alcántara serves Spanish fine dining with an exceptional wine program and an extensive list. It features the world's largest collection of Spanish wines, with over 5000 items. The restaurant holds a WBWL 3-Star from the World's Best Wine Lists Awards for 2022. The format is à la carte.
Sea Grill in Golden Mile holds the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2026, the only Wine Spectator award in our guide, and a Star Wine List for 2026. The restaurant is a beachfront Mediterranean seafood grill with a wine list led by a sommelier and an extensive list. The room has live music and tableside fish filleting.
Adivino Wine Bar in Nueva Andalucia pours a selection of artisanal, low-intervention, and eco-friendly wines, paired with locally inspired dishes. Owner Emilio runs the bar. Falstaff gives the bar 95 points for 2026, and the bar holds a Star Wine List for 2026.
Our guide counts 4 Michelin-starred restaurants in Marbella and 5 Michelin stars citywide. They are Skina in Old Town, BACK in Marbella, Messina in Avenida Severo Ochoa, and Nintai in Marbella center. Skina holds two Michelin stars. BACK, Messina, and Nintai hold a Michelin star.
Golden Mile has the most venues in our guide, with 18. Restaurants there include Leña Marbella, Lobito de Mar, Sea Grill, and Grill at the Marbella Club. Leña Marbella is a modern grill by Dani García. Lobito de Mar serves modern Mediterranean seafood. Grill at the Marbella Club is a Mediterranean grill.
Tasting menus in our guide include Skina in Old Town, BACK in Marbella, Messina in Avenida Severo Ochoa, Nintai in Marbella center, Kava in central Marbella, and Candeal in old town. Nintai serves a seasonal omakase. Kava serves a tasting menu only, from chef Fernando Alcalá. Candeal serves modern Castilian fine dining from chef Pablo Rebollo.
Sea Grill in Golden Mile is the only venue in our guide with a Wine Spectator award: Best of Award of Excellence for 2026. It also holds a Star Wine List for 2026. The restaurant is a beachfront Mediterranean seafood grill with a wine list led by a sommelier and an extensive list.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Marbella
Selected entries from the current guide for Marbella.
Marbella, Spain
A two-Michelin-star address on Marbella's Golden Mile, Skina operates from a converted farmhouse opposite the Parque de los Enamorados. Chef Mario Cachinero applies creativity to the foundations of Andalusian cooking, with menus ranging from a five-course à la carte to the wine-forward Grand Crú format. Sommelier-owner Marcos Granda's two cellars give the drinks program unusual depth for a restaurant of this scale.
Marbella, Spain
A Michelin-starred address on Calle Pablo Casals, BACK sits within Marbella's serious dining tier while carrying a bistro register that most starred rooms in the city don't attempt. Chef David Olivas structures the menu around a clear division between established signatures and evolving seasonal work, with the Entorno tasting menu drawing a ranked position among Europe's top restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in both 2024 and 2025.
Marbella, Spain
Messina holds a Michelin star on Marbella's Avenida Severo Ochoa, where chef Mauricio Giovanini works a cuisine built on the liquid essence of ingredients, pure juices, concentrates, and natural thickening agents that pull flavour into sharp focus. The kitchen opens onto the dining room, and a four-seat Chef's Table offers dishes unavailable to the main room. Sommelier Pía Ninci runs a wine program that matches the technical ambition of the food.
Marbella, Spain
Nintai holds a Michelin star and runs a single seasonal tasting menu from a ten-seat sushi bar in Marbella's old town. Sommelier Marcos Granda oversees an itamae-style format where dishes change with market availability, and the sake list ranks among the more considered in Spain. Open Tuesday through Saturday from 8 PM.
Marbella, Spain
Kava is a five-table tasting menu restaurant in Marbella's old town, where chef Fernando Alcalá builds seasonal menus around Andalusian raw materials and fermentation, with technique that draws on Asia, Latin America, and Spain in equal measure. Awarded a Michelin Plate in 2024 and 2025, and ranked #389 in Opinionated About Dining's Top Restaurants in Europe for 2024, it occupies a distinct tier among the Costa del Sol's serious kitchens.
Marbella, Spain
A former beach bar on Playa de los Nagüeles, La Milla Marbella has evolved into one of the Costa del Sol's most recognised seafood addresses, holding a Michelin Plate and ranking #196 in Opinionated About Dining's Casual Europe list for 2025. The kitchen, led by Chef Luis Miguel Menor, anchors its menu in Andalusian fish and seafood traditions while incorporating modern technique. Open Tuesday through Sunday, it sits between the Marbella Club and Puente Romano hotels.
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Inside Hotel Puente Romano, Leña Marbella is the Costa del Sol outpost of Dani García's asador concept, grilling premium beef cuts over Josper embers alongside yakipinchos and a tableside Caesar Salad. Holding a Michelin Plate and ranked in Opinionated About Dining's Casual Europe list since 2023, it sits at the intersection of Spanish fire-cooking tradition and the resort-facing international crowd that defines Marbella's upper dining tier.
Marbella, Spain
Areia puts Marbella’s farm-to-table category into a more polished, internationally inflected register, with Pablo Berzosa’s kitchen working beyond the rustic shorthand often attached to produce-led dining. A 2026 Guía Repsol 1 Sol, Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025, and OAD Classical Europe rankings give it a firmer critical footing than many resort-city dining rooms in the same price tier.
Marbella, Spain
TA-KUMI brings a Michelin Plate-recognised Japanese kitchen to Marbella's centre, operating Tuesday through Saturday with a split lunch and dinner service. The format spans a sushi bar, two dining levels, and a private room, with an à la carte menu anchored by signature recipes and supplemented by the Matsuri set menu. Part of a multi-site group with sister restaurants in Málaga and Madrid's Salamanca district.
Marbella, Spain
Nobu Marbella sits within the storied Marbella Club complex on the Golden Mile, bringing the global brand's Japanese-Peruvian format to the Costa del Sol's most concentrated stretch of premium dining. Ranked among Europe's top restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in both 2024 and 2025, it operates every evening from 7 pm and draws a crowd that overlaps significantly with the hotel's international leisure set.
Marbella, Spain
Lobito de Mar brings Dani Garcia's seafood-focused format to the Costa del Sol, operating from the Bulevar Príncipe Alfonso de Hohenlohe strip in Marbella. The kitchen runs a lunch and dinner service seven days a week, making it one of the more consistently accessible restaurants in Garcia's wider portfolio.
Marbella, Spain
Erre & Urrechu brings a disciplined wood-fire philosophy to Marbella's competitive dining scene, running three distinct grills, holm oak for meat, orange tree wood for vegetables, olive wood for fish, under consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025.
Marbella, Spain
A third-generation family restaurant in Marbella's old town, Casa Eladio holds a Michelin Plate (2025) for cooking that keeps one foot in Andalusian tradition and the other in the sea. The à la carte and two tasting menus, Esencia and Camino del Sur, centre on seasonal, locally sourced produce, with Iberian pork and Atlantic fish sharing equal billing. A reliable mid-range address in a city where the dining conversation often skews toward the expensive and the new.
Marbella, Spain
Andala Marbella earns its place in the city's casual dining conversation through grounded Andalusian cooking under Chef Juan Jose Villalba, recognised by Opinionated About Dining in 2025. On Calle de Pablo Casals, the address draws locals and visitors looking for regional cuisine without the theatrics of Marbella's higher-priced rooms..
Marbella, Spain
Bar Fiesta operates from a market stall on Calle Jacinto Benavente in Marbella's old town, running a tight Tuesday-to-Saturday service that closes at 4pm. Ranked 409th in Opinionated About Dining's Casual Europe list in 2024 and 453rd in 2025, it draws. The format is tapas bar, compact, daytime-only, and rooted in the rhythms of the local market.
Marbella, Spain
Brasserie Astoria Marbella sits in Nueva Andalucía, where the Costa del Sol's European residential crowd overlaps with serious dining. A White Star recognition from Star Wine List signals a wine program with genuine depth. The brasserie format here reads as a European-influenced anchor in a resort corridor that increasingly rewards those who look beyond the beachfront.
Marbella, Spain
Candeal brings Castilian culinary instincts to the heart of Marbella's old quarter, operating from a bodega-style space on Plaza Blas Infante. Chef Pablo Rebollo's creative Mediterranean menu weaves fermented foods, pickled preparations, and game dishes with subtle nods to Valladolid, anchored by house-baked breads made daily from organic Candeal flour. Three tasting menus, including a lunchtime Mercado option, earned the restaurant a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025.
Marbella, Spain
D-Wine Marbella holds a 3-Star Accreditation from the World of Fine Wine Awards, placing it among a small cohort of recognised wine-focused venues on the Costa del Sol. Located on Calle Ana de Austria in central Marbella, the address sits within walking distance of the old town's dining circuit, making it a practical anchor for an evening centred on serious wine and food.
Marbella, Spain
El Lago sits in Elviria Hills on Marbella's eastern corridor, where Chef Fernando Villasclaras Arce runs a vegetable-forward kitchen anchored by the weekly-changing 'Terra' menu. That plant-based programme shifts with what the season produces rather than what the kitchen prefers, making it one of the more ingredient-driven propositions on the Costa del Sol. The menu adapts to fully vegan on request.
Marbella, Spain
The Grill at the Marbella Club sits inside one of the Costa del Sol's most enduring resort addresses, serving European cuisine under chef Santiago Guerrero every evening from 7pm. Ranked among Europe's classical restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in both 2024 and 2025, it holds a distinct position in Marbella's dining scene, where modern Andalusian menus increasingly dominate the conversation.
Marbella, Spain
Housed in a historic square in Marbella's old town, La Fonda Restaurante brings Andalusian cooking to a setting where the architecture does some of the work. Chef Léo Huet, recognised for expression of the terroir, draws on the region's produce and culinary tradition in a format that places local identity at the centre of the plate.
Marbella, Spain
Sea Grill sits on the Marbella stretch of the Golden Mile, earning a White Star recognition from Star Wine List in December 2023 for the quality of its wine program. The address on the Bulevar Principe Alfonso von Hohenlohe places it at the heart of one of the Costa del Sol's most closely watched dining corridors, where seafood and Spanish coastal tradition converge with a serious cellar.
Marbella, Spain
A Basque sidra house operating in a city better known for Mediterranean seafood and Andalusian grills, Sidreria Usategui has earned back-to-back rankings in Opinionated About Dining's Casual Europe list for 2024 and 2025. The format is rooted in northern Spain's txotx tradition: cider poured to order, protein-heavy set menus, and a room that runs on its own logic regardless of Marbella's resort calendar.
Marbella, Spain
Sky Bar brings Marbella’s old-town roofline into focus from a hotel rooftop above Plaza de Santo Cristo. The format is lighter than a destination dining room: morning juices, smoothies and coffee give way to cocktails and champagne at sunset, with bistro-style cooking framing the city’s coastal-Andalusian rhythm rather than competing with it.
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Marbella, Spain
Among the Costa del Sol's long-established luxury hotels, Marbella Club occupies a category of its own: a Golden Mile property founded in 1954 by Prince Alfonso von Hohenlohe, awarded Michelin 2 Keys in 2024 and recognised by La Liste's Top Hotels with 96 points in 2026. Whitewashed bungalows, mature pines, and a seafront Thalasso spa define a property where the atmosphere of a private estate has outlasted seven decades of Mediterranean resort development.
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Set inland from the Costa del Sol and styled after a Tuscan palace, Anantara Villa Padierna holds a Michelin Key (2024), La Liste Top Hotels recognition (93.5 points, 2026), and Leading Hotels of the World membership. Three 18-hole golf courses, a 2,000 sqm Anantara Spa, and a dining programme spanning Andalusian cuisine and Japanese haute cuisine make it one of the Marbella area's most self-contained luxury properties, with 130 rooms from around $413 per night.
Marbella, Spain
Positioned on Marbella's Golden Mile within the Puente Romano complex, Nobu Hotel Marbella pairs Japanese minimalism with Andalusian sensibility across a boutique property that earned a Michelin Key in 2024 and 95 points from La Liste Top Hotels 2026. Signature omakase dining, Six Senses spa access, and a beachside pool with DJ programming place it firmly in the upper tier of the Costa del Sol's premium hotel set.
Marbella, Spain
Set along Marbella's Golden Mile on 13.5 acres of subtropical beachside gardens, Puente Romano has operated as a Leading Hotels of the World member and holds awards including Spain's Best Resort and Europe's Best Resort Spa. More than twenty restaurants and bars, a 1,300-reference wine cellar, the Six Senses Spa, and the Puente Romano Tennis Club make it one of the Costa del Sol's most self-contained luxury addresses.
Marbella, Spain
Don Carlos Marbella is a 308-room resort on the Costa del Sol that has shaped the character of the Golden Mile since the 1960s. Its scale places it in a different tier from Marbella's boutique competitors, with a guest-to-staff ratio and breadth of on-site facilities that smaller properties cannot match. For extended stays or family travel requiring genuine resort infrastructure, it remains a serious reference point on this stretch of coast.
Marbella, Spain
Gran Marbella Resort & Beach Club sits directly on Playa del Real de Zaragoza, one of Marbella's quieter stretches of coastline, pairing Andalusian architecture with a beach club format that holds a Star Wine List recognition for 2026. The property occupies a position between full-scale resort and intimate beachside retreat, making it a distinct option in a Marbella market crowded with larger international flagships.
Marbella, Spain
Hotel Claude Marbella occupies a restored townhouse on Calle San Francisco in the heart of Marbella's Old Town, selected by the Michelin Guide Hotels 2025. The property sits within walking distance of the Plaza de los Naranjos and positions itself in the intimate, design-led tier of Marbella accommodation, a different register entirely from the resort complexes lining the Golden Mile.
Marbella, Spain
The property brings Kimpton's service-forward group culture to a stretch of coastline that has long attracted a premium international crowd, offering an alternative to both the old-guard grand resorts and the newer boutique independents.
Marbella, Spain
Hotel San Cristóbal occupies a central Marbella address on Avenida Ramón y Cajal, positioning it within walking distance of the old town's whitewashed lanes and the promenade. The property sits in a city where design-led boutique hotels increasingly compete with larger resort complexes further along the Golden Mile. For travellers who want proximity to Marbella's historic core over beachfront scale, it represents a considered alternative in a crowded market.
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Marbella, Spain
Adivino Wine Bar sits in Nueva Andalucía, Marbella's quieter residential quarter, operating at a tier confirmed by its 2026 Star Wine List recognition. The bar occupies a niche in a coastal city better known for beach clubs than serious wine programming, making it a reference point for visitors who want considered pours rather than bottle-service spectacle.
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