# El Convento Restaurant, at the Parador

Restaurant en Chinchón · Chinchón

Fuente: https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/community-of-madrid/chinchon/where-to-eat/parador-el-convento-restaurant · Revisado: 2026-11-12

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The Parador's restaurant, in the former monastery: renewed Madrid cooking with garlic, anise, roasts and spoon dishes.

Eating in the convent
El Convento is the main restaurant of the Parador de Chinchón, on Calle Los Huertos, a step from the Plaza Mayor. The building is the former monastery of Nuestra Señora del Paraíso, founded in the fifteenth century by the first lords of Chinchón, with its cloister, the original staircase and a convent garden full of fruit trees. Eating here is also a way to see the building without staying.
Paradores defines its cooking as renewed castizo Madrid cooking. In Chinchón that means two products of the town, garlic and anise, which have left their mark on the recipe book, and a menu of roasts, soups and spoon dishes, game and farmyard meats and offal.
What to order
The specialities Paradores publishes are roast shoulder of suckling lamb, roast suckling pig, Faroe Islands cod and, for dessert, a caramelised Chinchón carajillo cream with homemade coffee ice cream. The menu also features ear, tripe and snout, migas and garlic soups, alongside homemade desserts and typical sweets. Paradores does not publish prices on the restaurant's page; the menu is linked from its website.
El Bodegón and the cocido de taba
Next door, El Bodegón is a vaulted dining room that serves only one dish: the full cocido de taba, a local variant of Madrid cocido that includes crayfish. Paradores explains that it is an old recipe recovered in 1998. It is served as a single menu in earthenware: an aperitif of Campo Real pickles and torreznillo, noodle soup with bread and mint, chickpeas with vegetables and crayfish, and the meats (shin, ham, chorizo, pork belly, hen, goose neck and taba bone), with convent custard and pestiño for dessert and young wine from the Community of Madrid. It opens only at weekends, at midday, from November to 29 March.
Hours and bookings

El Convento restaurant: lunch from 13:30 to 16:00 and dinner from 20:30 to 23:00.
Café: from 11:00 to 23:30.
El Bodegón: Saturdays and Sundays from November to 29 March, from 13:30 to 16:00.

In summer there are dinners in the gardens with live music, and for groups of at least 15 people, a barbecue at the Mirador del Castillo with prior booking. Book on 91 894 08 36, at chinchon@parador.es or on the Paradores website.
If you arrive without a car, the 337 bus links Madrid with Chinchón. After lunch, climb to the Counts' Castle or the Clock Tower.

Qué pedir: a roast or a spoon dish; in autumn and winter, the cocido de taba at El Bodegón

## Practical details

- Address: Los Huertos, 1, 28370 Chinchón, Madrid
- Phone: +34 918 94 08 36
- Email: chinchon@parador.es
- Opening hours: Mon–Sun 13:30–16:00 y 20:30–23:00
- Café from 11:00 to 23:30; El Bodegón, weekends at midday only, from November to 29 March
- Cuisine: Madrid
- House specialities: Roasts, Soups and spoon dishes, Cocido de taba at El Bodegón
- Details checked on 12 November 2026.

## Cómo llegar y contacto

- Web: https://paradores.es/es/parador-de-chinchon
- Coordenadas: 40.1395, -3.4234

## Cerca de aquí

- [Parador de Chinchón](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/community-of-madrid/chinchon/where-to-stay/parador-de-chinchon), a 0 m
- [Plaza Mayor of Chinchón](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/community-of-madrid/chinchon/things-to-do/plaza-mayor-chinchon), a 61 m
- [Sunday Guided Tour](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/community-of-madrid/chinchon/things-to-do/sunday-guided-tour-chinchon), a 61 m
- [Café de la Iberia](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/community-of-madrid/chinchon/where-to-eat/cafe-de-la-iberia), a 88 m
- [Casa del Hortelano](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/community-of-madrid/chinchon/where-to-stay/casa-del-hortelano), a 99 m
- [Clock Tower](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/community-of-madrid/chinchon/things-to-do/clock-tower-chinchon), a 156 m
- [Church of the Asunción and the Goya Painting](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/community-of-madrid/chinchon/things-to-do/assumption-church-and-goya-painting-chinchon), a 201 m
- [Visit and Tasting at the Bodega del Nero](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/community-of-madrid/chinchon/things-to-do/nero-winery-visit-and-tasting), a 270 m

## Preguntas frecuentes

### Do you have to stay at the Parador to eat?
No, the restaurant is open to everyone; book on the Paradores website or by phone.

### What is cocido de taba?
A local variant of Madrid cocido with crayfish, which El Bodegón serves at weekends from November to March.

### What time do you eat?
From 13:30 to 16:00; dinners from 20:30 to 23:00.

Destino: [Chinchón](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/community-of-madrid/chinchon.md)