Dinner at the Bernabéu: What NFL Sunday Really Costs

On Sunday the NFL plays its second regular-season game in Spain. The Cincinnati Bengals meet the Atlanta Falcons at the Santiago Bernabéu at 3:30 p.m. local time, 6:30 a.m. Pacific. It is the Bengals' first international game in seven years, and the first Madrid game in 2025 drew more than 78,000 fans. Real Madrid rebuilt the stadium to earn money every day of the year. It brought in €363 million in stadium revenue in the 2025-26 season, more than double the €175 million it earned before the rebuild, ESdiario reported. A lot of that money is made at the table.

What a seat with dinner costs

The official hospitality tiers went on sale on June 5. ABC reported five VIP packages: four at €792.75 a person, in boxes and lounges that include the Mahou restaurant and the Sur restaurant, and a top tier called Salón del Museo at €1,217.75. Every tier includes fast entry, food and drink before and after the game, and premium social spaces. ABC notes that most of these seats are sold to specialist agencies, which resell them as full corporate packages.

The UK agency Rocket Hospitality lists official second-tier private boxes at £1,199 a person on the end line and £1,350 on the west sideline, and VIP Seats 307 at £1,299. All three include a "high-end buffet" before kickoff, beer, wine and soft drinks until 60 minutes after the final whistle, and light snacks at halftime. Spirits cost extra.

The NFL's official hospitality partner, On Location, sells a pregame party package with a game ticket, chef-curated food featuring local favorites and drinks, starting at $695 a person. Its four-night Bengals package at the Hyatt Centric Gran Vía, in a junior suite, starts at $4,520 a person. The on-field pregame and insider packages are sold out. For comparison, a regular seat ranged from €93.40 to €438.75, according to El Desmarque.

The best table in the house

The most luxurious table in the building is not in a box. It is on the 10th floor. KŌ by 99 Sushi Bar, from Grupo Bambú, the group behind 99 Sushi Bar, is a 600-square-metre izakaya with 99 seats, two VIP rooms and a terrace that looks straight down onto the pitch. Real Madrid lists the average bill at €125.

The menu reads like a trophy cabinet. There is A5 wagyu from Kagoshima and from Miyazaki, a toro and caviar maki called the 99 Jewel, sea urchin tartare with smoked caviar and a 32-cut Imperial Moriwase. The wine list runs past 250 references, curated by Grupo Bambú director and sommelier Mónica Fernández, next to almost 30 sakes. Some of the stadium's columns run straight through the dining room, painted gold.

Pitch-side, year-round

Real Madrid's official restaurant guide lists the rest. Puerta 57 is billed as the first restaurant in a Spanish stadium, with views of the pitch and traditional Spanish cooking. Its current menu runs from Galician and Normandy oysters to a Formentera-style red lobster frit and a cowboy chop of vaca vieja Ayrshire beef.

Arzábal Bernabéu frames the field behind 50 metres of glass. Expansión puts the average à la carte bill at €45 to €65. Its torrija was named the second best in the world at Madrid Fusión 2026, Diario de Santiago reported. Plaza Mahou is billed as the first brewery inside a Spanish stadium. There is also the Bernabéu Market food hall and Spain's first Starbucks flagship. On match and event days, the club's guide tells diners to check with each restaurant first.

The room that is still waiting

Then there is the Sky Bar. It sits in the top ring over the Paseo de la Castellana, with about 700 square metres inside, two 250-square-metre terraces and room for around 200 guests. It was meant to open in spring 2024. Instead, years of legal fighting with its former operator followed, and the club only won back control in May 2026.

It finally opened on October 10 for Real Madrid's match against Villarreal, Marca reported. For now it works only as a VIP box. Marca says it is also available for the NFL, but the fine-dining restaurant, cocktail bar and nightclub it was designed for are not running yet. No NFL price for a Sky Bar seat has been published. From November 13, a Cirque du Soleil Skywalk along the stadium's level 10 walkways will end inside the Sky Bar, with tickets from €27. That is five days after the NFL leaves town.

So the most famous room in the building can host NFL guests with drinks and a view, but not with the kitchen it was built for. For the full luxury dinner on Sunday, the table to book is KŌ's, if its doors are open to the public on game day.