The best restaurants Province Of Vizcaya

A nice restaurant, where the revisited tradition is the joy of special occasions. Charcoal-grilled meats, fish and seafood.

Restaurant facing the harbour, offering traditional Basque cuisine in a canteen decor. Friendly atmosphere and quality products (especially fish). 

If we appreciate this restaurant, it is first of all for its privileged location on the ría de Mundaka and its panoramic views over the beach of Laida. Fitted out in a rustic caserío, the restaurant has been extended with a modern extension and a large terrace. The à la carte menu offers good Basque cuisine and brasa grilled fish from the ports of Mundaka and Bermeo. The restaurant also has its own fish tank and offers excellent meats.

Located in the main street of the Las Arenas district, this small bar is famous for its many pintxos, especially the tortilla one. At aperitif time, its bar is overrun by pintxo-pote lovers (pintxo and glass of wine), a local custom that is always very popular with visitors! In addition to its inevitable tortilla, try the mini sandwich of bonito (tuna) and green chilli pepper, octopus, stuffed peppers, foie gras... Everything is good, so let yourself be tempted according to the mood of the moment! Informal and local atmosphere.

A singular space with views over the ría, which mixes gastronomy and music, especially jazz. Located inside the Mercado de la Ribera, it is a restaurant, a cocktail bar and a music club. On site, seasonal cuisine prepared with market produce, sophisticated cocktails, and live concerts led by La Ribera Jazz Band. Its programming also includes emerging bands from the local and international scene, and once a month, concerts and activities designed for young audiences!

Located right next to the suspension bridge, this restaurant is run by the young chef Alvaro Martínez, trained in the kitchens of Arzak, Martín Berasategui and El Bulli. With such a culinary background, it is easy to understand the presence of some very modern dishes, such as egg cooked at low temperature, or Asian-inspired dishes, such as nigiri de txangurro (crab). Also on the menu, crispy fritters with chilli and blood sausage, shrimp gyozas, parmentier with mushrooms and oxtail... all to be enjoyed in a beautiful contemporary setting!

A pleasant family-run restaurant.

Located in an old fisherman's house in Puerto Viejo, this charming little restaurant has been run by the same family for 50 years. Here, you can feast on fresh fish and seafood that varies according to the catch and the season, as well as tasty traditional recipes such as cod in Biscayan sauce or kokotxas in pil-pil sauce. An honest cuisine highlighting the products of the sea, to be enjoyed in a charming comedor in the colors of the ocean, under beautiful beams weathered by time.

Zurima is a small restaurant dedicated to world cuisine in the San Francisco area. Its vintage decoration and its good home cooking, which mixes without complex the most varied influences, are the key of its success. Here, the menu is constantly changing according to the season's products and the mood of the moment, but don't hesitate to try its daily menu: it's a sure bet! Black rice with squid ink, Thai salad with shrimps, green beef curry, grilled cauliflower with ras el-hanout (spices) and its couscous: a festival of flavors from all over the world!

This address is the little sister of Bilbao's award-winning red meat specialist, Amaren. More accessible and no less appetizing than its parent company's dishes, the menu at this Basque tavern specializing in gourmet hamburgers is sure to make all connoisseurs salivate. In addition to selected starters and succulent meat platters, there's a choice of a dozen burgers, all made with grilled beef. In short, enough to make a few people happy at a reasonable price!

Bokat is an unlikely address where gastronomy meets... the sandwich(bocadillo or bocata in Spanish)! The idea was born from the meeting of five chefs with discerning palates, determined to squeeze all the subtlety, textures and flavours of haute gastronomy between two slices of bread. And the result is breathtaking! The dishes are both familiar and original, but above all they are made from carefully selected ingredients. It's a safe bet that if you stop by once, it won't be the last time!

Discerning carnivores, rejoice! If you haven't yet had the chance to feast on a good chuleta during your visit to Bilbao, there's still time to do so, and in the nicest possible way: Amaren is a Bilbao red meat institution. The recipient of numerous awards (including ^14th place in the World' s 101 Best Steak Restaurants in 2023), it offers grilled prime rib, tartares and carpaccios, each more exquisite than the last. If protein doesn't scare you, go for it!

With its air of an old-fashioned fishmonger's - from the tiled floor to the refrigerated display cases lining up trays of shrimps and other ultra-fresh prawns - the Perita Bar is a small address full of cachet that will delight lovers of marine flavours. Specializing in shrimp, the bar's relaxed atmosphere is enhanced by lively music and a selection of wines perfectly matched to the dishes on offer. It's a different kind of place, a place where good spirits sparkle and where it's a pleasure to linger at the end of the day/evening and at weekends.

" We offer the finest Cantabrian anchovies from over 20 canneries in Bermeo, Ondarroa, Markina, Mundaka, Getaria, Zumaia, Santoña, Castro and Laredo " You've come to the temple of anchovies! The beautifully decorated tavern is located on the beautiful Plaza Nueva and offers anchovies in every conceivable form: canned, portioned, in sandwiches, pintxos... Ultra-fresh products lovingly prepared by hand every day. A reference in Bilbao.

New fashionable table worn by the famous Basque chef Martín Berasategui (three times starred in his eponymous restaurant). Located on the first floor of the Tayko Hotel, the restaurant has a chic-industrial decor, with brick walls and large black windows overlooking the ría. On the menu, some classics from the Lasarte parent company, and seasonal creations dictated by market produce. Caramelised millefeuille with foie gras and smoked eel, warm oyster with apple and cucumber-txakoli granita . Divine!

Right in the centre of Gernika, chef Ettore Learreta offers the best of local produce in his restaurant. In a contemporary bistro-style decor, you will enjoy excellent pintxos and raciones, and refined regional dishes: tuna carpaccio in olive oil, hake kokotxas, scallops and pumpkin purée... In the summer months, the chef offers a "menu on the high seas" during boat trips to the Urdaibai Reserve.

A classic in the Plaza Nueva! Since 1973, Bar Charly has been serving classic pintxos to a clientele of loyal customers and passing visitors. Its large terrace is a popular meeting place to drink a zurrito (small beer) with friends and share some raciones, especially the typical rabas that Bilbao's inhabitants love, and which Bar Charly won the competition for the best rabas in Casco Viejo in 2021. These small fried squids are eaten as an appetizer on Sundays around noon: a tradition worth trying!

A stone's throw from the metro, a bar-restaurant that is a good place to go at any time of the day for a coffee in the morning, a vermouth accompanied by pintxos as an aperitif, but above all to enjoy an excellent meal in the restaurant area. In an intimate setting, you can enjoy excellent Basque recipes reinterpreted to suit the latest tastes. Broken eggs with truffles, snails Biscayan style, chipirons a la plancha, etc. are accompanied by a remarkable selection of wines. Good value for money for the tasting menu (served for lunch and dinner)!

In the heart of Bilbao La Viejo, an authentic address that showcases Galician cuisine. For despite the hipster revolution that has taken hold of the neighbourhood, this vermutería has continued to offer the same classics for more than 40 years. Galician-style octopus, served as a pintxo or ración, is the star of the place! But the cecina or lacón croquettes are also worth the detour. They are accompanied by a small glass of vermouth, a speciality of the place!

"Taste is revealed in simplicity". That's how we might sum up the cuisine of two Basque chefs, Adrian Leonelli and Pablo Valdearcos, behind this small restaurant in the center of Bilbao. Nestled on a bend in the Nervion, the restaurant's sober interior is not lacking in thoughtful decorative details. But it's above all to taste a cuisine that's straightforward, well-balanced and that highlights the specificity and quality of each product that people come here. Locals and visitors alike flock here, especially for the very affordable tasting menu. Good wine list.

It's in the Casco Viejo district that we find this well-known address for Bilbao locals: Los Fueros, a Basque institution. Chef Paul brings a modern twist to his traditional heartfelt cuisine. On the menu of this two-level tavern with terrace, you'll find classic Basque specialties such as shrimp a la plancha, fish and seafood soup, "euskal txerri" pork costilla or bacalao pil-pil! Save room for dessert, they're all stunning! A typical address to try!

A former caserio surrounded by landscapes with a strong character, this is the setting in which young chef Julen Baz, as star-studded as he is stylish, officiates. There are two options here: the tavern, casual and bistronomic; and the restaurant, upstairs, with its dozen or so valley-facing tables. The 14-course fine-dining menu is a sensory and temporal voyage through Basque culture. The menu features ultra-fresh local produce grilled or stewed and eaten with explosive concentration. Exceptional wines.

The herb-planted garden surrounded by green valleys sets the mood: in 2023, Tetsuro Maeda, Japanese chef and connoisseur of Basque aromas, opened a stunning gourmet canteen in a four-century-old caserio . Subtlety, simplicity, a balance of flavors, the man has the genius to take local produce into the realm of Japanese gastronomy, not without a touch of humor. We start with amuse-bouches in the kitchen, then a choreographed parade of perfect plates begins in the dining room. A meal that leaves you lined up.