The best restaurants Spain

Can is a traditional peasant table opened since 1966 offering breakfast, day and weekend menus. Founded by Esteve Ambassador, a road driver deploring the absence of a place to collate on the road to Girona while easily parking, it's his wife who comes to the fourneaux of the small xiringuito. Little by little, the place becomes unavoidable and grows to become the right table that it is today. On the menu, varied tapas, meat and fish with brasa, and desserts of qualities. Good products, good wines. On Thursdays and Sundays it is arròs.

After 20 years of practice, Chef Robert decided to open a second restaurant in Sant Martí Vell. Simple, quality and beautifully presented dishes are on the menu, a cross between land and sea products, with a refreshing creative touch. Several menus are available, including the surprising gin and tonic menu. Original, for a very good quality-price ratio, ideal for a vermouth with friends. And if you're around in the summer, you can also take advantage of a seasonal terrace where you can indulge in the pleasure of tapas, accompanied by a drink.

The hotel restaurant La Plaça is a small corner of paradise that will delight both the taste buds and the eyes. In an enchanting setting, on the terrace or in the very beautiful service room with old stones, you can taste fresh and well-prepared local specialities, where the products from the interior of the country are represented equally and those coming from the Mediterranean. The service is pro, wine is good, the place is beautiful. A bold stop.

It was in 2003 that the restoration work of the impressive masia of Can Did, located on a small hill allowing to see the Montseny on one side and the Pyrenees on the other, ended. Since then, the hotel attracts gourmets, lovers of Mediterranean cuisine - review and corrected to modern sauce - and tranquility. You will choose the beautiful service room and its famous old stones or the beautiful garden planted before taking a look at the rich map. The service is attentive and the art of detail seems to be among the priorities of the house, both in the presentation of plates and in the choice of products. Add to this a beautiful wine cellar, spirits and cigars, and the account is good. An elegant table.

A small restaurant with a modern setting, where traditional dishes from the region are served, as well as rice-based dishes. Of course, the wines and cavas have a special place in the tasting, with a very complete choice. Everything is delicious, because the cooking is mastered to perfection, and the service is very attentive. Unbeatable value for money. The room is quite small, so it will be wise to reserve a table in order to enjoy this delicious and accessible cuisine.

A good address on the main street of Caldetes, to play on the terrace. Lots of tapas to share (patatas bravas, squid in Andalusian style, leek chips, etc.), but also a cuisine that likes to play a balance between tradition and the latest trends. The decoration is simple and unpretentious. The logo of the sign is the "Gallipeix", a chimera with a chicken body and a fish head. The three red dots next to it symbolize Japan, a country often found on plates.

Just a step away from the monastery, this bar-restaurant seduces with its small terrace and its modern and ultra neat interior decoration. Here, it is the quality that is important, not the quantity. So don't be surprised if at lunch time you find only one dish on the menu, it's normal, because everything is home-made! The vegetables are particularly honored. Also some tapas to share, and very good desserts, very aesthetic moreover. The service is nice, we would stay there for many hours to taste all the cakes...

In this restaurant housed in a cultural centre, chef Susana Aragón boasts a cuisine based on local products and the concept of "slow food". It is therefore quite naturally that artichokes, the star product of Baix Llobregat, are cooked in all kinds of ways here! The indigenous chicken Pota Blava is also a must on the menu. Thanks to a network of small, well-knit local producers, Susana Aragón offers an inventive seasonal cuisine that takes the form of small dishes to share. Very good menu of the day!

In the spring of 2013, the new establishment of the popular Es Nàutic opened its doors. The contemporary architecture of the place, mounted on stilts in the heart of the nautical station, has been designed to let in as much light as possible, while at night there is a charming panorama of the bay and the lanterns of the boats offered by the large bay windows. On the kitchen side, you can enjoy finely crafted Mediterranean dishes. An ideal place for a candlelight dinner or to celebrate a moment with friends or family.

" Think globally, eat locally " reads the sign on the front of Locals Only, a small restaurant inspired by Italian osterias, located in the lively Plaça del Parque. The owner, Tito Piazza, is the master of his battalion of waiters, who swirl around the pretty candlelit terrace or in the dimly lit service room. On the menu, simple and very good dishes made from local products, but also a few sweets from other parts of the Mediterranean. Very pleasant atmosphere. Spanish and Italian wines.

A great classic, the Bidebide is a restaurant of Basque cuisine with a canteen atmosphere, where you can eat either sitting or standing. The bar is lined up with a variety of pintxos (small slices of bread topped with food) that you can pick up yourself by putting the sticks aside to pay your bill. Some good wines, simple cocktails (the gin and tonics are very successful). An economical and warm address from which one comes out with a full belly. A good option at any time of the day!

Located in an emblematic building in Granada, near the Río Genil, La Cuchara in Carmela offers a map with colourful tastes and culinary traditions that will complement your experience in the region. In a welcoming lounge or on the large terrace you can enjoy traditional dishes and market suggestions. The rusa rusa, the huevos rotos con dads y de, the bacalao ou or el Rabo el of Toro estofado are recommended.

In this establishment, you can enjoy both the traditional tapas and pescado fried potatoes, as well as the delicious rice or seafood from the coast. Located next to Bib Rambla Square and the entrance to the main square of the Cathedral, El Pescaito offers a very good selection of fish in a pleasant environment where you can spend a good time during your stay. We recommend croquetones de gamba o bacalao, tortitas de camarones, mariscada or el arroz con bogavante. To be enjoyed in a room or on a terrace, on a pedestrian street.

In a simple and warm comedor, you can eat white beans, an Ávila beef coast or a roasted milk pig, and a dessert house. A robust and goûteuse kitchen, nothing more typical in the region.

This is where many people live in La Pola de Gordón because the menu changes every day. So you should see the cocido or caldereta, the favourite stews of the city.

Located in the lively street of San Lorenzo, this establishment is one of the city's references for its traditional cuisine with an avant-garde touch. It serves original and tasty tapas: egg with truffle and mushrooms, tuna tataki with soy sauce, pan-fried foie gras with mango jam, blood sausage with piquillo sauce... Don't go without, the establishment has actually won awards for its tapas in 2018 and 2019. Nice references in terms of wines. An interesting stop on the Burgos tapas route!

Housed in a beautiful th century hotel, this restaurant offers a typical décor with rugged stone walls and a warm atmosphere. It serves good regional cuisine, which makes it a beautiful part of stews and other meats in sauce.

This large restaurant is a popular venue for celebrations of all kinds, especially for weddings, as it has extensive gardens. It serves Castilian cuisine, including a good lechazo (milk lamb) cooked in the traditional oven.

This restaurant occupies a beautiful mutiny brick house, located right next to the tower of the former San Martín church. It is in this historic setting that you taste the specialty of the house, the lamb grilled in the oven. A real Castillan cuisine, a pleasant welcome and good desserts: This is the best address in the city!

In a huge area entirely decorated with bullfighting, old and contemporary posters, two large chimneys operate continuously to cook grilled, fish and other chorizitos. The meat is of course excellent, always very well cooked, and the house gazpacho very successful and refreshing. A good choice of small tapas for more modest appetites. Small inner courtyard.

A family restaurant where you can share a mariscada (seafood tray) at a low price. We also eat fried squid and coques à.

The staff were very friendly and helpful. Tapas and raciones generously served for a low price and ambience guaranteed evenings of sporting meetings!

Specialties of meat and fish to plancha. Well located for lunch, before or after the visit of the cave.

A priori, one would think in front of the typical village bar-restaurant, and yet Cal Boria is much better than what he suggests. For more than 50 years, this restaurant serves good local specialities as well as a quality day menu. And for a few more euros, you can even offer delicious cargols with llauna.

Despite a confusing location next to a petrol station and a reluctant facade, you must recognize that you eat well in this small popular restaurant! One thing is sure, you get the stomach well-filled for a low price.

In this family-run hotel we serve traditional cuisine with a touch of innovation, but also sandwiches or tapas for small snacks. The kindness of reception is also one of the strengths of Rincón Del Gallo. A good address!

With a chef from Valencia, it is not surprising that paella are the speciality of this small restaurant. The menu of the day, developed with seasonal products, will be appreciated in a modern and pleasant setting.

Contemporary and informal in the "gastrobar" area, chic and intimate in the restaurant area, the Plaza mixes atmospheres to suit everyone's desires. True to this spirit, the menu offers tapas as well as good meat and fish dishes. Among other delicacies, you can choose between hake and spider crab mille-feuille, beef cheek with cinnamon purée or grilled pork with roasted apple cream. Real delights! We also like the very attentive service and the lively terrace.

At the entrance, a typical village bar frequented by guests. Join the restaurant room to discover a beautiful, rustic and mountainous decor with dark stone walls. It serves an excellent menu of the day with more than generous servings! Meat cooked in sauce is excellent.

This typical Posada, opened in 2014, serves as a hotel and restaurant. It owes its name to the old water mill that has operated for over 400 years. Traditional dishes such as four in the oven (milk pig) or grilled lamb are served.

This is undoubtedly the best table in the region. Rewarded by a Michelin star, the Solana restaurant enjoys a superb setting in a green environment near the Sanctuary of the Good Aparecida. Here, Chef Ignacio Solana runs the kitchens of this family establishment, which is passed from generation to generation. But the modest post-war tavern has little to do with today's elegant restaurant, which offers a genuine gastronomic parenthesis. A must in its category.

The hotel was very close to the city centre and was very close to the metro station. Nothing very elaborate, but honest cuisine to make feast at modest prices.

In a traditional setting, under beautiful stone vaults, modern cuisine is served with organic or nearby products. Special mention of the careful presentation of the dishes and the good grilled meats have la. The establishment, located on Plaça Major, occupies an old bakery («forn» in Catalan).

Ideal for taking the pulse of this calle feria, one of Seville's up-and-coming streets. And ideal too for beer lovers, given its reputation as a "temple" of good beer, which flows easily. Serve with a tapeo of mussels, cod, traditional Andalusian mojama, a fillet of dried tuna and a few olives. And let's not forget the house vermouth, with its orangey taste, which is also very famous. And it's all done standing up, even if a few tables and chairs have been added. But every pleasure is worth its trouble...

Located in the still mild part of the Montée climb, this typically asturian chigre offers the essential (buddy and fabada) but also hunting products like wild boar or kid. For the guts (callos), it will take the month of October. Only a constraint, it only opens on weekends.

He belongs to the very select club of Mesas de Asturias and offers traditional cuisine revisited but without excesses. The great specialty: fish from the Cantabrian area, on menus and on your plate according to the auction, and served in a very cosy atmosphere. 

Located on the beautiful Plaza Mayor, this place dedicated to Asturian cuisine has a French chef, Denise Edeline, who since 2012 is committed to mixing Asturian products and original recipes. The result is to be tasted in a large dining room, at the bar or on the terrace. The dishes follow the logic of the season and the market to which the menu is adapted. But you will always be able to enjoy an assortment of Asturian cheeses served with membrillo or a delicious cassolette of Asturian fabada . Great wine list.

In this great sidrería you can taste the safe values of the region as the cachopos, a species of Milanese steak, but much more abundant and fureur in Asturias at this time. She is also renowned for the quality of her home meat and desserts. 

For many years, the Josetxo restaurant has been a reference point in Pamplona. After closing in 2012, it reopened in 2015 under the name Errejota. Today the grandchildren of the founders run this restaurant of traditional cuisine. There are three menus to choose from: the "Erre" and "Jota" menus, which include a starter, main course and dessert, and the tasting menu, which is a very good and tasty way to get to know the culinary heritage of Pamplona and Navarre in general.

The Mesón El Buen Yantar restaurant is a small, unpretentious asador that delights pilgrims with its hearty dishes and grilled meat (and fish). The decor is nothing extraordinary, but the cuisine is simple and tasty, featuring a wide variety of dishes typical of the region. What more could you ask for than the best value for money and a pleasant "home-like" atmosphere? This asador is definitely a recommended address!

Although the Hotel Pamplona Catedral is housed in a former convent of the Casco Viejo de Pamplona, its restaurant - called La Capilla - occupies the former chapel. The original architecture of the sacred place has been completely preserved, with its heart and its meticulously worked stained glass windows, while the walls, floor and ceiling are immaculately white, creating a unique visual atmosphere. In this unusual setting, one can enjoy a traditional cuisine revisited and presented with great care. A very original experience!

Small restaurant with a fairly standard decoration, but where you can eat very well, especially delicious arroces (rice) and revueltos (egg-based), which are the specialities of the house. The chef Iván R. Arrizabalaga is inspired by both his Cantabrian and Basque roots, creating unique flavours based on local products. The Tradition menu also allows you to taste the traditional anchovies and clams from Santoña. Since its opening in 2009, the establishment has even received several awards, including the award for best brochette in 2019.

With its large mountain canteen atmosphere - massive beams, sturdy wooden chairs, subdued lighting - the atmosphere at El Bodegon is childlike and the meals are really hearty. With beautiful pieces of meat (including the famous Kobe beef), Catalan sausages, and mountain dishes... If the prices are a little higher than elsewhere, the quality is there. It will be a pleasant and perfect stop to get back on the slopes before setting off again. Courteous and professional service.