The best restaurants Côte nord Espagne

A reference of Tudela, you will see at the entrance a collection of photos of the many celebrities who have passed through here ... But with the modernization of the restaurant and a new direction, the mesón Julian has lost some of its soul. Its traditional cuisine is still a good option for a meal in Tudela: Pork gyozas with vegetables, rabbit terrine with black olives and parmesan, lamb cooked at low temperature with small potatoes, grouper and seafood stew, pulpo a la plancha... The desserts will have the favours of gourmets!

In a beautiful rustic room, around a sturdy stone fireplace, you can enjoy good local recipes and game dishes (in season). The portions are greedy, not to say generous: piquillo peppers, chipirons, thrushes with porcini mushrooms, grilled prime rib are some of the specialties of the house, while for dessert you can taste the local sheep's cheese and honey cuajadas. Very authentic! A highly recommended stopover to regain strength in a rustic and typically Basque setting.

The unmissable restaurant of Bakio, facing the peninsula of San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, in a superb caserío built in 1816. Here you can enjoy traditional cuisine in a very pleasant environment, with huge gardens all around. Under the beautiful rustic frame, you will be served a txangurro (crab) salad, clams a la plancha, and a fine selection of fresh fish a la parilla. Those who are curious can take a look at the restaurant's small ethnographic museum. For a more modest budget, delicious pintxos in the restaurant's bar.

One of the Parte Vieja's must-visit tapas bars: the celebrity photos, press articles and numerous awards hanging on its walls testify to its deserved status as an institution! Manu Marañón, the current owner, inherited this maritime bar from his grandparents. He continues to prepare the house specialty: boquerones, anchovies marinated in vinegar. Must-tries: pintxo d'antxoas con crema de centollo (anchovies with crab cream) and jardinera, made with red and green peppers and onion.

In a very minimalist decor, the NH Collection Aránzazu hotel restaurant has forged its own identity thanks to the inventive and contemporary dishes signed by chef Martín Aristondo. Located opposite the Zubimusu Park, less than 10 minutes walk from the beautiful beach of Ondarreta, this restaurant with its uncluttered setting is very popular with the locals. In addition to its excellent tapas and raciones, Kukuarri stands out for its always innovative market cuisine. Favour the tasting menu, which offers good value for money!

This restaurant, in the heart of Santander, offers good quality Spanish specialities. You can enjoy tapas at the bar or more hearty dishes in the dining room on the first floor. Outside terrace.

For more than 50 years, this restaurant has been delighting locals and lucky visitors alike. As everywhere in Tudela, vegetables are king and treated as such. If you want to discover the flavours of the Ribera land, this is the place not to be missed. Some suggestions to whet your appetite: crispy puff pastry filled with cream of leek and prawns, roasted white asparagus and poached eggs, black monkfish fillet with ratatouille, Pluma ibérica with its potato and garlic cream. The wine list allows you to choose from more than 300 references.

A Parte Vieja classic! This traditional house, founded in 1948, offers two charming atmospheres: a very nice tapas bar where you can taste various pintxos, and a restaurant run by Aitziber which offers a culinary journey around Basque cuisine, with specialities such as chuletón (prime rib), hongos a la plancha (sautéed mushrooms) or anchoas fritas (anchovies), with an excellent regional wine list. For dessert, don't miss the delicious tarta de queso (cheesecake). A good address and good value for money.

Very pleasant terrace overlooking the port, this port where the chef of Jokin supplies himself made from fresh fish to serve a seasonal cuisine and quality.

The younger brother of a bar of the same name in Melbourne, this restaurant was born out of Gerald's passion, originally from Australia, for the cuisine of northern Spain. In the heart of Le Gros, it is a singular place, with its wooded decor and jazzy music, its cuisine sometimes international, sometimes rooted. Depending on the season and the market produce, you can enjoy a steak tartare of pikaña (a very tender piece of beef), sole meunière or red mullet with leeks. The most intrepid will give the chief carte blanche. A place with a soul!

The hotel is a great place to stay in the heart of the city. They eat very good raciones: stuffed peppers, plate of ham from country, squid to Roman, in a very playful atmosphere.

A very popular cider house, always very lively, where you can drink cider at the counter accompanied by chorizos. The restaurant's dishes are authentically Asturian, such as fabada, cod or octopus. You can also try a rabbit, homemade tripe(callos) or a fillet with Cabrales cheese from the daily menu. You can end your meal with an excellent home-made rice pudding. Friendly and competent staff. The place is popular with locals and tourists, so make sure you book in advance.

In this traditional cider house, we have lunch and dinner in a large comedor, in a relaxed atmosphere. On the menu: fish (turbot, sea bream, bass...), cooked Asturian style and washed down with cider and fresh seafood, such as Cantabrian crab or shrimp a la plancha. There are also variations on beans, such as the emblematic Fabes con almejas (beans with clams). Those with a sweet tooth will be tempted by one of the house desserts, such as the tasty apple pie. Very friendly service.

If what you want, it is to eat fish and it is all, this is where you need to go. In this restaurant located on the beach in la Vega, run by Abel and Luisa Álvarez, it makes a point of honour to have only made of fish, receipts of the nearby ports (Luarca, Lastres, Llanes or Ribadesella) and follow the seasons: fattier fish like the bar or the grouper in spring and tuna or sardines or xardas when the weather is warmer. Served the plancha ou has the parilla in which they are the large specialists. To taste, inside or on the terrace, facing the sea!

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. 

If the outside of this restaurant does not pay a mine, the contents of the plates put everyone in agreement. Many menus, one for two, at € 32. The service is friendly and the dishes are much more plentiful than expected!

Situated in the pretty square of Trascorrales, this traditional restaurant serves excellent market cuisine. The dishes in sauce are simmered over a low fire with good local produce, bought at the local market, and many traditional specialities, such as frixuelos with leeks and prawns or the unmissable fabada. Also delicious fish such as Cudillero hake or fresh squid served in their ink. In season, mushroom dishes are also worth a visit. A charming address!

The whole city finds itself in the evening in this old cellar with unchanged décor for ages. Under high ceilings, among the rows of dusty bottles and large posters of spirits, we are quickly won by the room. On the bar, around a glass of Rioja, or in the large hall of the bottom, to share tapas, the place is unavoidable! Test fringes (frills of all kinds), the specialty of the house, but do not hesitate to order half-servings because the quantities are really generous! Nice atmosphere!

Located in the square of the same name, the Cañadío is one of the city's best restaurants, known throughout the region for the succulent fish and other regional specialties concocted with talent by its chef Paco Quiros. If you can't afford the luxury of a meal at this price, take advantage of the bar where the variety of tapas and raciones , each as delicious as the next, will quickly make you forget about the tablecloths in the next room. Attention, success obliges, if you come one weekend in May or in summer, the barra is taken by storm!

Traditional cuisine in this small restaurant very busy at the time of the tapas.

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.

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.

Discover deep Galicia in this popular shop. A few locals discuss with animation in a language Portuguese please, it is Galician. On the few small tables, you can use family dishes with excellent seafood and at the end of the meal the boss does not miss to give you the little glass of water of the house. Excellent location to discover, at very low prices, Galician cuisine. A council does not come too late, because at 14 a. m. the boss refuses the world.

This is not the great speciality of the city, but it has the particularity of offering 13 types of tortillas (asparagus, mushrooms, tuna, gambas…) for 4 €. Test and taste, beside a literary café. 

Located next to the Santa María la Real church, this restaurant is located in the hotel of the same name. It offers a charming setting in a large room with stone and wood panelling, where you can enjoy a full menu. You can also choose from a wide range of meat and fish dishes à la carte. The hotel has 5 charming double rooms with exposed stonework and chestnut wood ceilings.

The Asador Aritza is a restaurant with a decoration as warm as its owners, Juanjo and Aurora, who offer traditional regional cuisine made with delicious seasonal products. You can taste vegetables from the fields or vegetable garden (mushrooms, asparagus, red and green beans, spinach), meats (mainly beef but also seasonal game, especially pigeon), fish a la parilla, and the typical ajoarriero. Each ingredient comes from organic agriculture and livestock farming. An authentic address.

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.

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!

Located in the center of the village, near the fronton, Ibarberoa is an establishment that houses a bar and a dining room where you can enjoy a menu of the day, but also more elaborate menus that explore all the richness of Navarrese soil. The restaurant has a vegetable garden, whose fresh vegetables are used to prepare traditional dishes: Castilian soup or mushroom and shrimp omelette for starters; grilled grouper or grilled rib steak for the main course; homemade cheese flan or countess pie for dessert... A feast in sight!

La Mandarra de la Ramos is a casco antiguo bar whose decoration pays homage to Pamplona's festivities, the famous Sanfermines. An impressive collection of photographs is on display on the walls, showing a beautiful slice of the city's folklore. A place of culture, the restaurant's service room also serves as an exhibition space for the works of local artists. An appetizing selection of pintxos and other tapas, especially tostadicas served on a nice slice of bread. An emblematic place in Pamplona.

It is impossible to miss the Cerveceria La Estafeta, with its ancient wall bearing two lions and a medieval coat of arms. This tavern is one of the places well known to the people of Pamplona, with a well-stocked bar serving simple but absolutely delicious dishes. Alberto's warm welcome and local atmosphere: you can eat standing up, close together, for a small fee. A very good option for those with strong appetites who would like to avoid ruining themselves while getting a little closer to the authentic Pamplona.

Managed by Maite López Santxotena, representative of the fourth generation of a whole saga of cooks, the Santxotena restaurant serves traditional dishes made with local and seasonal products. Rather than the large dining room, prefer its cosy little comedor, where you can see the cooks at work. A la carte, soups, fish (koxkera hake, monkfish or squid cooked in squid ink) and good meat stews (the veal cutlet and game in season deserve to be carefully considered).

Here, the Navarrese culinary tradition is in the spotlight. In well garnished plates, enjoy stuffed asparagus, accompanied by cod or crayfish. Meat is also well represented, with deer, duck breast, lamb chops a la plancha or a beautiful entrecote steak with roquefort sauce on the menu. The desserts are rather tempting too, whether it is the fresh cheese mousse with raspberries and honey ice cream or the fig ice cream with coffee sauce. Simple cuisine, old-fashioned decor, good value for money.

An excellent address, known for its authenticity. In fact, Túbal is a family story. The current owner, Atxen Jimenez, readily recounts that from a young age she helped her parents run the Bar Túbal, also located in Plaza de Navarra. Nowadays, her children have taken over and are renewing the traditional Navarrese recipes with imagination. The dishes can be enjoyed in an elegant dining room with a piano bar area. Some suggestions? Mushroom risotto, duck confit, roasted lobster...

The Asador Mediavila is a grill restaurant located in the medieval centre of Sangüesa, which seduces with its rustic décor and huge stoves visible from the restaurant hall. Lovers of good bidoche will be in heaven here, and to accompany your meats, you can choose from several wines from Rioja and Navarre. If grilled meat or fish isn't part of your daily diet, you can always find something to suit your taste in the many suggestions for starters! Typical Navarrese address.

With its terrace overlooking the main paseo of the village, this small restaurant constantly attracts a crowd of locals. It's hard to find your way around, but if you do, you'll be rewarded with tasty and inexpensive traditional cuisine. After a few patatas bravas or slices of chorizo with cider to share, you will have the choice between several salads, some platos combinados (meat or fish with garnish), a short list of burgers and sandwiches. Sweet tooth, be aware that the desserts here are quite tasty.

In an old restored 17th century palace, this renowned restaurant-cider house serves regional cuisine based on cod, chuletas and vegetables, not forgetting cider, when it's in season. As for the owner, he is very welcoming and is not short of anecdotes! The establishment also has a guesthouse on the first floor, where you can stay in one of the three single rooms or the four double rooms with the simplest of decorations, all of which have their own bathroom and a small balcony overlooking the street.

In this modern restaurant, the famous Tudela vegetables come mostly from the vegetable garden of Manolo, the owner's father. The care given to the produce is therefore immense, as is the warm welcome reserved for the customers (in French!), and it is above all this that makes the difference. The cuisine we taste here is both simple and refined, authentic and sincere, and largely vegetarian. The wine selection is also worth a visit. A beautiful address. A highly recommended healthy stopover!

Charming rustic restaurant in the heart of the village, with a fireplace in the dining room and a nice terrace upon arrival of the beautiful days. We eat a complete desert menu with seasonal products.