The best restaurants Galice - Asturies - Cantabrie

Traditional cuisine renovated, which can be tasted, if time permits, on a lovely terrace. In the dining room, the white tablecloths are designed to welcome Miguel Angel Campos, a chef with a long experience in the gastronomic panorama of Ferrol. À la carte, some exotic dishes such as "maki" mayonnaise in wasabi mayonnaise or bao brioche with smoked eel, and more classic dishes developed with excellent products.

Since we are in the city of the "Indianos", nothing is more normal than to offer a good Mexican meal! Chicken or beef nachos, tacos, quesadillas, fish ceviches ... all the Mexican specialties are offered in this nice family restaurant. The portions are tasty and generous, at reasonable prices. Save a little room for the homemade desserts such as the chocolate cake and its white chocolate topping. Wide choice of house cocktails, including some typical of Mexico.

In their restaurant in the heart of Avilés, Conchi Álvarez and Mario Céspedes offer a surprising fusion cuisine, combining influences from Asturias, Japan and Peru. On the menu, ceviches, sushi and gyozas rub shoulders with braised octopus and carrilleras (pork) accompanied by truffle rice, to be shared around a high table (indoors) or a barrel (outdoors) for a convivial meal. Since its opening in 2011, the establishment has become a gastronomic reference in the region.

The young leader is overflowing with creativity and going. Its cuisine, simple and harmonious, has a festive air.

It is the best restaurant in the region, awarded 2 stars in the Michelin guide. In the modest house of his childhood, surrounded by hills and mountains, Nacho Manzano offers his very personal version of Asturian cuisine, between avant-garde and tradition. Local products and seafood are tasted in a beautiful rustic-chic setting, with the possibility of discovering each dish à la carte. There are also several menus with different dishes to try, for a most exceptional gastronomic experience.

A rustic cuisine of a very rustic type.

The hotel has its own restaurant, which offers tasty home-made cuisine made with local products. On sunny days you can sit in the veranda, which is very pleasant, or in the rustic dining room on rainy days. We recommend the fresh, tasty and well-prepared chipirones a la plancha, as well as the soft and succulent fish cake. For dessert, don't miss the rice pudding and cheesecake, real delights!

This is an establishment that should appeal to children at snack time with its recreation area and its wooded area. The wooden tables are distributed over several levels, offering beautiful views of the town of San Esteban de Pravia (self-service). The restaurant downstairs offers delicious meat parillas, which are highly recommended. You can also enjoy fish and Asturian specialities such as fabada. The portions are also generous and the staff is very attentive. What more could you ask for?

Located on the port of Ribadeo, this restaurant has a nice traditional comedor, with stone walls and beams on the ceiling. It is a pleasant place to sit and enjoy scallops, clams and shrimp. The house also specializes in seafood paellas and fish à la plancha. The menu also offers a wide range of meats, such as a delicious Asturian beef rib or duck breast. Without a doubt, the best address in the area to enjoy good seafood cuisine.

Plates of country ham and farm cheese (delicious goat Chèvre) to be tasted in the bar with a red ball in company of the regulars of the raw. The restaurant offers a mountain map. Don't miss the lebaniego lebaniego, the speciality of the house.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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 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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

We come here for seafood and fish caught in the sea and tailored in a thousand ways. The restaurant was very clean, but the room was very clean. 

Simple and cheap.

One of the institutions with tapas of La Corogne. In a popular and lively atmosphere, you tortillas pecks, bread with tomato, ham, squid in ink, their of marinated octopus, while sipping a small local wine or a local beer.

In the shade of the arcades of this beautiful building, this popular inn welcomes a mixture of locals and pilgrims, the proportion of each of these populations varying greatly according to the season. The menu is varied, and the dishes are hearty, worthy representatives of the local family cuisine. You are in the heart of the historic district of Portomarin, and therefore ideally placed to visit the surroundings and watch the people pass by once seated. The reception is up to par and the staff is attentive to your every need.

The interior of the restaurant is furnished in Portuguese Baroque style. The hotel is located right in front of the marina, and the map offers mainly fish and shellfish. To recommend: rice for lobster.

On the corner of a pretty plaza where the church of Santa Lucía stands, this classic mesón offers a pleasant stop to share a plate of rabas (fried calamari), grilled anchovies, cold cuts and cheese or nibble on pinchos at the bar, of which there is a wide variety of choices. A la carte, many regional specialities are served in the form of raciones. You can enjoy them in the restaurant's noisy dining room at peak times or on the shaded terrace. Tasty, warm and unpretentious!

Every morning, chef Lucía Freitas chooses the best produce from her vegetable garden before continuing her shopping at Mercado de Abastos. With a Michelin star in 2018, A Tafona guarantees modern gastronomy, freshness and local flavors in the plates! Depending on the seasonality and local productions, the chef offers a colorful author's cuisine: each dish is a small work of art. Opt for the tasting menu and let your taste buds travel.

Opposite the Riazor stadium, this restaurant, as its name suggests, specialises in octopus, prepared in a variety of ways. Of course, you can try the traditional pulpo a la gallega, but you can also try grilled octopus as a dish or as toast, among other suggestions. The establishment is also known for its varied tapas and delicately cooked local meats. It is best to sit out on the terrace, which is very pleasant, especially on sunny days. The prices are also reasonable and the staff is friendly and attentive to customers. What more could you ask for?

This is an unpretentious restaurant that will delight your taste buds with its tasty and varied dishes. It is run by Quique Vázquez and Ana Senarís, a friendly couple who offer simple and relaxed cuisine at reasonable prices. One of the reasons for coming here is the wide range of rice dishes, tartars and local meats, accompanied by one of the local wines on offer. For dessert, treat your taste buds to the pumpkin-passion cheesecake with honey meringue. Deliciously good!

Close to Riazor beach, this restaurant has a very good reputation among the locals for its delicate cuisine based on local products. You can enjoy both traditional and creative dishes in a pleasant room with a contemporary decor. Don't miss the star dish of the house, the crispy baskets of scallops with crab cream. Other specialities will also delight your taste buds such as the smoked salmon rolls with shrimp tartar, the famous octopus a la gallega or the rice with carabineros broth. To be discovered!

On the port of Luarca, this small typical restaurant will allow you to fill up with iodine! Inspired by the tide of the day, the chef proposes a concise but changing menu: the dishes depend on the arrival of fish, freshness is guaranteed! With a view of the port and its picturesque boats, the setting is more than idyllic for savoring red mullet, scallops or spider crabs. The more meat lovers will opt for the fabada, a kind of local cassoulet combining chorizo, black pudding and pork shoulder. Impeccable service and attentive staff.