Restaurants in Santander
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La Conveniente
This cavernous bodega has high stone walls, wooden pillars and beams, and more wine bottles than you may ever have seen in one place. Squeeze into the tram-like enclosure at the front or line up for a seat out back (or just snack at the bar). The food offerings are fairly straightforward – tablas (platters) of cheese, embutidos (sausages), ham, pâtés – and servings are generous.
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The white brick walls, black-and-white photos and space to sit and converse augur something out of the ordinary, and the tapas meet that challenge with their mix of Cantabrian, Andalucian and international flavours. Try a mini chicken tandoori brochette or a quesadilla with ibérico ham and cream cheese, along with a glass of one of the lyrically described wines.
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El Serbal
Probably the best restaurant in town, Serbal is an elegantly understated place beneath a brick apartment block. It offers imaginative twists on essentially typical northern Spanish food – like serving loin of beef with ham-and-truffle ravioli and potatoes cooked in clay. You could let rip with a tasting menu (€56).
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Cañadío
A tastefully modernised place with art on the red walls, high-backed chairs, fine linen and timber floors, Cañadío offers creative cooking with local inspiration. Hake is prepared every which way. Or you can join the crowds in the front bar for ultra-tempting tapas.
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Bodegas Mazón
This cavernous wine cellar serves up varied raciones (large tapas servings) at a long timber bar. The selections are chalked on great lumbering vats and behind you are piled huge barrels of wine and sherry. Proceed out the back for a sit-down meal.
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La Flor de Tetuán
A simple seafood delight, offering anything from a crayfish-filled salad to a slab of catch-of-the-day lightly grilled. Most shellfish are sold by weight. It’s the best of a strip of four small, packed seafood eateries on this street.
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Bar Del Puerto
With its grand windows looking out towards the waterfront of the Puerto Chico, this is the perfect spot for damn-near-perfect seafood. Your choice of critter will have a huge influence on the fiscal outlay.
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Gourmet sophistication and big-city-style bright lights have landed here, a respectful distance from the classic bodegas but packed to screaming point with locals after something a little different.
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Mesón Rampalay
The packed Rampalay is a don’t-miss Santander classic. It has a particularly tempting array of tapas, from pheasant breast or sirloin in wine to eggs scrambled with shrimps and asparagus.
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Caféde Pombo
On the square of the same name, this is one of the city's most pleasant and elegant lingering breakfast stops. A hot chocolate on the square comes in at €1.75.
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Bodega Cigaleña
A lovely and classic bar for tapas, wine and laughter, this is one of the best and most popular of its ilk in the old town.
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