Santander Restaurants

  1. A,11

    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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  2. Bar Del Puerto

    With its grand windows looking out over 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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  3. 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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  4. Bodegas Mazón

    This cavernous wine cellar serves up varied raciones (large tapas) 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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  5. Café de Pombo

    Café de Pombo, on the like named square, is one of the city's most pleasant and elegant lingering breakfast stops.

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  6. El Serbal

    Probably the best restaurant in town, this elegantly understated place (beneath a brick high-rise apartment block) offers the experience of modern, imaginative twists on essential typical northern Spanish food. Exquisitely prepared fish dishes star.

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  7. La Conveniente

    This cavernous bodega (wine cellar) 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 (locals queue with unlimited patience) for a seat out back (or just snack at the bar). A piano man tinkles on a raised gallery but the noisy bonhomie tends to leave him little hope of being heard. You might go for a cheese tabla (platter) or other classic raciones (large tapas).

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  8. La Flor de Tetuán

    Anything from a salad filled with crayfish to a slab of catch of the day lightly grilled, this is a simple seafood delight. Most items are sold by weight and this is the best of a series of four seafood eateries on this strip.

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