Restaurants in Castilla Y León
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El Grillo Azul
Vegetarian visitors to Salamanca have a treat that's rare in Castilian towns – a real-life vegetarian restaurant. It's a buzzy place with attractive blue-and-white decor and a creative menu that includes a plato degustación (€11.50): a veritable veggie feast for two with taster portions of dishes like grilled seitan or tofu, vegetable soufflé, wild mushrooms and inventive salads.
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La Parrilla del Humedo
This place is always packed with euro-economising leonéses, here for the remarkably good house wine and accompanying free and good-size tapas; both for the bargain-basement price of €1.50. These tasty bites include fried potatoes with alioli (garlic mayonnaise) and sauteed mushrooms. Head for the dining room out back for heartier portions, including the city's fabled el morcilla de León (León-style blood sausage) or, for lightweights, a plate of tasty pimientos de padrón (small roasted peppers).
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La Fabula
With local celebrity chef Isabel Alvarez at the helm, fabulous La Fabula offers innovative slimmed-down dishes in a bright, modern dining room filled with classical music. The menu includes tasty rice dishes and summery light eats, like crispy vegetable spring rolls. Fortunately this should leave plenty of space for one of the delectable desserts. The chocolate soufflé with mango ice cream and yoghurt mousse comes plumply recommended. Reservations essential.
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Alfonso Valderas
The city’s most famous restaurant for bacalao (salt cod) prepared around 20 different ways, including al pil-pil (with a spicy chilli sauce), with the local queso valdeóon cheese and with a salsa de oricios (sea urchin sauce). There are also meat, fish and rice mains. The dining room is grandly elegant, with a magnificent grandfather clock and a baffling display cabinet of antique shoes. Reservations recommended.
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El Llar
This old León taberna is a great place to tapear (eat tapas) with its innovative selection of raciones that includes baked potatoes filled with wild mushrooms and prawns au gratin. The upstairs restaurant has a fine classic look and the menu includes vegetarian options like fresh leeks prepared in puff pastry and a seven salad choice. There is an excellent wine list to complement your meal.
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Restaurante El Fogón Sefardí
Located within the Hospedería La Gran Casa Mudéjar, this is one of the most original places in town. Sephardic cuisine is served in either the intimate patio or splendid dining hall with original, 15th-century Mudéjar flourishes. The theme in the bar is equally diverse with dishes from all the continents, including cous cous from Africa and Argentinean steak from the Americas. Reservations recommended.
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Restaurante Luisón
This place could only exist in Spain - basic surrounds, offhand waiters and terrific, hearty food that keeps the locals fortified during cold winters. You'll need to book ahead, especially at lunchtime, when leonéses can't get enough of the local botillo berciano, a succulent pork dish, or cocido leónes (León-style chickpea stew).
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Di Vino
Dine in snazzy modern surroundings on dishes that combine the traditional, like pierna de cabrito al horno (roasted leg of lamb), with the innovative, like the starter of bacalau bloody mary (cod-infused bloody mary) or risotto with artichokes and prawns. The restaurant prides itself on its extensive wine list. Reservations recommended.
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Casa Ojeda
Dating from 1912, this Burgos institution, all sheathed in dark wood with stunning mullioned windows, is one of the best places in town to try cordero asado. The upstairs dining room has outstanding food and faultless service. A more limited range of platos combinados is available in the downstairs bar. Reservations recommended.
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Casa Duque
They've been serving cochinillo asado here since the 1890s. For the uninitiated, try the menú segoviano (€31), which includes cochinillo, or the menú gastronómico (€40). Downstairs is the informal cueva (cave), where you can get tapas and full-bodied cazuelas (stews). Reservations recommended.
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El Pecado
A trendy place that regularly attracts Spanish celebrities (eg Pedro Almodóvar and Ferran Adrià), El Pecado (‘The Sin’) has an intimate dining room and a quirky, creative menu. The hallmarks are fresh tastes, intriguing combinations and dishes that regularly change according to what is fresh in the market that day. Reservations recommended.
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El Tizón
The tapas are good here, but the small sit-down restaurant, with its abundant range of raciones, is even better. House specialities include the local embutidos. More adventurous souls can order caracoles (snails) or ancas de rana (frog legs). There's an extensive wine list. Reservations recommended.
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La Comidilla de San Lorenzo
Opened in early 2010, this place has a young upbeat vibe with art exhibitions, cool modern decor and a menu that includes accomplished and innovative dishes like secreto con salsa de frambuesa (steak with raspberry sauce) and tacos de atun con puré de patatas y pimiento (tuna tacos with mashed potatoes and peppers).
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Restaurante La Luna
This place has an upbeat young vibe with a background of cool jazz and interesting dishes that deviate from the grilled meats’ norm, like salmon prepared a variety of ways and stuffed vegetables, including aubergines, topped with cheese. The downstairs is crowded and intimate; the upstairs bright and modern.
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Cervecería Morito
Cervecería Morito is the undisputed king of Burgos tapas bars and it’s always crowded. A typical order is alpargata (lashings of cured ham with bread, tomato and olive oil) or calamares fritos (fried calamari). The presentation is surprising nouvelle, especially the visual feast of salads.
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Mesón Las Conchas
Enjoy a choice of outdoor tables (in summer), an atmospheric bar or the upstairs, wood-beamed dining area. The bar caters mainly to locals who know their embutidos (cured meats). For sit-down meals, there’s a good mix of roasts, platos combinados and raciones.
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La Favorita
Away from the main Burgos tapas hub and close to the cathedral, La Favorita has a barn-like interior of exposed brick and wooden beams, and attracts slicked-back-hair businessmen at midday. The emphasis is on local cured meats and cheeses, and wine by the glass starts at €1.50.
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Mesón Cervantes
This is a great place where you can eat at the outdoor tables on the plaza, but the dark wooden beams and atmospheric buzz of the Spanish crowd on the 1st floor should be experienced at least once. The food’s a mix of platos combinados, salads and raciones.
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Estrella de Galicia
This sprawling modern restaurant is located in the middle of this popular shopping street and attracts a mix of the lunchbreak business bunch and shoppers. All that's good about northwestern Spanish cuisine can be found here, with Galician seafood, Cantabrian fish and cured meats from the northern interior. The pulpo (octopus) is a great order but Estrella also does salads, mini-rolls and a host of raciones.
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Casa Paca
Established in 1928 and still going strong, Casa Paca is rumoured to be where the king dines when in town. Both the restaurant and its most famous patron are known for their love of hearty dishes like cochinillo asado (roast suckling pig). Reservations essential.
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Restaurante Zuloaga
Located in the vaults of an early-20th-century palace, this sophisticated place has a well-stocked cellar and classy adventurous menu. Starters include Andalusian-style partridge salad followed by mains like duck confit with dried fruits. Reservations recommended.
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La Flor de Castilla
This patisserie-cum-restaurant is not only a fine place to buy a yema de Santa Teresa, (a sticky, ultra sweet cookie made of egg yolk and sugar), but also a rare place that serves red-meat alternatives like quiches and fettuccini with a choice of sauces.
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Mesón del Rastro
The dark-wood beamed interior announces immediately that this is a bastion of robust Castilian cooking. Expect delicious mainstays such as judías del barco de Ávila and cordero asado (roast lamb) and, regrettably, the occasional coach tour.
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Limón y Menta
The patisserie Limón y Menta, just off Plaza Mayor, is a good place to indulge in your ponche passion. This is a rich lemon-infused sponge cake coated with marzipan and topped in icing sugar with a distinctive criss-cross pattern.
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Zazu Bistro
Expect smooth sounds on the stereo, and Italian-inspired dishes including exceedingly moreish risottos (with wild mushrooms and similar). There are some culinary surprises as well, like that delectable British standard, sticky toffee pudding, for dessert.
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