Restaurants in Salamanca
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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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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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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; it's a reasonably priced place to sample high-quality, innovative Spanish cooking. The hallmarks are fresh tastes, intriguing combinations and dishes that regularly change according to what's fresh at the market that day. Reservations recommended.
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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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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 (full-plate-size tapas serving). It serves a couple of cured meat platters (€17 to €20) that can be good to share. If you're craving fish, the oven-baked turbot is delicious.
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Mesón Cervantes
Although there are outdoor tables on the square, the dark wooden beams and atmospheric buzz of the Spanish crowd on the 1st floor should be experienced at least once; if you snaffle a window table in the evening, you've hit the jackpot. The food's a mix of platos combinados, salads and 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. There's nothing too innovative here – it's all about high quality, traditional Castilian cooking with hearty dishes like cochinillo asado (roast suckling pig) alongside dozens of grilled fish and red meat choices. Reservations essential.
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Grana & Oro
A cool, clean-lined place, Grana & Oro specialises in grills, with some fine combinations of tastes - mar y tierra (sea and land) combines inland Spain's best cured ham with the finest fish from Cantabria.
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Mater Asturias
The tastes here are fresh and straight from Spain's northern coast, with a few staples from Asturias. The selection of brochettes, pâtés and toasts come warmly recommended.
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Victor Gutierrez
Justifiably exclusive vibe with emphasis on innovative dishes with plenty of colourful drizzle. The choice of what to order is largely made for you with some excellent set menus. Reservations essential.
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Patio Chico
Prompt service and excellent value accompany a range of well-prepared local dishes.
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Delicatessen Café
A cool place to be seen, whether for breakfast, an afternoon snack or dinner.
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El Bardo
High-calibre tapas, toasts (topped with combinations like cod carpaccio with sundried tomatoes) and a reliable daily menu aimed at the locals make this an excellent choice. It's also a good place to try the local farinato (filled pastries).
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Rúa Mayor
Wildly popular cafe-bar-restaurant.
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Restaurante Lis
This classy restaurant has a revolutionary idea – all three-course meals add up to €28, unless you choose one of the tasting menus for a little more. The atmosphere is intimate and the cooking assured with riffs on well-known dishes such as duck hamburger or mango ravioli.
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La Cocina de Toño
We're yet to hear a bad word about this place and its loyal following owes everything to its creative pinchos (snacks) and half-servings of dishes such as escalope of foie gras with roast apple and passionfruit gelatin. The restaurant serves more traditional fare as befits the decor, but the bar is one of Salamanca's gastronomic stars. Slightly removed from the old city, it draws a predominantly Spanish crowd.
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Mandala Café
Cool and casual Mandala specialises in a superb daily menu (unusually available for lunch and dinner) with choices like black rice with prawns and calamares (squid), and vegetarian moussaka. There are also more salads than you can shake a carrot stick at, cakes, 45 types of milkshakes, 56 juice combinations and more teas than we could count.
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