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Meson del Cid (the restaurant) is a good, although expensive, place. Also a good, if pricier, choice if you want to take a break from the albergues, is Meson del Cid, the hotel. I got a nice room & fantabulous bathroom for about 70 Euro (no meals; with meals was 90E). They offer rooms with meals included & without.
These restaurants are in Santiago and not in BurgosThere are a couple of Chinese restaurants about 15 minutes walk past the train depot
Gilespenn said:My only caveat is that one should be prepared to pay dearly for Michelin restaurants in places like San Sebastian (which has more Michelin rated restaurants than Paris!). My wife and daughter had their worst ever $250 meal in a Michelin place in San Seb a few years ago. They ended up going to a street vendor for nourishment afterwards. Of course, most peregrinos aren't interested in this fluff stuff anyway so we won't be heading into these kinds of places.
newfydog said:All those tapas are just an excuse to serve old cold food. If you want good food, do a route in France.
DesertRain said:We may have to agree to disagree. I appreciate the simplicity of preparation in GOOD Spanish places, relying on ingredients more than sauces and such. Not that French food isn't good. I just find it to be more about the chef than the food itself.
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I hope you didn't go back! I never encountered that, so I know there are places with higher standards, and I have had a lot of duck comfit.the duck will be shrivelled, the spuds burnt on top and oozing underneath, and the sauce a brown glug
robertt said:On the other hand, I don't know if that sopa castellana I had in Hontanas (after I could find no accommodation at 4pm in a certain previous town) was really a masterpiece - or just represented relief
Rob
Jeff Stys said:For those of you interested in food and the Camino, I highly recommend "A Food Lovers Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela" by Dee Nolan.
Rebekah Scott said:Out here on the meseta food lovers enjoy a local speciality: "lechazo," suckling lamb from the ram lambs of local "raza charra" black-faced sheep. It is served as a huge roasted haunch or as tiny ribs, ("chuletillas") charred on a grill. It is a true delicacy, and it does not often come cheap.
Nowadays in Moratinos you can get lechazo (and a lot of other strange roasted and grilled animal bits, including snouts and tongue!) served in a "hobbit-house" wine cave -- a pair of local farmers joined up a couple of the trademark wine cellars and installed a very good (and popular) regional cuisine restaurant there called "El Castillo de Moratinos." Sometimes lechazo even turns up on the weekday 10-Euro Menu del Dia, which IMHO is one of the best values for money you can find on the camino.
No matter what you heard from your pilgrim guidebook or the hospitaleros in Terradillos de Templarios, there ARE pilgrim places to stay in Moratinos, after all that heavy food hits you!
That is Casa Marcelo, one of the finest restaurants in Spain, and, yes, damned expensive!!don’t confuse it with damned expensive restaurant on the other side of Rua das Carretas
.newfydog said:All those tapas are just an excuse to serve old cold food. If you want good food, do a route in France.
mikevasey said:[, long wooden benches, big copper pots with the pulpo boiling away, .
tericarns said:Hooray for Matias Locanda Italiana. Our kids got to Sarria before we did and discovered it, and were waiting there with superb pizza for our late lunch. Luckily we had planned to spend an extra day in Sarria, so we had dinner there, and breakfast, lunch and dinner the next day. The owners are friendly, fair, wonderful cooks, and deeply engaged in the community, as well as with the pilgrims They encourage art work, and people have left messages, sayings and other art on the walls and floors. The locals come there too - the second evening, a largish group of tweens poured into the place with a candy "cake" and had a great party. It's easy to find, right on the Camino, and even if you're not staying in Sarria, well worth the stop for the meal. Oh, and free wi-fi.
I am 7000 miles away from the Camino .....HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO ME??? :mrgreen:tendigrino said:KITCHEN NAVARRA................
KITCHEN RIOJA.................
BURGOS KITCHEN ..................KITCHEN OF LEON..................
KITCHEN OF GALICIA.....................
mspath said:I totally agree with Rebekah! I happily ate at La Curiosa both last November and again yesterday noon! Both meals were superb and the renovated space is charming. Be sure to get there early because it is VERY popular. Margaret Meredith
Hi everyone
Middle price it´s La Puerta del Perdón in Villafranca del Bierzo and certainly it´s the best choice, you´ll agree.
Buen Camino
Looked a few mins ago but didn't spot the opening days and times...point me in the right direction. I will follow your equiv of yellow arrows!Here is their web. Enjoy your meal!
Looked a few mins ago but didn't spot the opening days and times...point me in the right direction. I will follow your equiv of yellow arrows!
Did you eat in that fabulous restaurant in St Paul en Born or however I should spell it? I stayed in the refuge there and across the road was that restaurant. Fond memories of great food and superb wine..
I was on the voie littoral for 10 days before I reached Irun this year, the food was generally excellent if not eye wateringly expensive for evening meals. However have to agree with another poster when you have walked a fair distance and put a lot of effort into it, then I have noticed that sometimes a warm meal with good company will make the food very rewarding.
Best one for me in Spain was on the Camino Frances in Sarria, a pulperia, not sure of its name but a local pointed me this way, as soon as I walked in I knew it was going to be good, long wooden benches, big copper pots with the pulpo boiling away, very basic menu but very good. It is one or two bridges down from the route the camino takes you across the river, not sure if it is open on evenings maybe just afternoons. Me and my two Spanish walking companions eventually got turfed out about 5.30pm.
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