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Thank you all - Anemone, Nuala, Peregrina, Tia Valeria, David... - for your helpful suggestions which I have noted. I am looking forward to checking all these place out as I wend my way to Santiago. I will raise my glass in thanks to you each time I eat in one of the places you have recommended and hope that my "good vibes" will warm your hearts!
I’d welcome feedback about good (and bad) restaurants on the Camino primitivo.
I do not mean “bourgeois” type restaurants that you find in the Guide Michelin. I am thinking rather of bars and restaurants which serve a tasty and wholesome “menú del día”, often regional dishes, a far cry from the typical “menú del peregrino” dished up so often on the Camino francés.
I’m posting a similar query on the Camino del norte forum.
I leave Santander for Santiago on Tuesday 3 May, God being willing.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
We stayed here this year. The restaurant was closed at lunchtime as it was booked for a First Communion party, but we were told this when we booked. They made us a tortilla and ensalada mixta in the evening (our choice). Lovely place to stay, next to a very old house which we thought at first was our hotel!There is a hotel before Grado (El Lacayo de Sestiello, up the hill to your left by about 2km, and just over the A-63) with an excellent restaurant.
I asked everywhere and was told only one which is just passed Cafe Jaime serves food, but seemed to be tiny when I went in and I had sit outside on the curb because it was so packed. In the end I gave up and left.
Hi Laurie, yeah that is the one I went to. Maybe they open more of it up later on, but there was definitely only 3 tables in the bar. Never mind, I got to eat in the end. It's still the first town I've ever come across in Spain with bars that don't sell food.
Thanks @eamann for starting this thread. I'll be watching it closely! It's a real treat to get a nice meal every now and then.
The Hotel El Salto after the dam and before the hill to Grandas serves great meals. We had a very late Sunday lunch there and then bocadillos in the evening as the restaurant closed at 16.00. Rooms too if you want to stop after the descent from Buspol - but not sure of the rates now as we stayed in 2012
The Hotel El Salto after the dam and before the hill to Grandas serves great meals. We had a very late Sunday lunch there and then bocadillos in the evening as the restaurant closed at 16.00. Rooms too if you want to stop after the descent from Buspol - but not sure of the rates now as we stayed in 2012
I came across many pilgrims on the CF who were unaware that many bars have a "comedor" out the back - a dining room. The locals all know but visitors do not. The comedor is often not visible from the front where it looks as if the bar only has a few tables. If you need a meal it always pays to ask.
I like to mix it up @Thornley - sometimes eating with other pilgrims (generally the first place in each town) for the social contact, and sometimes with the locals where the food is better and I get to practise my Spanish.
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