Santiago de Compostela Restaurants
Galicia offers some of Spain's best seafood from the nearby coast and
estuaries. Classic local dishes include pulpo a feira
(boiled octopus with cayenne pepper), necoras (spider crabs) and zamburiñas
(baby scallops).
As well as the exquisite seafood we highly recommended that you try a meal
consisting of caldo gallego (Galician soup) as a starter followed by lacón con
grelos (ham hock with greens) all washed down with some of Galicia's fine wines,
most notably Albariño and Ribeiro whites.
Here are a few of the best restaurants in Santiago de Compostela.
Toni Vicente
Address: CL. Rosalía de
Castro, 24 - 15706
Tel.no.: 981 594 100The
Nouveau Cuisine created from traditional Galician ingredients won this
restaurant the 1998 prize for Spanish cuisine. Main course specialities
include scallops with quinua couscous, steamed grouper in sweet pepper
sauce, roast young pigeon with its giblets, wild mushrooms and pear in wine
sauce filled with chestnut purée. The marinated
sea-bass salad is the most popular starter.
Desserts include fruit salad with tiger
nuts and verbena ice-cream. It has a great wine selection. Closed on Sundays, the
first fortnight in September and from 24 December to 7 January.
Casa Marceloa
Address: Rua Hortas - 115705
Tel.no.: 981 558 580
Marcelo
Tejedor describes his cuisine as "Galician in products, unique in contents,
and fleeting by definition". And that is the way it is: he supplies himself
with products from nearby markets and exchanges, and treats them with unusual
culinary wisdom; his dishes, in the form of a single set menu, vary every day.
But his cuisine is of the highest class: small crab soup with
artichokes, pastas and cockles, grouper in lemon and tomato pil-pil sauce, jaws
in puff pastry with vegetables. The desserts are also brimming with
creativity. An excellent bodega, very up-to-date, and an unsual setting, an
18th-century house where the kitchen is part of the dining room. Closed from Sunday to
Tuesday.
Carretas
Address: Rúa das Carretas, 2 - 115705
Tel.no.: 981 563 111
This
typical Galician restaurant is only 100 m away from the Cathedral. Its
specialities include seafood and fish, shoulder of pork with parsnip tops,
fried custard. If you fancy local seafood specialities order the variado de mariscos which is a huge platter of prawns, crab, barnacles,
etc. Closed on Sundays.
Don Gaiferos
Address: Rúa Nova, 23 -
15705
Tel.no.: 981 583 894
A warm
atmosphere and careful service awaits you at Santiago's most distinguished
restaurant. Specialities are mainly Galician including fish stew,
king prawns stuffed with smoked salmon, scallops and the delicious almond tart. Closed Sunday and
Monday evenings except in July and August, and from 7 to 22 January.
Fogón Retiro da
Costiña
Address: AV. de Santiago, 12 - 15840
Tel.no.: 981 880 244
Galician
country house with a bodega that may be visited, offering creative cuisine. Wild
mushrooms and goat cheese flame-grilled with caramel, poached eggs with Iberian
bacon and potatoes, crystallised pineapple in rhum sauce with hazelnuts and port
wine cream. Valet parking. Closed on Sunday
nights and Wednesdays.
Fornos (Marisqueria)
Address: CL. Horreo, 24 -
15702
Tel.no.: 981 565 721
Located
in the centre of Santiago, near the Cathedral. Seafood from the ría, seafood
paella, "filloas" (Galician crepes) filled with custard. Galician
wines. Closed on Sundays, the
last week in January and the first week in February.
La Tacita d'Juan
Address: CL. Horreo, 31 -
15702
Tel.no.: 981 563 255
Well-prepared
classic Galician cuisine. Octopus "empanada" (pasty), "mero
a lo pobre" (poor man's grouper), caramelised "filloas" (Galician
crepes) . Good service. Closed on Sundays and
for three weeks in August.
Moncho Vilas
Address: AV. de Villagarcía, 21 -
15706
Tel.no.: 981 598 387
Moncho
Porto Vilas loves to chat with his customers about Galician cuisine. His
acclaimed dishes use such local seafood ingredients as oysters, clams, crayfish, lobsters and
spider crabs. Salmon with clams and hake in a paprika sauce are popular
choices. A sampling menu is available and is a good way of checking out a
range of Moncho's excellent dishes. Closed on Mondays
Roberto
Address: AV. Vedra s/n. -
15885
Tel.no.: 981 511 769
Four
rooms available. In a beautiful setting, an old Galician country house with a
large garden, Roberto Crespo insists on modern, seasonal cuisine with Galician
roots. His scallops on potato cream have already become a
much-imitated classic. Very good fish dishes and a wide offer
of meats, unusual in the area. The bodega is excellent. Closed on Sunday
evenings, Mondays, and the first fortnight in January.
San Clemente
Address: Rúa de San Clemente, 6 -
15705
Tel.no.: 981 565 426
Near the
Cathedral, this Galician establishment specialises in seafood and fish, fish
stew and "filloas" (Galician crepes). Closed on Mondays.
Vilas
Address: CL. Rosalía de
Castro, 88 -
15706
Tel.no.: 981 591 000
The most
classic of the classics, for its history and cuisine: clearly traditional
Galician cuisine with masterpieces like its version of octopus,
the excellent tripe with chickpeas, or the stewed hock.
Careful selection of seafood and fish,
depending on the season. Good bodega. An institution in good health. Closed on Sundays.
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