Gastronomic Guide
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34— 35 what to do, gastro EXCITEMENT GUARANTEED dining plans In San Sebastian, the cooking expresses what we’re perhaps unable to express with words. Every pintxo (tapa) and every dish contains the Donostia language through which we want to convey unique in a league emotions that you won’t be able to forget. There’s of its own a reason why it’s been chosen as the world’s Best Culinary Destination for 2018. Adam and Eve were expelled from high-quality selection that you could paradise for eating something tasty. visit the city dozens of times without Here the opposite happens. Here you going to the same restaurant and go to eat some pintxos in a little bar still leave with the same unbeatable in Gros or the Old Town, or you sit at impression. a table to dine in one of the centre’s San Sebastian is the home of popular restaurants, and you’re taken straight to a paradise of great food. gastronomic societies, cider houses, And if you visit one of the outstanding pintxo bars, seafood restaurants and signature restaurants. If only for the restaurants that have been awarded incredible variety of the pintxos and a Michelin star, your entry into the exuberance of the miniature cuisine San Sebastian’s culinary heaven is offered in its bars, San Sebastian is guaranteed. in a league of its own. And, if that’s The importance given to food in this not enough, it also contains one of city, in all of its forms, has made it the highest concentrations of Michelin a universal icon of gastronomy, and stars in the world. Indeed, this city You can eat a stew or some rightly so. You only have to wander is the ultimate expression of dining pintxos, seated or on your around San Sebastian’s Old Town to pleasure. It is a haven of creativity, feet, in a fine restaurant or be struck by the omnipresence of the beauty, magic and harmony. Of all in the most popular of catering establishments in the city. of those exciting emotions conveyed taverns. It doesn’t make a There is such a varied, extensive and by good cooking. difference. You eat well in this city. However you do it. 36— 37 what to do, gastro 18 Michelin stars Michelin stars everywhere Arzak Akelarre Other restaurants with Chef: Juan Mari Arzak Chef: Pedro Subijana Jose Elosegi Alkatea etorbidea, 273 Aita Orkolaga Pas., 56 · Igeldo Michelin stars Donostia / San Sebastián (G2) Donostia / San Sebastián (A2) they serve T. 943 28 55 93 T: 943 31 12 09 everything on your www.arzak.es www.akelarre.net 68 Alameda table (e.g. this 65 Hondarribia Sunday and Monday “Cracked Egg” Sept-June: Sunday nights, Mondays T: 943 64 27 89 and Tuesdays. July-Sept: Sunday www.restaurantealameda.net from the Mugaritz nights and Mondays. Closed on Mondays, Tuesdays restaurant) as if it and Sunday nights. were a gift that you have to open. It is an Martín Mugaritz innovative, surprising, Elkano Berasategui Chef: Andoni Luis Aduriz Getaria Otzazulueta Baserria / magical and, of T: 943 14 00 24 / 649 33 52 74 Chef: Martin Berasategui aldura aldea, 20 zk. · Errenteria www.restauranteelkano.com course, very tasty Loidi kalea, 4 · Lasarte-Oria T: 943 51 83 43 / 943 52 24 55 creation. You are not T: 943 36 64 71 www.mugaritz.com Closed on Monday and Sunday www.martinberasategui.com nights and all day on Tuesdays. sure what it is, but you 50 à la carte will never forget it. 50 175 set menus Sunday night, Monday and Tuesday Sunday night, Monday all day all day. Closed until 10 March 2020 and Tuesday midday. Kokotxa Donostia / San Sebastián T: 943 42 19 04 www.restaurantekokotxa.com Sunday and Monday Mirador de Ulia Donostia / San Sebastián Tel.: 943 27 27 07 www.miradordeulia.es Sunday night, Monday and all day Tuesday. Zuberoa Oiartzun T: 943 49 12 28 www.zuberoa.com From November 1 to June 1 , , (Sunday night, Tuesday night and Take a compass and de Ulia Zuberoa Amelia Wednesday all day. place it over a map of San and eMe Be Garrote, with From June 1 to October 31 (Sunday Sebastian. Stick the tip of one. The Alameda restaurant and Wednesday all day) the compass in the City Hall is in Hondarribia and Elkano and draw a radius of 25 is in Getaria, both of which kilometres. Do you know how have a Michelin star a little Amelia Donostia / San Sebastián many Michelin stars are there bit further out. This is a T: 943 10 16 13 inside that little circle you’ve remarkable achievement. www.ameliarestaurant.com drawn, which you could Indeed, apart from Kyoto in Closed on Sundays and Mondays cover in about ten minutes Japan, there’s nowhere else and at middays fromTuesday to in a car? There are 18. Also, in the world with a higher Friday. of the eleven restaurants concentration per square ...and the last one with three Michelin stars metre. In San Sebastian to arrive that there are in the country, we’ve turned cooking into three of them are in San a laboratory of ideas and Sebastian. Arzak, Akelarre creative workshop that is eMe Be Garrote and Martín Berasategui. famous the world over. We Donostia / San Sebastián And as many as four other have turned gastronomy into T: 943 22 79 71 restaurants also have this form of art, of engineering, www.emeberestaurante.com distinction: , with a symbol of our identity. But Sunday night and all day Mugaritz Monday. two, and Kokotxa, Mirador enough talking. Let’s eat. *Updated in November 2019 38— 39 what to do, gastro pintxos gastronomic perfumes ©mimo If the à la carte and set appetiser with chili pepper, menus are the cologne of anchovy and olive, created going the San Sebastian’s restaurants, in honour of Rita Hayworth. pintxopote pintxos are the perfume. The And, naturally, there are out for essence. The heart of our more sophisticated pintxos, cooking. Originally the pintxo examples of “miniature” haute (tapa) was a slice of bread cuisine, flavours created and pintxos onto which a portion of food concentrated into small, tasty morsels. was placed, held together by TIP FOR a cocktail stick. Nowadays, Going out for pintxos is a You can enjoy this food in BEGINNERS The “pintxopote” (meaning there are simple but social event, and a way of bars in the Old Town, the Every bar has its star pintxo. If tapa & drink) is a fun initiative exceptional pintxos, like the getting to know our culture, Centre, Gros and other you don’t know what it is, order devised by restaurateurs traditional potato omelette, or a spectacle that combines areas of San Sebastian. a drink and look at what the to encourage people to the amazing Gilda, laughter, conversation, We recommend visiting 4 regulars are eating. Then order keep the spirit of the poteo a local creation that is a spicy movement and fun. or 5 bars and trying 1 or 2 the same thing (bar-hopping) alive. For the pintxos and a drink in each — 40-41 price of a drink, you get establishment. A tip: don’t the full package: the pintxo forget how many pintxos (tapa) and the drink, which you’ve eaten. You’ll be • If it’s a cold pintxo it’s normally is normally a glass of wine or asked at the end. available on the bar, and you a beer. Each neighbourhood can help yourself to it. has its “pintxopote” day • If it’s a hot pintxo, you order it (when bars offer drinks and from the waiter. tapas at very cheap prices). Depending on the area, it • When you go out for pintxos, you can be between Wednesday normally have one round (pintxo and Friday and at specific and drink) in each bar, and then times.(from 19:00 to 22:00 is move on to the next bar. most common.) Bar-Restaurante • You normally pay at the end. The centre of the Gros • Usually groups of friends take district, the Egia, Amara Calle Bergara, 3 / 20005 San Sebastián - Donostia turns to pay for rounds, or they and Antiguo districts and GIPUZKOA (SPAIN) / T +34 943 429 815 set up a “kitty” before they start the Gastropote at San (none of this paying for your Martín Market are places www.antoniobar.com own order in each bar). with a particularly lively atmosphere. 40— 41 what to do, gastro the best pintxos A in each district ZURRIOLA BEACH Centre KURSAAL PEÑA Y GOÑI The birthplace and essence of our pintxos 6 the old town is in the bars in the Old Town. Some of the and Gros ARGENTINAKO ERREPUBLIKAREN PAS. essential bars - brimming with character RAMÓN MARÍA LILÍ A COLON PAS. and tradition - are in this area, which is also dotted with modern establishments. tradition BOULEVARD5 ELKANO 1 1 La Viña 2 La Cepa 2 — — an international touch GIPUZKOA ALDAMAR Cheese and anchovy Pork loin brochette SQUARE 3 SAN JUAN cornet with Gernika peppers and 4 ABUZTUAREN 31 chips In these areas of the city, 4 5 the pintxos (tapas) combine local and international BERGARA CONSTITUCIÓNSQUARE 9 LA CONCHA FERMIN influences. More ASKATASUNA HIRIB. S. JERONIMO BEACH 6 PORTU CALBETÓN traditional and KALE NAGUSIA 8 sophisticated food from SAN MARTZIAL LA BRETXA 3 2 French cuisine in the 7 stylish centre and more URBIETA 1 EASO SAN MARTIN BOULEVARD contemporary, fusion cooking in the dynamic and Abuztuaren 31, 3 · (1E) Abuztuaren 31, 7 · (1E) modern Gros district. T: 943 42 74 95 T: 943 42 63 94 www.lavinarestaurante.com www.barlacepa.com Monday Tuesday 1 Iturrioz 2 SM 3 Rojo y negro 3— Gandarias 4— Dakara Bi 5— A fuego 6— Mesón — — — Jatetxea negro Portaletas Café Bar Club Ranero-style Langoustine Txangurro (crab) tart.