Best Recommended Restaurants in San Sebastian
San Sebastian is known for its various activities, aquatic sights, architecture, and hotels. But nothing beats the recommended restaurants in San Sebastian that makes travelers crave more for Spanish food.
Do you want to taste mouth-watering meals and delicacies exclusively found in San Sebastian? Here are three of the town’s best restaurants.
Akilare – Since 1974, Chef and Owner Pedro Subijana has become a remarkable food maker, that’s why he won the 1983 National Prize for Gastronomy as the best chef in Spain. In fact, he defined la nueva cocina vasca or the modern Basque cuisine to various chefs around the country.
Curious of the various dishes served in Akilare? Delicious puff pastry filled with anchovy fillets would probably be a good meal starter for you. And of course, traditional dishes like fish cooked on a griddle with garlic and parsley, beans with bacon, chorizo, and pork ribs, baked rice with clams, or a special marmitako (fisherman’s stew) is served at its best to its costumers.
Looking for more dishes? Snails with watercress sauce; boiled cabbage stuffed with duck and served with purée of celery; warm bonito salad served with basil, lemon, chervil, and vinegar sauce; and duck filet with exotic seasonal mushrooms are some of the dishes served. If you want to know how tasty these foods are, why not try these for yourself?
Arzak – This is another famous restaurant famous in the Basque world created by chef-owner Juan Mari Arzak. Arzak is famously known in the whole San Sebastián since he is renowned in preparing meals for Queen Elizabeth II of Britain.
He makes all his dishes cooked to perfection and creativity: from soups to main dishes, he always assures that his delicacies will be a new taste to all costumers. His recipes are the following: sopa de pescado for the appetizer, and merluza (hake) in vinaigrette with onions and small squid for the main course. Orange flans with cream and stuffed sweet peppers with fish mousse are some of the best desserts served.
Martín Berasategui – Trained by his own mother, Martín Berasategui cooks exciting Spanish/Portuguese cuisines around San Sebastian. What makes his dishes differ along other restaurants is that it is subtle and pure, and he uses butter and cream for desserts only.
His most famous cuisine is the hors d’oeuvres, a dish of cider-marinated mackerel with fried anchovies in olive oil to morsels of rare tuna belly grilled over wooden charcoal. He also have meals like rich lobster soup with barnacles, scallops and a sea urchin custard with soy sprouts, coffee cream, cinnamon, and curry. And of course, beef and bacon will always be found in his menu matched with potato terrine along with a side of mushroom marmalade.
Delicioso, isn’t it? Come then to San Sebastian if you want to taste all these dishes and prove to yourself that these foods are indeed worth the taste and the craving!
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