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Fine Dining in Madrid
Fine Dining in Porto: New Ideas and Exceptional Products
Eating in Rioja: The Best Wine Country Restaurants
The two most important things when visiting wine country are good wine and good food. In Rioja the confluence of local and regional ingredients and refined cooking techniques trickling in from the nearby Basque Country has created a culinary landscape that matches the depth of the local wine culture.
Restaurants in Andalusia: Tradition and Creation
Today, Andalusia is becoming an incubator for creative cuisine. Using traditional recipes as springboards chefs are resurrecting cooking methods and reintroducing ingredients that had fallen out of favor. Fisherman’s stews, wild game, unusual fish from coastal estuaries, lesser cuts of meat…have all served as inspiration for contemporary cooks.
Traditional Restaurants in Madrid
Tapas Bars in Madrid
Getaria, The Basque Village Where Grilled Fish Shines
It seems you can eat extremely well anywhere and everywhere in the Basque Country. This coastal green corner of northern Spain has a reverence for Basque products and culinary traditions leading to packed pintxos bars, roadside grills and traditional restaurants that offer a level of dining experience beyond what is reasonable to expect.
The Perfect Lunch in Spain
If there’s one thing that’s sacred in Spain, it’s la comida. Literally meaning “the meal,” it’s no coincidence that this phrase refers in Spain to lunch, not dinner. A philosophical and experiential rebuttal of takeout, working lunches, and drive-thrus, the Spanish lunch is something that has to be experienced to be understood.
Ultramarinos: The Secret Store Bars of Coastal Cádiz
No visit to Cádiz, that mysterious city in southern Spain, is complete without visiting at least one ultramarinos store bar right in the old town. The surviving ultramarinos in Cádiz often morphed into purveyors of gourmet foods such as jamón ibérico, Payoyo cheese from the Cádiz mountains, mojama from Barbate, and canned fish from the best producers in Spain.
Michelin Star Restaurants in Rioja: Wine Country Fine Dining
It should come as no surprise that Rioja has become a fine-dining destination. The Basque Country’s cities, global capitals of creativity in the kitchen, lie a short drive to the north of the heart of Riojan wine country. Thus the precise technique and innovative vision that has come to define the new Basque cuisine extends to the tables of Rioja.