Must-see restaurants in Salamanca

  • Casa Dani in Madrid is a popular, long-running counter in a covered market serving tortillas de patatas & other tapas.

    Casa Dani

    Salamanca

    Deep in Salamanca's Mercado de la Paz, Casa Dani is a wildly popular spot for lunch and it gets going earlier than most: most weekdays, there's a queue at…

  • Astrolabius

    Salamanca

    This terrific family-run place in Salamanca's north has a simple philosophy – take grandmother's recipes and filter them through the imagination of the…

  • Street XO

    Salamanca

    After the success of his Michelin-starred DiverXO, Dabiz Muñoz has opened a more accessible but equally creative street-food version. There's always a…

  • Platea

    Salamanca

    The ornate Carlos III cinema opposite the Plaza de Colón has been artfully transformed into a dynamic culinary scene with more than a hint of burlesque…

  • Tepic

    Salamanca

    Tepic offers ‘Urban Mexican Food’ in chic bar or dining rooms and with friendly service. Its signature dish is the Acapulco Tropical, a cheese taco with…

  • La Cocina de María Luisa

    Salamanca

    The home kitchen of former parliamentarian María Luisa Banzo has one of Salamanca’s most loyal followings. The cooking is a carefully charted culinary…

  • El Lateral

    Salamanca

    El Lateral does terrific pinchos (tapas), which serve as the ideal accompaniment to the fine wines on offer. Tapas are creative without being over the top…

  • Biotza

    Salamanca

    This breezy Basque tapas bar is one of the best places in Madrid to sample the creativity of bite-sized pintxos (Basque tapas) as only the Basques can…

  • José Luis

    Salamanca

    With numerous branches around Madrid, José Luis is famous for its fidelity to traditional Spanish recipes. It wins many people's vote for Madrid's best…

  • La Colonial de Goya

    Salamanca

    Other better-known places have come and gone around here, but La Colonial de Goya has stood the test of time. The food is occasionally creative but is…

  • Restaurante Estay

    Salamanca

    Restaurante Estay is partly a standard Spanish bar, where besuited waiters serve café con leche, and partly one of the best-loved tapas bars in this part…

  • Hevia

    Salamanca

    Fabulous tapas (caviar, frogs' legs and the like), steaks in all their forms (including Steak Tartar), a first-class tortilla de patatas (Spanish omelette…

  • Mallorca

    Salamanca

    For fine takeaway food and all manner of goodies for the perfect picnic, head to Mallorca, a Madrid institution. Everything here, from gourmet mains to…

  • La Maruca

    Salamanca

    This classy and fresh space is dedicated to the cooking of Spain's northern Cantabria region and it's extremely popular among Salamanca's young and…

  • Viandas de Salamanca

    Salamanca

    This outpost of the hugely successful cured-meats delis serves up the usual bocadillos de jamón (rolls filled with ham) as well as all manner of other…

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