Bilbao Restaurants

This bar/cafe/restaurant is in the style of an mediaval building (rather incongruously given its location close to San Mames in a modern street).

Menus del dia are available in the week, with platos combinados available in the bar at other times.

Favorite Dish: The bar's sandwiches are very good. The owner used to have Bars Marimar I and II, and the same sandwich style has made the journey to Alquimia.

You may hear Burger King referred to as the American Cidreria.

If you go hear to eat then you are either:
1) Feeling intolerably homesick, or
2) The wrong person to be in Spain.

The Spanish don;t do fast food very well. It is not fast for a start. Get in the bars and eat Pintxos. If you want more, you will get better quality going to a cafeteria for a plato combinado

Pleasant Pintxo bar, sister of the longer established Berton on the same street.

A large range of pintxos and raciones.

Sit down meals also available but seem expensive

Favorite Dish: Pintxos Jamon and the Empanada

For lunch or dinner go to 'ENEPERI' restaurant. They have cheap food to have lunch on a beautiful terrace looking at the sea. It's 2 km. away from Bakio, as you head to Bermeo, the next town

In the photo you can see 'San Juan', a little church that can be seen from the restaurant.

Favorite Dish: Morcilla, chistorra, grilled chicken, fried green peppers...

Victor Montez, on Plaza Nueva in the Casco Viejo, does great pintxos (tapas) and has lovely ornate decor. While you are there, count all the whisky bottles!

Favorite Dish: Pintxo of brie and anchovy with a glass of Txakoli

Our friends showed us how to dine economically and yet still enjoy local cusine. Many restaurants offer a daily menu. You get 2 courses, a dessert, and a bottle of red wine. The whole meal was only 8 euros per person!
For the first course you chose from a collection of starters. The second course usually offered a few meat and a few fish meals. Dessert was from a choice of 3 or 4 selections.

Favorite Dish: the mushrooms in sauce for the starter
the flán for dessert
(can't remember the main course i had!)
(must have been that red wine obscuring my memory)

in the old town of San Sebastian you find a lot of great restaurants..with excellent sea-food but also delicious meat, the menus are always recommendable
but in peak-season check to be in time or reserve your table in your favorit restaurant

If you walk on downtown you can choose any restaurat at least to take some wine.
There are tables outside to drink some wine, but are without chairs, is only a tall table, and that let you make friends over there. Is a feeling of free do the thing you want.