Asturias Restaurants

A TASTE OF ASTURIAS

It’s no secret that you eat well in Asturias. Its great natural pantry (the sea, the countryside and the mountains) offers everything you could possibly want, and backed by the guarantee of the best raw materials. Fabada (bean stew), potes (traditional stew), seafood (spider crab and barnacles); fish (hake and monkfish), Asturian veal and, of course, a wide variety of traditional cheeses (more than 40, making Asturias ‘a little Switzerland’), are just some of the most typical dishes and products.

For those with a sweet tooth, try rice pudding or pastries like casadielles, frixuelos, etc. for dessert…always accompanied by cider, that genuine apple elixir, around which many social events are celebrated and whose ceremonious pouring is considered an art form worth seeing.

The heavens of Asturian gastronomy have been adorned with five Michelin starts: two awarded to Casa Marcial ( www.casamarcial.com ), which has earned the most, and one each for Casa Gerardo (www.restaurantecasagerardo.com ), Real Balneario de Salinas (www.realbalneario.com) and El Corral del Indiano (www.elcorraldelindianu.com ) . But the truth is that the excellence of Asturian cuisine is not limited to restaurants found in this French guidebook. Almost any Asturian restaurant is as a worthy representative of this paradise of fine astronomy. These range from traditional eateries where the cook gets up at 6 am to slowly cook fabada on a coal stove, as the traditional recipe requires, to any of the members of the ‘Mesas de Asturias’ quality club. Because in Asturias, gastronomy is also culture.

The quality of our native products stands out, as do the abilities of Asturian chefs to innovate based on tradition… Asturian gastronomy is undoubtedly one of the main attractions of this region.

Don´t leave Asturias without trying:

- Fabada (bean stew)
- Pote asturiano (traditional Asturian stew)
- Seasonal seafood
- Rock fish
- Veal - Pitu Caleya (traditional village chicken)
- Game (seasonal)
- Traditional cheeses (With DOP: Cabrales, Afuega’lPitu, Casín, Gamonedo)
- Corn cakes
- Spelt bread and sweets (frixuelos, “arroz con leche” - kind of rice pudding)
 
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