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Where to eat

Vitoria-Gasteiz is a city of a thousand flavours.

Its gastronomy is based on fresh, seasonal products. The basis of one of its most famous dishes are wild mushrooms or "perretxikos" (also called St George's mushrooms). We recommend you to try a dish of tender broad beans done in the local style, snails "a la alavesa", potatoes "a la riojana" or stuffed chard stems. For your second course, you can try some good fish, roast suckling pig or game such as "stewed quail". For dessert you can try "Gasteiz tart", "goxuas" or "chocolate truffles", among other sweets. But we must not forget our own Idiazabal Cheese or the world-famous wines of the Rioja Alavesa or the Txakoli of Alava (a young white wine).

The gastronomy of Vitoria is not based only on traditional dishes In the city you can also try the imaginative and exquisite dishes of the "new Basque cuisine". .

Moreover, some gastronomic societies allow visitors, in the company of one of their members, to take part in the preparation of meals, search for ingredients in traditional markets and buy the freshest products.

Many of the oldest and most famous restaurants can be found in the medieval quarter of the city. You can also find the cuisines of other countries and cultures in the old part of the city. In the medieval quarter there are also Indo-Pakistani, Argentinian restaurants, etc.

Here is a list of restaurants in Vitoria recommended in the Michelín, CAMPSA and Gourmetour guides, and mentioned in the “Professional Tourism Guide 05”, published by the Basque Government donwload in pdf format .

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