Vitoria Restaurants

Pulses and potatoes are an essential part of Álava's cuisine, as well as the wide variety of vegetables it produces. Some of the most regional dishes are la vitoriana vegetable stew, chorizo Spanish sausage cured with paprika, Rioja-style cod, white beans with quail and txarriboda which includes many different types of pork and used to be the traditional main course at weddings.

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 try some good fish, roast suckling pig or game such as "stewed quail". For dessert the "Gasteiz tart", "goxuas" or "chocolate truffles" are all fabulous. Idiazabal is the local cheese which is excellent when accompanied with the world-famous wines of the Rioja Alavesa or Txakoli of Alava (a young white wine).

Listed below is a selection of recommended restaurants in Vitoria.

Ikea
Avenida Portal de Castilla
Tel. +34 945 144 747 Fax: +34 945 233 507
Closed Sunday evenings and Mondays
Annual closing dates: From 9 August to 3 September

Traditional Vitoria dishes such as clams, artichokes with wild asparagus and crispy bresse pigeon served in a pleasant atmosphere and setting which make this restaurant one of the most popular in Vitoria. Set menu.

El Portalón
Correría 151
Tel: +34 945 142 755
Monday-Saturday 1:15-3:30pm and 9-11:30pm. Closed August 10th -September 1st
This is the finest and most interesting restaurant in Vitoria which was built in the late 1400s as a tavern and post office. The restaurant takes great pride in serving extremely fresh fish from the nearby Gulf of Biscay. Menu items include a salad of endive with shellfish, vegetarian crepes, a traditional hake dish called merluza koxkera, ragout of fish and many preparations of monkfish, turbot, and eel.

Mesa
Chile 1
Tel: +34 945 228 494
Thursday-Tuesday 1:30-3:30pm and 9-11:30pm. Closed August 10th-September 10th. Reservations recommended

This is one of the best value restaurants in Vitoria serving a number of Basque specialties prepared with fresh fish and a well-chosen selection of meats.

Arkupe
Calle Mateo Benigno de Moraza,
Tel: +34 945 230 080

Eighteenth-century building in the historic centre of Vitoria serving spectacular Basque cuisine including oven-roasted anglerfish with boulangère potatoes, boneless lamb trotters in Biscayan sauce and warm tart with toffee ice-cream.

Dos Hermanas
Calle Madre Vedruna
Tel: +34 945 132 934 Fax: +34 945 134 446

Traditional restaurant serving the freshest vegetables with wild mushrooms, stuffed chard leafstalks, calf snout, homemade foie gras and a glacé biscuit covered in hot chocolate.

 

If you are planning to explore the area outside of the city centre and play some golf or go to some of the more out of the way beaches then you might consider hiring a car. There are a number of car hire firms based at Vitoria Airport who will be pleased to have a vehicle awaiting your arrival. This also cuts down on transfer costs for you and your family.

We also provide information on sporting and leisure amenities in Vitoria in our Vitoria Area Guide which includes the best Vitoria Shopping Areas, Vitoria Markets, Vitoria Golf Courses, recommended Vitoria Restaurants and Vitoria Local Attractions