Experiencing New Flavours

Hi everyone! Today I’m going to talk about one of the strongest point of my city without a doubt; of its incredible, luxurious and prestigious restaurants in the whole world. I hope you enjoy it and learn something more about my culture!!

First of all, I’m going to explain a bit what the Michelin stars are and what it means to have one of them.

Michelin stars are today one of the most reliable ways to value the quality of a restaurant. Despite having many detractors, among all the prizes that are awarded in the world of high cuisine, it remains the most reliable and recognized world-wide scale.

The Michelin tyre brand devised this system back in 1926, when it decided to make a list of the best restaurants in the world as with one, two or three stars depending on the quality of their cuisine. Michelin has several critics scattered around the world who are visiting and testing the restaurants they believe are at the highest level at every moment.

The Basque Country in general, and San Sebastian and its surroundings in particular, has always been very well considered by these critics. For the population and size it has, Guipuzcoa can be considered one of the places that more Michelin star restaurants have per square metre.

Of the total of five restaurants with 3 Michelin stars that there are in all of Spain, there are three in San Sebastian- complemented with another great selection of restaurants that gather a total of 16 Michelin stars.

The three Michelin-stars restaurants we have in the Basque Country are Martín Berasategi, Akelarre and Arzak.

• Martin Berasategi

            

It has a creative cuisine menu based on traditional flavours. Without stop creating, he advises   various restaurants. 

The tasting menu costs 225€.

Chef: Martin Berasategui.

• Arzak

                               

 

Basque cuisine of author, research, evolution and avant-garde.

 

Arzak's cuisine has a lot of research, experimentation and a point of magic that resides in their laboratory. It is a place where creativity, ingenuity and inspiration roam freely.

Chefs: Juan Mari and his daughter Elena Arzak

The price is around 210€.

• Akelarre
  
  
  
  
  
  

 

 

Illusionist of the senses from a personal cuisine of basque root, in their degustation menus, the chef shows a succession of recipes that are not always what they seem and never cease to surprise. 

Chef: Pedro Subijana.

They have three tasting menus and each one costs 195€ +10%VAT without any drinks.

See you in the next post!!!!