Rogelio

As you would know, Galician food is devoted to the product very simply cooked. Albeit the restaurants mencioned by Victor in the Gastronomic tours around Spain thread: Here you have another options: · El Refugio (Oleiros) Fastuous seafood at very high prices. · Roberto (San Julián de Sales-Vedra) Trying to innovate in the galician traditions · Casa Pardo (La Coruña) Very good traditional rest. · Casa Solla (San Salvador de Poio). A classic near Pontevedra. · El Manjar (La Coruña) A fine restaurant with a superb spanish omelette. · La Barra (Lugo) A good option if you go to the interior. My recos: Casa Marcelo in Santiago (Innovative food in a settled menu, there is not other choice) and La taberna de Rotilio in Sanxenxo. And going in Febrary you have the choice to try Lamprea, a primitive fish cooked like a civet (In its own blood) very hard to find the rest of the year. Casa Pardo is a good option. Oh, 2004 is a Xacobeo year, this mean that Santiago will be mighty crowded with hungry pilgrims, so make your reservations in advance.

Do not take me wrong, but Casa Gerardo is not the closest restaurant to Cangas de Onís or Oviedo. Actually, it is 10 km in the outside of Gijón, the biggest city of the province, and about 40km from Oviedo and 80km from Cangas de Onís Depending on what you are looking for, if you want innovative cuisine rooted in the traditional dishes of the region, I strongly suggest "El Corral del Indiano" in Arriondas (very close to Cangas de Onís). At a definite lower level, in a very traditional style, without the service you find in a One Michelin Star restaurant (begging for the second star IMHO) as El Corral del Indiano, there is a small restaurant in the outside of Cangas de Onís called "La Palmera", in Soto de Cangas, with plenty of traditional food and a very nice selection of wine at good prices. If you want to stay on the coast, you would do perfectly in Gijón. There is a nice bunch of hotels but I do not think any of them have a swimming pool. Asturias is not a sunny province for the good and the bad. However, you can sunbathe in the beach. A good and recently build hotel is Hotel Tryp Rey Pelayo (4*) available at: http://www.trypreypelayo.solmelia.com/ Quite close to the beach, in a quiet place, from Gijón you could do short trips to Casa Gerardo, Cangas de Onís and Oviedo. A short list of the best restaurants in Asturias might include: - L'Alezna (20km out of Oviedo), cook Pedro Martino - El Corral del Indiano (Arriondas), cook José Antonio Campoviejo - Casa Marcial (La Salgar, out of Arriondas), cook Nacho Manzano If you finally stay in Gijón (which I recommend), the most innovative things are being done at Restaurante Paladares, really close to the Hotel Tryp Rey Pelayo (5 minutes walking). In Oviedo, the best restaurants are: - Casa Conrado - Casa Fermín both are a bit more traditional than the previously referred restaurants. BTW, all the restaurants above (with the exception of La Palmera which is in another league) are included in the 2004 Red Guide.

Sorry, my mistake

As it's been said before it will be a mistake to miss all the traditional asturian food only for seeking the Michelin stars. The recos given before are outstanding but here you have a few interesting non starred restaurants in Asturias: - El Rompeolas in Tazones, for fab seafood. - Casa Consuelo, in Otur, almost in Galicia. A traditional road rest. - La Huertona in Ribadesella, renewed traditional food - Laure in Oviedo for traditional comfort food. - Taberna Viavelez Puerto in Viavelez. - L'alezna in Caces, the new rest with Pedro Martino, from El Cabroncin - El Balneario de Salinas, in Salinas. And an interesting link: http://canales.elcomerciodigital.com/gastronomia/ Highlights for traditional food are: Fabada and all the fabes dishes (With clams, with chicken...), Arroz con leche (Traditional milk and rice dessert), all the artisan cheeses (La peral, Cabrales...) and all the superb seafood. Enjoy