Unlike the gala that the Repsol Guide organizes every year to announce the new Soles awarded to restaurants in Spain (and which this year took place last March, elevating The Living Room like new Tres Soles), the soles They have a greater frequency. We talked about that another category of awards which, since 2021, the popular Guide grants to more affordable, informal restaurants, but where you can enjoy quality food. ‘Charming corners that are differentiated by their proximity, by their appealing proposal and good atmosphere’, Repsol explains.
© guideepsolThese awards are usually published more or less every four months, and each time they usually focus on a theme. Thus, for example, if in its last edition, Repsol gave us clues related to the favorite restaurants of great chefs to eat in summer, This time the new Soletes focus on traditional cuisine and popular.
A list of restaurants, prepared by a team of gastronomy experts, which was made public yesterday in a event held in Córdoba. It is about 300 ‘Soletes con solera’ -this is how they have named this new list- spread throughout Spainwhich claim the flavors of a lifetime. Among these places, the guide recognizes sites that have endured for decades, faithful to the same concept, some of them centuries old like Enrique Housein Granada; Montoliu Housein Tremp (Lleida); either Antonio Sánchez’s Tavernin Madrid.
© Sofia MoroLikewise, the work of young professionals who have opted for traditionlike the case of Zuriñe GarcÃa (The Txakoli from El Paladar in Biscay); also projects that have just started with the clear objective of rescuing taste memory (just as, for example, Mario Pizarro and David Ripalda do in the Jerez-based Matria).
We also find reopenings of legendary businesses like The Majadain Las Palmas, or bars where tribute is paid to the usual aperitifsas Double and Gilda, in Madrid.
© Juan Carlos ToroThere is no shortage of places whose visit is a journey through time. In the Terrón Tavern from BadajozFor example, they have the menu in pesetas; in Wild (Castellón) you can try a medieval menu; and in the Gafiq from Benalcazar (Cordova) The diner sits at a stretcher table with a picon brazier.
The cafes and pastry shops This time they have a very special representation, with names as iconic as the emblematic Old Pastry Shop of the Well from Madrid.
© Alfredo CálizBoth in the web the Repsol Guide as in its app can consult the complete list of restaurants with Solete (in addition, of course, to the restaurants that have one, two or three Soles). The app It also allows the geolocation of these establishments, as well as the option to save them in favorites for future visits.
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