Baluarte restaurant dish
BERLANGA DEL DUERO
Vallecas House (Royal, 16 tel. 975 34 31 36)
€€€
Their mycological sessions They are almost 20 years old and an entire institution. María Ortega and Alfonso de Pablo opened their cantina back in 1953 next to a modest grocery store that, over the years, ended up being converted into a restaurant with a hotel, catering service and banquet space.
However, simplicity remains the hallmark of grace s to its star product, sorian mushrooms, as well as the black truffle. Necessary ingredients for recipes such as potatoes with vanilla, truffle and Norway lobster, oyster mushrooms with lamb and venison gizzards or, with a view to hunting, which also embroiders, braised partridge. Leave room for homemade desserts.
The funny bar chart It includes essentials such as langoustine torreznos.
THE ROY
belt (The Ivy, 3 tel. 975 27 10 07)
€€
They have been organizing hunting days since 1985. Jesús Jimeno Medrano is the head chef of this house in which mushrooms and game fight to be the favorites of the loyal clientele.
The risotto omelette with pigeon, deer cheeks with orange sauce or pheasant marinade with spring onions they leave you wanting as much as the scrambled eggs with mushrooms and crumbs, the lepiota couscous or the senderillas custard with cinnamon sponge cake. The difficult thing here is to opt for something... and not for everything.
Its days of mushroom and wine harmonies, held in November, are also very successful.
Also, they have a country house of the same name surrounded by a beautiful and wooded natural landscape.
DOURO MILLS
Royal Inn of the Mesta (Plumbing, 22 tel. 666 08 19 28)
€€
Charming hotel at the foot of the Picos de Urbión.
Yes here mushrooms are also the queens of the house and of the menu, so as not to lose the good customs of this province.
In this case, the star dish is free-range eggs with grated black truffle, sublimation of the simplicity that follows the line of its elaborations of the boletus and the amanita, in sautéed and carpaccios.
As a curious fact, here they were pioneers in the organization of routes for collecting mushrooms and mushrooms.
Enjoy the hotel's works of art from different periods, its extensive library and the feeling of tranquility.
NAVALENO
the hand (High, 41 tel. 615 92 98 10)
€€
A "village" eating house in which enjoyment is smelled as soon as you enter. Pinariega cuisine, as they themselves define it, is not satisfied with the abundant and always protagonist mushrooms -in forceful stews such as pig's trotters stuffed with meat and truffle-, also in their game dishes and in crabs and river fish , so unusual in the menus of large cities.
It owes its name, by the way, to the nickname of the grandfather of the family, founder of the business.
His fireplace invites you to stay, to extend the after-meal conversation and feel like at grandma's house. Or even better.
the little wolf (Avda. of the Constitution, 54 tel. 975 37 43 68)
€€€
The grandmother of Elena Lucas, current head of this house, is called Luciana Lobo, hence the name of the restaurant. Here we talk about big words and awards that are piling up on the shelves. Elena, who worked for years outside the family business, decided to return and put everything she had learned on the fire.
The result is a reinvention of the mushroom cookbook with dishes such as the red tuna tataki with chanterelles, wakame gum and rock tea, the ramen from the soup of stew to the fashionable soup, or the evolution of a torrezno with mushrooms. Classics such as the Russian salad or the pickled salad are kept together with these strokes of Asian irony.
Diego Muñoz manages the warehouse, with more than 300 references and a passionate effort to offer the best corkage.
SORIA
Bulwark (Gentlemen, 14 tel. 975 21 36 58)
€€€€
Óscar García is the great ambassador of Sorian cuisine. The 2017 Mushroom Menu de García already points out where the shots go here: free-range chicken pâté with boletus, mushrooms with foie, doxelle stuffed squid with mushroom air, gyozas stuffed with mushrooms and prawns with autumn truffle, boletus, thyme ice cream and ice cream caramelized sweet potato...
However, it is not the only thing that has made it famous, because dishes such as the braised tongue with miso, cauliflower and cabbage or the garlic soup with trout broth from Ucero reflect his intention to mix origins and fusion. His traditional menu (€56) is a declaration of intent.
Located in a beautiful building in the historic center of Soria, its agenda of specialized conferences and events is unstoppable , and includes beers, products from the garden, black truffle...
€ Less than €10
€€ Up to €20
€€€ Up to €50
€€€€ More than 50 €
*You can find the 2018 Gastronomic and Wine Guide in a digital version for your devices, at Manzana , Zinium Y google play .