Hostal Restaurante Casa Méndez ★ 4.5
Founded by Francisco El Guardia more than seventy years ago on the bank of the Valcarce, now run by the third generation with twelve rooms upstairs.
A cellar of national and international bottles with a deep Bierzo shelf, attached to a family dining room at Toral de los Vados near the Cúa and Sil.
Address: Calle el Lago 84, 24560 Toral de los Vados, León, Spain, Bierzo
Founded by Francisco El Guardia more than seventy years ago on the bank of the Valcarce, now run by the third generation with twelve rooms upstairs.
The house that put its name on the comarca's best-known dish, serving botillo and Bierzo produce on the Pajariel side of Ponferrada.
Modern cooking on the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, one of the few Ponferrada kitchens working with current technique rather than the botillo repertoire.
Sharing plates and Bierzo produce on the Plaza del Ayuntamiento terrace, geared as much to the vermouth hour as to dinner.
A rustic bodega-turned-tavern in the monumental quarter working a four-dish carte, with cava sangría as the house pour.
Samuel Naveira cooks one tasting menu in the Casa de las Bombas facing the Templar castle, reading Bierzo produce through Japanese technique.
Awards: MICHELIN Guide, one star 2021
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