Aires de Doñana

Aires de Doñana is at 1 Avenida de la Canaliega, on the edge of El Rocío facing the marsh: from the dining room and terrace you can see the water where flamingos, ducks, marsh horses and mostrenca cattle pass, and at dusk the hermitage is reflected in it. The house cooks traditional recipes from the Doñana area with a modern touch and prides itself on using local produce: mostrenca beef, thousand-flower honey, Huelva seafood.

Mostrenca, ortiguillas and Huelva seafood

The mostrenca cow is the breed that grazes freely on the marshes, and it gives the menu, published in August 2025, its character. There is mostrenca steak tartare (€20), a 100% mostrenca burger (€16), mostrenca in the style of the rangers' house (€16) and sweet-and-sour mostrenca ragout (€17). Among the starters, ortiguillas from La Rocina (€13), herruño (€14), greylag goose liver pâté or acorn-fed Iberian ham, and soups such as salmorejo (€7), ajoblanco or seafood soup.

The seafood is from Huelva: white Padrón prawns at €47.50 per 250 g and trammel-net langoustines cooked with just salt at €25.50, as well as scarlet prawns, Dublin Bay prawns, clams and coquinas in season. Among the fish, hake, kokotxas, almadraba bluefin tuna, tuna tartare with avocado (€22.50) and fish of the day by weight. The seafood rice costs €17 per person, for a minimum of two. Beef fillets run from €22.50 to €23.50. For dessert, the Doñana dessert, of custard, sponge and yoghurt, at €5, or the Arab tart, at €6.

With a starter to share, a mostrenca dish and dessert, count on €35 to €45 per person without wine; if you order seafood, it climbs quickly.

Long lunch hours

Closed on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday it is open from 13:30 to 18:30; Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from 13:30 to 23:00, with dinners; Sunday, only from 13:30 to 16:00. Book on 959 44 22 89 or 633 21 69 14, or at [email protected], especially if you want a table by the marsh. The house also has a space for celebrations and groups.

After the Paseo Marismeño

The restaurant fits after the Paseo Marismeño, which follows that same shore, or after a visit to the El Rocío hermitage, a short walk along the sand streets. If you are coming from the morning 4x4 tour from El Acebuche, you arrive in time for lunch: El Acebuche is a few minutes by car along the Matalascañas road.