Bardal

Bardal is Benito Gómez's restaurant at calle José Aparicio, 1, a few steps from the Puente Nuevo, on the Mercadillo side. It has two Michelin stars and works only with a tasting menu: there is no à la carte. The cooking starts from recognisable flavours of the serranía and of Andalusia — pickled partridge, adobo marinade, onion, game — and turns them into small dishes of precise technique.

Two menus and three pairings

There are two menus. The Menú Bardal costs €195 per person and in November 2026 strings together sixteen courses: soup and a chilled cut of shiitake, trout aspic with smoked cream, squid with miso made from its insides, shrimps with chard and Andalusian pounded sauce, partridge with saffron milk caps and mushroom escabeche, cold and hot salt-baked onion soup, monkfish in Andalusian adobo with yeast butter and venison with parsnips, before the desserts and petits fours. The wine pairing costs €100, and the grand pairing, €215.

The Gran Menú Bardal costs €230 and adds, among others, cod tripe with black butifarra, veal blanquette with caviar and an apple tart with vanilla ice cream. Its pairings cost €115 and €250. The house warns that dishes and prices change with the market and the season.

Wednesday to Saturday, with a card

It opens Wednesday to Saturday, at midday from 13:15 to 17:30 and in the evening from 20:00 to midnight. The last seating is at 14:00 at lunch and at 20:30 at dinner: arrive on time, because the menu is long. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday it is closed, so it does not work for a Sunday outing; it fits a getaway with a night in Ronda.

You book on its website. Nothing is charged when booking, but you must leave a card: if you cancel with less than 24 hours' notice, they charge €195 per diner. For tables of more than six people you must speak to the restaurant first.

Allergies, diets and children

Dietary restrictions are given when booking; otherwise, the kitchen cannot guarantee it can adapt the menu. They only adapt to an ovo-lacto-vegetarian diet, requested in advance; they do not do a vegan menu. For serious allergies, phone before booking on 951 48 98 28. Children under 8 are not admitted, and for older children who need a different meal you must ask.

Around the restaurant

The same house runs Tragatá, its tapas bar on calle Nueva, if you want to try Benito Gómez's cooking without the long menu. To sleep a few minutes' walk away, the Parador de Ronda is on the other side of plaza de España, and before lunch you can look into the chamber of the Puente Nuevo.