La Merced de la Concordia Restaurant

Lunchtimes on Plaza de la Merced

The restaurant occupies the ground floor of La Merced de la Concordia, the seven-room hotel set in a 1501 palace in the centre of Tarazona. It is a lunchtime eatery: it opens Tuesday to Sunday from 13:30 to 15:15, and serves dinners only to order or for celebrations. On Monday it is closed all day. The tables are spread over three spaces with room for 90 diners, which leaves plenty of margin for groups and family meals.

The cooking is traditional and elaborate, with seasonal local produce: vegetables, meat, mushrooms and fruit. Alongside the seasonal menu there is a shorter one that blends those dishes with more recent techniques.

The set menu, at weekends too

The set menu is the cheapest way to eat here. On weekdays it costs €18.50 and at weekends and on public holidays €28.50, VAT included. It comes with bread, half a bottle of water and a bottle of red wine for every three people, with a first course, main and dessert chosen from several that change often. The one published in November 2026 had black beans with chorizo, mushroom rice or migas with grapes and egg as first courses; beef meatballs, fried anchovies or orange roast chicken as mains; and for dessert, coponario, a filled fried biscuit, or coffee flan. Soft drinks, beer and extra drinks are charged separately. If a child under seven shares a menu, a supplement of €3.85 is charged.

The à la carte menu: ternasco, suckling lamb and cod

On the à la carte menu, meat rules. The roast shoulder of ternasco lamb costs €23.50, the suckling lamb chops €26, the braised oxtail €19.80 and the Basque-style Pyrenean beef chop is charged at €6.60 per 100 g. For two there is roast shoulder of suckling lamb with its offal delicacies (€50) and rice with thrushes (€18 per person, minimum two). From the sea, Biscay-style cod tripe with snails (€24), stuffed baby squid in their ink (€19) or red tuna parpatana (€24.20).

For starters, home-made stew or beef-chop croquettes (€12.10), black pudding truffles (€15.50), stuffed morels in sauce (€22) and corn-fed ham (€22). The home-made desserts are around €7.70, such as the Baileys chocolate poso or the liquorice ice cream; the coulant is €9.90. Bread is extra, at €1.10 per person. The wine list draws on the Aragonese appellations: Borja, Cariñena, Calatayud and Somontano.

One house custom worth knowing before you ask for the bill: they charge each table on a single receipt.

When it fits

It is a short step from Plaza de España and from the climb up to the Jewish quarter and the old bullring, so it works to break up a morning in the old town. If your plan is the cathedral, in the lower quarter, lunch here is on the way between one and the other. Book on 976 199 344, especially at weekends; group menus are also ordered by phone.