El Molín de la Pedrera

Forty years of the Ardines Lara family

El Molín de la Pedrera is the house of the Ardines Lara family, who have been in Cangas de Onís hospitality for more than forty years. It began with Emilio, the eldest of three siblings, in the 1980s; the kitchen was built by their mother, Inés Lara, now retired, and today it is in the hands of Paz, who also designed the premises, while Ángel runs the dining room, the wines and dealings with customers. Emilio is also a hotelier, and the Hotel Nochendi, in the centre, presents this restaurant as its own.

It is on Calle Río Güeña, right in the centre of Cangas. Turismo Asturias counts 80 seats, with heating, air conditioning and wifi.

What comes out of the kitchen

Home-style Asturian cooking with local produce, and a menu that changes with the season. To start, the crunchy Cabrales with hazelnuts, the Gamonéu biscuit with roast peppers and anchovies, homemade ham croquettes, griddled boronchu, which is the local blood sausage, or a tapa or portion of fabada. Among the main courses, line-caught hake, grilled tuna loin, Asturian red beef entrecôte, oven-roast shoulder of kid with potatoes and oxtail with Gamonéu parmentier. The northern tuna roll and the corderu xaldu (Asturian lamb) are only served in their season.

For dessert, artisan-bread torrija with rice pudding cream, baked cheesecake, caramelised rice pudding, tocinillo de cielo or apple tatin. There is natural cider and a wine list by appellation.

How much you spend and who eats well here

The menu does not put a price on each dish, but gives an average of €50 per person upwards. Many starters are served as a tapa, half portion or by the piece, so a table can try more things without overspending. Most dishes are marked gluten-free on the menu, and Turismo Asturias mentions a menu for coeliacs. They also prepare takeaway food.

Hours: call first

The booking page gives lunch from 12:30 to 16:00 and dinner from 20:30 to 22:30 only on Fridays and Saturdays, and says it closes on Tuesday and Wednesday; the home page of the same website speaks of Sunday and Wednesday evening rest. With that doubt, call 985 849 109, which is also the booking number: they recommend booking for Saturday and Sunday. Turismo Asturias gives an annual closure from 22 December to 1 February.

It is one of the lunches of the Sunday in Covadonga and Cangas de Onís: the Sunday market and the Roman bridge are a short walk away.