Portuondo restaurant

A viewpoint over the estuary, opposite Laida

Portuondo is at Portuondo Auzoa 5, at the entrance to Mundaka coming from Gernika, on a slope that looks onto the Urdaibai estuary and, opposite, Laida beach. On the same estate there are two houses. The à la carte restaurant is a grill: Basque produce-led cooking, with vegetables from small local producers and its own shellfish tank. The beer hall is the informal part, with a terrace and a glass-walled dining room over the estuary, which opens seasonally.

The holm-oak embers

In the restaurant, fish from the ports of Mundaka and Bermeo and meat are cooked over holm-oak embers. From the menu: grilled hake (€29.50) or in green sauce (€30.50), grilled monkfish (€37, or €74 for two) and grilled gilthead, sea bass, turbot or sea bream, charged at market price. The meat ranges from a pan-seared sirloin (€31) or a grilled duck breast (€31.50) to the sirloin chateaubriand (€40) and the chuleta of mature beef, at €82 a kilo, with salad.

To start and to finish

Among the starters, octopus over holm-oak embers with smoked potato cream (€29.50), clams pan-fried or in green sauce (€31.50), steak tartare with egg yolk and truffle (€28.50), Cantabrian anchovies (€23.50), stewed wild mushrooms with fresh foie gras (€30) or the red prawn, at €4.90 each. Desserts cost from €9 to €10.80: baked cheesecake, chocolate volcano, apple millefeuille with reineta apple ice cream or brioche torrija.

Closing days and dinners

The à la carte restaurant serves lunch from 13:30 to 15:30 and dinner only on Friday and Saturday, from 20:45 to 22:00. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday. It opens on Sunday at lunchtime, which is why it is the lunch of the Sunday at Gaztelugatxe and Mundaka and one of the tables on the weekend in Urdaibai. Book on 946 876 050, by email at [email protected] or with the form on its website.

The beer hall, closed until March

The beer hall serves simple brasserie cooking and does not take reservations. It is now closed for the end of the season and its website announces reopening for March 2027. Until then, only the à la carte restaurant is open.

Laida beach, the one you see from the table, is on the other bank; on this one, you can first do the walk round Mundaka to Santa Katalina. If you are looking for somewhere to sleep nearby, in the same area is Camping Portuondo.