Gurea Restaurant

Home cooking in the centre

Gurea is on Calle Ignacio Fernández de Castro, in the centre of Comillas, a few steps from Gaudí's El Capricho and the Sobrellano Palace. It opened in 2011 and its idea is the shared table from north to south: grandmothers' recipes, market recipes and slow-fire recipes, each from a corner of Spain. On the same menu live Cantabria's cocido montañés, Galician-style octopus, Basque-tradition cod and Iberian cured meats from Salamanca.

What to order

The menu, published on its website with prices, is organised into portions, salads, spoon dishes, meats, fish and homemade desserts. To share in the middle of the table, what most defines the house is the acorn-fed Iberian cured meats cut by knife: ham (€25), loin (€24) or a special board of Iberian meats and cheese (€30), as well as a board of assorted cheeses (€18). From the sea, rabas and fried bocartes (€15 each), Cantabrian anchovies in oil (€17), clams marinara (€25) and Galician-style octopus (€25). The croquettes are homemade, of ham or of cod.

For spoon dishes, the cocido montañés (€18), and also tripe. In meats, Iberian pork sirloin in sherry, Iberian secreto, entrecôte of vaca pinta and a half-kilo cachopo to share (€30). In fish, battered cod or with its "Gurea tomato", Cantabrian bonito (€28) and fish of the day at market price. The homemade desserts are around €6 or €7: chocolate flan, custard, rice pudding, cheesecake and a sobao bomb with biscuit.

The cellar is large for a place of this size: Rioja and Ribera del Duero crianzas and reservas, albariños, verdejos and godellos, and three whites from Cantabria. The house Rioja costs €12 a bottle and the natural cider, €8. It has gluten-free options: let them know when you book.

When to go

The hours are not published on the website: book by telephone, on 942 722 446, especially in summer and at weekends. If you go in winter, confirm first that it is open.

What to combine

Eating here fits with a morning of visits in the centre: El Capricho, Sobrellano and, up the hill, the Seminario Mayor. In the afternoon, walk down to Comillas beach or take the car to Oyambre. The tourist office gives information on monument hours.