# Parador de Fuente Dé Restaurant

Restaurant en Fuente Dé · Liébana and Potes

Fuente: https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/cantabria/liebana-and-potes/where-to-eat/fuente-de-parador-restaurant · Revisado: 2026-11-13

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The parador's dining room at the foot of the cable car: cocido lebaniego, Liébana cheeses and local meats. Closes with the parador from December to February.

The dining room of the Parador de Fuente Dé is at the end of the Camaleño road, a few steps from the lower cable-car station, inside the Picos de Europa National Park. If you go up in the morning, you eat here without going down to Potes. It is open to the public, not only to parador guests.
Spoon dishes, cheeses and mountain meat
The menu is Liébana and mountain cooking. The district's dish, the cocido lebaniego, shares the stage with other homemade spoon dishes, a board of Liébana cheeses and local veal. On the menu Paradores publishes there are:

pickled free-range cockerel salad;
sirloin with Tresviso cheese, one of the blue cheeses of the Picos;
cod Montañesa-style and hake on the spit;
rabas, to share in the middle;
veal chop.

Paradores does not publish on its website the price of each dish or the serving hours: ask when you book.
Closed from 22 December to 23 February
The parador closes from 22 December 2026 to 23 February 2027, and the restaurant closes with it. Outside those dates, book at fuentede@parador.es or on 942 736 651, especially in summer and on long weekends.
Bear in mind too the cable car: from 16 November 2026 it is closed for works for a few weeks.
The cable car's two cafés
At the cable car itself there are two Cantur cafés: one at the lower station, with 200 seats, and another at the top, at El Cable, with 150, next to the viewpoint. Cantur does not publish its menu; for sitting down to eat from a menu, the parador's dining room. Check they are open while the works last.

Qué pedir: the cocido lebaniego or the sirloin with Tresviso cheese, and the cheese board

## Practical details

- Address: Fuente Dé, s/n, 39588 Camaleño, Cantabria
- Phone: +34 942 736 651
- Email: fuentede@parador.es
- Closed with the parador from 22 December 2026 to 23 February 2027
- Cuisine: Cantabrian, Liébana
- House specialities: Cocido lebaniego, Sirloin with Tresviso cheese, Cod Montañesa-style, Liébana cheeses
- Details checked on 12 November 2026.

## Cómo llegar y contacto

- Web: https://www.parador.es/es/restaurante-del-parador-de-fuente-de
- Coordenadas: 43.1443, -4.8115

## Cerca de aquí

- [Parador de Fuente Dé](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/cantabria/liebana-and-potes/where-to-stay/fuente-de-parador), a 0 m
- [Fuente Dé Cable Car](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/cantabria/liebana-and-potes/things-to-do/fuente-de-cable-car), a 130 m
- [Walk Down Through the Áliva Pastures](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/cantabria/liebana-and-potes/things-to-do/aliva-pastures-walk), a 2.6 km
- [Hotel del Oso](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/cantabria/liebana-and-potes/where-to-stay/hotel-del-oso), a 6.5 km
- [Hotel del Oso Restaurant](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/cantabria/liebana-and-potes/where-to-eat/hotel-del-oso-restaurant), a 6.5 km
- [Guided Snowshoeing in Liébana and the Picos](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/cantabria/liebana-and-potes/things-to-do/snowshoeing-in-liebana), a 9.9 km
- [Posada San Pelayo](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/cantabria/liebana-and-potes/where-to-stay/posada-san-pelayo), a 10.5 km
- [Monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana and the Lignum Crucis](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/cantabria/liebana-and-potes/things-to-do/santo-toribio-de-liebana-monastery), a 13.5 km

## Consejos

### Eat early if there is a queue
In summer, eating at 13:00 and going up afterwards saves you the worst hour at the ticket office.

### Order the Tresviso sirloin
It is the dish that brings together the valley's meat with a cheese from the Picos.

### Stay overnight
The Parador de Fuente Dé is in the same building and admits pets. If you prefer cocido with a published price list, the Hotel del Oso is down the road, in Cosgaya.

## Preguntas frecuentes

### Do you have to be staying at the Parador de Fuente Dé to eat?
No, the restaurant is open to the public.

### Can you eat at Fuente Dé in the depths of winter?
Not from 22 December 2026 to 23 February 2027.

### What is the typical dish?
The cocido lebaniego and Liébana cheeses; in meat, the sirloin with Tresviso cheese.

### How do you book a table at the Parador de Fuente Dé?
By email at fuentede@parador.es or on 942 736 651.

### Is there anywhere else to eat at Fuente Dé?
The two cable-car cafés, at the lower station and at El Cable.

Destino: [Liébana and Potes](https://www.geocalia.com/en/spain/cantabria/liebana-and-potes.md)