Asador Casa Emeterio, at the Hotel Tres Coronas

Asador Casa Emeterio is the dining room of the Hotel Tres Coronas, on the Plaza Mayor of Santo Domingo de Silos. The first thing you see as you walk in is the wood-fired oven, and from there the place makes sense: a village Castilian grill with home cooking and lamb as the star dish. It is a couple of minutes' walk from the monastery door.

Lamb from the Tabladillo valley

The house is proud of its roast lamb and explains why: the lambs graze in the Tabladillo valley, between the Mirandilla, Santa Bárbara, Cervera and Valdosa ranges, on pastures of thyme, French lavender, spike lavender, savin juniper, juniper and holm oak. The roast is cooked in the wood-fired oven that dominates the entrance to the dining room. The website does not publish the full menu; the rest of the cooking is home-style and local.

The average price per head is around €26, according to the hotel itself, which makes it mid-priced for a grill.

A dining room for ninety

The dining room seats about 90, is air-conditioned and has plenty of natural light. The bar, with its Castilian atmosphere, has a counter of Urbión pine carved with the coats of arms of Silos, Salas de los Infantes, Aranda de Duero and Burgos: it is worth stepping in to see it even if you only have a coffee. Bar and dining room are both accessible to people with reduced mobility.

Tasting dinners for guests

The hotel offers its guests half board at €90 per person per day, drinks included, and a weekend package with two tasting dinners of local cuisine and its Gin Silos. If you are sleeping at the Hotel Tres Coronas, it is a way to have your dinner sorted.

Call before heading up to Silos

The website does not publish the dining room's opening hours or closing days: call 947 39 00 47 before you go, especially in winter and on weekdays. The hotel is open from 8:00 to 24:00.

With the cloister and the Yecla

Lunch fits between a morning visit to the Silos cloister and an afternoon walk in the Yecla gorge, a few minutes away by car. If you stay for vespers, the Gregorian chant is in the monastery church, just around the corner.