Origen-es, Restaurant of the Hotel AF Pesquera

What it is

Origen-es is the gastronomic restaurant of the Hotel AF Pesquera, in a former flour mill of 1922 at the foot of Peñafiel castle. It belongs to the Familia Fernández Rivera group, the house of Tinto Pesquera and Condado de Haza, and brings together food and wine: the embers rule, fish is the strong point of the menu and a good part of the produce comes from the family estate Dehesa La Granja, which supplies the lamb, the cheese and the oil. The menu changes with the season. According to the house itself, the Repsol Guide has chosen it among the restaurants of the Ribera del Duero for a complete gastronomic experience.

Tasting menus

They are served with prior booking and may change according to the market. All include sourdough bread made with lees of Tinto Pesquera Albillo Mayor and home-made petits fours:

• Esperanza menu, €75 (€110 with pairing): from a mini falafel bao to grilled bluefin tuna parpatana and pheasant supreme, with a cheese and pumpkin soufflé before dessert.
• Two long menus, €95 (€140 with pairing): one with Palencia trout, Dublin Bay prawn with choricero pepper, barley stew with hare, sea bass with fennel and suckling pig; the other with Santoña anchovy, shrimp carpaccio, confit salt cod and 45-day-aged grilled loin.

The pairing is with wines of the Fernández Rivera family.

The menu

For eating à la carte there are starters such as Iberian ham croquettes (€8.50), grilled confit leeks with Dehesa La Granja cured cheese or the salad of charcoal-roasted peppers with smoked sardine (€17.80). For fish, grilled hake nape or tail for two (€23.50 per person) or confit salt cod loin with pil-pil (€25.80). For meat, 45-day Discarlux chuletón grilled (€68 a kilo), lamb chops from the estate (€25) and roast quarter of milk-fed lamb, to order only (€55). For dessert, estate cheese coulant with Tinto Pesquera ice cream. The cellar holds vintages from Familia Fernández Rivera that are no longer on the market, champagnes and wines from other areas.

Hours and booking

Closed Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday to Friday it opens for dinner only, from 20:30 to 23:00; Saturday and Sunday, at midday from 13:30 to 16:00 and in the evening from 20:30 to 23:00. Book on 983 881 212, at [email protected] or from its website. It is at Paseo Estación 1, next to the hotel.

Before or after

In the morning, go up to the Castle and Provincial Wine Museum or take a winery visit; for a glass of wine before eating, the Ágora de Protos is a few minutes away.