Asador Medieval

Roasts by the Puerta de Hierro

The Asador Medieval is a family restaurant in Sigüenza's old town, at Calle del Portal Mayor 2, next to the Puerta de Hierro and a few steps from the Plaza Mayor. It serves Castilian cooking centred on the oven and the grill: lamb, suckling pig and kid roasted slowly, grilled meats and a cellar strong on reds. It is the place to come for a Sunday lunch roast after the cathedral.

The Doña Blanca menu

It is the simplest way to eat here and costs €35.50 per person, with bread, dessert and half a bottle of water or a 3/8 of wine. You choose a first course from scrambled eggs with Sigüenza black pudding and roasted peppers, confit artichoke flower, stuffed peppers and shepherd's Sigüenza migas; and a second from grilled Galician beef entrecôte, salt cod with tomato, roast round of beef with mushrooms or roast suckling pig. Dessert, any from the menu. For children there is a €15.50 menu with macaroni or escalopes, bread, dessert and water.

The menu, from Castilian soup to rib steak

From the land: Castilian soup (€18), Sigüenza migas (€19), scrambled eggs with artisan black pudding (€19) and lamb sweetbreads with garlic (€19). Among the starters, broken eggs with ham, home-made croquettes or broad beans with caramelised onion, from €19 to €20.

The roasts come with "a lo pobre" potatoes: oven-roast Segovia suckling pig (€28), shoulder of milk-fed lamb (€31.50) and shoulder of milk-fed kid (€41.50). Some roasts are prepared to order because of the oven time, so if you are after a particular one, say so when you book. From the grill there is venison loin from the Montes de Molina (€28), Sigüenza milk-fed lamb chops (€29), Galician beef sirloin (€33) and a rib steak aged more than 40 days, of about 900 g (€55). To finish, local desserts: Sigüenza bizcochos borrachos and costrada seguntina, from €7 to €7.50.

Closed Tuesdays, dinner only Friday and Saturday

It is open at midday, from 13:00 to 16:00, every day except Tuesday. Dinners, only on Fridays and Saturdays, from 20:00 to 22:00. Book online through its website, on 949 39 32 33 or 656 969 772, or at [email protected].

It fits after the cathedral and the Doncel and as lunch on the castle and Doncel Sunday. If you are sleeping in the area, the Posada Los Cuatro Caños is also by the Portal Mayor.