Villa de Oro

Half a century beside Camariñas harbour

Villa de Oro is a family restaurant on Rúa Areal, in the centre of Camariñas, near the harbour. The house has more than fifty years in the trade and defines itself as traditional cooking of the area. It has a large dining room of sixteen tables, with room for about eighty people, and prepares lunches and dinners to order for groups. Its website announces the Bib Gourmand the Michelin Guide gave it in 2023; the guide keeps it in its selection, at a mid-range price.

The tank rules

What sets the house apart is its own seafood tank, where the shellfish that is later served is in plain view. From it come lobster, velvet crabs, spider crab, goose barnacles, clams, razor clams, queen scallops, scallops and prawns. In fish they work with sea bass, turbot, monkfish, sole and hake, and make a mixed caldeirada.

The dish the house puts first is rice with lobster. It is followed by monkfish with clams, noodles and prawns, seafood and fish grills and seafood platters, to share. The website does not publish prices: ask the price of the shellfish before ordering it.

For those who do not want seafood

The other half of the menu is grilled meat and stews. Stewed meat is one of its specialities, and there is Iberian pork, secreto, aged beef, lamb and a grill of Iberian meats that you order cooked as you like and with the salt you prefer.

Midday and evening, six days a week

According to the Michelin Guide, it opens every day except Wednesday, at midday from 13:15 to 16:00 and in the evening from 20:30 to 22:30. Book by phone, on 981 736 354, or from its website. The same guide states that it does not accept pets.

Between Vilán and the lace

Camariñas is north of Muxía, across the estuary. Park beside the harbour and arrive on foot. It is the lunch of the Sunday in Muxía and Camariñas: in the morning Cape Vilán and its shipwreck centre, a few minutes by car, and after lunch the Museo do Encaixe, the town's bobbin lace museum.