Café de Altamira

The Café de Altamira is on Rúa das Ameas, the street of the Abastos Market, about ten minutes' walk from the cathedral. It occupies part of the old Pazo de Altamira, in the same building as the hotel of that name but with its own entrance, on what was the garden of the Counts of Altamira. It serves Galician market cooking with outside influences, on Sargadelos tableware. Its website shows the Michelin Guide's Bib Gourmand and the Repsol Guide's recommendation. The dining room is bright, with wooden tables and wine racks, and the terrace faces the market square.

The menu, dish by dish

To start, Galician octopus with potato cream and paprika emulsion costs €23; ham croquettes, €14; Pacific scallops with citrus, €18; salt-cured bluefin tuna with ajo blanco, €14; and Padrón peppers, €8. Shellfish from the rías is at market price. For mains there is low-temperature line-caught hake for €24, baked cod with garlic and paprika oil for €25, Iberian beef cheek stewed for six hours in Ribeira Sacra Mencía for €24 and Friesian beef sirloin for €29.50. Desserts are around €8: baked San Simón da Costa cheesecake, brioche French toast or crème brûlée. Bread with oil is charged separately, at €1.90 per person.

Prices include VAT, and on the terrace service costs 10% more.

The market menu, not for now

The house had a market menu with what arrived at the halls opposite, but in November 2026 its website lists it as temporarily unavailable. What it does publish are set menus for groups of 6 to 45 people, for the whole table and without drinks: the Ameas, at €39 and €44, and the Altamira, at €59 and €62, with octopus, seafood of the day, fish and sirloin. Allergies must be reported beforehand, and the number of diners charged is fixed 24 hours before.

Open Sunday, closed Monday

According to the Michelin Guide, it is open Tuesday to Sunday, at midday from 13:30 to 15:30 and in the evening from 20:00 to 22:30, until 23:00 on Saturday; on Monday it is closed. The restaurant's website gives dinner from 20:30 to 23:00. It opens on Sunday at midday and in the evening, the day O Dezaseis is closed. Book on its website or on 981 558 592, especially at weekends. Michelin notes wheelchair access and that dogs may only be on the terrace.

From market to table, on foot

The Abastos Market is open Monday to Saturday from 8:00 to 14:00: stroll through the halls and sit down to eat afterwards. From the Obradoiro you walk down via Praterías and Rúa Nova. The Café de Altamira is the lunch of the plan Sunday in Santiago: cathedral roofs, Portico and the Alameda. There is no car park of its own: the old town is pedestrianised.