Bar Restaurante Auñamendi

The bar-restaurant of the Auñamendi hotel is on the square in Ochagavía, on Calle Urrutia. It is a family-run house serving traditional cooking with produce from the Navarre mountains: a weekday set menu, a weekend menu, a bar menu with sharing plates and combination plates, and sandwiches for anyone arriving in a hurry from the forest.

From Casa Zazón to the square

The building has been feeding people for some fifty years. It began as a bar, Casa Zazón, and after several extensions became today's rural hotel, completely refurbished in 2014. The family that runs it keeps the bar-café downstairs, with a terrace onto the village square, and the restaurant dining room for the menus.

Three menus depending on the day

• Set menu, €20: Monday to Thursday, excluding public holidays.
• Weekend and public holiday menu, €30: Friday to Sunday and public holidays.
• Special Reckrea menu, €36: for a full table, with tomato salad with tuna belly and guindilla peppers, mushroom and prawn puff pastry, grilled baby squid with tomato vinaigrette, boned pig's trotters and torrija with ice cream.

The website does not detail the dishes of the set menu or the weekend one: ask when you call.

The bar menu, with prices

For eating without a menu, the bar menu has:

• Salads: mixed (€10), chicken with Roncal cheese and bacon (€12), tomato with tuna (€12) and octopus with prawns and gulas (€15).
• Sharing plates: Galician-style octopus (€18), Iberian and cheese board (€15), spicy potatoes (€9), fried baby squid or calamari (€10).
• Combination plates: Biscay-style cod with eggs (€15), grilled cuttlefish with aioli (€16), beef sirloin with potatoes and peppers (€15), fried eggs with txistorra or loin (€14) and chopped beef chop with piquillo peppers and potatoes (€20).
• Sandwiches: from €7 to €9, from the omelette to the hamburger.
• Desserts: from €5 to €6, with curd, torrija, cheesecake or Roncal cheese with quince and walnuts.

Groups of more than twenty

On weekdays, for groups of more than 20 people with a booking, there are four fixed menus: two at €20, with menestra and lamb chilindrón or stuffed aubergine and cod ajoarriero, and two at €28, with pochas and baked hake or cheeks in red wine.

With children

There is a children's menu at €14, and the hotel has high chairs and children's menus. For anyone sleeping upstairs, the Hotel Rural Auñamendi shares the same management and telephone.

When to call

The website publishes no service hours or closing day. Call 948 890 189 or write to [email protected] before you go, especially in the autumn high season. Casas de Irati is about 40 minutes away via the NA-2012, and the hermitage of Muskilda, on the hill above the village.