We caught a Tuesday morning flight from Barcelona to Bilbao and rented a car for our drive through the Spanish countryside on our way to San Sebastian. Half way through the one-hour drive, we stopped off at
Etxebarri for lunch.
Etxebarri is known for grilling everything they serve, using custom made tools to help grill each item over a special coal. The chef focuses on cooking food that is fresh, prepared simply, and cooked perfectly. For our four hour marathon lunch, we were served an 11-course meal which included homemade
chorizo, smoked butter, grilled prawn, goose barnacle, oyster, caviar, baby
octopus, purple potato, eel w/ squash, tuna w/ tomato, bone-in
rib eye, plus dessert. Because of all the highly
positive reviews I've read and watched on TV, going into this meal I had very high expectations. Overall,
Etxebarri was one of a very few restaurants that has met my expectation. Here are some photos from lunch:
The first car we rented was a manual transmission
VW.
Ter burned the clutch so we ended up renting an automatic instead. Hilarious.
Driving through the Spanish countryside.
The menu at
Etxebarri.
Homemade
Chorizo.
Perfectly grilled prawn.
Smoked Caviar.
Goose barnacles. Definitely the weirdest thing I've ever eaten.
Grilled baby octopus.
Cheese ice-cream w/ wine and mixed berry soup. So good.
The first car we rented was a manual transmission VW. Ter burned the clutch so we ended up renting an automatic instead. Hilarious.
Driving through the Spanish countryside.
The menu at Etxebarri.
Homemade Chorizo.
Perfectly grilled prawn.
Smoked Caviar.
Goose barnacles. Definitely the weirdest thing I've ever eaten.
Grilled baby octopus.
Cheese ice-cream w/ wine and mixed berry soup. So good.
lol thats awesome ter,
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