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Eating & Sleeping

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Pamplona 2 Calle Mayor Boutique Hotel €€€
(%941 23 23 68; www.hotelcallemayor.com;
5 Bar-Restaurante Gaucho Pintxos € Calle Marqués de San Nicolás 71; r incl breakfast
(Travesía Espóz y Mina 7; pintxos €2-3; €120-160; paW) This delicious hotel is the
h7am-3pm & 6.30-11pm) This bustling bar place to stay in Logroño. It has huge rooms
serves multi-award-winning pintxos that, with cheeky touches such as modern lamps
despite some serious competition, many a atop ancient columns, it’s bathed in light
local will tell you are the finest in the city – and simply oozes class. The staff are highly
and we agree! Try the ones made of sea efficient.
urchins or the crispy spinach and prawn
caramel creations.
4 Palacio Burgos 9
Guendulain Historic Hotel €€€ 5 El Huerto
(%948 22 55 22; www.palacioguendulain. de Roque Contemporary Castilian €€
SPAIN 29 NORTHERN SPAIN PILGRIMAGE
com; Calle Zapatería 53; s/d incl breakfast (www.elhuertoderoque.com; Calle de Santa
from €132/143; paW) To call this Águeda 10; mains €10-12, menú del día €15;
stunning hotel, inside the converted former hrestaurant 1-4pm Tue-Sat, gastrobar
home of the viceroy of New Granada, 8pm-2am Thu-Sat; v) Come here for an
sumptuous is an understatement. On arrival, inexpensive lunch with plenty of choice of
you’re greeted by a museum-piece 17th- dishes. The emphasis is on fresh market and
century carriage and a collection of classic ecological produce with typical plates including
cars being guarded beside the viceroy’s vegetable spring rolls with a sweet and sour
private chapel. The rooms contain Princess sauce, and crab in a Thai green curry sauce.
and the Pea–soft beds, enormous showers The atmosphere throughout is boho-rustic
and regal armchairs.
with original tiles, wooden furniture and edgy
artwork.
Logroño 7
4 Hotel Norte
5 La Cocina de Ramon Spanish €€€ y Londres Historic Hotel €€
(%941 28 98 08; www.lacocinaderamon.es; (%947 26 41 25; www.hotelnorteylondres.com;
Calle de Portales 30; menús €28-37; h1-4pm & Plaza de Alonso Martínez 10; s/d €66/100;
8-11pm Tue-Sat, 1-4pm Sun) It looks unassuming piW) Set in a former 16th-century palace
from the outside, but Ramon’s mixture of high- and with understated period charm, this fine
quality, locally grown market-fresh produce hotel promises spacious rooms with antique
and tried-and-tested family recipes gives this furnishings, polished wooden floors and pretty
place a lot of fans. But it’s not just the food that balconies; those on the 4th floor are more
makes it so popular: the service is outstanding, modern. The bathrooms are exceptionally
and Ramon likes to come and explain the dishes large, the service exceptionally efficient.
to each and every guest.

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