Bar Zeruko

Hello hello,

This is a place that we have been visiting for ten years or so, I think. When we lived in England but came here for holidays, two or three times a year Bar Zeruko was the mainstay of our trips to Donosti. Located at the La Bretxa end of Calle de la Pescaderia, here you get a menu of the day for about 9 Euros.

What does this consist of? A menu del dia is three courses of something, it includes wine, served in an appropriate quantity for the number of people, and bread.

Bar Zeruko typically serves either some kind of salad, a bean or lentil type thing, or vegetables for starters. Next comes meat, fish or some such...followed by typical Basque deserts.

Coffee would be extra, the menu changes regularly and the decor is, well I don't know what to say, but I like the cowboy style doors to the toilets. For an extra three Euros or so you can go to La Cueva, in an alley off 31 Augusto. I don't know what's happening at the moment, it's closed - presumably for holidays after Christmas...I hope.

La Cueva is extremely limited in its menus, only three choices for starter and three for main course, but the choices are incredible! Chipirones a la plancha from here are sublime - perhaps the best I've ever tried. The service is really nice too, and you can sit outside when the weather is good. A rare thing in La Parte Vieja. Here the menu never changes, or at least not in the last two years, but again... I hope it never does.