Restaurants

Basque Country meets Mexico at Gatxupa

Pintxo y margarita

In the last years we are living in our city the opening of middle-class restaurants bearing the name of big chefs. It’s possibly a way to be even more loaded diversify their businesses. This phenomenon offers to ordinary citizens the oportunity to be somewhere lookalike the stars, whether Michelin or not. Oh, this humility moves us…

One of these cases has been Gatxupa, inaugurated a few months ago by chef Bruno Oteiza -born and fed in Donostia but become a seasoned pro after travelling around half the world- who, at his return to San Sebastian, has decided that we needed another restaurant basque-mexican fusion. Will it have our approval? 

Gatxupa decoración
Basque-Mexican fusion elements as well on the wall

It’s Saturday at about eight pm and that’s a hive of people begging for a corner in this new fashionable place. To have a table looks like big words but ha! We got it! Well… were bar stools but we were lucky.

Honest verdict : everything’s good, why be tough when things are well done. Although I received my margarita in a glass of cider (there are things that should never merge) I must say that the selection of pintxos from the menu was worthy, highlighting the tacos al pastor and the Aztec fish soup, absolutely delicious. About the prices… medium to high, as expected for a trendy place.

And, if you’re highly motivated, on the basement floor there’s a restaurant area with a tasting menu around €60.

Sopa de pescado azteca
Oh, that soup…
Tacos al pastor
Tacos al pastor

Dirección: Usandizaga Kalea, 17, San Sebastián, España

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