Orixe aims to propose its customers a gastronomic universe focused on flavors of earlier days: an evocative culinary experience, capable of integrating the authentic essence of traditional recipes and indigenous products, with genuinely innovative techniques and textures.
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Galician: The main characteristic of Galician cooking is the excellent quality of ingredients. The recipes are simple and straightforward, hardly transforming the original product. Fresh ingredients are key in Galician cuisine. Galician cuisine is well known for its excellent seafood, octopus and beef.
The city of Santiago de Compostela is full of traditional restaurants and charming places worth visiting during your stay. We show below two excellent options at walking distance from Orixe restaurant.
Santiago food market (Mercado de Abastos)? This colorful permanent market is a vibrant space where locals and tourists alike mingle every day. The Mercado de Abastos or Santiago de Compostelamarket is open every day except Sundays and on holidays. The food market of Santiago was established 3 centuries ago, and
Abastos 2.0 Barra in Santiago de Compostela Abastos restaurant is located within the Mercado de Abastos in Santiago. It is actually integrated within the same market and that allows it to offer fresh food and real “cocina de mercado”. The site is run by several young, hipster-like cooks who dress
The restaurant is less than 5 minutes walk from the Museum of Galician people (Museo du pobo galego
Santiago de Compostela (the name means field of stars) has been a crossroad for centuries. Although it is rather easy to identify dishes that are typical to eat in Santiago, it is not so easy to determine which ones originated in the city. Examples of Galician dishes worth-trying in Santiago de Compostela are the following:
The first dish in the list is with pulpo a feira .octopus- (which is a typical dish nearly everywhere in Galicia -probably above all in Lugo). The second dish is empanada (the filling can consist of scallops, tuna, cod, chorizo or tuna, to name but a few). The third dish is Padron peppers (from the village of Padron in Galicia). We will end our short list with the famous Santiago cake.
go (the name means field of stars) has been a crossroad for centuries. Although it is rather easy to identify dishes that are typical to eat in Santiago, it is not so easy to determine which ones originated in the city. Examples of Galician dishes worth-trying in Santiago de Compostela are the following:
There is no precise rule as to how much to tip in Spain. Spaniards only tip if they consider the service to be good. A 5% is normally considered a good tip. Having said this, some local waiters know tourists tip more than local Spaniards do and may expect more from foreigners.
