Café de Altamira

Nice setting, but mixed experience with the food The restaurant has a great location and cozy atmosphere. Some dishes were quite good, but others lacked real flavor or creativity. The wine list is decent and offers good options. Overall, the experience was fine, but not memorable from a culinary point of view.

PRO'S: Cafe de Altamira deserves it's Bib Gourmand award for multiple years. Our 4 person group at lunch ordered 2 dishes each, all very good. Tomatoes, Leeks & scallops dishes were outstanding. Service was excellent. We used public parking 5 minutes walk from the Cafe CON'S: Absolutely None SUMMARY: Cafe de Altamira is worth a special trip for traditional Spanish dinning.

Went here the day after the Camino for a lunch post-Market-crawling. Really exceptional food with creativity and passion evident. Nice wine list, and you can see why it's Michelin-guided. The contrast between the Pulpo Gallego across the street, with its rustic traditional finish, and the elevated twist this place put on it was especially cool to see.

Jose and his colleagues are very nice. The mackerel and ponzu tomatoes cherries are scrumptious. Went twice just to eat that. Scallops and king prawns were nice

Great meal here! The starters were my favourite, especially the bonitos de mar 🌊

Tasting menu for €35 was delicious. See photos for the menu. All interesting but nothing off the wall. Highlights were the tuna carpaccio and the pork(?!) meatball. Staff were very efficient. Definitely worth booking.

Fresh ingredients and well executed dishes. Interesting starters with citrus flavours to complement the seafood.

We were lucky to passed by the restaurant while in Santiago. The food was excellent from the start. I have never tasted olives that good before. Croquettes, main dishes and dessert were all great. The best part is the price were very reasonable and the owner served food and poured the wine himself. Very homey eating with locals alike. Definitely recommended.

One of the culinary highlights on my last visit to Santiago. Went for lunch and tried, between me and my boyfriend, the dishes from the daily menu - 2 starters, 2 mains, plus dessert. And this was definitely a very good choice, as everything seemed to be very fresh - they are located just across a public market, after all - and well prepared. The seasonality of their menu is paired perfectly with modern, inspired flavours, but it also respects those things that time established and perfected: good cheeses, a beautiful wine menu and, for me one of the most crucial details, good, freshly baked bread, that they slice in your view. And the space itself is gorgeous, ample and contemporary, with a bold use of proportion and color. There's also the convoluted, yet extremely comfortable, furniture. Truly nice architecture and interiors work, enhanced by the jazzy music. The staff is knowledgeable about the food and has an easygoing, elegant way of making you feel welcome. My only reservation about the whole experience was the portion size: some dishes were very generous while others were quite small, and this wasn't from a tapas menu. We were sharing everything so that wasn't a problem at the time. Very good value overall and I hope that it's still around next time I'm in Santiago.

Great place, great people, great food. Situated in the Alamira hotel (which looked nice, didn't stay here) this somewhat modern looking restaurant is on the edge of old town by the market. How I got here is half the story; intended to go to Occuro da Parra but without reservations we had no shot. The owner, rather than just turn us away, personally walked us to his 2nd restaurant (this place) and personally made sure we got a table and a complimentary drink (incredible hospitality!!). The food was pretty darn good too, had the galician beef (which didn't look like much when it came out, but it tasted great - very juicy) and a fish special (cannot recall what kind, but fantastic, the cut was the tail which gave it some thickness). The owner went above and beyond, instructing his staff to give us a small craft of house made liquor which gave a nice buzz to say the least (after a bottle of wine).