Hotel Restaurant CHILO

Great rooms and memorable restaurant experience, highly recommend visiting if you’re in the area!

This is a special place, no it is not modern, it ia a 18th century building, with lots of I interesting features. The rooms are not ultra modern, but are comfortable. No, there is no air con. The restaurant is sublime and the surroundings are beautiful and quiet. They like dogs too.

Pleasant room, clean and well appointed. As a gay couple, it would have been nice not to have been questioned twice as to whether we really wanted a double bed!! Apart from that, the room was very comfortable. The hotel is quirky in a beautiful site. The breakfast is really good with local breads and jams, fantastic sheep's cheese and good coffee. They also make home made gateaux basques to take away! Highly recommended.

Used for a food stop on a long group cycle ride. We did not want a large meal so the owner very kindly made us some baguettes. The location and views were perfect and the service we received was excellent. Very highly recommended.

a classic French-looking idyllic hotel-restaurant in Barcus. It was located in a beautiful village among the rolling foot-hills of the Pyrenees, which was an absolutely stunning location! Peaceful and quaint. The food at Chez Chilo was outstanding. The dessert is also a must have! We had the set menu and tried the great local wine. It was an elegant atmosphere and the staff were friendly. The room could do with a little upgrade and that was the only thing which was a little basic. Although the hotel is located by the road, it wasn’t noisy at all. It was a very quiet village and lovely to wake up to the sweet bird singing in the morning! The French breakfast was good quality. Thank you.

We went for the restaurant. Basque gastronomy. Excellent, worth the detour!

Chilo is a very simple, old guest house/hotel set in a quaint small village. The hotel backs up onto crop fields, pastures and a mountain range. The building is charming on the outside but old and the rooms are very basic. The upper floor rooms get hot even in September, and will be stifling if you don't leave the windows fully open throughout your stay. The hallways are a bit dark but the dining room, bar, sitting areas and terrace are spacious, bright and comfortable. On balance the facility itself would be 2 or at most 3 'stars'. What makes the experience unexpectedly positive and worthy of 4 stars is the warmth of the service, and exceptional quality of the home cooking. Everyone in our large group routinely dines at "block letter" internationally recognizable restaurants and we all agreed that the fresh tomato and pepper salad was among the best salads we had ever eaten (maybe the best). Similarly, the cheeses, pates, pastas, eggs, fish and various small plates were each simple, unusually delicious and made of notably high quality ingredients. Moreover, the service was very friendly and accommodating. For instance, the hostess went out shopping in the village twice for additional ingredients and prepared supplemental servings for us as a special accommodation. Late arrival and early departure, extra soap and towels and other such accommodations were no problem. I wish every simple rural inn along our trans pyrenees bike route had been as friendly, and their cooks as talented.

We are fortunate to have Chez Chilo almost on our doorstep . Yesterday , Christmas Day , we had the most wonderful lunch , attention to detail excellent and food superb . Each course was outstanding . We would highly recommend this restaurant .