DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIÁN - BAR IBAI

BAR IBAI (ibai) NOW CLOSED NOW CLOSED

A fantastic old School Restaurant, run by an old Basque couple serving the very best produce from whatever is available at the market that day, in a basic set menu form.

You enter by the ground floor bar, which always seems empty

and are then taken downstairs to the small traditional room

You will be offered a menu from what is fresh from the market that day, we had......

Bogavante salpicon (lobster)

Verdura (artichokes, borrajas, and baby peas, in a vegetable broth)

Hongos (mushrooms)

Kokotxas de merluza (hake throats)

Lenguado (sole) - Probably the best you will ever taste

Postre

If you visit the restaurant in autumn you will find angulas (elvers/baby eels).

In early summer, the special is likely to be tuna belly, but it does change on a daily basis.

The small traditional room only has seven tables, serving mainly locals and no English is spoken whatsoever.

They now have a wine list, in the past, you just selected from the shelf or told them the wine you wanted. Most are priced below British retail prices which is nearly always the case in Spain, a bottle of Contino 2005 was €30.