If you’re thinking about eating in Carrion de los Condes, you should know that meat is one of the best options, from lamb to game. Also, the local stews and soups are perfect for replenishing your strength. Although there aren’t many restaurants or bars in Carrion de Condes where you can eat from a daily menu or get tapas, we have found some selections that, without a doubt, you will find very appetizing. Let’s go!
If you want advice regarding what to eat in Carrion de los Condes, we can tell you that one of the town’s most popular dishes is firewood-roasted churra lamb, although if you are traveling along the Camino Jacobeo that crosses the town, perhaps it’s preferable to get something a little lighter. Also very important in this region are dishes with small game, like partridge or quail, usually stewed.
Like in any Castilian town, the yearly livestock slaughter offers varied products that enrich the local cuisine. You can find many bars and restaurants in the municipality where they serve small portions or tapas of blood sausage and ham, among others. In addition, there are garlic soups, tropezones de chorizo and menestra with orchard vegetables, which are ideal to combat to cold that’s typical to the winters of this region. For dessert, there are the famous pastas (small cookies) made by the nuns at the Monastery of Santa Clara, as well as other pastries like amarguillos, mantecados, marzas and rosquillas de palo.
The inn El Portón serves homemade food in a family atmosphere. A simple menu with quality ingredients. Perfect for dining on small snacks: sweetbreads, tenderloin, ribs in oil…Honest service—if they think you’re ordering too much and won’t be able to eat everything, they will tell you.
In the Plaza Marqués de Santillana you’ll find Cervecería J.M., where you can eat tapas, small portions, or order a delicious hamburger. They also have pizza and a more hearty traveler’s menu.
We highlight a few of the places to eat in Carrion de los Condes. The restaurant Las Vigas offers carefully-crafted Castilian cuisine in a very special atmosphere: its dining rooms occupy the spaces of the refectory and attic of the old Monastery of San Zoilo. The restaurant at the hostel La Carte offers a traveler’s menu and a daily menu. One of their specialties is roast lamb. We recommend the morcilla (blood sausage) and the lamb at a restaurant with the right quality-price ratio.
At the Plaza Mayor de Villalcázar in Sirga (5km away), there is the Mesón de Villasirga, which opened in 1965 to serve travelers and is located in an old 17th-century building; it’s possible to have an authentic medieval dinner in the old style, in which a loaf of bread is used as a dish on top of which food is served. Their specialty? The churro lamb. The Castilian soup is also a good option, recognized as perfectly authentic by our community of travelers. In 1984 the owner, Pablo Payo, opened another nearby establishment, Mesón de los Templarios, apt for large celebrations. Both restaurants prepare traditional Castilian cuisine, and their star dish is also the roasted churro lamb as well as the homemade morcilla. Eating in Carrion de los Condes could be a total medieval adventure.
