Eating in O Cebreiro

This small village in the municipality of Pedrafita do Cebreiro and the province of Lugo is a mandatory stop on the Camino de Santiago. You will of course find many Galician products there, but what you really need to eat in O Cebreiro is their specialty, the Queso Cebreiro (Cebreiro cheese), which has D.O. It’s prepared with pasteurized whole milk—from the breeds rubia gallega, pardo frisona, or a mix of the two—and has a yellowish-white color without coloring or preservatives.

A typical dish is the cocido gallego (Galician stew), prepared with several pork by-products, in addition to the class lacón con grelos (meat with greens) and the pote gallego (“Galician pot”). And although it’s an inland town, why not try a good octopus a feira?  As for something sweet, the local restaurants offer homemade desserts: filloas (crepes) with sugar or Miel de Galicia (Galician honey, with I.G.P.) and queso de O Cebreiro with quince or honey.