Restaurants in Santillana del Mar

Noted for its Cantabrian specialties, this hotel-restaurant is the best place in town to eat a full meal. The menu emphasizes the inland dishes of the region, notably “meat of the pasture”—as in lamb, mutton, veal, and beef. The grasses are thick and nutritious around Santillana, and…

With just a few tables, a single waitress, and a small kitchen staff, this excellent little restaurant manages to produce meals of considerable sophistication based on meat from local farms and fish from nearby seaside villages. The kitchen is especially proud of its braised pork…