Bilbao Food Guide

"Tasty coffee and jamon pintxos."

"Winner of hard-fought gastronomic contests including 2016’s best pintxos bar championship, Gure Toki does an admirable job of giving traditional Basque home cooking a new twist. Long ago this bar was known for doing giant portions of patatas bravas, now its speciality is a grilled foie with apple and Pedro Ximenez sweet sherry."

"If you approached a business adviser with a plan to open a pintxos bar in the Casco Viejo district they’d look at you as if you were foolish – because it’s already stuffed full of them! But Baster, which opened just over a year ago, has carved out a space for itself, adding something cool and fresh to the existing mix."

"Great calamari and nice pintxos."

"I was only in there briefly at about 10pm on a Saturday night and it was very busy. I had the tortilla with and without morcilla."

"The name (Fried Egg) fits in with the cheap-and-cheery local “caff” ambience, although being the Basque world, this is actually a bar, and the eggs are quails’ – adding glamour and a gooey layer to top-ranked pintxos, lined up on slates balanced on tins of tuna along the counter. This is also the spot for a good gilda (a skewered, oily dripping olive, anchovy and pickled chilli combo); for warming cazuelitas (a fry-up with bacon, ham or sausage for €3.50); and prize-winning (deboned and diced) pigs’ trotter pintxos."

"The cod on bread (with a sauce), beef in pepper were both great and great red wine too."

"Lovely wine and pinxtos. Especially the gilda."

"Famous old pintxos bar."

"Very high ratings."

"Very high ratings."

"Looks fantastic and very high ratings."