Restaurant recommendations between Santo Domingo and Belorado?

[eamann]

Can anyone recommend a good restaurant between Santo Domingo de la Calzada and Belorado?

Last year (or 2022) I had lunch in El Chocolatero, but found it mediocre.

Casa Leóon has very mixed reports on Tripadvisor.

Thanks in advance for your tips!

 

[rappahannock_rev]

Can remember a really good ensalada mixta in the Restaurante Leon, in Villamayor del Rio, several years back.....

 

[Sminn]

Not for that stretch but the day after as you head into Villafranca I had the best bocadillo of my trip last year. I still think about it. The place was called Meson Alba.

 

[trecile]

Not for that stretch but the day after as you head into Villafranca I had the best bocadillo of my trip last year. I still think about it. The place was called Meson Alba.

Is this the place?

Mesón Alba. Villafranca Montes de Oca. Burgos

clickturismo.es

 

[Sminn]

Yes, that’s the one

 

[Hannah Peregrina]

It's not much, but Albergue Parada Viloria in Viloria de Rioja makes some simple eggs and bocadillos during the day, really delicious, all donativo - a special place and hospitaleros worth supporting!

 

[Peregrandma]

Is this the place?

Mesón Alba. Villafranca Montes de Oca. Burgos

clickturismo.es

We ate there in early March. Very good food! (And one of the few places open!)

 

[eamann]

Thank you all for your suggestions and comments! I think I will try Casa León this time, even though I read that he does not welcome guests with rucksacks.

 

[Tincatinker]

Thank you all for your suggestions and comments! I think I will try Casa León this time, even though I read that he does not welcome guests with rucksacks.

Godgle has Casa Leon as permanently closed. Otherwise most of the complaints on tripeadvertiser date from 5 or 6 years ago. Just put your rucksack down at the first opportunity. Out of the way of incoming or exiting customers. And definitely don’t do what I saw one prat do - put their rucksack on a chair at a table.

It’s only 22km to Belorado. I think I could make that in time for lunch

 

[asl]

I believe we ate at the Restaurante Etoile on the Plaza Mayor. It had amazing salads with vegetables that we had been longing for since St. Jean.