Restaurant of the Parador de Santillana Gil Blas
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Ancestral Cantabrian cuisine
The restaurant El Jardín de Gil Blas bases its menu on traditional Cantabrian cuisine, featuring a wide range of local produce and some of the iconic specialities of regional cuisine. Hearty casseroles, stews and excellent meats, not to mention the best fish and preserves from the Cantabrian Sea.
a hymn to regional produce
In the bright and elegant dining room, which overlooks the Parador’s terrace and its colourful vegetation, we recommend you try the cocido montañés, rice with lobster, squid tails, Santoña anchovies and an excellent range of Cantabrian cheeses. And, to sweeten the experience, homemade desserts such as quesada pasiega, Santa Juliana cake and torrija pasiega.
Type of kitchen
Traditional Cantabrian
Specialties
Cantabrian fish and shellfish soup, cocido montañés with its accompaniments, fishermen’s stew (monkfish, lobster, clams and prawn stew), quesada pasiega.
Opening Hours
In the heart of the most famous town in Cantabria
Located at the lower end of a plaza, next to the Torre del Merino and opposite the town hall, the Parador de Santillana Gil Blas occupies what was the old Casa Barreda-Bracho, a 17th c. Baroque town house built in the style of the homes of the local nobility of the period.
Characterised by the use of stone masonry in the façade, with notable features such as the coat of arms of the Barreda-Bracho family and four cast iron balconies, the building was converted into a Parador in 1946, to become one of the first establishments in the Paradores Network.
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