Ganbara San Sebastián

Awards

MICHELIN Guide

Selected restaurants

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OAD

European Casual Restaurants 2024, 24

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Restaurant Ranking

Restaurant Ranking 2024, #2338, PRO #16.50, USER #0.00

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Chef

Amaia Ortuzar

Cuisine

Traditional Cuisine

• 2023
• 2021
• 2019

Dinner at Ganbara Bar - Asador

on 12 Jun 2023

by Margaret Lam

Another place in Spain that truly deserve to be mentioned is Ganbara in the old town of San Sebastián. After 3 times to SS post-covid doing the pintxos crawls, I found Ganbara to be by far the best with its pristine quality of ingredients, execution, and warm hospitality.

This time I decided to let Amaiur, the owner and the son of the female chef Amaia (pic 1) to bring me whatever they think was great, basically omakase style. They sent out a lot of things not on menu. It was one of the best meals... More

Another place in Spain that truly deserve to be mentioned is Ganbara in the old town of San Sebastián. After 3 times to SS post-covid doing the pintxos crawls, I found Ganbara to be by far the best with its pristine quality of ingredients, execution, and warm hospitality.

This time I decided to let Amaiur, the owner and the son of the female chef Amaia (pic 1) to bring me whatever they think was great, basically omakase style. They sent out a lot of things not on menu. It was one of the best meals I ever had in San Sebastián.

We started with a few pintxos such as the signature chicken and ham croqueta and txangurro, both came piping hot, crispy outside yet creamy inside (pic 2). Monkfish and prawn brochette and jamon with shaved mushroom on toast were deliciously done, even the monkfish was perfectly cooked (pic 2). White asparagus frito was the must-have of this season, so tender and juicy (pic 3).

The most genius dish of mushroom (pic 4), using just the caps of wild porcini and yellow boletus mushroom, one sautéed with olive oil, garlic, parsley and salt, and another topped with egg yolk, so simple, so so incredibly good!

Seafood were so spectacular there, The line-caught hake kokotxa with such uncommon fresh taste, baby squid with creamy innards topped caramelized onion, and ventresca de atun (red tuna belly) that melt in the mouth, all perfectly balanced with right level of acidity (pic 5)

The juice from the Galician percebes was so rich in sea umami, unforgettably good. I drank all the juice on the plate. (Pic 6)

Then came the classic assorted mushroom with egg (pic 7), fried hake 💯(pic 8), even the pigeon (pic 9) was 👍🏻 with buttery mashed potato. Outstanding torrija (pic 10) to finish.

Having great ingredients is important, but there were all these fine details, like accurate seasoning and doneness, temperature; even the pacing was great. I have been here numerous time and they are performing at peak. Mom Amaia came out to say hi and I felt so heart warmed. There are a lot of old places that couldn’t keep up with quality, and when you see places that run in generation and keep elevating, you really appreciate what they do and feel blessed Less

Dinner at Ganbara Bar - Asador

on 23 Nov 2021

by Reisa Jiang

A must visit in San Sebastián, foodies heaven •
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#foodgasm #yum #eat #foodpic #foodpics #foodphotography #foodlover #tasty #hungry #foodblogger #dessert #foods #cooking #foodies #eating #chef #foodblog #nomnom #delicious #ganbara #sansebastian #spain... More

A must visit in San Sebastián, foodies heaven •
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#foodgasm #yum #eat #foodpic #foodpics #foodphotography #foodlover #tasty #hungry #foodblogger #dessert #foods #cooking #foodies #eating #chef #foodblog #nomnom #delicious #ganbara #sansebastian #spain #ganbarajatetxea #seafood #barfood #spanishfood #wine #champagne #winelover #instawine Less

7 / 10

Tapas at Ganbara

on 19 Oct 2019

by Gerhard Huber

Iconic place in San Sebastián.
Eat the Hongos a la plancha and the Piemientos gernika

Dinner at Ganbara Bar - Asador

on 14 May 2019

by Justin Hurst

Oh hey, San Sebastián.