Forever Recipes
Traditional recipes based on the finest ingredients and a way of cooking inherited over decades have now come to represent a special section on the winter menus of certain restaurants. Some with a more traditional and austere feel, and others more contemporary, numerous restaurants are going over to the benefits of these dishes and even extolling them as authentic gourmet treats.
Casa
Gerardo
Prendes – Asturias
The fourth and fifth generation of the same family run a house that has spent more than 135 years combining tradition with the avant-garde and creating new contemporary Asturian cuisine.
restaurantecasagerardo.es
Lhardy
Madrid
One of the oldest and most charismatic restaurants in the capital. Its recipe for traditional cocido stew is legendary. The secret of the house is to slow cook it for four hours, with all the ingredients starting from raw.
lhardy.com
Al
Girarrosto
da Cesarina
Milan
Austere interior design is combined with white table cloths and waiters dressed in that impeccable coupling: black and white. In the heart of Brera, this is a classic dining spot for Milan fashion week. The risotto and ossobuco casserole are world renowned.
algirarrosto.com
Restaurante
Duque
Segovia
Many of the dishes on the menu at this restaurant, known as a Segovian institution, can be eaten with a spoon. Judiones de la granja (“farmhouse beans”), Castile soup and fish soup are some of them.
restauranteduque.es
Senyor
Parellada
Barcelona
Located in a former inn used by travellers on their way to America, this is the benchmark restaurant for traditional Catalan cuisine, with popular dishes like Catalan cocido stew, cuttlefish and meatballs, and cap i pota casserole.
senyorparellada.com
Au Pied de
Cochon
Paris
In 1947, Clement Blanque opened this restaurant, celebrated for its onion soup and for being open day and night. The concentration of the consommé and the perfectly caramelised onions are what make it the best in the city.