Etxanobe

Restaurant fabuleux situé dans le Palais des Congrès et de la Musique.
L’accueil est chaleureux et la decoration de la grande salle à manger est etonnante, raffinée, classique et moderne à la fois.
Le menu du chef composé d’une dizaine de plats est tout simplement magique. Un bonheur pour les papilles grâce au produits de qualité très bien travaillés par le chef Fernando Canales et son équipe. Des plats creatifs qui procurent de l’émotion et beaucoup de plaisir.
Ce restaurant est une belle decouverte à Bilbao !

Me encanto el sitio. Muy movido todos los días. Variedad y calidad de Pitxos. Muy amable servicio y precios acordes. Mi sitio de pinchos favoritos hasta ahora.

Restaurante top. No olvidar la lasaña de anchoas. Para acabar pastel de arroz + hinojo fresa tomate.

Very rarely do I have a absolutely perfect experience at a restaurant. Today was a special day and I needed a special place. Many call this restaurant one of the absolute best in Spain. I would have to agree. This is the perfect restaurant to take that special someone. The décor is beautiful, the service impeccable, and the food and drink incredible. Face to face personal attention paid by the chef/​owner made instantly clear he cares about the diners experience.
I can go on and on about my 5 star experience here but I think I’ll let the pics I posted do the rest of the talking.

Really, one of the BEST restaurants in Spain. The food is out of this world. Very modern basque dish with a touch of internationalism. A must go if you are in Bilbao. The service is good. The ambience is calm and quiet.

Believe the hype, this place is exceptional. I went way out of my comfort zone and tried many new dishes and each one was fantastic. The staff is quick and attentive, the chef has a creative side that plays perfectly into every dish and he even comes out to greet each table, and the location is great. I came for lunch but would happily return for dinner. A true gem!

Hoy, en mi ultima noche en Bilbao hemos venido a cenar con la familia. El sitio no lo conocía y por lo visto de lo mejorcito de Bilbao. La realidad para mi, como cada vez que he ido a restaurantes de este tipo hay platos y cosas que te sorprenden pero los platos suelen ser bastante escasos.

We phoned to make a book with 15 th days in avance.
When we arrived they did not have our table ready because they were full.
Very bad service!
The place is in fashion now and is really crowded.
In my opinion there are better places like bristot Guggenheim, or Etxeko jana in Alhondiga Bilbao!!!

Words will never do justice to just how good the whole dining experience is in Etxanobe. Frankly the hardest part about the whole occasion was finding this wonderful place.
The greeting, the atmosphere, the serving standards and so on… it is wow, and when the food arrived… it is wow, wow & wow… it is experiences like this I wish would never end!
I have decided to not to try and write about what we dined on as I do have to reiterate that my words will not do justice to this fabulous experience. I am so confident about this too — why? Well we came back for a second visit and the quality and consistency were all there again. In total we had six individuals dining over the two nights and each person scored the whole experience as a 10 out of 10… what more should I say?
Chef Fernando Canales is the most humble and delightful of people whose personal engagement with patrons during the night is another fine touch to the experience…
If you do only do one food experience in Bilbao then dine here… it will be up there with some of your greatest food experiences… we will be back as soon as we can!

El restaurante Etxanobe, llevado por Fernando Canales (si no recuerdo mal, Etxanobe es su apellido materno) es en mi opinión el mejor restaurante de Bilbao. Tiene una materia prima excepcional y unos platos exquisitos. No creo que se deba destacar ninguno en particular porque son todos de altísimo nivel. Sin embargo, puedo decir que personalmente me encantan sus croquetas, su lasaña de anchoas y su ensalada de bogavante.
Como curiosidad, utilizan ipads para mostrar la carta.
Si bien no es un restaurante barato, la calidad, servicio y experiencia en general merecen la pena.

As two foreigners getting into the Basque country in the pouring rain, we were looking for a well regarded place to eat. After checking some of my notes I remembered that Etxanobe was worth checking out. So we took our beater Opel rental and drove in the downpour trying to make heads or tails of the Euskara that dominated the signs. After passing it twice (the turnoff to the Palacio Euskalduna was really small and coned off), we finally found the parking garage. As we made our way up the elevator, two lovely women came in and asked us in Spanish about a different restaurant in the Palacio. «Lo Siento, no se. Etxanobe está arriba» was the only thing I could muster up. They smiled and went about their way. As we got to the right floor we were transported into a different word, away from the dreary rain and concrete parking garage.
We looked around and Im sure most of the patrons were thinking, these guys lookin f’n lost. The staff did a quick once over on us, Chef Fernando Canales popped out of the back and gave us an immediate hearty welcome. He sat us at a table next to the kitchen and asked us what we liked. We told him that we were very open to what he thought was best and aside from my friends food allergies, I was willing to eat just about anything. He told us he’d whip us up a tasting menu and that he was glad that we could join him at the restaurant. That was the beginning of much of the amazing hospitality we’d see from the Basque.
ARTICHOKES IN YOLK SAUCE
RICE CREAM with squid and mushrooms
FOIE TERRINE with home made apple jam
LOBSTER SALAD
WILD MUSHROOM CREAM with Roasted Prawn
COD FISH a la «BIZKAINA»
GRILLED COD FISH «KOKOTXAS» with garlic cream and tomato
ROASTED HAKE in garlic fried sauce
YOUNG ROASTED PIGEON in «Arrope» sauce
MUSCAVADO PUDDING with cinnamon and rice
TOASTED HAZELNUT CREAM
Wow. As someone who grew up with many Basque hotels nearby as a kid, this definitely wasn’t your home cooked fare. But evening knowing that we were going into a fine dining situation, my food references and my friends lack of reference to Basque cuisine was very fulfilling. It is said that when you go to some of the finest restaurants in the world anywhere, they have similar tastes. You definitely know that is not the case here. The heritage in the food here is unique and every modern thing they do is still drawn from deep tradition. The flavors are just amazing and there’s really no other place that you can compare the food to. The Basque are definitely in their own world cuisine wise, very much like their language is.
If you know what the Palacio looks like, it’s an amazingly modern hall with a great over the main river. The interior however is a mix of modern and traditional, a very eclectic mix of art, artifacts. When we were there, they were adopting the use of Ipads as menus which is now commonplace, but they were definitely pushing the boundaries. As with any culture, when they see that you love their food, you are instantly accepted, and we were greatly taken care of here from the Chef on down. Basque hospitality is exceedingly warm and it’s definitely proven here. Great food and great company… definitely worth a trip if you want to see where the intersection of tradition and modernity in Basque cuisine is happening.

Muy bueno. Fernando es un maestro.

Restaurante situado en Bilbao (Vizcaya).
Gran lugar para un momento importante, ideal para sorprender a tu pareja. Sitio tranquilo e íntimo.
Muy buena presentación desde que entramos tanto en sus mesas como en sus platos.
El servicio de lo más educado nos atendió correctamente haciendo que nos sintiéramos como en casa.
Su cocina era exquisita, sabor y tradición fusionado con toques de modernidad.
Tienen diferentes menús, muy completos y de máxima calidad. Entre sus platos destaco el canetón estofado y la ensalada de bacalao. Sus postres muy buenos.
Nos gustó mucho, muy recomendable.

Comedor amplio y mesas espaciosas. Buena atención, claro que va incluida en el precio. La iluminación algo escasa. La comida exquisita. Situado en el último piso del Palacio Euskalduna, elegido el mejor palacio de congresos del mundo en 2003, este restaurante galardonado con una estrella Michelin, dispone de unas de las mejores vistas de la ciudad.
Es posible degustar algunos de los bacalaos del Etxanobe al estilo clásico hasta platos para los más atrevidos como el lomo de canguro asado o las mollejas y hongos con natillas de foie.
Mucho que elegir entre los postres, sobre todo para los amantes del chocolate.