The restaurant Peña Athletic de Bilbao offers a very good value for money in the heart of Bilbao.
A small, cozy restaurant with a lot of history, this is how we could define the restaurant Peña Athletic, a restaurant that offers a weekend menu with a lot of variety and quality within the reach of all audiences.
The gastronomy of the Basque Country is internationally recognized as one of the best in the world, turismovasco.com goes through each of the restaurants in the Basque Country looking for restaurants that stand out, the restaurant Peña Athletic is one of them, a restaurant that stands out for the mixture of intense flavors and textures of all kinds at a good price.
Coats of arms on the wall of the restaurant
The restaurant was founded in 1973 by several members of the soccer club of the same name. At the beginning of its existence, only Athletic de Bilbao members could go to this restaurant, but with the passage of time this rule was broken, thus eliminating the barriers that prevented other people from coming to taste its dishes. In the restaurant you can feel the Basque culture and the history of Athletic de Bilbao in its purest form, proof of this are each and every one of the pieces that adorn its walls.
Entrance of the restaurant peña Athletic de Bilbao
Do you want to know our opinion about the restaurant? Here are 4 reasons why you should try the weekend menu of the restaurant peña Athletic de Bilbao.
Quality: Quality first and foremost, in turismovasco.com we put quality before quantity, a large amount of food without quality is not worth tasting. In the restaurant Peña Athletic quality was a pleasant surprise, from the first dish to the last of them the quality was present in a very striking way.
Wild boar ragout paella with bell pepper aioli
Iberian pork tenderloin on a bed of goat cheese and cranberry sauce
Two chocolate cake
Location: Right in the heart of Bilbao, in the old town of Bilbao, the restaurant peña Athletic has a privileged location, 5 minutes from the metro stop of the old town (exit Unamuno) and another 5 minutes from the Arriaga theater.
Price: When looking for a restaurant in the commercial and historical center of Bilbao it is important to pay attention to the price they ask for the weekend menu. There are many restaurants that have joined the fashion of setting a higher price for weekend dinners, thus having 3 different prices depending on the time slot: day menu, weekend menu and weekend dinner menu.
The restaurant peña Athletic de Bilbao has only a weekend menu at a fixed price of 21 € (VAT included) regardless of the schedule. A price that taking into account the location of the restaurant and the fact that it is a weekend seems a fair price.
Weekend menu of the restaurant peña Athletic de Bilbao
Txokos: A different and attractive option for your next family, kuadrilla or work dinner. The restaurant peña Athletic has private txokos where you can enjoy in good company the dishes that we offer. A cozy and intimate txoko to make our celebration more special.
As long as one of the txokos is free and the number of diners is adequate (14 maximum), you can reserve one of the txokos “totally free”, the cost of the menu is the same whether you eat in one of the txokos or in the dining room. 100% recommended.
The txapela in the restaurant peña Athletic
We could summarize our article about the restaurant Peña Athletic de Bilbao with a phrase of one of our collaborators, “a place to repeat, a place to share”. We will be back.
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