Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Bilbao from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Bilbao
Our Bilbao guide counts 5 Michelin-starred restaurants and 5 Michelin stars in total, citywide. Nerua Guggenheim Bilbao, Mina, and Ola Martín Berasategui each hold a star for 2026.
Nerua Guggenheim Bilbao in Abando holds a Michelin star for 2026 and Guía Repsol 3 Soles for the same year. Josean Alija's progressive Basque menu uses seasonal Basque ingredients inside the Guggenheim Museum, with the Muina tasting format and an a la carte menu. The wine program has an extensive, sommelier-led list.
Mina in Old Town holds a Michelin star, a Star Wine List award, and Guía Repsol 2 Soles, all for 2026. Álvaro Garrido runs two tasting menus of creative Basque seafood, built around Cantabrian fish, seasonal game, and produce from local suppliers. The wine program is extensive and sommelier-led. The room is organized around an open kitchen.
Ola Martín Berasategui in Old Town (Casco Viejo) holds a Michelin star for 2026 and an exceptional wine program, extensive and sommelier-led. Inside the Tayko hotel, a dining room of exposed brick and concrete beams serves modern Basque haute cuisine under Martín Berasategui, with head chef Raúl Cabrera. Two tasting menus and a prix fixe center on Basque seafood. Guía Repsol awards 1 Sol for the same year.
Our guide counts 17 exceptional wine programs in Bilbao, citywide. Remenetxe Restaurant, Cork Wine Bar, and Kate Zaharra are among them: a 23,000-bottle farmhouse cellar, a bar pouring natural and conventional wine, and a cellar where the bottle is chosen before the meal.
Remenetxe Restaurant in Muxika holds an exceptional wine program: a 23,000-bottle cellar and an award-winning sommelier, with Star Wine List recognition for 2026. The family farmhouse serves traditional Basque food and wine. Cooking is Basque steakhouse food, served a la carte, and the list is extensive and sommelier-led.
Cork Wine Bar in Indautxu holds an exceptional wine program and a Star Wine List award for 2026. The bar pours natural wine and conventional wine, with 80-plus wine references, and the list skews toward Spanish appellations. High-quality pintxos are served with the wines.
Kate Zaharra in Artxanda holds an exceptional wine program with an extensive list, and guests select their bottle in the cellar before dining. The historic farmhouse serves traditional Basque cooking a la carte. Opinionated About Dining recommended it on Casual in Europe for 2026 and ranked it number 652 in 2025.
Our guide counts 5 Michelin-starred restaurants in Bilbao and 5 Michelin stars in total, citywide. They are Nerua Guggenheim Bilbao in Abando, Zarate in Abando, Mina in Old Town, Ola Martín Berasategui in Old Town (Casco Viejo), and Islares in Moyúa. The latest Michelin award at each of these restaurants is a star for 2026.
Abando has exceptional wine programs at venues including Zarate and Beltz. Examples elsewhere in our guide include Ola Martín Berasategui in Old Town (Casco Viejo), Cork Wine Bar in Indautxu, Kate Zaharra in Artxanda, Remenetxe Restaurant in Muxika, and Asador Taskas in Parque Empresarial Aeropuerto de Bilbao, Derio.
Tasting menus appear at the Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide and at many Plate and Bib Gourmand kitchens. Nerua Guggenheim Bilbao in Abando offers the Muina tasting format alongside a la carte. Mina in Old Town runs tasting menus from an open kitchen. Islares in Moyúa runs the named menus A-8 and N-634, and those menus change completely each season.
Star Wine List awards for 2026 are held by Mina in Old Town, Remenetxe Restaurant in Muxika, Cork Wine Bar in Indautxu, and Baste Taberna in Casco Viejo. Mina's program is extensive and sommelier-led. Remenetxe Restaurant holds a 23,000-bottle cellar. Cork Wine Bar pours natural wine and conventional wine, with 80-plus references. Baste Taberna pours conventional wine on a wine program.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Selected entries from the current guide for Bilbao.
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Nerua holds a Michelin star inside the Guggenheim Bilbao, ranked #153 in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 European list and a former World's 50 Best entry at #32. Chef Josean Alija's progressive Basque menu offers both à la carte and the Muina tasting format, with service running two tight sittings daily. Booking ahead is essential; the restaurant operates within one of Europe's most visited cultural institutions.
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Mina holds a Michelin star on Ercilla Kalea in Bilbao's Indautxu neighbourhood, where Álvaro Garrido runs two tasting menus built around Cantabrian fish, seasonal game, and produce from a tight circle of local suppliers. The open kitchen anchors the room, the wine list has earned recognition from Star Wine List two years running, and the format places it firmly at the serious end of Bilbao's creative Spanish dining tier.
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Zarate occupies a precise position in Bilbao's seafood scene: a one-Michelin-star restaurant in the Abando district where daily fish sourcing from the ports of Lekeitio and Ondarroa drives every decision on the menu. Two tasting menus, 15 and 20 courses, sit alongside an à la carte, making it one of the city's most considered addresses for Cantabrian fish cookery.
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Atelier Etxanobe reads Bilbao through a more formal lens than the city’s pintxo bars: creative Spanish cooking, two tasting-menu formats, and a room inside a former glass factory in Abando. Its 2 Soles from Guía Repsol 2026, Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025, and Opinionated About Dining placements put it in the city’s serious modern-dining bracket rather than the casual grazing circuit.
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Inside Bilbao's Tayko hotel, Ola Martín Berasategui holds a Michelin star and occupies a dining room of exposed brick and concrete beams in the city's historic quarter. Two tasting menus channel the cooking of Martín Berasategui through head chef Raúl Cabrera, with Basque seafood preparations at the centre. Open for lunch Thursday through Sunday and dinner Thursday through Saturday, it sits at the formal end of Bilbao's restaurant spectrum.
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Opposite Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum, Islares runs two named tasting menus, the 9-course A-8 and the 13-course N-634, built entirely around seasonal ingredients from small-scale Northern Spanish producers. The menus change completely each season, earning a Michelin Plate and an Opinionated About Dining European ranking in 2025. At €€€€ pricing, it sits in the same tier as Mina and Ola Martín Berasategui.
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Amaren, in Bilbao's Abando district, centres its menu on dry-aged beef from old cows and oxen sourced across the Iberian Peninsula, grilled over an open fire by Chef Aitor Del Olmo. Stone, wood, and iron interiors root the room in Basque material culture. The wine list draws from Basque and Spanish appellations alongside Old World references, making it a coherent address for anyone tracing the txuleton tradition seriously.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised address in Bilbao's Abando district, Aitor Rauleaga anchors itself in the Basque stew tradition with a daily changing "La Cuchara de Aitor" alongside a seasonal à la carte and tasting menu. At €€€ and It occupies the serious mid-tier of Bilbao dining where produce and tradition do the work.
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La Despensa del Etxanobe sits beside its Michelin-starred sibling Etxanobe Atelier on Calle Juan Ajuriaguerra, sharing kitchen facilities but operating at a more accessible register. Traditional Basque cooking anchors the menu across three tasting formats and an à la carte, with a Michelin Plate and a 2024 Opinionated About Dining ranking of #134 in casual European dining confirming its position in Bilbao's serious-but-relaxed dining tier.
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KUMA occupies a precise position in Bilbao's dining scene: a Japanese kitchen operating inside Basque Country, holding back-to-back Michelin Plates (2024, 2025). Chef Daniel Lomana's repeated training trips to Japan underpin a menu that moves between hamachi sashimi, sea bass nigiri, and à la carte fusion dishes, with a tasting menu available for those who want the full progression.
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Inside Bilbao's Azkuna Zentroa cultural centre, Yandiola holds a Michelin Plate for its updated take on Basque traditional cuisine. The menu organises around à la carte headings like 'An Ode to Cod' and 'The Grill', alongside two tasting menus. It sits in the mid-to-upper tier of Bilbao dining, offering a more accessible price point than the city's starred rooms without conceding on culinary seriousness.
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In a city where culinary ambition runs deep, Demaio makes a clear argument for pizza as a serious craft. The Calabrian-born Demaio brothers work long-fermented doughs through a wood-fired oven, sourcing Cantabrian anchovies and tuna, Fior di Latte from Agerola, and artichokes from Navarra. Two formats, Contemporary Neapolitan and Roman in a pan, anchor a project that sits well outside the casual end of the pizza spectrum.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder for 2024 and 2025, Al Margen sits alongside Bilbao's estuary near the San Antón bridge, serving updated traditional Basque cuisine at mid-range prices. The à la carte and tasting menu formats keep things concise and seasonal, with a relaxed dining room marked by stone columns and hydraulic floor tiles. One of the city's stronger arguments for serious cooking without the premium price tier.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder for two consecutive years, Kimtxu brings an Asian taberna sensibility to Bilbao's Abando district, with owner-chef Iván Abril applying London and Hong Kong techniques to Basque seasonal produce. The à la carte rotates with the market, and a seven-course tasting menu sits alongside it at a price point that undercuts the city's starred tier considerably.
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Operating since 1878 under its original name Bar Colón, Los Fueros in Bilbao's Casco Viejo is one of the few old-quarter restaurants to hold consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition (2024 and 2025) while retaining its bistro character. The menu runs from classic Basque à la carte through media ración portions to two tasting menus, with grilled prawns cited as the kitchen's calling card.
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Set in a family farmhouse in the municipality of Muxika, roughly 30 kilometres from central Bilbao, Remenetxe has been serving traditional Basque food and wine since 1987. The rural Bizkaia setting places it in a different register from the city's progressive tasting-menu circuit, offering the kind of rooted, farmhouse-anchored cooking that urban restaurants rarely replicate convincingly.
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Porrue sits in Bilbao’s Abando district with a Basque kitchen shaped by sourcing rather than spectacle. Its 1 Sol recognition in the Guía Repsol Soles 2026 places it in the city’s serious dining tier, useful for travellers who want ingredient-led cooking without turning dinner into a formal tasting-menu exercise.
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On a narrow street in Bilbao's Abando district, Lasai takes its name from the Basque word for calm, and the room earns it. A 2025 Michelin Plate holder, it runs three formats: the weekday 'Hiria' set menu, and two tasting menus rooted in regional Basque tradition. Demand consistently outpaces availability, so advance booking is the practical starting point for any visit.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised gastro-bar on Calle Juan Ajuriaguerra in Bilbao's Abando district, Las Lías delivers traditional Basque cooking through tapas, raciones, and a concise menu. Crab-filled scallops and aged Frisona Gallega entrecôte anchor the kitchen's output, backed by a local wine list served by a staff that knows it well. For mid-range Basque eating without the formality of a full tasting menu, this is a reliable address.
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San Mamés Jatetxea sits inside Athletic Club's stadium in Bilbao's Basurto district, offering traditional Basque cuisine under Fernando Canales alongside views directly over the pitch. Holding a Michelin Plate for consecutive years, it serves three set menus alongside sharing dishes, with access extended to VIP guests on match days. The combination of stadium location and serious regional cooking makes it a natural endpoint for the Tour San Mamés.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised Peruvian restaurant in Bilbao's university district of Deusto, Waman sits at a productive crossroads between Andean tradition and Basque coastal produce. Chef Gabriel Huaman, who trained under Eneko Atxa, structures the menu around two tasting formats, Inti and Pachamama, that move from highland to shoreline across a series of technically precise, personality-driven plates. Priced at €€, it offers one of the city's most considered alternatives to the Basque-centric canon.
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A Lekeitio institution transplanted to central Bilbao after more than fifty years on the Basque coast, Zapirain holds a Michelin Plate for traditional cuisine that keeps fish and seafood at its core. Grilled white prawns and hake kokotxas anchor a menu that resists unnecessary technique, while a T-bone steak and house-made tarts extend the reach. Positioned in the €€€ tier in the Abando district, it reads as a counterpoint to the city's more progressive dining scene.
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Facing the Guggenheim Museum on Mazarredo, The Artist Grand Hotel of Art positions itself at Bilbao's most architecturally charged address. Its 145 rooms and suites, a rooftop terrace with direct Guggenheim sightlines, and a design interior anchored by Javier Mariscal's 85-foot Fossil Cypress sculpture make it one of the city's most coherent art-hotel propositions, starting from around $285 per night.
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A Leading Hotels of the World member set in the first 20th-century family mansion of Neguri, Palacio Arriluce translates a Basque aristocratic estate into a small-scale luxury hotel in Getxo, just outside Bilbao. Original heraldic colour palettes, commissioned artworks by international artists, and colonnade garden rooms distinguish it from the city's contemporary hotel alternatives.
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A 4-star hotel occupying one of Bilbao's architecturally significant buildings, Tayko sits directly on the Nervión estuary in the old town with a Michelin-starred restaurant by Martín Berasategui as its dining anchor. The property translates the city's industrial heritage into contemporary hospitality, placing guests within walking distance of the Casco Viejo and the Guggenheim.
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Hotel Miro sits on Mazarredo Zumarkalea in Bilbao's Abando district, a short walk from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The 50-room property belongs to the smaller, design-led tier of Basque hotels, where architecture and location do more work than scale. For visitors whose itinerary centres on the city's cultural quarter, the address is a practical and aesthetic argument in itself.
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Occupying a converted 19th-century consulate building on Bilbao's Alameda de Mazarredo, Vincci Consulado de Bilbao carries MICHELIN Selected status in the 2025 hotels guide, placing it among the city's recognised midscale-to-upper options. The address puts guests within walking distance of the Guggenheim and the old town, with the architectural bones of the building doing quiet work that most modern hotels in the city cannot replicate.
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Eurostars Bilbao sits in a city where hotel choice is inseparable from architecture, riverfront renewal, and the practical rhythm of gallery days, pintxo evenings, and business travel. With, it reads as a low-key Bilbao option to assess against design-led peers rather than a trophy hotel.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Bilbao.
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Baste Taberna sits in the Areeta district of greater Bilbao, earning Star Wine List recognition in 2026 for a wine and drinks programme that places it in serious company across northern Spain. The address in Las Arenas positions it away from the old-town tourist circuit, giving the room a more local, deliberate character that rewards visitors who cross the estuary for it.
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On Bilbao's Pozas bar strip, Cork Wine Bar concentrates 80-plus wine references into a small, unhurried room that operates differently from the pintxos-and-txakoli rhythm around it. The list skews toward Spanish appellations with depth beyond the obvious, making it the reference stop on the street for anyone prioritising the glass over the plate.
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