Canfranc-Estación

Canfranc-Estación, Spain

Canfranc Express

Set inside a restored railway carriage at the historic Canfranc Station, now a Royal Hideaway Hotel in the Spanish Pyrenees, Canfranc Express holds a Michelin star (2024) for Chef Eduardo Salanova's tasting menu of haute Aragonese cuisine. With only three tables, advance booking is essential. The experience weaves wartime history, French aperitif tradition, and regional produce into a format unlike most Spanish fine dining destinations.

Canfranc-Estación, Spain

1928

Canfranc-Estación, Spain

Art Déco Café

Art Déco Café belongs to Canfranc-Estación’s unusual railway-hotel dining scene, where grand transit architecture shapes the meal as much as the plate. The draw is the setting inside the Royal Hideaway hotel complex and the wider Pyrenean context: a small mountain town where produce, cross-border routes, and restored railway heritage define the table.

Canfranc-Estación, Spain

Canfranc Estación, a Royal Hideaway Hotel

A converted Beaux-Arts railway station dating to 1928, Canfranc Estación sits in the Aragonese Pyrenees with 104 rooms designed around early 20th-century aesthetics and modern comfort. Its restaurant, Canfranc Express, holds a Michelin star under chef Eduardo Salanova. Rates start from around $200 per night, and the hotel earned a Michelin 1 Key designation in 2024.