Echaurren Hotel Gastronomico Review

Excellent! Croquetas, the meatballs and the chuletillas were 1000%. The deserts were also out of this world. Prices are very reasonable for the quality.

Amazing food, whether eating from the the menu of the day or eating a la carte. Good ambient outdoors and friendly staff.

Remarkable attention to detail. A wonderful experience with remarkable service.

Great food at two family run restaurants. One has 2 michelin stars, and the other continues family tradition dishes.

Great service. Great enviroment. Food ok, a bit similar to every other rioja "good" restaurant.

Behind a hidden door of the hotel reception, you'll find ten tables where you will enjoy an extraordinary culinary experience. The Land menu we chose consists of 22 different dishes. The red prawn dish is the most flavored one to me with a strong stock. Trout was delicious too. The starters aren't extremely surprising in terms of flavors but a great introduction to the ingredients of the area. They might have the best croquettes in Spain here. The prawn and green asparagus were also marvelous pieces. Chocolate & others fresh ingredients form a mixed set of desserts to conclude a perfect food experience. Service can't be better, kind, fast and accurate with no mistakes, great explanations (they give you a paper tag describing each plate) and fexible in changing or adding dishes from the second menu for you. The wine list is extensive and their sommelier makes an excellent job choosing a variety designed for your menu. Amazing conclusion of the experience with the Chef greetings and discussion about it. (The waiting in the hotel reception where one seems a bit lost since there's the other hotel restaurant could be improved). My personal addition to the menu 'callos'/pig skin.

Perfect place to escape for a few days, personal and professional service. Very cozy town, close to a lot of charming wineries and restaurants throughout La Rioja.

This was fantastic. Not only the food but the service was exceptional as well

Good food but very slow and overpriced. Service was terrible.
We decided to go to Echaurren Tradicion in Aug-20 as we were staying in Ezcaray those days and the restaurant is well known in the area. We booked a table the previous day: lunch for 4 adults and a toddler. The restaurant was well presented and had a good atmosphere. It was relatively busy, but not at full capacity as this was during the Covid pandemic.
As a summary I will say that the food was good, but the experience was negative. We waited 10 minutes to be seated and then about 15 minutes before a waiter was available to order. Let's start with the food: we order three taster menus (made of 6 small dishes each) and then three dishes from a la carte menu (croquetas, dry mountain rice and T steak). The taster menus represented are a selection of contemporary dishes from the restaurant. The problem is that we had to wait about 20 minutes between dishes, which meant that we were hungry and stayed at the restaurant for a total of three hours (2 to 5pm). The dishes ordered outside menu were of mixed quality: the dry rice was excellent but the T-bone steak, although of a generous portion, it wasn't prime reared beef (e.g. Galician "vaca vieja") and it was just fine.
The main problem at the restaurant was the lack of staff and the long waiting times, but also the staff made mistakes that are unforgivable for this type of restaurant: a waiter forgot our initial wine order then after 20 min waiting he came and said the wine wasn't available and so had to pick another bottle which only arrived when we were into the 2nd round of dishes, then when the T-bone steak arrived, the waiter forgot to give us a knife (!!!!).
At the end of the lunch we complained to the Manager, who spent long time to give excuses which I found distasteful. The best comments from him were: "people want everything too fast these days", "we can't find qualified staff at Ezcaray" or "the Michelin starred restaurant is the other one on the back, not us". Great one. The bill was 420, so not so cheap after all! They offered us coffee on the house. At least got that. But now I regret having spent that amount of money and, unfortunately, the family celebration went sour and will never forget it. Never again. There are better places for far less in town.