Casa Pancho — Restaurant in Burgos

Our hotel made a reservation for us, we ate in the upstairs restaurant, not the downstairs tapas/bar. Boy were we happy we did! Upstairs dining room, very elegant/sophisticated service, white table cloths, relaxing, and very adult. Waiters were exceptionally friendly, and had enough English to help us along, plus there was a menu in English to use. Started with the shrimp in garlic oil – exceptional – they bring the sizzling oil to your table and the shrimp actually cooking it while you’re waiting. Had to be careful not to use all the bread to sop up all the bits of oil, garlic, and hot peppers. Next, we had the goat cheese salad with beautiful, leafy greens, walnuts, pinenuts, raisins, and plenty of nice rounds of goat cheese. For the main, we shared a turbot/Rodabollo that came with potatoes and surprise – rounds of octopus. Excellent! Finished with a Tia Maria torte that was Flan with raisins and nuts and whipped cream. Dynamite! Started with a glass —a full one —of Cava and the large pour of a local vermouth. Had a nice Rueda white wine with the meal that was only €14. What a great restaurant! Would...

There is a standing/bar part of the restaurant and another area with table service. Arrived at around 3:30pm for tapas on a Monday in September and wine and it was very busy. The tapas were amazing and their atmosphere was bustling. Get your Google translate app or your Spanish ready though because they don’t speak English - or just point at the menu, which has English translations. I was at the standing bar area and you’d have to shove your way to a server to take your order and there is no queuing system (ie, like if you ordered a drink at a night club/bar/pub). You would stand there forever if you weren’t assertive enough in waving down a server. The servers were the efficient and direct types which were a bit different from the warmer style of other tapa bars I’ve visited on this Camino trip. I enjoyed the experience but would have felt a bit lost when ordering if I didn’t know that was how tapa bars worked. Overall this place is well...

We walked in and we were a pretty large group of like 7 pilgrims, 4 kids. We walked in for a pilgrimage deal but no… no deal? We walked in at 12:50 ish but they rejected our request of their pilgrimage offer flat. Then it was kind of etiquette to each something at this point so we sat down and the waiter really wanted to rip us off. He told us we could buy the 75euro meat platter and he’ll nah that is too expensive so we told him and he went “no no not expensive” LIKE WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE THAT MR??? Anyway we ate and honestly the most traumatic part was when we asked for water he gave us a bottle of water and obviously we didn’t wanna pay for water so we asked for tap water. He straight out said it cost 3 euros. 3EUROS?!?! Yeah this is a no go place even the bar on the opposite side had better AND cheaper food. Unless you want to spend a bunch of money on unnecessary stuff as well as not very friendly service come and...