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Eating at "Balbona Picos de Europa" restaurant - First visit👍

Eating at "Balbona Picos de Europa" restaurant - First visit👍

December 2022 · 2 min read · Cangas de Onís

This is a typical Asturian cuisine restaurant located in the very center of Cangas de Onís town (5, Angel Tarano street, Asturias), which is famous (or stands out) for its fabada (Asturian bean stew with diverse pork meat), its cachopo (large Asturian beef fillet, stuffed with Asturian cheese and serrano ham, breaded and fried) and its natural cider, poured there at the moment following the Asturian way, glass by glass, as I'll show you in one of the YouTube shorts that I'm sharing in this article.

The restaurant's menu is not too extensive but despite this, it has a certain variety of starters, meat and fish, apart from the most famous typical dishes that, together with not very high prices, make it a recommendable option in town.

They currently have a ⭐4.6 rating on Google Maps and my personal rating was ⭐4.

Weekly restaurant recommendation menu.
Weekly restaurant recommendation menu.
Asturian PDO Gamoneo matured cow cheese sided with homemade quince (€12) (1).
Asturian PDO Gamoneo matured cow cheese sided with homemade quince (€12) (1).
Asturian PDO Gamoneo matured cow cheese sided with homemade quince (€12) (2).
Asturian PDO Gamoneo matured cow cheese sided with homemade quince (€12) (2).

I ordered a bottle of natural cider and, as tradition dictates, every time you want to drink a glass you have to pour it first in the Asturian way, for which you must tell the waiter and he will come to your table and pour it for you (YouTube short):

https://youtube.com/shorts/5Gy8msPkBcI?feature=share

Asturian fabada: Bean stew with diverse pork meat (€14.50) (1).
Asturian fabada: Bean stew with diverse pork meat (€14.50) (1).

Uncovering the Asturian fabada casserole (YouTube short):

https://youtube.com/shorts/k6iWz-4V2a8?feature=share

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Asturian fabada: Bean stew with diverse pork meat (€14.50) (2).
Asturian fabada: Bean stew with diverse pork meat (€14.50) (2).
Asturian fabada: Bean stew with diverse pork meat (€14.50) (3).
Asturian fabada: Bean stew with diverse pork meat (€14.50) (3).
Asturian cottage cheese with honey and walnuts (€5) (1).
Asturian cottage cheese with honey and walnuts (€5) (1).
Asturian cottage cheese with honey and walnuts (€5) (2).
Asturian cottage cheese with honey and walnuts (€5) (2).

(I will show you more of this beautiful Asturian town and talk deeper about it in next posts).

Overall evaluation of the restaurant: 6 points out of 10.

Photographs taken with my Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G camera.

YouTube shorts recorded with my Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G camera.

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