Oria

Gastro-hotels are definitely on the rise thanks to their increasing popularity with international guests, and the strong emphasis on high-quality cuisine at the Monument hotel (which includes the three-Michelin-star Lasarte) is a perfect example of this. Incorporated into the hotel lobby, the Oria is a spacious, elegant and unique restaurant overseen by chef Martín Berasategui, hence the high standard of its updated take on traditional cuisine with its roots in the Mediterranean but with a nod to the Basque Country. Choose between three surprise tasting menus: Formula Oria (lunchtime midweek only), Tradición (a journey back to the origins of Martín Berasategui’s cuisine and the flavours of the Basque country), and Itsasmendi (“mountain and sea” in the Basque language), which showcases the wealth of the region’s bounty. Resident chef Xabi Goikoetxea enjoys chatting and sharing impressions with guests in the dining room.

• One star Michelin dining room inside the Monument Hotel on Passeig de Gràcia.
• Itsasmendi is framed as a Basque-Catalan “sea and mountain” menu.
• The kitchen is led by Xabi Goikoetxea, developed within Martín Berasategui’s group over 15 years, including time in the R&D department in Lasarte.

Signature Ingredients

• Red prawn and carabinero
• Turbot
• Cantabrian anchovy and smoked eel
• Tear peas
• Smoked Idiazabal cheese
• Seafood stock and sofrito as a backbone for sauces

Menu formats

• Itsasmendi tasting menu (sea and mountain), €195
• Tradition menu, €145
• Fórmula Oria, €85

Style

• Contemporary Mediterranean cooking with a clear Basque accent, overseen by Martín Berasategui, with Xabi Goikoetxea leading the kitchen.

Recent dishes mentioned in coverage

• Comté crisp with smoked eel and Cantabrian anchovy
• Violet potato with salt-baked prawn
• Carabinero with a seafood jus
• Mareseme tear peas with red prawn
• Oxtail ravioli with mushroom cream and smoked Idiazabal
• Turbot with a sofrito emulsion and caviar