Logroño, the capital of La Rioja, is famous for its tapas culture – a key part of Spanish gastronomy. The streets of Laurel and San Juan, along with nearby alleys, are home to the city’s most popular bars, each known for a signature tapa that has become their hallmark.
The tradition is simple: try a different tapa in every bar. That’s why many of them focus on a single dish, like grilled mushrooms, skewers, spicy potatoes or crispy pig snout. This specialisation turns the route into a true food journey, where every stop brings a unique and distinctive flavour.
What are tapas?
Tapas are small portions of food served to accompany drinks in bars and taverns across Spain. The tradition of going for tapas means visiting several bars and trying a different dish at each stop.
Tapas bars and their specialities
In the area around Laurel and San Juan, each bar maintains the tradition of offering a signature tapa. To help you plan your visit, we’ve created an interactive map showing the bars in the area and their specialities. Click on each pin to see more details and plan your own route.
How to Use the Map
This map was created using Google Maps and displays all the selected bars in Logroño.
Click on the side menu icon to select the desired categories.
- Top 20: The highest-rated bars on Google, selected for their specialities and popularity.
- Tapas Bars: The remaining mapped bars.
Click on each marker to open a pop-up with more details about each bar.
Use the fullscreen icon to expand the map and view it more comfortably.
Click the star next to the map title to save it to your personal Google Maps and access it easily later.
Top 20 Tapas Bars in Logroño Around Calle Laurel
If you don’t have much time in Logroño, start with the Top 20 bars. They were selected based on the quality of their tapas and visitor ratings.
Galata
Speciality: Brioche with minced meat and white sauce
Galata blends Turkish culinary influences with the traditional flavours of La Laurel. Its signature dish is a brioche filled with grilled minced meat, piquillo pepper, and white sauce.
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Bar Soriano
Speciality: Grilled mushrooms with garlic
Bar Soriano is one of the best-known spots on Calle Laurel. Its tapa is simple yet irresistible: grilled mushrooms served on bread, generously topped with garlic. A combination that has been popular for decades.
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El Guindillón
Speciality: Bocatita Guindillón (pork loin, guindillón pepper, and house sauce)
El Guindillón serves typical dishes from the La Rioja region, such as small cazuelitas (stews) and traditional recipes. Its speciality is a pork loin sandwich, served with grilled guindillón pepper and a house sauce, a simple yet flavourful combination.
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Jubera
Speciality: Patatas bravas with mayonnaise
Jubera’s most famous tapa is its take on patatas bravas, prepared with a local twist. The potatoes are confited in olive oil, making them softer than the usual crispy version. The standout feature is the sauce: a mix of fried tomato and alegrías riojanas — a regional pepper — finished with a touch of mayonnaise.
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Tastavin
Speciality: Toasted bread with marinated quail
Tastavin offers a more refined setting, ideal for those seeking elevated tapas. One of the most praised options is the toasted bread topped with marinated quail. Another favourite is the toast with anchovy and butter, a simple yet delicious pairing. The venue blends traditional tapas with internationally inspired dishes, served either at the ground-floor bar or in the more formal upstairs dining room.
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La Kathedral
Speciality: Gilito
La Kathedral is the result of a fusion between two traditional bars: Bar Gil, founded in 1939, and Torrecilla Laurel. Its house speciality is the Gilito, a small traditional sandwich that has become a classic over the generations, preserving the essence of local cuisine.
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Mesón Charro
Speciality: Grilled salami and lamb chops
Charro focuses on traditional Riojan cuisine, specialising in grilled meats. Highlights include grilled salami and lamb chops. The menu also offers options such as chistorra (grilled thin sausage) and grilled sirloin steak.
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Bar La Traviesa
Speciality: Slow-cooked beef rib taco
La Traviesa is known for its slow-cooked beef rib taco. Other popular choices include anchovies on bread, breaded lamb with peppers, and squid in its own ink.
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La Anjana
Speciality: Grilled steak with fresh foie
At La Anjana, the highlight is grilled steak with foie, served with a balsamic reduction on toasted bread. Other options include steak with Roquefort or Port wine sauce, cod with provolone and leek, and chocolate balls with a crunchy coating and a splash of orujo cream liqueur.
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Bar Cid
Speciality: Grilled mushrooms on bread
This bar serves just one tapa: grilled mushrooms placed between two slices of bread, seasoned with a house mix while on the griddle. Despite its simplicity, the mushrooms are large, juicy, and full of flavour, making this a must-stop spot.
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Bar El Perchas
Speciality: Fried or stewed pig’s ear
Since 1955, Bar El Perchas has been known for pig’s ear, served two ways: stewed and spicy on bread, or breaded and fried – the most famous version. Small and always buzzing, the bar preserves the charm of old Spanish taverns.
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Bar Ribera
Speciality: Grilled Iberian pig snout
Ribera is known for its grilled meats and sausages. The speciality is grilled Iberian pig snout, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Other highlights include artichoke with foie, duck skewer with Roquefort, and grilled morcilla (blood sausage).
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La Taberna de Baco
Speciality: Grilled pig’s ear
The house speciality is grilled pig’s ear. Other options include toasted bread with Los Cameros cheese, vinegar reduction and pepper; the “Baco” (bacon, cheese, mushrooms and white truffle oil); and the “Tabernícola”, a sandwich made with roasted jamón, alioli, and paprika.
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El Embaucador
Speciality: Grandma Yaya Vero’s meatball
The speciality here is Grandma Yaya Vero’s meatball, a traditional Riojan recipe prepared in the style of local grandmothers and served with a spicy sauce. Other options include patatas bravas and a vegetarian skewer.
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Bar Ángel
Speciality: Grilled mushrooms with garlic and prawn
This tapa features grilled mushrooms served on a slice of bread, topped with a prawn and drizzled with garlic sauce. Simple but packed with flavour, it’s the bar’s signature dish and one of the most popular tapas on Calle Laurel.
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Bar Lorenzo “Tío Agus”
Speciality: Marinated meat skewer (pincho moruno) with garlic sauce
The meat skewer is served in a warm bread roll and finished with a special garlic sauce made using a secret family recipe. The combination of the marinade and the sauce is irresistible and it is hard to stop at just one. A tofu version is available for vegetarians and is also highly rated.
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Bar El Canalla
Speciality: Crispy baked potato with spicy sauce
At El Canalla, the crispy baked potato is served with a small tube of spicy sauce, which you inject before eating. The combination of texture and heat delivers a surprisingly bold flavour. Another house favourite is the Spanish omelette, considered the first gourmet omelette in La Rioja.
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Bar Torrecilla
Speciality: Fillet steak with honey and mustard sauce
The highlight here is fillet steak with honey and mustard sauce, served on walnut and raisin bread with a touch of barbecue foam. Other popular choices include lacón a la gallega (boiled ham with paprika) and scrambled eggs with mushrooms and jamón.
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La Tabola Laurel
Speciality: Brioche with boneless Iberian rib
La Tabola Laurel is a gastrobar offering fusion cuisine with a creative twist. The most popular tapa is the brioche filled with boneless Iberian rib, served on lightly toasted bread with a juicy filling that enhances the meat’s flavour.
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Umm, No Solo Tapas
Speciality: Jamón croquettes
Chef Alex García has brought a modern flair to Logroño’s tapas scene with a focus on high-quality ingredients and careful presentation. The highlight is the jamón croquettes – creamy on the inside, crispy on the outside, and packed with rich flavour.
The recipe was a finalist at the Spanish Croquette Championship, held annually at Madrid Fusión, one of the country’s top culinary events.
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Visiting the tapas bars of Logroño is a great way to understand why this region has become a benchmark for casual dining in Spain. The tradition of each bar specialising in a single dish makes it nearly impossible to stop at just one.
With this guide, you have everything you need to make the most of your visit, exploring each bar’s speciality and discovering the flavours that define La Rioja. Use the interactive map to plan your route and dive into the tapas culture, enjoying the variety and richness of this Spanish tradition.
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