Eating (and drinking!) is more than just eating. Suppose you have reached O Grove and you wonder where you could eat. The answer is not long in coming, you have one at your fingertips hundreds of stores What do they offer you? from the simplest dish to the most elaborate, traditional cuisine, tapas, more innovative cuisine… the smell will guide you.
Epicurus, who knew about this, told us “before thinking about what to eat or drink, we have to worry about who we are going to do it with.”
Sitting around a table means sharing emotions, telling stories, releasing sadness, laughing and celebrating life. Eating in company makes us wiser, healthier and happier. And for that the best thing is choose between some of the proposals that the chefs and cooks of O Grove they make us in every season.
It is undeniable the quality of raw materials that we have in this corner of the Rías Baixas. O Grove it is known as “Seafood Paradise”, and from the waters of the Ría de Arousa there are also fish that are auctioned daily in the Lonja de Contratación in the Plaza de O Corgo.
If your body asks for seafood, don’t hesitate, O Grove it is your destiny. Bathed by the Atlantic waters and rich in nutrients from the Ría de Arousa, its Sea products are guaranteed. Are rich in minerals and iodine, lack fat and offer powerful taste qualities. It is noteworthy the iron that the mussels provide us or the unsaturated fatty acid Omega 3 and Omega 6 and the vitamins A and B3 of the octopus. Savoring some oysters, shredding crabs or spider crabs, savoring the sea in barnacles and cockles are a privilege available to all who visit us.
As to fish: sardines, horse mackerel, mackerel, sole and turbot, sea bass, sea bream… the variety and quality is shown in the restaurants of O Grove who prepare the barbecues and “caldeiradas” the freshest and most amazing fish in the area.
One of the prides of this peninsula comes from the hand of the Restaurant Culler de PauAwarded 2 Michelin Stars and 3 Repsol Suns, it offers Km Cero products with the delicacy with which Javier Olleros’s team treats them.
Posts to boast, we have one of the best seafood restaurants in Spain, awarded 2 Repsol Suns, D’Berto, specialized in large fish and shellfish and which, depending on the season, are cooked without pirouettes in this local Grovan.
We could continue listing establishments with their own entity where the product is the basis for extraordinary cuisine, but we prefer that you come and check it out.
Furthermore, the Fish and Seafood Contract Market together with the premises of the Market Square of O Grove It offers the consumer the perfect option to get everything that is produced here, fished or caught every day. And a fun way to see the atmosphere of a market is to go on Friday mornings to the Plaza de O Corgo to check it out for yourself and get everything you need for a good feast (seafood, fish, Galician meat, vegetables and fruit from farms in the region…).
We cannot forget the preserves that you will surely have on your table sometime and that have come from O Grove to your homes. Here are the canning factories in the Virxe das M areaareas and in Rons. On its belts run the most careful cans of mussels, sardines, mackerel, cockles, octopus… and other delicacies with all the properties intact.
We are not joking if we tell you that in O Grove They are cultivated the sweetest potatoes GaliciaPerhaps the land with the sea so close provides that property… An example of organic farming are orchards like Adelina’s, which is protected by the Organic Agriculture Regulatory Council of Galicia. A benchmark for zero kilometer crops.
And nothing better to irrigate what is obtained from the sea and the land than a excellent wine. O Grove account con dos Albariño wine cellars, with a limited production and pampered by their owners under the seal of the Rías Baixas denomination of origin. One of them can be visited: the bodega Casal Fuentes, located between vineyards on one of the slopes of Mt. A Siradella.
Un showcase in which to taste and verify that all these products are within the reach of those who visit O Grove and his island of A Toxa, is the recognized Seafood Festival that every October offers the possibility of concentrating the know-how of grovenses.
You are invited to verify what we have related sobre the products of O Grove.
