An extremely good restaurant, Posada Mayor de Migueloa, which is a beautifully preserved old house and bodega with high ceilings and dark wood...

Laguardia itself is a neat little pueblo set on a hill and cosy against the gusty winter weather behind its thick walls. For a short break it's a pleasure wandering its small streets where everyone is on nodding acquaintance and the houses are decorated with strings of the drying red peppers which feature heavily in the local cuisine. Quite naturally the town has a fairly fancy wine shop with a good selection of the area's products plus lots of winelover's paraphernalia.

Unexpectedly it also has an extremely good restaurant, Posada Mayor de Migueloa, which is a beautifully preserved old house and bodega with high ceilings and dark wood. We ate a delicious morcilla de la región which came with the blood sausage minced and laced with vegetables and something picante. Also good were the creamy pimientos rellenos de bacalao, chuletillas de cordero which were small, succulent and soft and a carefully cooked magret de pato. Sadly the most intriguing pud to be found on the menu, sorbete de bacalao, was off that night. We'll never know. Ask for the wine list and it arrives as a thick, well-thumbed book. We drank an excellent reserva from the Muga vineyards.

Mary de Sousa
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