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During the coronavirus crisis, I have been corresponding with an old friend in Vitoria, capital of the Basque country. She was responsible for first introducing me to tapas, or pintxos as the Basques ...

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. First, a brief history of tapas bars in New York. In the late 1930s as the ...

The news that Spain’s restaurants are now open—with reduced capacity and social distancing—makes the prospect of visiting all the more savory at this point when deprivation makes the appetite roar. It ...

Once just another industrial port, Bilbao’s fortune changed when the Guggenheim Museum arrived and put the Basque capital on the international map. Frank Gehry’s masterpiece and works from greats such ...

This simple tapas offering is from Spain's Basque region, where it is typical bar food. This version, from Jose Andres' cookbook, "Made in Spain," combines crunchy bread, soft onion and meaty tuna.

When I'm dreaming of Spain (which I do a lot having been in Barcelona a month ago), I head to Basque Tapas Bar which has locations in Piermont and Tarrytown. Their "Marisco" paella, with clams, ...

San Sebastian owes its popularity as a tourist resort to the patronage of aristocracy Credit: Photo: GETTY IMAGES Where did they put it? I wondered on my first evening in San Sebastian. How could ...

Solana Beach boasts a new modern tapas restaurant, now open in the mixed-use Sandbox building on Highway 101. CTZN pays tribute to the Basque region of Europe, between Southwest France and Northern ...

San Sebastian’s old town may be the most food-intensive neighborhood in the world, with street after street of pintxos bars and taverns and roaring restaurants, and hundreds of counters heaped with ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the uber-hip Spanish food city of San Sebastian, known for the world’s second-highest concentration of Michelin-starred restaurants per square kilometer, ...

95-99 Western Road, Brighton (01273 732 323). Pintxo, the Basque word for tapas, is pronounced pin'cho. Aptly enough, a freezing wind hurling off the English Channel had pinched our cheeks and noses a ...