Authentic home-style cooking
The Mesón de la Villa is perhaps the first restaurant you'll see as you pass through the archway from the bridge to the historic center and the Plaza Mayor. It's a testament to traditional, home-style Arandino cuisine, based around seasonal ingredients, traditional flavors, and a home-away-from-home atmosphere.
The bar area is full of elderly locals swilling aperitifs and munching on ham, cheese, and seasonal wild mushrooms: a good sign. We opted to try a few tapas at the bar rather than a sit down meal and we were pleasantly surprised. We let the bartender suggest the wine and plates, which was good choice as we got a few off-menu items. We had minced chorizo with saffron milkcap mushrooms (a pricey, local variety called "niscalos" which are picked wild in the mountains), and a plate of lamb sweetbreads and oyster mushrooms that was just fantastic. To top it off, we had a plate of fire-red fried chorizos which left us quite full.
