Txispa

About the restaurant

Occasionally, simplicity is the greatest of treasures! Here, the experiment of combining the time-honoured techniques of Japanese cuisine with the barbecue techniques of a typical Basque “asador” has really paid off. Japanese chef Tetsuro Maeda, who has renovated a century-old house in a small village so quiet it’s almost possible to hear the silence around you, has taken simplicity as his leitmotiv, basing his cooking around exceptional ingredients (many from his own vegetable garden) to create