If fine dining or just old fashioned good eating, are your thing then you could do a lot worse than a trip to the Basque country, indeed, it's the perfect place for a culinary odyssey. San Sebasti?n is recognised as one of the world's finest cities for foodies, whether it's for the endless amount bars serving a limitless array of "pintxos" (the Basque word for tapas) or whether you want to sample some of the finest haute cuisine in Spain. Many have tried and failed to eat their way around this city but have had an amazing gastronomic journey in the process. The Basques even have the word "txikiteo" - loosely translated as "tapas spree", a sort of bar crawl where food, rather than alcohol, is the main concern (I'm sure we Brits have been missing a trick somewhere along the line). For more formal dining there area boasts a lot of choice, there are no less than eight Michelin starred restaurants in or nearby the city and a host of others springing up around the rest of the Basque region. The most famous restaurant is undoubtedly "Arzak", pretty much a permanent resident in the restaurant worldwide top 50 list. Head chef and charismatic leader of the Basque "neuva cocina" revolution, Juan Mari Arzak, epitomises all that is good about modern Basque cooking, combining the same fresh ingredients with a radical new spin
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Mike McDougall has five years experience working as a travel writer and marketeer. He is currenlty working to provide additional content for Babylon-idiomas, a Spanish language school with an excellent presence in Spain and Latin America.

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