The Best Seafood Near Solla, by the Record

The chef grew up in this kitchen, which you can feel in how the room runs. Solla is a Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant outside Pontevedra where the Galician coastline does most of the talking. The menus take their names from old fishing techniques, and the cooking follows that logic, pulling shellfish and sea vegetables through a creative lens that never loses sight of where it is. Meat exists but has to be requested, which tells you something about priorities.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

The live tank near the entrance says everything about this glass-walled seafood restaurant on the Verdugo estuary: the langoustines are very much alive when you arrive. The kitchen keeps things simple, letting the fish in the display case carry the argument. A few well-chosen meat and rice dishes round out the menu for anyone who wandered in from the wrong region. The river views from every table are a reasonable consolation for being this far from the coast.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A seafood restaurant on the Galician ría where the portions arrive at a scale that suggests the kitchen has never heard of restraint. The focus is on the estuary's own shellfish and fish, cooked simply over the grill or into a stew, because when the raw material is this good, technique mostly gets out of the way. Spider crab, lobster, cockles in season, and a long parade of whatever came off the boats that morning.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The sticks poking out of the Arousa estuary just beyond the windows mark the clam beds, which tells you everything about what ends up on the plate at this low-key seafood restaurant in Carril. The room is rustic but not fussy, and there's a terrace and a coveted table inside the kitchen. The menu is short and unsentimental, built around whatever the water gives up, with a tasting menu if you want the full tour.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The open grill does most of the talking at this Vigo restaurant, where the chef sources fish and seafood almost entirely from the auction in A Guarda, so the menu shifts with whatever the Rías Baixas offered up that morning. Spider crab, lobster, prawns from local estuaries, wild bream, and whatever else arrived at dawn share the card with seasonal Galician meat and vegetables, no flourishes required.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A renovated manor house, listed as a cultural monument, that now feeds Santiago pilgrims and locals in dining rooms carved from old bedrooms. This seafood restaurant sits a few kilometers outside the city, which hasn't slowed anyone down. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand. The kitchen leans on whatever the Atlantic is offering, with lobster rice drawing the most repeat visitors.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant