The Top 2 Steakhouses Near Mugaritz
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Rank 1. Laia Erretegia Jatetxea
Basque Steakhouse
A Basque steakhouse near the Atlantic coast that lands at No. 3 on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, and earns it without any of the usual swagger. The room is calm and focused, the kind of place where regulars trust the beef completely and let the sommelier do the talking. Dry-aged chuleta over a live parrilla is the whole point here, and it's executed with the sort of quiet confidence that makes everything feel inevitable.
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Rank 2. Casa Nicolás de Tolosa
Basque Steakhouse
A proper Basque asador in the hills outside San Sebastián, and one of the better reasons to rent a car. The whole operation revolves around a single idea: open fire and a serious bone-in chuleta, dry-aged and cooked with the kind of unhurried confidence that makes flashy steakhouses feel embarrassing. Stone walls, exposed beams, locals who look like they've been coming here forever. Order the steak, pick a Rioja, and don't overthink it.