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Bar SantaMaría

Bar Tapas bar

One of the Top rated Tapas bars in Bilbao


Address

Andra Maria Kalea, 18, Ibaiondo, 48005 Bilbo, Bizkaia, Spain

Price rating

$ $$$

Rating on Google Maps

4.60 (1.3K reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Saturday: 11 am to 12 pm
  • Sunday: 12 to 4 pm
  • Monday: 8:30 am to 11 pm
  • Tuesday: 8:30 am to 11 pm
  • Wednesday: 8:30 am to 11 pm
  • Thursday: 8:30 am to 11 pm
  • Friday: 8:30 am to 12 pm

Featured Reviews


Frequently mentioned in reviews: pintxos (8) service (7) Great (6) grilled (6)
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  • 5/5 Jeffery C. 1 year ago on Google • 170 reviews
    Fantastic food at a reasonable price. Service during busy hours is a bit slow but the lovely ladies definitely tried their best to get your food out asap. Everything we ordered is fantastic. But the octopus and foie probably are the two top choices :)
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Lisa 1 year ago on Google • 53 reviews
    Super delicious Pintxos. The opening hours vary a bit from what is stated on Google but I think that is true for a lot of restaurants in the area. The Iberian pork steak is soo delicious. If we had stayed another day for sure we would have come again just for that!
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Laila R. 2 years ago on Google
    Just go! Best tapas and cheap too
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Ryan H. 1 year ago on Google
    Great place to have grilled meat pintxos! I tried their "secret iberico" pintxo and loved it.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 neville t. 6 months ago on Google • 415 reviews
    Absolutely fantastic authentic tapas bar. Great food, great wine, fantastic service and excellent prices. This place goes off and is very popular. Would go back in a heartbeat. Bar staff the most friendly and efficient ever - she is a legend
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Jeff H. 6 months ago on Google • 62 reviews
    Excellent Pintxos bar in the old city. Specializes in grilled meat and seafood.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Hanna M. 4 months ago on Google • 39 reviews
    This place serves really tasty warm pintxos. I have visited on few occasions and the food is always a treat! Nice selection of wines too. Tables outside for a nice lively vibe of the old town. Overall would recommend!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Katrien van der W. 1 year ago on Google
    Superbe place to have a drink and a pincho. Very local, very good food!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Valeria D. 2 years ago on Google
    Great local place with tasty pintxos, nice staff and fast service. Highly recommend to visit in Bilbao
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Mark A. 1 month ago on Google • 2842 reviews New
    Tasty, hot grilled tapas from popular,well rated establishment. All were freshly prepared and well cooked with good flavours. They were paired with nice txakoli and rioja wines. The best was the superb service from Gemma and occasionally Isabel. They're smiling faces and friendly service made our pinchos experience a memorable one. I enjoyed watching the TV's above bar showing show cooking which put us in the mood!! Only negative is not offering gluten free pinchos or offering an option for bread which doesn't use gluten.

  • 5/5 Leah B. 7 months ago on Google • 12 reviews
    The exterior isn’t anything fancy, but the pintxos are excellent quality and they make all of them fresh. Best tapas we had in Bilbao. Reasonable prices. Good service. If we’d stayed longer, would have gone back a second time!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 W T. 1 year ago on Google
    Pintxos grilled on the spot. Must try grilled foie with apple! Waitress ignores tourists and serve locals first…
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Renee Wagner N. 1 year ago on Google
    Good pintxos - especially loved the chorizo! Stopped by twice during my three days in Bilbao as it was in close proximity to my hotel.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 carmen a. 1 year ago on Google
    Great pinchos! Also cheap! I hightl recommend it!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Anita T. 1 year ago on Google
    Wow amazing pinxtos and very good price. Loved the foie gras and cod pinxto. Would be coming back!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Jan-Peter R. 1 year ago on Google
    Pintxos out of this world! Good wines, good service at the bar.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Joana A. 1 year ago on Google
    The staff is friendly. We had small portions of pintxos. Reasonable price. Recommended. Try Foixe ( geese liver with apple sauce) it's delicious!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Cho W. 4 months ago on Google • 50 reviews
    Im so sad that I had only one photo, but the beautiful truth is that I couldn’t waste more time taking photos than eating this. Pintxos in this bar was marvelous, and my friends and I were super lucky to have snatched a seat outside while other waited around and watched us dine and drink in pure joy. We stayed in Portugalete so we needed to eat everything we could before we went back into town. Turns out it was quite a great choice to have picked this bar. Everything, and I mean everything, was wonderful. You couldn’t possibly go wrong with anything you order. You could go inside and pick the pintxos with your eyes covered and you’d still end up with a happy tummy like all three of us did. Great wine as well. Ah how I love basque food. 100/10!!

  • 5/5 Rameez I. 2 years ago on Google
    Great place offering local pintxos. Family run and food was freshly made unlike many other bars around.

  • 5/5 Theo 3 years ago on Google
    Tried 4 places, and this was the best. Staff very helpful. Small menu (always better) of grilled items. They don't use 'canola oil', only olive oil. For some reason its cheaper than their peers, yet way better quality. Had 5 items made to order plus mineral water, 15e. Took Covid seriously. Quite a social place, can sit at bar. HIGH RECOMMEND all round!

  • 5/5 M C. 2 years ago on Google
    Best pinchos we had in Bilbao and San Sebastian out of 20 different bars. The prices are so low and the portions are so big too. Get the foie, secreto iberico, and octopus.

  • 5/5 Uri O. 2 years ago on Google
    Best pinxus in town! They have a small menu but each one of the pinxus is fresh, big and well made. The price is very decent - we were 2 very hungry people and paid a total of around 20€ including drinks. Very authentic atmosphere and attentive service. No wonder it's always full and loved by the locals in Bilbao.

  • 1/5 Jurgen V. 2 years ago on Google
    Racist bartender. I think she spit in my beer.

  • 1/5 Alexander N. 2 years ago on Google
    Very unfriendly. Not normal. Do not feel welcome. Racist to foreigners


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Amenities


  • Payments
    • ✓️ Debit cards
    • ✓️ Credit cards
    • ✓️ NFC mobile payments
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Beer
    • ✓️ Food
    • ✓️ Wine
    • ✓️ Coffee
    • ✓️ Alcohol
    • ✓️ Spirits
    • ✓️ Cocktails
    • ✓️ Food at bar
    • ✓️ Small plates
  • Accessibility
    • ✗ Wheelchair-accessible seating
    • ✗ Wheelchair-accessible car park
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Dinner
    • ✓️ Seating
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✗ Delivery
    • ✓️ Outdoor seating

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