The Spanish capitals of Los Pinchos

Miniature gastronomy in the cradle of wine

The Riojan city of Logroño has recently joined “North is skewers”, the initiative promoted by the FEHR (Spanish Federation of Hotel and Catering Industry) to bring together Spanish cities in a digital environment, and promote the commercial activity of establishments attached to each city.

The network of cities seeks to promote the north of Spain, from its identifying element, as well as its typical gastronomy, linked of course to tourism.

Norte es Pinchos is a network of cities that, structured around their hospitality associations, come together under the same umbrella of a shared gastronomic culture around the pincho.

The staging of the latest addition to the network was carried out by Mónica Figuerola, general director of Tourism, and by Francisco Martínez Bergés, president of the Riojana Hospitality Association.

This joint action to promote and promote economic activity in cities and their establishments is accompanied by a cultural framework where the association of the idea that “in the north you eat very well” prevails.

Tapas and pintxos bites throughout the Spanish geography

Along with the city of Logroño, the other 8 cities that currently complete the cast of “pincho´s city“They are Bilbao, Burgos, Oviedo, Pamplona, ​​San Sebastián, Santander, Valladolid and Vitoria.

The gastronomic days around the pinchos are known worldwide, those held in Donosti (San Sebastián), Gasteiz (Vitoria) or Pucela (Valladolid), and with the pull of these it is also intended to help the promotion in other cities and their establishments .

400 venues, bars and restaurants that are, or want to be recognized for, their creations are already registered as participants in the activity.

In order to know all the establishments and cities, on the Norte es Pinchos website we can discover them one by one, along with the joint calendar of all the activities carried out in each place.

The “Alliance” has begun with the great objective of collaborating in joint celebrations of events and in the future to be able to offer citizens and visitors gastronomic routes between different destinations, complementing it with a recipe book of pinchos or competitions aimed at the general public …