Menu of the day
€24.90
Monday to Friday, except public holidays. Desserts from the trolley: €8.00.
Santander · City centre — Puertochico
Hernán Cortés
In the heart of Santander
Opening hours
Monday: 13:00 – 16:00
Tuesday to Thursday: 13:00 – 23:00
Friday and Saturday: 13:00 – 23:30
Sunday: 13:00 – 23:00
The restaurant
High mountain meat tavern in Santander city centre
Our most central restaurant, between Puertochico and the Paseo de Pereda. High mountain grass-fed meat, rockfish and a bar that invites you to stay.
Here the Riaza milk-fed lamb is roasted Segovia style, the octopus goes on the grill and the desserts arrive on a trolley. Hard to choose badly.
A stone’s throw from Puertochico and the Plaza Pombo, our Hernán Cortés tavern is a must for Santander’s pre-lunch tapas: fried calamari (rabas), Santoña anchovies, crispy pork belly (torreznos) and well-chosen wines, right on Santander’s golden mile of tapas.
At the table, high mountain grass-fed meat — from the Tudanca beef burger to the premium rib steak —, Riaza milk-fed lamb roasted Segovia style, rice dishes and rockfish. Menu of the day on weekdays (€24.90) and a special weekend menu (€29.90). If you are visiting Santander, you are five minutes from the Centro Botín.
The menu
2026 menu
Bread: €1.90 per person · Prices include 10% VAT
Cold starters
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Seafood and prawn salad
€21.90 -
Scorpionfish terrine (pudding de cabracho)
€17.90 -
Blacksmith’s salad
€17.90Lettuce, tomato, onion, egg, olives, asparagus, roasted pepper and tuna.
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Galician-style boiled Iberian pork shoulder (lacón, 200 g)
€18.90 -
Roasted Isla peppers with anchovies and La Jarradilla cheese
€21.50 -
Burrata with tomato, olive oil and salt in two textures
€24.90 -
Cecina de León (cured beef loin) with olive oil
€22.90 -
Cheese board
€29.90Half portion 200 g; full portion 400 g.
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Iberian cured meat board
€31.90Half portion 100 g; full portion 200 g.
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Tomato salad with tuna belly (ventresca), peppers and red onion
€24.50
Hot starters
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Soria crispy pork belly (torreznos)
€12.90 -
Chistorra sausage and potatoes in a clay pot
€12.90 -
Fried Burgos black pudding (morcilla) with Liébana red onion
€15.90 -
Mussels a la marinera
€15.90 -
Chicken goujons with chips and two sauces
€17.90 -
Grilled fresh vegetables
€18.90 -
Handmade ham croquettes
€18.90 -
Mariluz’s tripe stew
€18.90Slow-cooked.
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Fried squid strips (rabas)
€18.90 -
Mushroom and vegetable terrine with leek sauce
€18.90 -
Divirín cheese with tomato jam, olive oil and salt
€19.50 -
Tempura cod bites with aioli
€21.50
Free-range eggs
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Cured ham
€14.50 -
Chistorra sausage
€14.50 -
Crispy pork belly (torreznos)
€14.50 -
Black pudding (morcilla)
€14.50 -
Paprika
€11.90
Rice and spoon dishes
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Rice with beef cheeks
€19.50 -
Creamy seafood and shellfish rice with aioli
€19.50 -
La Granja butter beans with prawns and mussels
€19.90
From the sea
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Griddled baby squid on a bed of slow-cooked onions
€18.90 -
Fish meatballs in salsa marinera
€19.90 -
Cod-stuffed peppers
€18.90 -
Battered hake bites with Padrón peppers
€27.90 -
Grilled octopus with Galician potatoes (cachelos), olive oil and paprika
€28.50 -
Lightly salted rockfish (a la media sal)
€29.90With a fresh tomato vinaigrette.
Mountain pasture-raised meat
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Tudanca beef burger
€17.90With La Jarradilla cheese, red onion, crispy bacon and chips.
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Slow-cooked braised beef cheeks
€21.90With mushrooms and boiled potatoes.
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Beef tenderloin
€32.90 -
Riaza milk-fed lamb, roasted Segovia style (approx. 700 g)
€39.50 -
Beef rib-eye steak (800 g)
€48.50 -
Premium bone-in rib steak (chuletón)
€61.90/kg
The group
The other Herrero restaurants.
We’ll save you a seat
by the fire.
Book at Hernán Cortés — Calle Hernán Cortés, 47, Santander.