Mesón El Labrador

This is where you go for comfort food. The menu del día was a great price and every dish we had was so tasty. The fabada was so flavourful and rich, the chicken fillets were crunchy, and the torrijas, bwa. We left full and happy. Una experiencia muy muy buena. Comida tan rica y el servicio perfecto.

Unbelievably good food (had the daily menu), good wine, super friendly service, good price and a nice atmosphere. 100% recommended! And try the Fabada, it's to die for!

This place is like coming home to your grandma for dinner. Although i must admit the food here is alot better than my grandma's - they both share the fact that you will have a hard time getting out the door after all the food you've eaten!!!

Went here for menu del día on a Tuesday in august. Arrived just after 1pm and by 1.30 it was full! Amazing value authentic Asturian lunch and service was efficient and friendly. Loved it! Thank you

If you really want quality home-made food, go to Meson El Labrador. Also the service is excellent and the price is good. ;)

This is a great place with a three course menú del día offering unique local home style dishes, incredibly quick service, all-you-can-eat portions, locally sourced meat, and low prices.

The daily choices are posted on a chalkboard to the left of the bar entrance, starting at about 11 a.m. in the morning. Lunch is served here starting at about 1:15 p.m., a quarter of an hour earlier than almost all the other restaurants in town. There are three courses, plus dessert. The first course, is a soup served family style (i.e. in a tureen left on your table, serve yourself as much as you would like). There is no choice for this first soup, served the second you’ve sat down and given your order. Usually it is Sopa de Cocido, which looks and tastes like chicken noodle soup, but those “noodles” are actually made of chick pea flour - so it’s rich in protein, and more or less gluten free. But the soup changes with the season - during slaughter season (that’’s my translation of “matanza”) it might be liver soup, and at other times of the year, what I think might be tripe soup. The second course is then usually a choice between a meat-rich lentil stew or fabada, cooked vegetables like green beans and potatoes, or a fresh cold salad such as a ploughman’s salad (lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes in a vinaigrette), or a seafood salad. The stews, meat and bean soups, and rice dishes, are served once again in huge family-style portions - basically, all-you-can-eat. The third course, is usually a choice from two seafood dishes, and one meat dish, all served with delicious homemade french fries. Sometimes they are dishes that can be breath-takingly strange to the North American palate: stewed pigs trotters (manos de cerdo) anyone? But don’t worry, there is always a choice of something for the less adventurous on offer. Then, finally, long after you’ve been stuffed to the gills and can’t eat a bite more: there is a wide selection of homemade desserts included with the meal. Now a word about the locally sourced meats: one of the waiters (owner too?), Mario, is a rancher, an award winning rancher, whose bulls got the highest prices paid in regional cattle shows in (I think) 2013 and 2014 - there are photocopies of the newspaper articles announcing the cattle show sales results framed and hanging in the bar. That big beautiful oil painting of a bull in the dining room - that’s one of his prize winning bulls. After enjoying lunch, walk over to the bridge and look upstream, throw out your hand and point across the river: all that pasture land on the other side, past the cave museum, and up until you get to the pink villa called the Palacio of La Piconera, is where he pastures his herd. If you drive to the wonderful not-to-be-missed drive-through cave of Cuevas, his herds are those that you pass as soon as you leave town, pastured along the left hand side between you and the river. Short of leading the cows into town on a leash, you can’t get any more “locally sourced” than that.

You can eat in the bar area, but most people head to the dining room in the back, past the bar and to the left of the restroom. When you get to the dining room, let the waiter know you are there, and he’ll suggest a table. The dining room is small, so large families or groups might want to call ahead.

Be ready to have your dinner and the next day breakfast served during lunch. Amazing place and very good and plenty of food.

best cochopo I’ve had in Asturias!

Friendly, also to our kids. Big portions, price ok, food yummi.

Best Paella! Plus very friendly service!

Very friendly waiter and waitress

Really kind staff and awesome service!

Expectacular,

Fantastic food, warm atmosphere, and a gorgeous location! The set menu option is delicious and their fabada is especially tasty.

ESPECTACULAR!
Está todo buenísimo y además no escatiman en cantidad, la perola encima de la mesa y como todo lo que quieras!!!
Íbamos con un carrito de bebé, y aunque parezca pequeño, pudimos estar con bien de espacio.
Además Mario te atiende como si fueras de la familia, gracias a sus recomendaciones los 8 pudimos probar de todos los platos (sopa, ensalada, fabes, pote, escalopines, guiso de ternera y postres) también nos hicieron unos huevos con patatas para el “rarito” del grupo, xD.
Volveremos siempre que podamos!

Experiencia MARAVILLOSA. No te puedes ir de Ribadesella sin comer aquí. Menú del día 20€, e incluye un primero, un segundo, un tercero, postre, pan y agua o vino. Nos dio para comer 2 platos de sopa y 2 de fabada a cada uno. INCREÍBLE Y RIQUÍSIMO.

Un lugar que sin duda repetiremos. Comimos de menú, con sus tres platos, el primero una sopa de cocido, espectacular, casera y de toda la vida. De segundo fabada asturiana, muy rica y fiel a la tradicional por último escalopines de Cabrales. Nos gustó mucho el poder servir de la propia olla. La atención de los camareros fue excelente, cercana y agradable.

Excellent restaurant. Menu 3 plats 20 € avec le vin.Soupe de poule aux vermicelles, Fabada genre de cassoulet chorizo boudin noir très bon,Escalopines genre cordon bleu extra fin Sauce roquefort. Le thon aux oignons est très bon aussi.En dessert le pain perdu à cannelle excellent.

INCREÍBLE restaurante… como en casa, comida casera, abundante y buenísima!! Trato cercano e inmejorable. Si eliges menú primero te ponen un cuenco de sopa de cocido… buenísima, luego tienes a elegir primero, segundo y postre… súper recomendable la fabada! Si quieres comer cocina asturiana este es el sitio indicado… si volvemos repetiremos sin dudarlo!!

Llegamos justo a tiempo, ya que después de nosotros solo admitían gente con reserva, lo que ya daba la sensación de que era un lugar recomendado. El menú de primeras puede parecer "caro" (aunque viniendo de Madrid en mi caso, 20€ en puente, me parece hasta barato jajaj), sin embargo, 3 platos (sopa de entrante, primero a elegir y segundo a elegir), bebida, postre y pan. Buena cantidad en los platos y de sabor riquísimos. Recomiendo de postre la crema de galletas, que no la había probado antes y me pareció buenísima. El trato fue también estupendo. Volvería sin duda.

PD: se me olvidó hacer foto al segundo, entrecot con patatas jeje