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In a recent article, entitled Another Way to Trade , the people I spoke to my father and told that the nearby village of reference, with over a thousand people and all the usual commercial structure.

This past weekend I was there again, and since the visit was only for men (my father and I to walk around the house) went down to eat Cistierna. Before talking about the restaurant in question, I can not comment on the appetizer. Accompanied by a friend of those lands, Pedrito for friends, we visited three bars as they say here, "make the wines." The issue to discuss is the great appetizer to put us in each.

First, in all you get to choose what you want to take. So our choice began with a canopy of black pudding (the typical de Leon, a sausage with onions, to which the casing is removed, fry and smeared as if it were a pie), followed with a callus, and ended with some chickpeas in sauce. In all cases, delicious, homemade, warm and large to be the aperitif of the house. I paid in the last place, and two doubles and a beer drinking rioja with the three chickpea pout paid € 3.70.

With such a tasty snack in the body, we left my father and I (Peter ate at home with his family) to the restaurant The filandón, one of the most recommended Cistierna. The facade is that of a typical ordinary bar (in fact there we took the second round, the tripe), and the bar has to go to the restaurant, which is the only downside in my opinion: the room the restaurant has no window or opening through which natural light from, and so on a cold day and sunny autumn, ate like a moonless night closed.

The letter is to be expected in such a place: moderately wide, based on traditional cuisine, but with a nod out of date. We opted to share some sweetbreads in sauce to follow in the line of snacks. Second my father chose a stuffed pig's trotters with mushrooms (senderinas the call there, a very tiny but delicious mushroom) in which I left to check that they were involved magnificent.

I decided a long shot, cod tacos with blue cheese sauce. Fish is not the forte of those lands, or the market or in restaurants, beyond the trout in the area, but this dish was frankly very successful: the desalted cod was perfectly and the sauce maridaba surprisingly well. That yes, he had a taste that I dare say, but I would say it was mustard. He was accompanied by baking potatoes and piquillo peppers.

The bill was abundant appetizer we could dare to desserts, which typically reigned homemade recipes. As for wine, the letter is not too wide, but the prices are very tight: as an example we take a Marqués de Cáceres breeding for 15 €.

In short, if you take your steps by Cistierna, it is worth stopping at the restaurant El filandón.

I regret that he had no camera, and I could not take pictures.

Restaurant filandón
Constitution Avenue, 11
24800 Cistierna
Leon
Spain
Tel: +34 987 700 111