Restaurante Stravaganza
One minute from the Plaza Mayor. You will find authentic Mediterranean food served in a unique atmosphere.
Lunch is Spain's big meal of the day, and Salamanca abides by that rule religiously. This means that restaurants will have their best food and their biggest portions anywhere from 1PM-3PM.
Dinner usually happens from 8PM-11PM, and isn't really a meal as such.In spite of the many restaurants open at dinner time with a full menu, one of the traditional Spanish habits is to eat tapas with friends over a glass of wine, which consists of regional appetizers served at bars, restaurants, and cafeterÃas. In Salamanca there's no definitive guide to tapa-ing, instead, try to stroll around the center of the town and try different places and, who knows, meet new friends.
Locals gather slightly north of city center for their nightly tapas on a street named Van Dyck. The tapas here are generally of a higher quality and a lower price of those found near the plaza. Almost every street out from the center will have at least one small bar, and many of them will serve tapas. The price difference between having or not a tapa with your drink is negligible around 2⬠for each beer/wine+tapa, 20-30 cts less only the beer so go on a try them!
Popular tapas are any sort of roasted pork parts: ribs costilla, sausage chorizo, ham jamon, bacon panceta or face jeta. Try the "pincho moruno", a brochette of pork pieces marinated in paprika and garlic. A local speciality if you find it appealing is "chanfaina" a spicy rice dish with liver and/or blood that is served in many bars as a tapa on Sundays.
In the summer most restaurants set tables outside for both lunch and dinner. Be forewarned that with the privilege of sitting outside you often get charged a euro or two extra per person.
Salamanca is atop the small portion of Spain where you can purchase jamon iberia Iberian ham. This expensive pork is very rich, very expensive and in the opinion of most Salamancans the most delicious thing there is to eat.
Vegetarians will have to work a little bit to find food. Tortilla de patata is always a safe bet a frittata-type thing with potato and egg but it can get old after a while. Meat especially pork finds its way into a majority of dishes here. When you're asking waiters if a dish does not have meat carne, make sure you specify that you don't want chicken pollo or fish pescado either.