I just did a double take when this popped up in my "to review" feed. Shows you how handy Yelp is…read morewhen your vacation check ins have the usual tourist suspects but also include a bank, a grocery store and a good take away coffee place. If you're doing the AirBnb or hostel thing while traveling, you know that one of the most important first finds is a half way decent grocery store. This: is a half way decent grocery store. We picked up all the basics (plus some not so basics... because: brie) and a few bottles of wine. No one speaks a lick of English, but it's pretty self explanatory and the staff were pleasantly amused by our stumbling attempts at Spanish. A quick hop, skip and a jump from Old Town if you're staying in that area.

We went here for dessert last night and found it mostly to be meh (although one of us liked it much…read morebetter than the other). Bilbao has a thing for, like, really long cones. One of us got one with half donuts/half white chocolate nougat and the other one got a cup of half stracciatella/half whatever the Basque version of 'cookies-n-cream' is. The donut flavor was actually the best one because the cream had a bit of a weird sour taste to it in the other three flavors. Staff is surly, grinch-like. What is quite lovely about this place is that they had some nice liqueurs for only 6 euros, so we got a couple bottles to bring home as souvenirs. Otherwise, we'd recommend skipping this place--there's a gelateria on every block.

Walked by and walked in, just what I had been looking for in this part of town. They had everything…read moreI needed, and the staff were very helpful. Lots of interesting foods, many would make a great picnic basket. Enjoy!