Despite San Sebastian's reputation for exceptional high-end gastronomy and similarly experiential tapas bars, sometimes a meal in the middle is what you are looking for. On this occasion, it was coincidentally a Monday which is when most restaurants and even a large number of tapas places are closed. Luckily Egosari (which has a pinxtos bar upstairs and a restaurant downstairs) was available, and my memory of eating here back in 2009 reaffirmed it as the chosen place for the evening.
They specialise in seafood as reflected by the majority of a la carte items available.
- Tepid salad of spider crab, prawns & scampi (ensalada de txangurro) €17.4 - sweet spider crab meat picked into mounds, served with salad, peeled prawns and a decorative scampi;
- Donostiarra's fish soup €6.2 - rich creamy fish soup with intense flavour;
- Casserole of anglerfish & hake with clams & shrimps (cazuela de rape) €18.4 - tender hake chunks and small clams served in what seemed to be the same soup as the above.
Each dish was delicious. My only slight gripe was both dishes with the soup seemed to be the same base - not disappointing from a flavour point of view, but rather it would have been nice to have been informed so I could choose something with more variety.
Next time I'd order the Crab Salad and try the cazuela. If the cazuela had a different base, I'd have the fish soup also. I didn't see any of the items under the 'seafood' header on the night, but I'm sure they'd be good too.