Restaurant in Trasmonte, Spain
Honest grills, Michelin-noted, easy to book.
A Michelin Plate grill on the road to Ponte Maceira, A de Totó earns its 4.7-star Google rating through an honest, focused offer: quality cuts displayed in-house, a straightforward a la carte menu, and pricing that sits comfortably at €€. For a food-focused traveller in Galicia who wants serious grilled meat without a complex reservation process, this is a well-judged stop.
With 581 Google reviews averaging 4.7 stars and back-to-back Michelin Plates in 2024 and 2025, A de Totó is one of the most consistently rated grill restaurants in A Coruña province. It sits along the road between Trasmonte and Negreira, close to Ponte Maceira, a village officially recognised as one of the most beautiful in Spain. That geography tells you something about the dining experience before you even look at the menu: this is not a restaurant chasing urban trends. It is a direct proposition built around fire, quality cuts, and Galician landscape.
The room sets expectations clearly. Large photographs of Galician countryside cover the walls, and the cabinet of raw cuts near the entrance, displaying Galician sirloin, Irish Angus ribs, aged T-bone and more, functions as a visual menu before you sit down. For a food-focused traveller, that cabinet is the most useful thing in the room: you see exactly what you are ordering, which cuts are available that day, and what the marbling looks like. It removes ambiguity and signals that the kitchen is confident in its raw ingredients. At the €€ price point, that transparency is part of the value.
The editorial angle worth noting here is the counter and display experience. Unlike metropolitan grill restaurants where cuts are described verbally or listed abstractly on a menu, A de Totó puts the product physically in view. For an explorer-minded diner who wants to engage with the source of what they are eating, this format rewards attention. You can compare cuts before committing, ask questions about provenance and ageing, and make an informed choice rather than a speculative one. The grill-forward format, with starters and fish options as supporting acts, means the kitchen is not trying to do everything. It does the meat programme with enough depth that the display cabinet makes sense as a centrepiece.
Michelin Plate recognition, awarded in both 2024 and 2025, does not indicate a star but does confirm that Michelin inspectors found the cooking to meet their quality threshold for fresh, good ingredients and careful preparation. For a rural Galician grill at €€ pricing, that is a meaningful credential. It positions A de Totó above the average regional asador without placing it in the same category as the multi-star Spanish restaurants that require months of advance planning and three-figure spend per head.
For the explorer travelling through Santiago de Compostela and outward into the Galician interior, A de Totó represents a specific kind of detour: not a pilgrimage to a destination restaurant, but a calibrated stop at a place that is genuinely good at what it does. The Ponte Maceira road adds a practical argument for combining the meal with the village itself. If you are already in the area, the combination of scenery and a serious grill lunch is a strong case for the journey. If you are routing specifically from Santiago, the proximity makes it a half-day trip rather than a committed expedition.
The menu structure, with starters and fish options alongside the main meat focus, means this works for a table where not everyone wants red meat. It is not a pure carnivore-only room. The Galician sirloin and aged T-bone signal that the kitchen is working with quality regional sourcing as well as international cuts, which for a food enthusiast is a more interesting offer than a single-origin grill or a purely imported programme. Galician beef has a strong regional identity, and A de Totó appears to treat it as the headline act it deserves to be.
Booking here is easy relative to Spain's starred restaurant circuit. You are not competing with international reservation queues months in advance. For travellers planning a Galician itinerary, this is the kind of place you can add with reasonable confidence of securing a table, which makes it a practical anchor for a day that also includes Ponte Maceira or the Santiago de Compostela surrounds. Check the full Trasmonte restaurants guide for additional options in the area, or browse the Trasmonte experiences guide for what to pair with the meal.
At €€ pricing with Michelin Plate credentials and a 4.7 Google rating across nearly 600 reviews, the value case is clear. This is a grill that has earned its reputation through consistent execution of a defined, honest offer. If your Galician itinerary takes you anywhere near Negreira or Ponte Maceira, A de Totó warrants the stop.
Address: Lugar de Reino, 20, 15864 Trasmonte, A Coruña, Spain. Price range: €€. Reservations: Easy to book; no months-in-advance lead time required. Dress: No formal dress code indicated; casual and smart-casual both appropriate for a rural Galician grill. Getting there: Located on the road toward Negreira and Ponte Maceira from Trasmonte; car is the practical option from Santiago de Compostela.
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A de Totó does not operate a formal tasting menu format. The offer is a la carte, built around a grill programme with starters and fish options alongside the main meat cuts. For a traveller seeking a multi-course tasting experience with wine pairings and a structured progression, look at El Celler de Can Roca or Arzak instead. At A de Totó, the value is in picking cuts from a display cabinet, eating well at €€ pricing, and leaving without a complex booking process. That is a different proposition, and a good one.
Seat count data is not available, but a rural Galician grill of this type typically suits groups of four to eight comfortably. The a la carte format works well for groups with varied preferences, since the menu covers starters and fish alongside the main grill programme. For larger group bookings, contact the restaurant directly ahead of your visit. The address is Lugar de Reino, 20, 15864 Trasmonte, A Coruña. Booking difficulty is rated easy, so group reservations in advance are the practical approach rather than arriving unannounced.
Yes, with a practical caveat. The grill format and display cabinet of cuts means a solo diner can engage directly with what is on offer, which suits the explorer-type visitor who wants to ask questions about provenance and ageing. The a la carte structure means you are not committed to a multi-course format. The rural setting and Galician landscape context make it a better lunch stop than a solo evening destination. If you are travelling through the Santiago de Compostela area independently, this works well as a deliberate solo lunch on the road toward Ponte Maceira.
The menu is grill-focused, so the core offer centres on meat. Fish and starter options are available, which broadens the choice beyond red meat, but this is not a kitchen where plant-based or complex dietary requirements are likely to be the priority. Specific allergen or dietary information is not available in our data. Contact the restaurant directly before booking if dietary restrictions are a key consideration. The absence of a website in our records means direct contact by phone or in person is the route to clarification.
At €€ pricing with back-to-back Michelin Plates in 2024 and 2025 and a 4.7 Google rating across 581 reviews, the value case is strong. For comparable quality grills at higher price points, Humo in London operates in a more expensive market with a different format. A de Totó's value is specific: Michelin-recognised quality at mid-range pricing in a rural Galician setting with a transparent cut-selection process. If you are in the area and willing to make the drive, the price-to-quality ratio is among the better arguments for stopping here over a generic roadside option.
Trasmonte is a small municipality, and A de Totó is the venue with the clearest Michelin and Google credentials in the immediate area. For more options in the broader Galician region, the Trasmonte restaurants guide covers the local field. If you are willing to travel further into Spain for a grill experience, República del Fuego represents a different market entirely. For high-end Spanish dining that goes beyond the grill format, Azurmendi and Quique Dacosta are the reference points, though at €€€€ pricing and with much harder booking windows.
| Venue | Cuisine | Price | Booking Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| A de Totó | Grills | €€ | Easy |
| Quique Dacosta | Creative | €€€€ | Unknown |
| El Celler de Can Roca | Progressive Spanish, Creative | €€€€ | Unknown |
| Arzak | Modern Basque, Creative | €€€€ | Unknown |
| Azurmendi | Progressive, Creative | €€€€ | Unknown |
| Aponiente | Progressive - Seafood, Creative | €€€€ | Unknown |
Side-by-side comparison to help you decide where to book.
A de Totó is a grill house, not a tasting-menu destination. The format here is à la carte, built around prime cuts — Galician sirloin, Angus ribs, aged T-bone — with supporting starters and fish options. If you want a multi-course tasting format, this is the wrong venue. If you want well-sourced grilled meat at €€ prices with back-to-back Michelin Plates (2024, 2025) validating the kitchen's consistency, it delivers well within that brief.
Nothing in the venue record rules out groups, and a restaurant of this style and rural format in Galicia typically suits tables of four to eight without difficulty. The à la carte grill format works well for groups with varied preferences, since the meat cabinets allow each diner to choose their own cut. Booking ahead is sensible for larger parties regardless.
A rural Galician grill at €€ is a low-pressure solo option — there's no tasting-menu pacing or omakase commitment to navigate. You order what you want from the grill selection, and the honest, unfussy setting described in the Michelin notes makes it approachable rather than formal. Solo diners passing through on the Negreira or Ponte Maceira route will find it fits naturally as a stop.
The kitchen lists starters and fish options alongside its core grill offer, so non-meat-eaters have some alternatives, but this is fundamentally a meat-focused restaurant. Strict vegetarians or those avoiding red meat will find the menu limited. The venue record does not document specific allergy protocols, so anyone with serious dietary requirements should check the venue's official channels before booking.
At €€, it is. Back-to-back Michelin Plates in 2024 and 2025 and a 4.7-star average across 581 Google reviews point to a kitchen that delivers consistently at a price point well below what Michelin recognition usually implies in Spain. The value case is clear: serious grilled meat, sourced across Galician and international cuts, without the premium pricing of destination restaurants in Santiago or A Coruña.
Trasmonte itself is a small rural settlement, so meaningful grill alternatives are in the wider Santiago de Compostela and A Coruña orbit rather than walking distance. For a step up in ambition and price within Galicia, Casa Marcelo in Santiago offers a tasting format. For comparable honest grilling at similar prices, the broader Galician coastal belt has well-regarded local asadores, though none carry A de Totó's current Michelin recognition at this price range.
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