Manuel Martinez, bartender at the family-operated La Figar Bar in Nava, pours a glass of cider. He stood by to provide pour after pour until the bottle was finished. Photo by Alastair Bland. If you ...

With restaurants and humanitarian missions around the world, Chef José Andrés is globally renowned but always returns to his birthplace, Asturias, to reconnect with his roots. This lesser-known region ...

Loved by the Spanish but less known in the UK, the region is recognised by Unesco for its centuries-old cider culture – and has plenty more to offer Asturias is a place of mossy silence and ocean ...

During my recent cycling trip from southern France, over the Pyrenees, and into Spain, I encountered plenty of cider. The French grow lots of apples and they make lots of cider. It is dry and crisp, ...

"Asturias? Where the f**k is Asturias, " asked Michael O'Leary when someone approached him in Dublin airport a couple of years back to ask if Ryanair would ever consider flying from Ireland to the ...

But unless you’re a booksy food geek or diehard Hispanophile, chances are you haven’t discovered the unsung cuisine of Spain’s comfort-food capital, Asturias. That’s because most people who go to ...

There is a joke among cider makers when they open a bottle and its contents taste disappointingly sour or flawed: "We say, 'Oh yeah, this cider went bad, so we just put it into green bottles and ...

It’s not often you find yourself in the presence of true greatness, but Jorge Vargas is here, and he is a world champion. He’s an unassuming sort of guy, an Ecuadorian migrant who now lives in ...

While most Brits will be jetting off to the city of Barcelona or the beaches of the Costa del Sol this summer, there are some hidden gems in Spain that are worth visiting. One of those is Asturias, ...