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Mejillones in spicy tomato sauce, a Pamplona bar-style preparation
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Pamplona’s Mussel Bars Exist Because of a 1945 Invention in Galicia

Pamplona's mussel bars trace to a 1945 batea invention in Galicia and Europe's only seafood DOP. Here's how mejillones got 450km inland.
A balconied street in Pamplona's Casco Viejo, home to the city's peña and txoko clubhouses
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Txoko Culture Isn’t Only San Sebastián’s. Pamplona Has Run Its Own Since 1953, and the Oldest One Still Bars Women.

Every English guide to Basque txoko culture skips Pamplona, which has run its own gastronomic societies since 1953, and the oldest is fighting Navarra's government