Roast Spring Lamb

Traditional restaurants, called asadores, are an institution once you reach the inland regions of Aragón, Rioja and Castille. They’re old-fashioned places: crammed with beams, dark oak furniture and gastronomic medals lining the walls. If you’re in luck there will be a signed snap of the King and Queen too: always a good sign.

The asadores specialize in roasting the tiny, milk-fed lamb in wood-fired ovens and the result is deliciously lean and tender. Lamb is highly pr