The churrería La Quinta, which dates back to 1842, opens its first fixed premises in Caldeirería street with the spirit of turning it into a main square.
When back in 1842 Ibai Castiñeiras' great-great-grandfather first set up his churro stand at a fair in Pontecesures, where he was from, he never imagined that 181 years later a descendant of his lineage, Ibai himself, would take the baton by opening permanently and selling the same raw material in the most noble area of Compostela's old town. “I thought that with the retirement of my aunt it was possible that the business would end, so I didn't think about it and I started with what I had planned so many times in my head”, says the young man, who is only 25 years old. Now, the spirit is preserved although the original idea has undergone a radical change. “I know, from my aunt's experience, that ambulance work is very hard, very sacrificing, and they are aware that habits change,” says Ibai.
That is exactly why it has been decided to establish the best and most traditional churros street in the number 42 of Caldeirería street, in Santiago. From tomorrow, when everything starts to work, in that street there will be a new main square, because the whole place is decorated in such a way that it takes us to a Sunday morning fair, although they will also sell churros to take away. The room is as bright as if the sun were shining, the green leaves of the trees and the brown awnings of the fair tents hang from the ceiling; the tables and chairs are like those of a café of yesteryear and even the floor is decorated like the most typical cobblestones of the center of a fishing village. A renovation that does not make the business lose its essence, since Ibai's grandmother has already given the go-ahead. “Onte, sen ir máis lonxe, estivo dándolles consellos aos cociñeiros, que eles escoitaron tomando nota”. There is nothing like the voice of experience, which Ibai worships in the decoration of the premises through a mural featuring the different generations that have managed the business all these years. Ibai, represented in the center of the work, explains the name of the churrería, which was born as El Pirata, then called Fina “like the churreira, my aunt” and now renamed La Quinta, “which is me, the fifth generation of churreiros”.
