An important part of Basque cuisine's good reputation is due to its ability to take advantage of its widely known culinary tradition. On this basis, it has been able to develop towards a varied high-quality new cuisine.
Basque people get from good food, and their fondness for cultivating the traditions of good cooking.
Their members have also collaborated in preserving and recovering old recipes, as well as giving a new approach to cooking, by giving a new status to dishes of humble origin, but of high culinary merit. This anachronistic custom, still upheld in the most traditional societies, has been abolished in many of them. Nevertheless, the traveller who wishes to visit a gastronomical society would have to be invited by a member, because that is the only way to gain admission. Members of the New Basque Cuisine. On the other hand, Gipuzkoa has a great variety of different types and categories of restaurants, most of them offering high-quality food.