Not long ago opened, we went to La Famiglia Catral for lunch on Thursday, for our first visit. Several people we know went to their opening night and others have eaten there since and all seemed to enjoy the experience. At least two people told me how good the Garlic…
Category: Culinary Adventures
Casual Eateries and Cafés 
The Garden (Gastrobar) Dolores Lunch WOW!
Amazing value is how I’d start to describe the offering at The Garden (Gastrobar) Dolores for their menu del dia lunch. Soph had seen their social media posts, commented to me how nice the menu sounded and suggested we try it.Tuesday we were in the neighbourhood, so we decided to…
A Taste Of Home 
Silverstones 2023 Thursday Menu Del Dia
Thursday evening, saw us visit Silverstones 2023, to try their Thursday menu del dia offer. Now before we jump into this write up, a word of warning: Please DO GO HUNGRY, because you will not leave hungry. These are generous portions. They advertised this on their Facebook page: Our menu…
Casual Eateries and Cafés 
Bar Casa Pepe Los Montesinos Tapas In The Sun
Wednesday we enjoyed tapas and drinks, sat out in the sunshine at Bar Casa Pepe Los Montesinos. This is one of those authentic places, many Spanish customers go there and the tables out the front are in the sunshine. We’d driven past and there were several people there and it…
Culinary Adventures 
Stori Restaurant Our First Visit
Soph booked us into the recently launched Stori Restaurant after seeing how the refurb had come along when we were last down at Gong over the festive period. This restaurant is a coming together of the Fetta Nera team and also the guys from Fishbowl, both places we have visited…
Travel and Exploration 
A Wetherspoons At Alicante Airport Feb 2026
A Wetherspoons at Alicante Airport: Because Apparently We Weren’t British Enough Already Pack your bags, grab your passport, and prepare your taste buds for a final hit of home, because the very first Wetherspoon on continental Europe is opening at Alicante–Elche Airport. Yes, the same airport where half of Britain…
Culinary Adventures 
Lunch At Olea Benijófar
Today we had lunch at Olea Benijófar, and it was fabulous. We had been out all morning, had to pop into Benijófar for a meeting at 2.15, so we decided instead of nipping back home for a quick visit, just to drive straight through and have lunch out somewhere. We…
Asian Options 
Saturday Ruby At The Bombay
We lunched once again at The Bombay. The other Saturday saw Soph, her mum and I in Catral and as we’d nothing really planned for food, we decided to have a curry. The last time her mum was across, we had been here and she enjoyed it, so we returned…
Casual Eateries and Cafés 
Aquilino Restaurante Lunch
We had lunch on Tuesday at Aquilino Restaurante, down in San Pedro del Pinatar and boy what a find this place is.As well as the restaurant where we had a menu del dia, you can also sit at the bar for tapas and then go to the cheese and meat…
Casual Eateries and Cafés 
Menu Del Dia At La Chola Catral
We visited La Chola in Catral today for lunch. This was our first ever visit and it won’t be our last. A month or so back we were going to call in, but the street was blocked due to a delivery on an artic, the one way system was busy,…
