Javea Grapevine Issue 174 - 2015 | Page 110

| Jávea Grapevine February 2015 Top Menu del Dias €14 - 20 Restaurante L’ÉCHALOTTE : Jávea Costa Nova, beside the tennis club just before the La Guardia cross roads. International cuisine of excellent quality with covered terrace behind. Good parking. 96 647.3364 / no web site Restaurante EL GAUCHO (formerly Las Brisias on the Jesús Pobre road). This restaurant has gained many plaudits under the management of the excellent Pizzeria Pepa (at Arenal) and offers an especially worthwhile and attractive restaurant (& terrace) especially for the residents of Montgó. Superb meat is their speciality. Visited recently. Marvellous AVAN (Duero) at €18. Attentive & very friendly service. Food delicious. Best to book. 96 646.1338 / www.pizzeriapepa.com RE-VISITED : Restaurante LUNGO MARE  (Jávea,  Arenal beach front) : Italian restaurant – appetizingly large portions (some can be shared !). No muzak (bravo !) and friendly service.   Often fairly full so perhaps better to book.   Every aspect of this restaurant has improved, over our last visit, and we now recommend it again ! 96 647.1196  / open daily E-mail: [email protected] / www.lapiemontesa.com Restaurante MEZQUIDA  : Main road from Jávea old town towards Arenal, on right side, just before the SuperCor/Iceland roundabout but after Sol-Mar offices.  Pleasant terrace and good ambience. Very popular Spanish ‘family’ restaurant. Serves the best Arroz negro (a delicious rice and squid dish) that we know of.  Superb meat. Mostly muzak-free.  Menudel-día €18. 96 579.3620 / open daily / [email protected]  www.restaurantemezquida.com/ Restaurante MONTGÓ  : 2-3kms along Jávea-Jesús Pobre road (on left, with large stone tablet outside).  Amazing choice/ value/  quantity/ quality & well presented.  Excellent fish ‘n’ chips (with Azorin in the puerto).  Menu-del-día €11.50.  We remind readers of the slightly more up-market ALMENDROS restaurant (slow service) on the opposite side of the road and for which there have, quite recently, been some good reports. 96 579.5020 / f. Thurs. Restaurante PIRI-PIRI: Excellent / imaginative (copious) ‘tapas’. Widely praised and popular with residents.  On the port’s pedestrianised  sea-front,  leading from the bridge. Arrive early for lunch, but best to book.  Excellent Menus-del-día €11.50 (w/ends €14.50). Charming host  & very professional - one of our favourites. Shares jazz with neighbour Colima on Thurs. 96 579.4745 / [email protected] f. Sun.pm & Mon. Restaurante PIZZERIA PEPA (Jávea: Arenal beach front,  nr. middle).  Spanish; excellent value, swift service. Pizza takeaway.  VERY efficient, popular with good atmosphere;  muzak low; must book ! Menu-del-día €16. The best quick-service “family” restaurant at the beach. But beware when ordering water : bottle arrived at the table opened and was charged at €2.90 - both unacceptable. Tel : 96 579.2572 / open daily http://www.pizzeriapepa.com Restaurante EL SECRETO DEL TOMATE : Ctra.Jávea-Gata Km4 (on left side approaching the crematorium). Owner Kiko (lawyer from Valencia)….Good reports. From 22:00h onwards is packed with Spaniards who have already discovered it. Praised for extensive use of his home grown herbs, veg. garden & excellent