Javea Grapevine Issue 179 - LARGE FONT EDITION | Page 95

Restaurante PEPE (Alcalali) : Go through Jalón and on to Alcalali and turn right at T-junction. Go straight on then 200m on left; or drive up from Pedreguer (better road) and it lies on your right as you approach Alcalali.  Much loved restaurant and Spanish-owned (Pepe lived many years in UK) - serves the most excellent steak & kidney pie and British roasts.  Famous throughout the region !   Always busy.  Best to book. 96 648.2456 / f. Sun.pm & Mon  www.restaurante-pepe.es Restaurante LA RATATOUILLE : At Sanet y Negrals, C/Mayor 14 (on the road from Beniarbeig to Benimeli).   The German owners, Timo Kaiser & Gesine Janasik, formerly ran a successful Las Marinas restaurant.  Their clients followed them and now there is a new clientele - so it is best to book !   They take loving pride in both cooking & presentation, and they now have muzak (but very quiet !).  Menu-del-día €15.  96 640.8326 /   Lunch: 13-15h, evenings from 19h/  f. Sun.pm & Mon. /  www.laratatouille.es   [email protected] RECENTLY RE-VISITED Restaurante DEL RAVAL (behind the church at BENISSIVA : 12km up the Val de la Gallinera road from Pego to Alcoy). This is a joy - and an unique one at that.  We have been visiting this restaurant since it appeared in the Daily Telegraph some 15 years ago in which it was  stated that this was one of the 5 best restaurants in the Valencian Communidad.  It was then rated 7½ points (out of 10 in the Spanish Gastronomía Guide (Repsol).  If you fall in love with this place, as we have done, then this rating doesn’t matter a jot !  Go, and indulge yourselves. We have been going once or twice a year since then and have never been disappointed and are always charmed.  We recently returned (4 of us) and had an unforgettable meal [ 4 little starters : a choice from 4 main courses : 3 little puds ] for €20 (plus wine).  And then it occured to me to take a private party there, for Joana will open anytime for a group and this we did in June.  We left the menu to her - having total confidence in her loving skills with food.  Needless to tell you, dear reader, the group were enchanted.  Many asked me why they’d never heard of it and I replied that it was always in our listing...... !   So now you know.  Go and try it !  Must book.  No muzak. Tel : [phone] / Mob: [phone].  Open only on Fri. evenings / Sat midday & evening / & Sunday lunch [ Joana  will take bookings at all other times for groups of 18+(?) by prior arrangement ] [email protected] / http://vinsimes.blogspot. com/2008/05/del-raval-en-benissiva-de-joana.html