El Paraíso restaurant, at the Balneario de Manzanera

El Paraíso is the dining room of the Balneario de Manzanera, a hotel opened in 1929 in the valley of the same name, at km 2 of the Abejuela road. It feeds guests and also those who spend the day at the spa or in the mountains and want to sit at a table without sleeping there.

Cooking from both sides of the range

Javalambre lies between Teruel and Valencia, and the house's cooking reflects it: the spa presents it as traditional Aragonese and Valencian, with home-style dishes and local produce, and mentions truffle and Teruel ham. It publishes neither a menu nor each day's set menu, so what is on the plate changes; ask when you book whether that day there is anything with black truffle.

The dining room is a large room of laid tables, with big windows onto the garden and the hotel's poplar avenue.

€25 menu, €27 at weekends

The hotel's 2026 price list puts the adult menu at €25 Monday to Friday and €27 at weekends and public holidays, and the children's menu at €14. There is also a free buffet breakfast and special menus. If you are coming for the day, the thermal day with lunch costs €49 on weekdays and €55 at weekends, and already includes this menu and three techniques at the thermal centre: it works out better than paying for the two separately if you were going to do both.

Picnic for the mountains

For those setting out on an excursion, the restaurant prepares a picnic option that you order at the hotel reception. It is good for eating on a route around Manzanera, such as those the spa suggests through the Paraíso valley, or for taking something to Galáctica, which has no restaurant.

Lunch before Galáctica, dinner on the way back

Galáctica is 22 km away, about 28 minutes by car. A lunch here around two leaves the afternoon free for the museum or the solar observation. For dinner, things change: the winter night observations start at 20:00 and last an hour and a half, so you would arrive after ten. The website does not publish lunch or dinner hours; call 978 78 18 18 or 661 187 057 and ask until what time they serve and whether they will keep you dinner.