Piedra Vieja Restaurant

For lunch without leaving

Piedra Vieja is the traditional-food restaurant in the Monasterio de Piedra grounds: a café-bar, two air-conditioned dining rooms seating 400 people and an outdoor terrace. It serves a set menu, à la carte dishes, combination plates and pizzas, and at the bar, cold sandwiches, sharing plates and pinchos. You cannot eat inside the park, so this is the practical place for midday: with the same ticket you can leave and re-enter, as long as you get it stamped at the gate first.

The menu and the carte

The set menu costs €17, VAT included, with a starter, main course, dessert, bread and half a litre of water or a quarter of wine. On the 2026 menu the starters included piquillo peppers stuffed with meat, Mediterranean salad, migas with egg and grapes, or stewed white beans with quail; for mains, roast chicken, breaded escalope Milanese, River Piedra trout with Aragón longaniza sausage and pisto, or leg of lamb fillet with rosemary aioli; and for dessert, fruit, homemade pudding, convent-style custard or ice cream.

The children's menu, up to age 12, costs €10.50: macaroni or white rice with tomato, pork escalope or burger, flan or ice cream, bread and water.

The à la carte menu has fried eggs with chips (€7.50), migas with egg (€9.50) and chicken croquettes (€8); nine combination plates from €8.50 to €10.80, such as roast chicken with potatoes or breaded hake; pasta at €8.80 and pizzas, pre-prepared, at €9.90. Desserts range from €2.30 to €2.60. A bottle of house wine costs €8 and one from the Calatayud DO, €8.60.

What to know

The website does not publish kitchen hours: it opens in the grounds on the days the park is open. Call 976 870 700 if you are eating at the weekend with a group or with children. It is the choice for families and for anyone who wants a quick lunch and to get back on the route: for something more leisurely, the Reyes de Aragón Restaurant is in the same grounds.

What to combine it with

The practical order is the morning in the Historic Garden Park, lunch here and then in the afternoon the birds of prey display or the Cistercian monastery. With children, the historic fish farm is a good stop before or after. Leave the car in the monastery car park.