Mas Molí Peralada

Mas Molí is on the old Figueres to Peralada road, about five minutes by car from the village, in an 18th-century mill that still bears the coat of arms of the counts of Peralada. You arrive along a track between trees and park inside the estate. It is a large eating house, with a long menu and the prices of a village restaurant with good produce, where you come to eat rice or fish without watching the clock.

The mill and the garden pavilion

The estate has two independent spaces, each with several dining rooms: the stone mill, with the atmosphere of an old house, and a pavilion in the garden, brighter, with tables under a wooden pergola. The kitchen and dining room were renovated in 2024. Next door there is a traditional and organic vegetable garden, and ducks and hens that provide the house's eggs. When booking, say which of the two you prefer to eat in; for weddings and celebrations the house prepares the space to measure.

Rice for two and butterflied fish

In the kitchen is Marc Joli, with more than 25 years in the trade and a Top Chef finalist, who mixes sea and mountain as has always been done in the Empordà. The menu linked from its website has prices with VAT included:

• Rice and noodles, always for a minimum of two and priced per person: fideuà or fish rice at €23, casserole noodles surf and turf or black cuttlefish and sausage rice at €21, "señorito" rice at €25 and soupy rice with lobster at €32.
• Fish: longline hake grilled on the plancha, on the grill or butterflied (a la espalda) for €24, sole for €28, monkfish and prawn suquet (minimum two) for €30 and cod a la llauna for €23.
• Meat: chicken surf and turf for €25, Agullana suckling lamb or kid from the wood oven for €27, and a 1.2 kg Girona veal T-bone for two for €65.
• To start: house snails with sauce and pancetta (€17), grilled artichokes with romesco and anchovy (€16), gratinated Figueres onion soup (€15).

Desserts range from €7 to €8.50, with Fonteta curd cheese with honey and crema catalana. The bread, from the Llonguet bakery in Peralada, is charged separately (€1.20). The wine list has over a hundred Spanish wines, with a lot of weight given to the Empordà DO. Artichokes, a fish rice and a crema catalana come to €46 per person, without wine or bread.

When it opens

Lunch from Tuesday to Sunday, from 13:00 to 16:00. Dinner only on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from 20:00 to 23:30. It closes on Monday. Public holidays have no published hours: ask. Book on 972 67 74 45, at [email protected] or with the form on the website. The whole menu can be ordered to take away and collect at the restaurant, and they offer a chef-at-home service and gift vouchers.

In a day around Peralada

It is the lunch of the plan Sunday in Peralada: Dalí Museum, Perelada winery and lunch in a mill: in the morning the Dalí Theatre-Museum and the Perelada winery visit, and at 14:15 to the table. If you want something more formal in the same village, the castle restaurant is open Thursday to Sunday.