Flor del Cerezo Restaurant

Flor del Cerezo is the restaurant of the Hotel Valle del Jerte, one of the hotels in the public Hospederías de Extremadura network, on calle Ramón Cepeda in the village of Jerte. It is open to those not staying at the hotel too. The network presents it as a dining room of Extremaduran cooking in which the star product is the picota, the stalkless cherry of the valley, and it offers several set menus as well as an à la carte menu.

Picture windows over the valley on calle Ramón Cepeda

The room is large and bright, with big windows facing the valley and the trees around the hotel. The building was a tannery and later an oil mill beside the river, and the renovation keeps part of that structure. The valley tourist office's listing says it has views, a private room, high chairs for children and a parking area, that it is wheelchair accessible and that the menu is also available in other languages, with service in Spanish and English. It has no terrace of its own: the hotel's riverside terrace belongs to the café.

Five courses of game while the season lasts

From October 2026 and until the hunting season closes, Flor del Cerezo serves the network's Game Menu (Menú de Caza), which four other hospederías also offer. It has five courses: wild boar loin salad with tomato jam, braised quail fritter with escabeche cream, creamy fallow deer rice with confit artichoke, braised venison ingot with apple parmentier and Almoharín figs, and for dessert a white chocolate soup with almond truffles, fig and pistachio. It comes with three Extremaduran wines, a rosé from Bodegas Bonaval, an alarije from Bodegas Coloma and a mountain wine from Península Viticultores, and includes water, bread and coffee. It costs from €55 and is booked by phone; it is available to guests staying at the hotel and to those who come just to eat.

Set menu, vegan, Extremaduran and children's

The rest of the year the house offers a set menu of the day, an Extremaduran gastronomic menu made with PDO and PGI products from the region, a vegetarian and vegan menu, a children's menu and the à la carte. On the vegan menu there are dishes such as a warm apple carpaccio with Acehúche cheese or the Extremaduran zorongollo of wood-roasted vegetables. The menus can be downloaded from the restaurant's page on the network's website; the network does not publish the price of the set menu in text, so ask when booking.

Opening hours and the La Picota café

The network publishes approximate hours: breakfast from 8:00 to 11:00, lunch from 13:30 to 16:00 and dinner from 20:30 to 23:00, and warns that they may vary. It gives no closing day. Book on 927 470 101, the hotel's phone number. If you only want something quick, on the ground floor, next to reception, is the La Picota café, on two levels, with a drinks and tapas menu and an open-air terrace beside the river.

No dogs, and a step from the reserve

The tourist office's listing says it does not admit animals. From here, the reserve entrance and the trail to Los Pilones are a few minutes' drive away, and a walk through the village and its natural pool is on foot. If you stay overnight, the dining room is in the same Hotel Valle del Jerte, and the network's gastronomic break combines room, breakfast and dinner with the gastronomic menu.