Trujillo Parador Restaurant

The Parador de Trujillo restaurant is in the former 16th-century Franciscan convent of Santa Clara, about 200 metres from the Plaza Mayor. You eat in what was the convent's church, a vaulted space that Paradores calls the refectory and which has been renovated with a contemporary air. It is open to anyone: you do not need to stay at the parador.

From the cumin in the soup to Villuercas honey

Paradores describes the cooking as regional, with Extremaduran roots and a conventual inheritance, austere but substantial, with the odd touch of today. The four specialities it highlights are the tomato soup, the Extremaduran zorongollo, the Retinta beef sirloin and the melted cheese ice cream with honey.

Each has its own detail on the menu. The tomato soup has cumin and is served with dried figs. The Retinta beef sirloin comes with torta del Casar sauce. The honey in the ice cream is from the Villuercas e Ibores, the Guadalupe district. The zorongollo is the region's roasted pepper salad. Around them there is acorn-fed Iberian ham with the Dehesa de Extremadura Designation of Origin and a selection of Cáceres cheeses.

The restaurant's page shows no prices. If you want to know what it will cost before you sit down, ask when you book.

Breakfast, café and two meal services

The dining room serves lunches from 13:30 to 16:00 and dinners from 20:00 to 22:30. In the morning breakfast is served from 8:00 to 11:00, and the café, for something lighter, opens from 11:00 to 23:15. Paradores gives no closing day.

You book on the Paradores website, on 927 321 350 or at [email protected].

Weddings and group lunches under the vault

The former church is also the Salón Iglesia, of 126 m² and with 9-metre ceilings, with room for banquets of 120 people. The parador has two other halls, the Santa Clara, of 108 m², and the small Berrocal, as well as the chapel and the cloister for celebrations. If you are organising a family or company lunch, ask the parador directly.

200 metres from the Plaza Mayor

The parador is inside the historic centre and everything is done on foot: the Plaza Mayor is 200 metres away and the climb to the castle starts in the same square. If you stay the night, the rooms, the pool and the garage are on the Parador de Trujillo page.