San Jaime 35

The name is the address: San Jaime 35 is at number 35 Calle San Jaime, the street named after Montanejos's patron saint. It is a small, cosy family restaurant where the kitchen is devoted mostly to stews and home-style raciones, and the house closes two days a week precisely to prepare them.

Spoon dishes and slow-cooked lamb

The menu leans towards spoon-dish cooking and slow fire: tripe and trotters, slow-cooked lamb shoulder, low-temperature octopus a feira and an aged beef chuletón. To start, its artisan croquettes, of which there are several kinds. If anyone at the table prefers something simpler, they make long-fermentation dough pizzas baked in a stone oven. Visit Montanejos doesn't publish prices; ask when you book.

The wine shop

The other feature of the house is its wine shop, a small collection of selected wines chosen to go with the stews. If you are interested in wine, ask them to recommend a bottle for the shoulder or the tripe.

Closed Tuesday and Wednesday

Open every day from 12:00 at midday, except Tuesdays and Wednesdays, when it is closed all year round to prepare its specialities. The listing doesn't give the closing time or whether it serves dinner every day: confirm when you book. As it is small, it is always worth calling, and more so at weekends, in summer and on long weekends: 964 13 12 92.

Who it's for

For anyone coming out of the water or the hills hungry for a hot plate, and for winter, when people come to bathe at the Fuente with the water at 25 °C and the air cold. The pizzas solve lunch for anyone who doesn't want a stew.

Nearby

If you are coming from the family trail or the Aljama castle trail, it is a lunch at hand in the village. On a Wednesday, with San Jaime 35 closed, La Taberna, on the Plaza de España, is open.