El Raconet de Ca Deu

El Raconet de Ca Deu has been feeding people for more than twenty years at 13 Calle San Roque, right in Peñíscola's old town, inside the walls and a few steps from the climb to the castle. It is a small, intimate dining room of traditional Mediterranean cooking: creamy rice dishes, classic tapas, fish from the fish market and a chosen wine list. It is open every day, at midday and in the evening.

A corner on Calle San Roque

Raconet means little corner, and the name describes the place: a few tables on one of the rock's narrow streets, away from the seafront. The house presents it for couples, families or friends, and also accepts company lunches. As cars can't enter the old town, you get there on foot: park on the seafront promenade, next to the port or in the Playa Sur area, and go up through the Portal de Sant Pere or the Portal Fosc.

Creamy rice with baby squid and the usual tapas

The speciality is the rice dishes. The creamy rice with baby squid, with traditional stock, is the one the house puts first; the seafood paella is made with bomba rice, prawns, vegetables and mussels, and the lobster rice has rockfish stock. To nibble beforehand, garlic prawns with chilli, prawn croquettes with alioli, fried squid rings, chargrilled artichokes with anchovies, griddled prawns with lime or steamed mussels. If anyone doesn't want rice, there is ox chuletón with potatoes and vegetables, rabbit with garlic in a casserole or goat's cheese salad. For dessert, two homemade cheesecakes: one baked and one cold, with lemon. The website doesn't publish prices; the menu of the day is linked from the page itself.

Seven days a week

Open Monday to Sunday, from 13:00 to 16:00 and from 20:00 to 23:30, so it serves both for a Sunday lunch after the castle and for a late dinner on any day. Book on 964 48 94 01, by WhatsApp from the link on its website or at [email protected]. The website says nothing about dogs, accessibility or gluten-free options: ask when you book.

El Raconet is the lunch stop of two plans: Peñíscola from the water, with paddleboarding in the morning and a licence-free boat in the afternoon, and the film route and boat to Irta, which first walks the streets where Game of Thrones was filmed and goes up to the Papa Luna castle.