Finca Arboleda, Vera, Idyllic Holiday Accommodation For Discovering Almeria
17,18 and 19 February in the park El Palmeral in Vera.
Vera offers a festival for all employers in the food, crafts and culture, who will share their specialties with all visitors coming to the Fair “El Palmeral”, on the 17,18 and 19 February 2017, during the First Edition of GASTROANDALUCIA. Popular tastings, craft exhibitions, food festivals, dances … and for the little ones a children’s gastronomic competition; will be some of the activities that will complement the fair.
The market on Sunday morning is always worth a visit and a good excuse for a walk and a quick beer.
Although these look like sneaky G&T’s to me!
Bellavista restaurant really is our “Jewel in the crown” at the moment. Fantastic location, slightly elevated giving fantastic views across the mediterranean, recently given an internal makeover, friendly staff and above all great food with good value prices.
We went last time as a group of six to celebrate our successful olive picking and had a great menu del dia for around €13 a head. My fish soup was among the best i’ve had, i love a fish soup, and the homemade desserts are not to be missed. There is a wide range of mains to choose from and the house wine is very drinkable and affordable.
Go and try it, you won’t be disappointed.
They don’t have a great web site but it has contact details here.
Miraflores restaurant is situated at Los Gallardos camping about 6Km from Finca Arboleda. The restaurant has a good reputation locally for functions, it’s Sunday roasts and fish and chips on a Friday.
We fancied trying them after good reports and wow it was excellent, a normal size is €6.50 and the large €8.50, probably not what you are after if you are in Spain for a short holiday when there is so much good local food to try, especially the fish, but it’s there if you fancy it. They offer a full menu on other days.
When we bought Finca Arboleda nearly 13 years ago we celebrated with a lunch at El Perejil, we hadn’t been back for no particular reason. Anyway it’s almost time to pick our olives and we normally go to Lubrin but a neighbour suggested we try a new press near Pulpi so we went to check it out. On the way we passed El Perejil and decided we would stop for lunch on the way back. We arrived at about 13.20 a little early for the Spanish but there were a few people having Tapas at the bar and it looked quite inviting but we decided to opt for the Menu del Dia, there is also an Al la carte option.
So what did we get for our Menu? A friendly waitress took our drinks order and gave us small menus and a rather dull small baguette with no butter or plate, I tried to break it up and pour olive oil on it which leaked over the table, you can’t take me anywhere! We ordered spaghetti with tomato sauce and the rustic soup with both of us following with pork chops from the bbq. Both the starters were ample in size and very tasty, the pork chops were served with only saute potatoes, no veg but we had two each and they were thick and juicy not the overcooked dry specimens you sometimes get. There were 5 options for mains and starters, I don’t remember there being a vegetarian option. Feeling more than satisfied we opted for the light option of home made chocolate mousse.
We only had water to drink and the total bill was 20€, it wasn’t spectacular but well cooked and served and the menu del dia section was almost full when we left, can’t fault it really. It brought back a few fantastic memories and made us wonder where 13 years have gone, happy days.
