Hostal Restaurante El Castillo

One of the best dining options if you’re visiting this charming town with its sloping streets and alleyways teeming with history. It features a tranquil terrace that occupies almost the entire street plus a tastefully arranged dining room on the first floor. The menu, traditional cuisine reinterpreted with contemporary sensibility, pays tribute to the regional flavours (such as Morella-style croquettes or Morella lamb slow-cooked over 14 hours, boned and accompanied by its juices) and is completed with a surprising tasting menu called Territorio. Themed events dedicated to wild mushrooms and t

A restaurant with a classic-cum-regional feel in the historic quarter of this walled town. Behind the attractive stone façade is a two-storey building, the upper floor of which is contemporary and functional and the lower one boasting an elegant rusticity. The chef enjoys working with locally sourced products, particularly game and red meats cooked on the wood grill. Its themed food days dedicated to wild mushrooms (November-December) and truffles (January-February) are particularly popular. The colourful paper figures on the stairs are a reminder of the famous El Sexenni festival, which is he

A homely restaurant occupying a restored 12C house that was once part of an attractive porticoed street in the centre of Morella. Inside, the classic-cum-contemporary dining room shares space with an unusual 13C well and a glass-fronted wine cellar in the basement. The cuisine here is centred around traditional Morella recipes which have been pleasantly updated both in terms of presentation and culinary technique and can be enjoyed via the à la carte and the Raíces (Roots) tasting menu, on which local producers and seasonal ingredients play a prominent role.

Part of the La Torre del Visco hotel and accessed via a winding road, this restaurant offers the perfect experience for those keen to get away from it all thanks to its remote setting in the heart of nature (sightings of deer and wild boar are frequent here), surrounded by its own organic gardens. Its two contemporary-style menus are focused on the local area, sustainability and, first and foremost, the seasons of the surrounding ecosystem (they describe their cooking here as zero-“metres” rather than kilometres): one vegetarian menu entitled Vía Verde (the vegetables, herbs and fruits they us