Hostatgeria Sant Jaume — Restaurant in la Pobla de Benifassà

This Inn is right at the end of a winding mountain road. You think you will never arrive but it is really worth it once you are there. Coraxta (Coracha) is a remote mountain village with only a handful of inhabitants. A few more arrive at week-ends. You arrive to a few barking dogs, who soon, particularly Blanca, turn out to be friendly. The Inn is charming, albeit simple and during the day does lunches for hikers and cyclists. The rooms are basic but with comfortable beds but the real pleasure is the superb food turned out by the owner. He should be running a Paris bistro. His name is Carlos and he was the last pupil in the now closed village school. He is alone all week but his wife and son join him at week-ends.||The walks around the area are charming and there is a church on a hill, built in 1247, which is really worth a look. Next to the church is the gravyard. You can get the key from the Inn and if Joan (Spanish for John) is around, he is really interesting on the history of the area and speaks a little English.||Apparently the winters are very cold and snowy as can be seen in the various photos dotted around. Our weather in early September was perfect.||Morella, a beautiful old Spanish town, is 45 minutes drive away and the coast is around 75 minutes away.||Great for a...

This Inn is right at the end of a winding mountain road. You think you will never arrive but it is really worth it once you are there. Coraxta (Coracha) is a remote mountain village with only a handful of inhabitants. A few more arrive at week-ends. You arrive to a few barking dogs, who soon, particularly Blanca, turn out to be friendly. The Inn is charming, albeit simple and during the day does lunches for hikers and cyclists. The rooms are basic but with comfortable beds but the real pleasure is the superb food turned out by the owner. He should be running a Paris bistro. His name is Carlos and he was the last pupil in the now closed village school. He is alone all week but his wife and son join him at week-ends.||The walks around the area are charming and there is a church on a hill, built in 1247, which is really worth a look. Next to the church is the gravyard. You can get the key from the Inn and if Joan (Spanish for John) is around, he is really interesting on the history of the area and speaks a little English.||Apparently the winters are very cold and snowy as can be seen in the various photos dotted around. Our weather in early September was perfect.||Morella, a beautiful old Spanish town, is 45 minutes drive away and the coast is around 75 minutes away.||Great for a...

This is our third stay at this hotel. Carlos and Joan run a clean and simple place, with only 8 rooms, but with the "necessary" amenities (including TV, wifi connection, and whirlpool bath in some of the rooms). But the real attraction of this place is its restaurant, particularly its local specialties and a more than decent selection of wines, and its location - sorrounded by miles and miles of some of the most intact nature still remaining in Mediterranean Spain: we walked all day through the mountains and forest, and saw not a single human being . That is something hard to find nowadays. But we saw mountain goats, eagles, chamois, and (being the month of May), and enormous variety of flowers and greenery. All this located a mere ninety minutes by car from the coast. The road does become rather winding towards the end, but that I suspect has helped to keep the place intact and largely tourist-free. What we could call the high season is in autumn, when the mushroom and hunting season begin - and that can give you an idea of what Carlos the cook...