Bar El Maestrazgo — Restaurant in Valderrobres / Vall de Roures

After spotting this beautiful restaurant a month ago I've wanted to return ever since. I wanted to love it so badly. Especially as the staff were so friendly and pleasant and welcoming. They seem like genuinely lovely people. But I was so shocked and disappointed by the food and also the cleanliness (or lack of) of the bathrooms. €13 for a bag of dry and undressed salad thrown onto a plate, with a few whole cherry tomatoes, and two slices of smoked salmon, just not good. The papas bravas were alright - it's hard to get them wrong really isn't it. The meat we had with mushroom sauce was V E R Y dry, and gave the suspicion of 'reheated' :( I can't understand the disconnect between what we experienced and the glowing reviews. But I'm hoping it was just a bad day and we picked the wrong dishes. Storing the bread right next to the men's bathroom, and a half cut baguette with flies around on the surface again next to the men's bathroom is disastrous and I pray what we ate came from a cleaner...

I don’t understand the 5 star reviews on this place. The croquettes were heated up in the microwave and half cold, the mushrooms were unseasoned and filled with alioli and a strange Marie Rose sauce (not enjoyable), and the entrecôte steak (a €18 plate of food) was undercooked (we had to send it back) tasteless, and not seasoned, and the chips were cold. To make things even worse, the service was terrible and we were in and out of the restaurant within 55 minutes. It wasn’t cheap either....

Valderrobres, un encantador pueblo de la comarca de la Matarraña, al noroeste de la provincia de Teruel. Valderrobres exhibe un patrimonio valiosísimo. El puente de piedra da acceso a la villa, que se arremolina en torno a su imponente castillo entre calles de factura medieval. Un rincón gastronómico, un lugar donde la historia cobra vida. Justo antes de cruzar el puente de Valderrobres, en la calle Santiago Hernández, se halla el restaurante El Maestrazgo, un rincón con encanto que invita a todos a disfrutar de sus delicias culinarias. Con una terraza acogedora que se ilumina con la magia del atardecer, en las tardes y noches veraniegas. La decoración funcional de estilo rústico castellano. Negocio familiar regentado por Vicente el propietario, que junto con su buen equipo te hacen sentir como en casa. La cocina de El Maestrazgo es un homenaje a la tierra. Con ingredientes de km0, los platos como la carrillada, el codillo, el ternasco, el rabo de toro y los huevos estrellados, dejan a los comensales maravillados. Sin embargo, las estrellas del menú son las croquetas, con más de 20 variedades, todas de talla XL, cada bocado es una aventura diferente, una explosión de sabor que transportan un mundo de placer culinario. Si alguna vez tus pasos te llevan a este encantador pueblo de la comarca de la Matarraña, no dejes de cruzar su puente de piedra y dejarte llevar por los encantos de El Maestrazgo. Tu paladar te lo agradecerá y tu corazón atesorará el recuerdo. Calidad precio...