Restaurante La Raiz

La Raiz offers a fantastic dining experience with delicious food.
The highlight is the Entrecot de Cordero, which is simply superb.
You also get the unique chance to cook your meat to your liking on hot iron plates.

Absolutely the BEST and the MOST reasonable priced food we had in the village.

Bizarrely this wasn’t one of the recommendations for us, but I walked in today for lunch and 0 regrets.

There is a menu in English and one of the staff is fluent. We have dietary restrictions so it’s important that we can communicate.

We walked in about 2pm for lunch, bizarrely empty so we’re sceptical but thank god we did.

We ordered 4 starters, a salad and a main. We only drink water so can’t comment on the drinks menu.

We were served some lovely olives (only one other place did this - which I find bizarre), olive oil and bread. Annoyingly we didn’t take photos.

For starters we had
1) chicken and veg croquettes
2) padron peppers
3) beef carpaccio
4) goats cheese salad

Main was beef entrecôte served with few veg and chips.

The service was fast, and everything was freshly cooked. The goats cheese salad actually had salad with it (not just rocket garnish). Carpaccio was lovely, one of our favourites back home. Only criticism is it had peanuts on it (never experienced that before) so anyone with allergy be aware I wouldn’t have thought to mention it. Pardon peppers were served with home made hand cut fries absolutely gorgeous. The croquettes were nice (chicken better than veg IMO) but wouldn’t order again.

The main. OH THE MAIN!!!!! The best steak we had so far. We have ours rare and never in Spain (so far) has it been cooked to perfection nor the quality has been matched. They serve it with a hot plate but we didn’t need it as it was perfect.

And best of all I think this was the CHEAPEST meal we had at €68. That includes 2 large bottles of still and sparkling water. Sadly no room for dessert.

Please go and eat there they really deserve the custom. Annoyingly it was our last day here (we leave tomorrow morning) but contemplating going back for dinner.

Thank for a lovely lunch.

Friendly staff and delicious good quality food.
Beautiful desserts and even the coffee was just perfect.

Fantastic little restaurant in a very nice setting. We had 3 courses and everything was delicious and seasoned to perfection. The octopus was a real highlight and perfectly cooked.

Excellent service from Jonathon who made us feel very welcome and spoke excellent english.

Great value with very nice wine options. Not to be missed if nearby.

Sublime! We wanted to have local cuisine and were attracted earlier in the afternoon by the location. Persuaded we went for a fab dining experience.

I was weary about octopus, because we've had an awful experience. They did not let us down. The pulpo was tender, cooked to perfection. Went on to order a Pluma Ibérica, the best pork cut you can find. And again, cooked to perfection. The final touch to close a golden night was the homemade cheese cake. Yes you heard it well! At first I wasn't sure , cuz it's of course not local. But the waiter persuaded us and boy was I pleased with the choice.

Highly recommended!

Highly recommend this place. Wonderfully friendly hosts and fantastic locally produced food.

Delicious like at home but even more! Good atmosphere, service… very friendly, liked it very much, highly recommend. Nice yard and terrace with fountain.

Great find
Quaint restaurant with a nice patio overlooking g the square and fountain
Scrambled eggs with asparagus and ham wa a lovely
The steaks look amazing but settles for nice fish and chicken
Good prices
Excellent service

Welcoming family restaurant with an English menu, good choice of wine by the glass, delicious food. We enjoyed the Greek salad, La Raiz salad with shrimp and avocado, and lamb chops. The hamburger was good and quite different from US hamburger meat.

This is a great new addition to Gaucin. It is on the site where El Lateral/La Teral has been for 10 years; in the plaza on the patio overlooking the fountain (Calle los Bancos).
Run by a family from Gaucin, the food, wine and - most of all - service is very good. Dad, Alfonso, is clearly a very capable chef especially where barbecued meat is concerned. All the high-quality meat is perfectly cooked to order on a fancy Josper grill and tastes fantastic.
I recommend it highly.

Lovely tapas and a cold drink after a hot climb up and down from the castle

Great setting and good value. Family really enjoyed the variety of food on the menu.

Fantastic restaurant!
We had Crocetas, burrata and Entrecôte!

i'm still thinking about my meal at La Raiz and the kindness of their staff. my husband and i got married in Gaucin this past July and had 35 friends and family in town to celebrate. we had plans for a Monday night dinner fall through at the last minute and ran into the owners in town. we explained our situation just hours before they opened and they immediately agreed to host all of us. the meal was incredibly delicious and the service was excellent. and at the end of the meal they gave my husband and i flowers to celebrate our wedding and sweet note. we are so grateful for the generosity and kindness and can't wait to come back.

We had a great experience - very tasty food and friendly service.

The food and service was excellent. We were accommodated really quickly and sat on the terrace. We had four different meals and we were all supremely impressed.

We sat down not knowing what to expect. Food was delicious, service was very knowledgeable and friendly, we loved it! Muchas gracias! :)

Food is amazing-innovative and tasty with high quality local ingredients.Great service.Recommended!

Great food if you are a meat lover. Thursday and Friday they have additional fish and seafood choices.

Nice little restaurant for lunch on a very quiet day in Gaucin food was very nice will be back again