La Cárcel

Located near the top of the hill along the main tourist route, La Cárcel is a great place for lunch or dinner. The food is excellent and extremely well priced. The warm goat cheese and homemade red pepper jam is outrageously decadent and an excellent plate to share. The staff are very friendly and the timing of delivery for multiple dishes excellent.
The location is on a narrower part of the street so its not the best for outdoor dining and you might want to try somewhere further along the road if that is what you are after. Inside is bright and clean.

Great food and wonderful service from Valeria. Extensive menu with option of 1/2 or full portion on many items. We had salmon rolls, artichokes and crispy prawns. All were delicious!! La Cárcel is recommended by the Rick Steves guidebook and by our guide and I can see why. Arcos de la Frontera is an amazing city, so if you go there, stop here to eat!!

We stopped here for some tapas before going to Arcos de la Frontera. Everything was delicious and super cheap. The crockettes cooked in a pot were the best we've had in our trip so far. The king prawn puff pastry were also delicious. They were like mini egg rolls. The date and cheese puff pastry was also good but very rich. If we were to come again we'd pick a dish with fresh seafood instead of three fried tapas.

Delicious tapas for a reasonable price. We got the chicken tenders, shrimp wrapped in zucchini and lamp chops. Highly recommend!

Insanely wonderful. Best tuna ever. All food was just fantastic. Charming, charming service... Would give 10 stars if I could. Just my kind of place.

One of the best meal we had in Andalusia !
The restaurant was relatively quiet when we arrived by 8pm but it soon got busier. It’s a charming little place with great atmosphere and friendly helpful staff/owners.
My husband had a cold beer to quench his thirst while I tried the dry white sherry. It’s a quaint taste but I liked it.
With the meal, we ordered the red wine by the glass in a way to taste different ones instead of buying a bottle you might not enjoy. Anyway, they were all good . Our favourite was the Quadis.
As for the gorgeous food, we shared the artichokes with ham, the croquetas caseras and the pork in wine sauce. All amazing ! Simple but lots of flavours !
À the table next to us, they also had the revuelto de baclao which sounded fantastic too but we were too full to try it…
Don’t miss this place when in Arcos.

The staff of the hotel recommended this (tapas)restaurant. I had my lunch and my late dinner at La Carcel, both times outside in the small street. I'm very satisfied: plenty of choices, good qualityfood and helpfull, friendly and service. It is the place your tell others tot go tot once you have heard they are going to Arcos dlF.

Lovely local restaurant offering a wide range of clasic iberian cuisine. Great place to enjoy the lively city of Arcas while consuming a delicous meal

DO NOT MISS this place. The terrace is nothing special, middle of the street, but the food is incredible. Everything from prawns to croquettes was wonderful, but the best thing on the menu is the octopus from the oven.

Amazing tapas & great service (and no extra charge for a table). The baked goat cheese with red pepper sauce was particularly fantastic. Definitely worth stopping if you're in Arcos!

Amazing food. Artichokes, asparagus, octopus was great, but the tuna tartar was out of this world.

Wonderful food - especially recommend the prawns with sweet chilli sauce. The waitress was especially lovely, giving good advice and being very tolerant of our low level of Spanish! The chicken fritters were excellent, only slightly different from traditional croquetas. Iberian pork was exactly as expected. I suggest enjoying the main dishes, and not having dessert.

Nice personal! Tasty food and reasonable prices! Must visit!

We weren't hungry but stopped in for a bite. It was the best, tastiest food we've had in Spain on 2 weeks! We ordered warm goat cheese with hot pepper marmalade, and a bacon wrapped tenderloin brochette with pepper sauce. Both were very flavorful! The service was also good and friendly.

We had five separate tapas and they were all wonderful. Strongly recommend the mushrooms with ham and cheese. Great atmosphere and very friendly service.

Excellent Food... Great price too.

Five of us in my family had an outstanding lunch at La Cárcel today and recommend this small restaurant to anyone. A very wide variety of truly delicious and imaginitive creations served by a friendly staff well supervised by the owner (I believe) was economically priced at 69 €, including dessert and café.

This little place is wonderful. Great service, wonderful flavors and a truly amazing value. I loved the Octopus -- fresh and flavorful while my partner had the tuna cooked in sherry -- which was amazing and after tasting would order for myself next time. Go!

Excellent food in Arcos de la Frontera!
The octopus was amazing !

Great service and great food. We had burrata salad with strawberries which was delicious, fillet steak which you cook to your liking on a hot grill and yummy garlic prawns