La Lobera de Xiqui

La Lobera de Xiqui is a classic place to have an excessive supper with a group of friends and pay as little as you want.

The most expensive menu is 20€, but you can opt for 15 or 12 too.

The 20€ menu will provide you with a deluge of warm goat’s cheese salad, boards with patés and cheeses and cured meats, potatoes with cheese, fried cheese in blueberry sauce (don’t imagine, as I did that you have finally reached the desserts; there’s more to come; much more, starting with grilled squid, then a pan with potatoes, ham and fried egg, another pan with poultry, foie and caramelized onions, and finally, almost, the ox (not a whole one but it might as well be).

There is then a slurge of assorted ice creams and pastries and of course coffee and liquers. The cheaper menus simply reduce the number of dishes.

The price includes an open bar, although by the time you’ve eaten all this you’ll be begging for a bucket.

The service is remarkably efficient considering how many groups there were the night we were, and all the staff fall over themselves to be friendly.

The place is sparsely decorated but with amusing slogans, most of which seem to encourage you to drink beer, and when you finally hit the street you understand the “host” of Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey.

Apart from group menus they have a lot of lunch time trade, when they offer a considerable variety of hamburgers salads, crepes, rolls, sandwiches, as well as pans filled with various ingredients and tapas.

There’s also a set lunchtime menu for 7.95€.

La Lobera de Xiqui is located on Avenida Blasco Ibañez 124.