El Faro restaurant

One of our favourite day trips is to Cadiz and lunch at El Faro is always high on the list of priorities.

There are 2 parts to El Faro restaurant; an excellent tapas bar with standing room only, and a very fancy sit down restaurant (pricey but worth it). The puddings here are probably the best we've ever had in Spain (not much of an accolade considering that most Spanish puddings are usually sweet and flavourless, but El Faro's hot chocolate sandwich with chocolate sauce would satisfy most people's need for a choccy fix!).

Restaurante Fransisco

Right at the end of Conil's long and empty beach at Fontanilla is Restaurante Fransisco. A great place for lunch at any time of the year but particularly wonderful out of season. We visited one Sunday in mid December and enjoyed Carpaccio of Tuna and a dish of Sea Bream in sherry and grilled Tuna steak washed down with a local white table wine - 'Tierra Blanca'.

The wind was offshore, the sun was shining and apart from one intrepid surfer, we had the beach to ourselves.