Can anyone recommend: Good authentic non-touristy Menu del Día eateries in Moraira area

Increasingly difficult in Moraira I'm afraid. Everything seems to be drifting upmarket with commensurate prices. We moved out permanently couple of months ago and have been trying various places around town. Food is generally unimpressive and expensive. We're also switching tack to menu del dias to see if we can derive better bang for our buck although they seem to sit at 18-25 euros ish. Good luck.

Thank you - helpful but depressing news! Maybe further afield, Cap Blanc, Benitachell or more inland?

Yes..possibly. We had nice lunch in Pego for example.

Haven't been there personally but a friend who knows his food recommends the menu del dia in Las Vegas restaurant in Teulada. Their website suggests its 16.95€ pp inc. a bottle of wine between two. Looks like a good choice of dishes.

There's a very good restaurant on the front line, unfortunately I don't remember the name. El Raco de l 'Arros (Av Madrid 3) is also very good. Given what you said in your post, you probably know it anyway!

But, if you fancy a change from Spanish food we tried the Himalaya Indian close to the market car park and it was fantastic. 

Steve

Your posting specially interested me for several reasons,one being because although we have been living in Cyprus for many years,our son lives in Barcelona with our grandchildren and we have been considering retiring in Spain somewhere like Moraira so we will be nearer to them, but also in a nice area where there are expat residents and it is also not too overdeveloped or commercialised.Although we also have Cyprus E.U. passports which would allow us to stay there easily,our son warns us that Spain is very different from Cyprus,something we have seen for ourselves on several visits to him and his family-admittedly Barcelona is  very large city with a much colder winter climate than here,also expensive and overcrowded and not an ideal retirement place!I would be interested to read how you are finding life in Moraira and if it has lived up to your expectations so far?.Concerning restaurants which was the initial subject of your posting,it seems that costs of food and supplies,as well as electricity etc have risen steeply everywhere so consequently restaurants have had to increase their prices?Our son considers that the quality of food,after he grew-up here in Cyprus,is better than in Spain anyway and prices in Barcelona are often double what we would pay here!But having said that and to give an example of what we paid here for a reasonable meal for two last Sunday in a country restaurant outside Paphos where we live, which is not luxurious but a  very pleasant  setting and serves traditional barbecue food, we paid 36 euros with drinks but no desserts and this is now considered a reasonable price here.Cheaper options would either be Macdonalds type fast food or some kebab places which also serve take way and where you can find a meal for around 10 euros per person,including a drink.I would be interested to read about prices in Moraira,which has the reputation of being an up-market resort with some Michelin-star establishments to match!Anyway, I hope this has been of interest for comparison between two places at opposite ends of the Med.!Cheers for now.

It depends on your definition of good and authentic! Further inland, much of what may perhaps be termed ‘authentic’ is very basic cookery and not necessarily to the tastes of most Northern Europeans. There are of course, some better restaurants, but it’s a bit like France now, the idea of wonderful little hidden gems is a distant dream! There are all over the area many extremely high quality places, at extremely high quality prices. You can still get a basic meal for around 15 Eu per head in some bars but it is likely to be basic. Average for reasonable is around 25 a head in this area.

We went to a bar in Calpe last week with friends, where we often go, because it’s perfectly nice, the menu consisting of all the standard tapas varieties: albóndigas, tortilla, hígado (liver of one sort or another), grilled vegetables, and a few other things. The bill, including various drinks, mainly cerveza and agua, was around 20 per head. 

But, yes, the cost of everything seems to have gone up.

So we're now in El Portet, Moraira and went down to the beachfront for lunch to see how much prices had shot up over the past 5 years. Not bad at a total of €75 for the 4 of us 

Last week we stayed in Alicante at Postiguet Beach near Alicante old town. There were loads of eateries in the back streets with Menu del Día around €13.95 which we didn't think was bad for a city restaurant. However when doing general supermarket food shopping, the prices were far, far higher than in previous years. Then yesterday, we went to meet our friends in Torrellano (near Alicante Airport). While we were waiting for them, the two of us decided to try the Menu del Día at the local restaurant and were shocked (in a good way) at the bill total - 2 small beers, then a 1L bottle of beer, a 1 5L bottle of water and a SIX course meal for €42 all in.  So clearly, away from the tourist areas and the expat areas, you can still find good prices.

That sounds good value. I guess it's each to their own but personally I'm  baulking at 8 eu for patatas bravas or padron peppers in Moraira. Garlic prawns tapas seem to have a settled price of around 15eu. Tapas was traditionally meant to be cheap and cheerful snack foods in bars so tapas restaurants are themselves a bit of an anathema. I remember when you could go out for a meal and conclude excellent food and great value for money. The latter is becoming increasingly elusive....again only IMHO.