Restaurant Revolution!

There are so many food and drink-related businesses in Alicante right now and more opening up each week. Just a year or so ago you would walk around the streets of Alicante and lose count of the closed-down businesses within the first 100 metres. The crisis really took its toll on small businesses.
But now its like another world! The town hall has had a hand in the improvements from decorating certain streets, renovating parks and public spaces to allowing cafes to operate in public squares (this can be debated whether is beneficial to everyone...). I don't know if the licensing process has been relaxed to allow businesses to open, especially catering businesses? 

I have been to two new restaurants just this week. One is a casual burger bar which I will highlight in a future post, and the other is a restaurant with a varied mediterranean menu.
On Monday I went to this place...

La Mary is a franchise with a great value quality-price range, good selection of dishes, considered presentation and nice decoration. I really cannot speak highly enough of it. It only opened 3 weeks ago so maybe they are taking extra care. I'm not the only one who likes it - every time I pass the restaurant it's full!
They also do a lunch time set menu with a fantastic pricetag, if you can get in, that is.

 

Images courtesy of La Mary Alicante.

You can find their details on the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/lamaryalicante/timeline

The offering of restaurants and bars has improved so much in Alicante that the old-fashioned, manky places are going to have to keep up and improve. I went to one of 'those' last week and it was a terrible experience - bad decoration, dirty tables, disappointing food and unrealistic prices. No, I wont name and shame. Sorry.

What is your current favourite restaurant in Alicante?