Some places just never quite call to you. Rico Café is one of those, for me. I have walked past it more times than I can count over the years, glanced in, and kept moving. Ask me to say what is wrong with it and I genuinely cannot. The staff seem fine. The location is …

Some places you discover by accident. Others you simply arrive at and feel, immediately, that you have been coming here all your life. La Tapita falls into the second category – and for those of us who have been making the trip to Benidorm for more than twenty years, it quite literally does. La Tapita …

There is a particular cruelty to bad ice cream in hot weather. You have earned it. The walk along the seafront, the sun doing its worst, the long deliberation over which flavour. Then the thing arrives tasting of nothing in particular, half-melted before you reach the nearest bench. It is one of the minor disappointments …

If you’ve spent any time hunting down a decent full English in Benidorm, you’ll know the struggle. Plenty of places promise the goods but deliver something lukewarm, rubbery, and distinctly un-British. So when a little spot in the Old Town starts getting serious word-of-mouth buzz, it’s worth investigating — sausage first. Cafe Leroy sits in the …