Restaurant in Pedreguer, Spain
Award-winning desserts, local ingredients, fair price.
Ausiàs is a Michelin Plate Mediterranean restaurant in Pedreguer's old town, run by a young couple with serious culinary credentials, including a Madrid Fusión pastry award. At €€ with a 4.8 Google rating, it delivers cooking quality well above its price tier. Book for the dessert course alone, and treat it as the best-value table in the Marina Alta.
If you are comparing Ausiàs against the big-ticket Valencian Community restaurants, such as Quique Dacosta in Dénia or Ricard Camarena in València, the value proposition here is fundamentally different. Those are destination meals that will cost you €€€€ and require advance planning of weeks or months. Ausiàs sits at €€, holds a 2025 Michelin Plate, scores 4.8 across 303 Google reviews, and operates in a small inland town in the Marina Alta comarca. For a food-focused traveller in the Costa Blanca interior, this is the booking to prioritise.
Ausiàs occupies a spot in Pedreguer's old town, close to the market, and its façade and contemporary interior design give it an immediate sense of intent that is uncommon for a town of this size. The room is meticulous without being stiff, which sets the tone accurately: this is a kitchen that takes its craft seriously but does not require you to dress up or perform reverence to eat well.
The two set menus, named Valentina and Ausiàs March, both offer an optional additional tripe dish. The culinary direction is Mediterranean built squarely on local and regional ingredients, updated with a modern sensibility. The couple running the restaurant, Ausiàs Signes and Felicia Guerra, have shaped a cooking style that connects to the produce of the Marina Alta without being a museum piece about it. The influence of Ricard Camarena, with whom chef Ausiàs Signes trained, is detectable in the prioritisation of ingredient clarity over technique for its own sake.
The desserts are where this kitchen has a documented edge over most restaurants in its price tier. Ausiàs Signes won the Pastelero Revelación award at Madrid Fusión in 2022, at the time when he was head pastry chef at the well-regarded Tatau restaurant in Huesca. That credential is not a historical footnote: it tells you that the final third of your meal at this €€ restaurant is being executed at a level you would expect to pay considerably more for elsewhere in Spain. For anyone travelling through the region with a serious interest in Spanish gastronomy, that gap between price and pastry quality is the single most compelling reason to book.
Kitchen's philosophy, as evidenced by the menu structure and ingredient sourcing, sits within the broader movement of young Spanish chefs who trained in leading houses and chose to open in secondary cities or smaller towns rather than in Madrid or Barcelona. That context matters for a food traveller: Ausiàs is not an accidental find, it is a deliberate project. The cooking reflects genuine ambition, not a coastal tourist formula. You can draw a line from El Celler de Can Roca in Girona to the generation of chefs it has influenced across Spain, and Ausiàs Signes's training lineage connects to that tradition through the Camarena connection.
Pedreguer itself is an inland town about 10 to 15 minutes from Dénia and the coast. If you are based in Jávea, Dénia, or Calpe, this is an easy evening drive. If you are building a food-focused itinerary through the Valencia region, Ausiàs pairs logically with a lunch at Quique Dacosta or a visit to Ricard Camarena in the city, and fits the same exploratory trip without requiring a separate long detour. For broader Spanish context across different regions, compare the ambition level here with Atrio in Cáceres, another smaller-city restaurant punching well above its geography.
For Mediterranean cuisine specifically, Ausiàs competes on quality rather than on spectacle or setting. If you are looking for something along the wider Mediterranean arc, La Brezza in Ascona or Arnaud Donckele and Maxime Frédéric at Louis Vuitton in Saint-Tropez deliver a different register of the same cuisine, at a very different price point. Ausiàs is the argument that Mediterranean cooking at the highest local level does not require a luxury address.
Booking difficulty for Ausiàs is rated Easy. Given the restaurant's size (seat count is not confirmed in available data) and its location in a small inland town, you are unlikely to face the multi-week wait times that apply to Michelin-starred restaurants in the region. That said, peak summer months (July and August) bring significant tourist traffic to the Costa Blanca interior, and weekend tables will fill. Book at least one to two weeks out if visiting in summer. For shoulder season travel in spring (April to June) or autumn (September to October), a few days' notice is likely sufficient, though booking ahead remains the sensible approach for a restaurant of this standing. Phone and online booking details are not confirmed in available data; check current contact information directly.
Ausiàs is one reason to make time for this part of the Marina Alta. For the full picture of what the town offers, see our full Pedreguer restaurants guide, our full Pedreguer hotels guide, our full Pedreguer bars guide, our full Pedreguer wineries guide, and our full Pedreguer experiences guide.
Booking difficulty is rated Easy, so you are not looking at the weeks-out timelines required for Quique Dacosta or Ricard Camarena. In summer (July to August), aim to book one to two weeks ahead for weekend tables. In spring or autumn, a few days' notice is usually workable. Contact details are not confirmed publicly, so check current booking information directly before your trip.
The set menu format at a €€ price point makes this a practical and rewarding solo visit. You are eating at a Michelin Plate restaurant in Pedreguer without the financial commitment of a solo seat at a €€€€ tasting menu. The contemporary interior and the restaurant's local reputation mean solo diners are not an anomaly here. If solo dining in a relaxed, well-run room is what you are looking for in the Costa Blanca interior, Ausiàs is the right call.
The two menus are named Valentina and Ausiàs March; both include an optional additional tripe dish. Do not skip the dessert course. Chef Ausiàs Signes won the Pastelero Revelación award at Madrid Fusión in 2022, which means the pastry section is executing at a level above what the overall price tier would suggest. The kitchen's focus is local and regional Mediterranean ingredients, so seasonal produce availability will shape the specific dishes you see. Specific dish descriptions are not confirmed in available data.
For Mediterranean cuisine at a comparable or lower price in the Marina Alta, your options are limited at this quality level, which is part of what makes Ausiàs worth the stop. If you want to step up significantly in scale and investment, Quique Dacosta in nearby Dénia is the obvious reference point for the region's leading table. For a broader Valencian context, Ricard Camarena in València (who trained chef Ausiàs Signes) shows where the same culinary lineage operates at a higher budget. See our full Pedreguer restaurants guide for a complete local picture.
Yes, with the right expectations set. This is a €€ restaurant with a Michelin Plate and a nationally recognised pastry chef, in a meticulous contemporary interior in a small Spanish town. It delivers a genuinely considered meal in a room that feels appropriate for a celebration without requiring a formal occasion dress code. If your special occasion requires a grand setting or extensive wine list theatre, look at Quique Dacosta instead. If it requires excellent food, attentive cooking, and a memorable dessert course at a price that does not define the evening's budget, Ausiàs is the better fit.
At €€ with a Michelin Plate and a 4.8 Google rating from over 300 reviews, yes. The pastry credential alone, a named national award from Madrid Fusión, is a quality signal you would normally associate with a more expensive restaurant. The set menu format built on local Mediterranean ingredients means you are eating a considered, sourced meal, not a tourist coastal formula. Compared to what €€€€ restaurants like Azurmendi, Cocina Hermanos Torres, or DiverXO charge for a comparable quality ambition, Ausiàs represents a clear value gap in your favour.
A week's notice is usually enough given Ausiàs's location in a small inland town rather than a coastal tourist hotspot. That said, weekends fill faster now that the Michelin Plate (2025) has raised the restaurant's profile. Book at least 7–10 days out for Friday or Saturday, and you should have no trouble securing a table mid-week with less lead time.
Yes, at €€ pricing and a tasting menu format, solo dining here is financially manageable and works well if you enjoy a set progression rather than sharing plates. The two menus — Valentina and Ausiàs March — are structured experiences, so you won't feel under-served eating alone. If solo counter seating is your preference, confirm availability when booking as seat configuration details aren't confirmed in available data.
The dessert course is the standout: chef Ausiàs Signes won the Pastelero Revelación award at Madrid Fusión 2022, so do not skip it. Both tasting menus — Valentina and Ausiàs March — offer the option to add a tripe dish, which signals the kitchen's confidence in offal; it's worth taking if you eat it. The menus are built around local and regional ingredients, so what's on the plate reflects the season and the Marina Alta.
Ausiàs is the clear first choice in Pedreguer itself for contemporary Mediterranean cooking at this level. For the wider Marina Alta area, Dénia-based Quique Dacosta operates at a much higher price point and difficulty to book, making Ausiàs the more accessible option for similar regional ingredient focus. If you want something more casual, the market area around Pedreguer old town has straightforward local options, though none with Ausiàs's credentials.
Yes, it works well for a celebration. The contemporary interior design gives the room a considered, occasion-appropriate feel, and the tasting menu format suits a dinner where you want the kitchen to set the pace. At €€, it won't drain your wallet the way a full Michelin-starred splurge would, which makes it a practical choice if you want a proper meal without the three-star price tag.
At €€, yes — the value is clear. You're getting a chef with a documented national award (Madrid Fusión 2025 Pastelero Revelación, won in 2022), Michelin Plate recognition, and two distinct tasting menus built on local and regional produce. Compared to peers in the Valencian Community, Ausiàs delivers a serious cooking proposition at a fraction of what Quique Dacosta or Ricard Camarena charge, making it one of the more practical ways to eat well in this part of Spain.
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