Valencia Restaurants
Guide to the Restaurants of Valencia
Ca' Sento
Address: Méndez Núñez, 17
Tel.: 963 301 775
This outstanding restaurant offers some of Valencia's top seafood in the haute
cuisine category. The seafood stews are a favourite as are the crust "cigala",
Viver suckling lamb with parsnip cream and the rhubarb crepes. closed on
Monday nights and Sundays and in August. Expensive.
Albacar
Address: C/ Sorni, 35
Tel.: 963 951 005
Tito Albacar continues to update Valencian Cuisine artistically and with great
culinary results. Salvador, his brother, is in charge of the wine cellar and
service. Highly recommended are the curry crawfish salad, hot foie-gras with
young pigeon and French beans, and the coffee parfait with rhum. It is
closed on Monday nights and Sundays and in August. Expensive.
Rías Gallegas
Address: C/ Cirilo Amorós, 4
Tel.: 963 512 125
Galician restaurant with exceptionally high quality seafood transported down
from the Atlantic coast. The Daily recommendations should be considered.
Specialities include fine pasta with "zamburiñas", anglerfish with squid and gin
butter, curd with sugar ice-cream. Excellent wine selection. Closed on Sundays
and in August. Expensive.
Civera
Address: C/ Lerida, 11
Tel.: 963 475 917
Very popular seafood restaurant frequented mainly by Valencianos attracted by
excellent quality cuisine. Probably the city's top seafood spot. The fish baked
in salt (a la sal) comes highly recommended. It closes on Sunday nights
and Mondays, at Easter and in August. Expensive.
Gargantua
Address: C/ Navarro Reverter, 18
Tel.: 963 346849
Valencian restaurant offering imaginitive regional specialities such as grilled
cod with green peppers. Quaint setting in a 1910 townhouse. Closed
Sundays, Easter and August. No dinner on Sundays. Expensive.
El Plat
Address:C/ Ciscar, 3
Tel.: 963 741 254
Locally renowned as the King of Paellas, this moderately priced restaurant
offers a variation on the classic paella valenciana. It is closed on
Mondays and there is no dinner on Sundays.
La Riua
Address:C/ del Mar, 27
Tel.: 963 914 571
This great value restaurant is the place to head for to enjoy authentic
Valencian rice dishes. The paella valenciana is obviously the most popuar dish
amongst visitors, but also worth a mention are the fideuá (paella with noodles
instead of rice) and the fresh fish dishes cooked with garlic and pepper (all i
pebre). Closed Mondays, at Easter and in August.
El Paso
Address:Calle Conde de Altea 53
Tel.: 96 3740 721
This wild west theme restaurant offers a great selection of dishes which include
typical Spanish tapas, delicious Tex Mex meals and a selection of sandwiches.
Staff speak English and French.
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