Valencia Restaurants

  1. Ana Eva

    The smartest of Valencia's vegetarian options, just beyond El Barrio del Carmen, has a tasteful décor and delightful rear patio. They prepare some very imaginative dishes and do great juices. With starters including rice, pasta, potatoes and couscous, you won't walk out rumbling.

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  2. Burdeos in Love

    At this smart restaurant with its modern, clean-lined décor, both the midday menú and the menú degustación are excellent value and there's an impressive wine list, especially of Spanish reds.

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  3. Civera Centro

    An upmarket seafood restaurant serving superb Spanish dishes.

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  4. En Bandeja

    This relaxed self-service place does excellent-value continental breakfasts and lunches.

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  5. Fresc Co

    Fresc Co's all-you-can eat buffet offers a veritable kitchen garden of salad items and a choice of pasta or pizza. With its bare, mellow brickwork, it's an agreeable place to dine in, though you're not encouraged to linger once dessert's over.

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  6. Horchatería de Santa Catalina

    Horchata is a sweet, opaque local drink made from pressed chufas (tiger nuts), into which you dip large finger-shaped buns called fartons; both name and taste are to savour. Sample it in the heart of town at Horchatería de Santa Catalina

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  7. La Lluna

    La Lluna has been serving quality, reasonably priced vegetarian fare for over 25 years. On two floors, its walls elaborately tiled, it offers lots of choices plus daily specials (go for the seaweed salad if it's on).

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  8. La Lola

    Up an alley beside the cathedral, here's a very suave number where cool jazz trills. Desserts such as creamed white chocolate, raspberry delight, gooey Greek yoghurt, pistachio and crunchy biscuit (oh yes, that's all one dish) are wickedly tempting.

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  9. La Lonja del Pescado Frito

    One block back from the beach at Malvarrosa and right beside the tram stop, this busy, informal place in what's little more than an adorned tin shack offers unbeatable value for fresh fish. Grab an order form as you enter and fill it in at your table.

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  11. La Pepica

    Larger and more expensive than its competitors and renowned for its rice dishes and seafood, this is where Ernest Hemingway, among many other luminaries, once strutted. Between courses, browse through the photos and tributes that plaster the walls.

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  12. La Tastaolletes

    This tiny place does a creative range of vegetable tapas. Pleasantly informal, it's worth visiting for the friendly atmosphere and good, wholesome food created from quality prime ingredients. Salads are frondy and the cheesecake with stewed fruits, a dream.

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  13. La Utielana

    Tucked away off Calle Prócida and not easy to track down, La Utielana well merits a minute or two's sleuthing. Very Valencian, it packs in the crowds, drawn by the wholesome fare and exceptional value for money. Arrive early as it doesn't take reservations.

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  14. Las Cuevas

    Las Cuevas 'The Caves', low-ceilinged, semi-basement and aptly named, carries a huge range of tapas.

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  15. Mattilda

    The décor is stylish and modern at this relative newcomer, run by a cheery young team. They offer an imaginative à la carte selection and a particularly good-value lunch menú .

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  16. Mercado Central

    A visit to the magnificent covered market, the Mercado Central, is a must, even if you only browse.

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  17. Palacio de la Bellota

    There's a cluster of superb upmarket seafood restaurants along pedestrianised Calle Mosén Femades, including Palacio de la Bellota.

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  18. Seu-Xerea

    This smart, welcoming restaurant is favourably quoted in almost every English-language press article about Valencia. Its creative, regularly changing à la carte menu features dishes both international and rooted in Spain. It does a warmly recommended lunch-time menú del día (daily set menu).

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