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. Civera Centro

    An upmarket seafood restaurant serving superb Spanish dishes.

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Las Cuevas

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

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  10. 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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  11. 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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