Must Do Activities in Valencia

Valencia Restaurants

Valencia, like any other cities in Spain, it has mostly restaurants and famous tapas bars that you can see all over the city. Valencia also known for its local dishes with olive oils and almonds, and don’t forget the paella, the best paella in Spain is found in Valencia. Valencian people loves to eat, there is no doubt that not only the traditional Spanish cuisines that you will find here. There are plenty of restaurants and tapas bars that you can find in this city, there are also foreign cuisines and restaurants that you can dine in Valencia, there are Mediterranean, Portuguese, Mexican, French, Chinese and Lebanese cuisines and many more. Some restaurants are sticking to the traditional Spanish cuisines and some specializes in seafood dishes. Tapas bars are also famous here in Valencia; these are bars serves small amounts of food or appetizers which Spanish people eat before lunch and dinner. They go tapas bar-hopping, they go to one tapas bar to the next. These appetizers are usually combination of cheese, olive oils, tomatoes, fried squid and many more.

Here are some of the famous restaurants which you can find in Valencia, the Mediterranean cuisines; here they serve authentic Mediterranean cuisines and some with Spanish twists to it. The El Timonel restaurant which you will find just blocks away from the bullfighting arena, the Plaza de Toros, they serve here Mediterranean cuisines, their specialty is the dorada a ala sal and the arroz de bogavante. The dorada a la sal is a gilthead sea bream that is coated with salt and the arroz de bogavante, this is a rice dish with prawns and lobsters in it. And the Mediterranean restaurant, the La Lola which you can find in the Subida del Toledano, one of the best dishes that they serve here is the jamon serrano; this is a cured ham and the codfish that is caramelized in saffron and honey. Torrijos also has the finest Mediterranean menu in Valencia; mostly their menu includes fishes from the Mediterranean and never without the rice dishes. They have a variety of wines to choose from. This is located in the Barrio Ruzafa.

Portuguese restaurants are also some of the restaurants which you can go to in Valencia. The Ca’n Bermell, this is one of the famous restaurants in Barrio del Carmen, their specialty here is the duck breasts in Riojo wine and the cod fish with onions and green peppers sauce. La Riua is also a Portuguese restaurant but with a twist of the traditional Valencian cuisines, they served paellas here that are being seasoned with squid ink, they also have spicy sausages, roasted pork and veal and the traditional pulpitos guisados which is a stewed octopus.  

You can find the authentic Mexican restaurant, Los Zopilotes also in Barrio del Carmen, the French restaurant El Bicho Raro, this has the authentic French food and ambience. You can find this in the Conde Montornes which is minutes away from the Plaza la Virgen.  The La Pepica is the most famous traditional Spanish restaurant in Valencia; their menus are all sea foods from their famous paella with lobsters and calamares. This is located in the La Playa de las Arenas in Valencia.

Valencians loves to eat and the restaurants and the tapas bars that you can find in the streets of Valencia are proofs that the Valencians appreciate their cuisines and other countries cuisines.