Would you like to eat in a nice restaurant in Valencia? Then have a look at this page for an overview of some great restaurants in Valencia.
If you really love Spanish food, you can also visit the most unique and authentic tapas bars of Valencia with our tapas tour. During this tour we visit three different tapas bars and restaurants. In every tapas bar you can enjoy a tapa (selected by us) and a drink included in the price of €45,00. Click on tapas tour for more information and reservations.
What
There are many great restaurants in Valencia, but the difficulty is to find a good restaurant. Especially the ones where the local people eat might be hard to find. These restaurants normally are not listed in a common travel guide. Therefore you can find a selection of some good restaurants with an extensive description below.
Tip! The Valencia Public Transportation Card is perfect when you are staying three days in Valencia. With this card, you can travel unlimited by metro and bus. It also includes a private transfer from the airport. Have a relaxed trip to your restaurant!
Restaurante Arribar
Restaurant Arribar is located near to the beach of Valencia. The restaurant offers a large variety of rice and fish dishes, such as Dorado, fish croquets and different kinds of Paella. This restaurant is located at the harbour where the America’s Cup Sail race took place. The owner of the restaurant also works in the restaurant and if you are lucky he sings some songs after lunch. You can sit inside or outside and you will have a very nice view over the harbour and the beach. The tables look great with the white table linen.
TIP! Would you like to visit the beach of Valencia by bicycle? Then visit our Bike and Rental Shop and rent a bike!
Prices
A price indication of for example a Paella Valencia (minimum of two persons) is € 13,50 per person.
Recommendations
The Paella Valenciana is really worth trying, because it is one of the specialties of Valencia. Furthermore the sea bass in salt can be recommended.
Location
Restaurante Arribar
Port America’s Cup
Telephone: (0034) 963 449 757
Website
Restaurante Cervecería La Principal
Restaurante Cervecería La Principal is a combination of a restaurant and a bar. You can have a drink and a bite at the bar or you can have an extensive dinner. The decoration is mainly modern, but there are also some authentic Spanish details.
Price
There are many different dishes in a different price range. This restaurant in Valencia offers “Ensaladilla Rusa” (Russian salad with potatoes, tuna, green peas, carrots and more) till a fish in a layer of salt, that will be taken out of the salt next to your table by the waiter.
Recommendations
You can choose to start with some tapas and then go for a main course. Due to that the tapas are that good, you might want to choose for only tapas. The homemade croquettes, the “Ensaladía Rusa” and the Steak Tartar are definitely worth trying. The fish in salt can be recommended as main course.
Location
Restaurante Cervecería La Principal
Polo y Peyrolon 5
46021 Valencia
Telephone: (0034) 963 606 348
Website
Sagardi
Sagardi has got a large bar with many types of pintxos downstairs. Pintxos are a piece of bread with a topping on it. You can ask at the bar for a plate and you can get the pinchos you like. You have to keep the sticks, because if you want to pay, they count the number of sticks you have. On the first floor you have also the possibility to have dinner.
Price
The price depends on what you decide to eat; if you choose for some pinchos at the bar downstairs or if you are going to have dinner upstairs in the restaurant. Recommendations Especially during the busy hours, they are also making some warm pinchos and these are really worth trying.
Location
Sagardi
Calle San Vicente Mártir 6
46002 Valencia
Telephone: (0034) 963 910 668
Website
Palace Fesol
Palace Fesol offers typical Valencian dishes, for example different types of rice, but also fish and meat dishes. Palace Fesol also offers a large diversity of starters such as Jamon de Bellota (high quality ham), Valencian tomatoes with tuna and olive oil, croquets with ham and poultry, a variety of cheeses and much more.
Atmosphere
Restaurant Palace Fesol started in the year 1909 and now is already more than 100 years old. Palace Fesol is a nice restaurant with various typical Valencian specialties.
Recommendations
Fideua is a typical Valencian dish (see rice dishes “Arroces”). Fideua is a kind of pasta, it looks like short vermicelli strings or small thin pieces of spaghetti.
Location
Palace Fesol
Calle Hernán Cortés 7
46004 Valencia
Telephone: (0034) 963 529 323
Website
