The restaurants below have been listed alphabetically and classed into four different pricing categories:
$$$$ (over €40)
$$$ (€31 to €40)
$$ (€22 to €30)
$ (under €22)
Prices quoted are for a three-course meal or a selection of tapas for one person. Drinks and service not included.
Bodega Casa Montaña This is one of the city’s oldest eating places, famous for its wine cellar and serving traditional tapas in a 19th-century bar in the fisherman’s quarter of El Cabanyal.
Calle José Benlliure
69
Tel: 96 367 2314.
Website:
www.emilianobodega.com Price: €-€€
Burdeos in Love Don’t let the name put you off. Gourmet tapas are the specialty of this very attractive modern little bar, with traditional main dishes to follow.
Calle Mar 4
Tel: 96 391 4350.
Price: €€€
La Pepica Legendary large and busy seafood restaurant on Playa Malvarossa whose guest list includes Hemingway and King Alfonso XIII.
Paseo Neptuno 6
Tel: 96 371 0366.
Website:
www.lapepica.com Price: €€
Submarino Dine on Valencian gourmet fish and seafood dishes with thousands of fish swimming around you in the rather surreal and very beautiful underwater restaurant of L’Oceanografic.
Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (CAC)
Tel: 902 100 031.
Website:
www.cac.es Price: €€€€
Seu-
Xerea Superb fusion/Eurasian/New Mediterranean dishes in a lovely dining room under English ownership; bargain lunch.
Calle Conde de Almodóvar 4
Tel: 96 392 4000.
Website:
www.seuxerea.com Price: €€€ (lunch €€)
Nightlife:The narrow streets of the Barrio del Carmen, on and around Calle Caballeros, is where most of the action takes place, though nothing gets going anywhere in the city before 2300. Other areas are Avenida de Aragón, Plaza de Canovas, and the university zone of Avenida Blasco Ibáñez, Plaza de Honduras, Plaza Xúquer and Juan Llorens. In summer the Paseo Neptuno at the beach and the new port is lively. See the free English-language listings magazines
Cool Carmen and
24/
7 Valencia for what’s on, or visit
www.thisisvalencia.com.
Radio City, Calle Santa Teresa 19, is an evergreen hybrid of bar, cultural center and disco with an eclectic choice of music and live acts. Other good bars include
Sol I Lluna, Calle del Mar 29, and
La Marxa, Calle Cocina 5, both in the Barrio del Carmen.
Hot clubs include
La Indiana, Calle San Vicente 95 (website:
www.laindiana.com) and
Las Dockas, Calle Doctor Marcos Sopena, at the new port.
Wah-Wah in the Zona Blasco Ibáñez, Calle Campoamor 52 (website:
www.wahwahclub.com), showcases the latest alternative, underground and up-and-coming bands,
Café del Duende in the Barrio del Carmen specializes in flamenco and ethnic music and
El Loco, Calle Erudiot Orellena 12 (website:
www.lococlub.org) in the Zona Juan Llorens, is an eclectic live venue including blues, jazz, fusion, rock and flamenco.
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