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Alicante Restaurants on the Costa Blanca in Spain |
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Follows is a short list of some of our most favorite restaurants in Alicante.
Alicante Restaurant La Darsena
Paella is a popular choice at this restaurant, especially looking over the port. Some 20 other rice dishes are also very tasty, for example, arroz con pieles de bacalao (rice with dried cod). Give the crab soup a try, flavored with Armagnac or a spinach and tuna tart.
Hours Mon-Sun 1-4pm; Tues-Sat 8:30-11pm
Address: Muelle De Levante 6
Location: Explanada d'Espanya
Phone: 96-520-75-89
Prices: Main courses 14€-21€
Reservations required at lunch
Alicante Tasca Nou Manolin
This is the kind of place locals will tell you about, if they like you. Established in 1972, the founder of this restaurant named it after an almost-forgotten neighborhood bar (El Manolín), which his grandfather maintained before the Spanish Civil War. Nou Manolín's street has a busy bar area, but diners usually head to the dining room up the stairs, where tiled walls with uniformed waiters help to build the atmosphere of an elegant tasca. The menu contains many kinds of cooked fish in a salted crust, also delectable paella, several types of stew, fresh shellfish, and a wide range of Iberian wines.
Hours Daily 1-4pm and 8:30pm-midnight
Address: Calle Villegas 3
Location: Center Alicante
Phone: 96-520-03-68
Prices: Main courses 12€-21€
Reservations recommended
Alicante Restaurant La Piezzetta
This three-room restaurant that serves a vast range of Italian specialties. There are no restaurants in Alicante that offer a higher quality of pasta. Over time, we have gone through many of the pasta dishes. Once with a party of five friends, we ordered several pastas and enjoyed each of them. Our favorites, are though pasta con salsa di mare (in a savory seafood sauce), and pasta con funghi (with fresh mushrooms). Of course, if you're dreaming of Valencia paella, head elsewhere. But the chefs here are top quality, using top-quality ingredients.
Address: Plaza Santísima Fax, 3
Phone: 96-520-61-02
Prices: Main courses 8€-12€
Alicante Restaurant El Jumillano
This place hasn't changed at all, you could think one of Franco's soldiers is about to walk into this time capsule. It was once a humble wine bar in 1936, near the old city. The original wine-and-tapas bar still goes strong, but the food has greatly improved. Today the original owner's sons (Juan José and Miguel Pérez Mejías) offer a cornucopia of succulent food, including fresh fish laid out in the dining room on the sun-drenched planks of an antique fishing boat. Many menu items derive from locally inspired dishes. The specialties include a "festival of canapés," slices of cured ham served with fresh melon, shellfish soup with mussels, Alicante stew, pigs' trotters, a savory filet of beef seasoned with garlic, and a full gamut of grilled hake, sea bass, and shellfish. Address: César Elquezábel 64
Location: Around Town
Transportation Bus: D or F
Phone: 96-521-17-64
Prices: Main courses 11€-17€ |
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