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The gastronomic choice of Benidorm comprises all kind of cuisines, suiting all budgets. Let’s have a look at this coastal city’s culinary variety:
Benidorm’s traditional cooking is mainly based on local sea and earth products. Some of the most tasteful dishes are: arroz a banda (rice with fish), rice with red mullets and pumpkin, rice with beans and turnips, pebrot ( fish stew), fish cassolette, sweet potato cakes, and bollo de San Blás ( lemon |
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cakes). We strongly recommend to taste the Mediterranean traditional cooking, at least once. If you’re a rice enthusiast, there are specialised restaurants called arrocerías, and to eat fresh fish, try eating at a freiduría..
Apart from Valencian traditional dishes, at Benidorm you can find a vast number of restaurants specialising in different regional cooking (Asturian, Castillian, and Aragonese, among other), as well as international cooking: Belgian, Dutch, Norwegian, Italian, Chinese, Indian, Thai, and English, for instance…all in all, a good opportunity to taste dishes from all the world without moving from Benidorm.
When you’re at Benidorm, you can’t miss trying the famous tapas. Some of the streets adjacent to el Paseo de Carretera ( as Santo Domingo or Martínez Orriola) are the best place to have some tapas. Most restaurants have Vasque owners that have imported to the Mediterranean the pinchos (pork kebabs) and the picaeta. The best option is visiting different restaurants and asking to have their tapas speciality, washed down with a glass of wine. For wine lovers, there are some interesting products at reasonable prices and good service, and don’t miss a visit to “La Cava Aragonesa”!
After spending all morning on the beach, you may fancy having a nice dinner by the sea, which you can do at one of the terraces at the promenade, close at hand. Most restaurants show their daily menu at the entrance. Have a look, see different prices, and you’ll see you’ll find the most suiting place for you.
For those who are always in a rush- which is quite common at such an active city- or for fast-food lovers, there are plenty of fast-food restaurants almost everywhere, and some of them are even open 24 hours a day…so that you can recharge your energy any time of the day |