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Almost every restaurant in Valencia offers some variation on paella, the city's most celebrated dish. The traditional one-pan recipe pairs short-grained rice with so-called "poor" ingredients like rabbit, chicken, and snails. (The all-seafood version, often taken by outsiders to be the most authentic paella, is actually a later development.) While the best paella is usually found near the port, or around the southerly fishing villages of El Palmar or El Saler, the city center has lately been sprouting some of Spain's most cutting-edge restaurants. The late hours observed in Spanish kitchens are taken to an extreme here: Except at a few tourist establishments, it's bad form to turn up for lunch before 2 p.m., or for dinner before 9:30.
In the shabby-chic former fisherman's district of El Cabañal—ripe for a makeover given its proximity to the new Port America's Cup...more
The fishing village of El Saler, seven miles south of the city center, is known among Valencianos for its traditional paella restaurants. The best...more
Built in 1916, the Mercado de Colón is an iconic Modernist market hall in cast iron and red brick; in 2003, it was transformed into a Covent...more
Want to blend in with the locals? Then you'd better develop a taste for horchata, a sweet, milky, nonalcoholic drink, served cold, that is made from...more
Part of the IVAM contemporary art museum (though with its own separate entrance), this avant-garde eatery has an appropriately arty, minimalist style: stark...more
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