From small neighborhood cafes to exclusive Michelin-starred restaurants in the center of Valencia, the city is full of brilliant places to eat and drink. That’s why we have chosen the 50 best restaurants in Valencia that all Valencians should try at least once in a lifetime.
Our selection includes restaurants to eat paella o the best rated according to Google Maps users among others.
Zalamero
The only restaurant in Valencia specialized in “cocas” is in Ruzafa and is one of the best plans if you are looking for an original proposal and little seen in an intimate atmosphere in the heart of Valencia.
📍 Carrer de Sevilla, 20.
📱 Book your menu for 2 people in Zalamero.
Quesomentero
The new ‘cheese bar’ in Valencia is called Cheesemaker and here you will find all kinds of dishes made with this product, from savory to sweet.
📍 Carrer del Mestre Clavé, 8.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Pizcueta 14
The best omelet in Valencia is served in this bar and cafeteria. It has reached the final of the best potato omelette contest on two occasions. There must be a reason.
📍 C/ Felix Pizcueta, 14.
La Cabaña de los Gauchos
La Cabaña de los Gauchos, in La Pobla de Vallbona, is considered one of the most important one of the best grilled steak restaurants in Valencia. Pure Uruguayan asado.
c/ de Santiago de Compostela, 34, La Pobla de Vallbona.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Santa Rita
Enjoy authentic italian food in the heart of Valencia in a restaurant with a classic atmosphere that will take you to taste the most original dishes of Italian cuisine.
📍 Calle Zurradores 10.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Xanglot
It is one of the two Bib Gourmand novelties in Valencia. Market cuisine, with local and seasonal products. All for about 35 euros in a menu that changes daily.
📍 Carrer de les Avellanes, 9.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Kaido Sushi Bar
It is the city’s only Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant and one of the highest rated on Google by its customers. These two reasons seem to us more than enough to visit it.
📍 Carrer de Xile, 3.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Black hen
“We don’t believe in borders of any kind: neither social, nor cultural, nor geographic, and even less gastronomic, we don’t care about them! This is how Gallina Negra defines its cuisine, a restaurant in El Carme that has made fusion tapas its hallmark. A real revolution in the neighborhood.
📍 Escalante, 93.
📱General Info and reservations.
Imprints
An original and rarely seen proposal. A Sardinian cuisine restaurant to feast on pasta and seafood without leaving Valencia.
📍Pl. del Baró de Cortés, 22.
📱General Info and reservations.
Black mullet
The latest creation of Quique Dacosta looks at the Mediterráneo, but through the grill and the embers. Here you will enjoy grilled shrimp, grilled leg of octopus from Dénia or grilled marinated skate, among other products.
📍 Carrer de Pascual i Genís, 10.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Carmela House
At Carmela House continue to prepare the Valencian paella according to the rhythms that marked the great-grandmother Carmen. Always with orange tree wood, since 1922 this restaurant is a good choice if you are looking for a good Valencian paella.
📍 Carrer d’Isabel de Villena, 155.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Customs Kiosk
Nearly 100 years after its opening and after several reforms and substantial changes in the substance and form of Customs Kiosk this restaurant continues to be a reference to taste the Valencia that tastes like the sea.
📍 Puerto Valencia, Carrer del Moll de la Duana, s/n.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Hikari Yakitori
Japanese skewers are the queen of this restaurant, brother of Nozomi, possibly the best Japanese restaurant in Valencia. But they have many other grilled Japanese dishes.
📍 Carrer dels Tomasos, 18.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Tonyina
The essence of a traditional bar, in a modern and avant-garde space. Adapted to all types of pockets, here they serve tapas with a traditional base and creative touches.
📍 Carrer de Xile, 3.
📱General Info and reservations.
Mistela Bar
Garnish with 100% local product. The sandwich tastes like a vegetable garden, but they do not forget the modern and different proposals such as their revision of the traditional Almussafes (Topmussafes 2.0 with scrambled eggs, poached onion, ham and cheese).
📍 Carrer Riu Nervión, 11.
📱General Info and reservations.
Hundred Burger
Maybe they are unknown to you, but these burgers have won a place in the hearts of everyone who tries them. In the purest American style, its portions leave no one indifferent. They deserve to be on this list.
📍Carrer de Misser Mascó, 22.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Ricard Camarena
Ricard Camarena is one of the two haute cuisine restaurants in the city with two Michelin Stars. Is that not enough? Inaddition, he has recently been named one of the top 10 chefs in the world cooking vegetables.
📍Av. de Burjassot, 54 – Bombas Gens Centre d’Art.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Kuzina
Greece is savored in this restaurant in Valencia. For many, the best Greek in town.
📍Comte d’Almodóvar, 4.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Anyora Winery
Seafood tapas in the heart of El Cabanyal in a place with a lot of tradition.
📍Carrer d’en Vicent Gallart, 15.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Rausell
A restaurant of all the life adapted to the present times. Quality and experience with one of the best bravas of Valencia.
📍Carrerd’Àngel Guimerà, 61.
📱General Info and reservations.
Alqueria del Brosquil
Valencian gastronomy has a reference restaurant and this is it.
📍Entrada Casa El Llarc, 1.
📱General Info and reservations.
Central Bar
The perfect place to have lunch at Mercat Central with the Ricard Camarena seal.
📍Mercat Central, Plaza Ciudad de Brujas.
📱General Info and reservations.
La Majada
The restaurant and cheese bar La Majada in Valencia periodically organizes a free cheese buffet with more than 50 references of national and foreign cheeses.
📍 Carrer de Félix Pizcueta, 15.
📱General Info and reservations.
La Pergola
The most mythical bar of the Alameda, perfect to recharge your batteries with a Valencian lunch on a Saturday morning after a walk along the river.
📍Passeig de l’Albereda, 1.
Swagat
Possibly the best Indian in Valencia.
📍Carrer del Comte d’Altea, 44.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Dalima
The menu of this restaurant is based mainly on cebiche, the iconic dish of the peruvian cuisine and has been prepared by an authentic Peruvian chef. The essence of Javi Calduch and Richi Goachet, creators of Dalima, is found in every dish.
📍 Gran Via del Marqués del Túria, 58.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Taula de Yoon
This restaurant is one of the most peculiar in Ruzafa due to the fact that its style harmonizes perfectly with the neighborhood and its speciality is the authentic Korean cuisine.
📍 Gran Via del Marqués del Túria, 58.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Ricardo Bar
Valencian cuisine and high quality tapas at the gates of the historic center of Valencia.
📍Carrer del Dr. Zamenhof, 16.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Les Maduixes
The vegetarian of reference. Although it is not the dean, it has been open since 1986, always at an excellent level.
📍Calle Daoíz y Velarde, 4.
📱General Info and reservations.
Amparín
Bravas from the suburbs, tasty, bathed in sauce and with the flavor of the bars of a lifetime. These are the secret bravas of Amparín Tavern a bar with a long tradition in the Cruz Cubierta.
📍Carrer de Joaquín Navarro, 26.
Barn House
The local gastronomy is tasted here, at Casa Granero. This restaurant in Serra cooks some of the best paella in Valencia, the best puchero and the best ‘all i pebre’ of 2023.
📍Carrer del Cantó de la Torre, 9, 46118 Serra.
📱General Info and reservations.
Km. 0
It has become our favorite pizzeria of Valencia because in addition to a spongy dough, they are committed to local and kilometer 0 products. A real discovery.
📍Carrer de Emili Baró, 82.
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Canalla Bistró
A simple approach to Ricard Camarena’s cuisine.
📍Carrer del Mestre Josep Serrano, 5.
📱General Info and reservations.
Pelayo Trinquet
did you know that the oldest trinquet in Valencia also has a restaurant? And what a restaurant!
📍Carrer de Pelai, 6.
📱General Info and reservations.
Mey Mey
The finest Chinese cuisine is served here. It is the oldest Chinese restaurant in Valencia.
📍Carrer de l’Historiador Diago, 19.
📱General Info and reservations.
La Salita
One of the essential restaurants in Valencia is directed by Begoña Rodrigo. One of those places you can’t miss if you like good food. And it has michelin star.
Begoña Rodrigo was recognized by the We’re Smart 2023 guide as a the second best chef in the world with vegetables.
📍C/ de Pere III el Gran, 11
📱General Info and reservations.
Fraula
Fraula, in Cirilo Amorós, is the only restaurant in the city that will have a Michelin star in 2024. At the helm are Roseta Felix and Daniel Malavia, who work with excellence on the market product.
📍 Ciril Amorós, 84.
📱General Info and reservations.
Mountain House
Founded in 1836, this tavern in El Cabanyal serves delicious tapas, coffees, desserts and wines. The century-old winery was recognized in 2023 with the award to “Best wine bar in Spain” at the International Wine Challenge Industry Awards (IWC).
📍Carrer de Josep Benlliure, 69.
📱General Info and reservations.
Askua
Specialists in avant-garde Mediterranean cuisine.
📍 Carrer de Felip Maria Garín, 4.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Nozomi
The gastronomic temple of Japan in Valencia. It is one of the best sushi restaurants in town. You will never look at other people’s sushi with the same eyes again.
📍Carrer de Pere III el Gran, 11.
📱General Info and reservations.
Kawori
Kawori is not just a sushi restaurant, it is a sensory experience designed to stimulate all the senses. Led by chef Alberto Gonzalez, it is one of the most important best Japanese restaurants in Valencia.
📍Félix Pizcueta, 13.
📱General Info and reservations.
Ca Rakel
Ca Rakel, an establishment in Poblats Marítims that promotes the tradition of lunch, received in 2023 Cacau d’Or Especial by the expert jury that values the lunches of Valencia.
📍Dr. Lluch, 9.
📱General Info and reservations.
El Poblet
Another of Quique Dacosta’s restaurants, this one with Michelin star and as one of the references of haute cuisine in the city.
📍Carrer de Correus, 8.
📱General Info and reservations.
La Llorona
The Mexican taqueria in Valencia where the best tacosare served.
📍Carrer del Pintor Salvador Abril, 29.
📱General Info and reservations.
Saiti
Local produce, seasonal produce and rice dishes define Vicente Patiño’s project.
📍Carrer de la Reina Na Germana, 4.
📱General Info and reservations.
Toshi Restaurant
Mediterranean cuisine by a Japanese chef. Finesse with a lot of flavor. A must in the city.
📍Carrer del Salvador, 5.
📱General Info and reservations.
Momiji
Japanese show at the Mercado de Colón and one of the best bars in the city.
📍Colón Market.
📱 General Info and reservations.
Soul Coffee Beer
In Valencia, for the second consecutive year, Soul Coffee Beer is the queen of hamburgers. It was chosen as the best local burger restaurant by the public in the last final of Burger Showdown Valencia.
📍 Carrer Sant Pasqual, 12.
📱 General Info and reservations.Fierro
Fierro is the experience and maturity of our chefs Germán Carrizo and Carito Lourenço, who for almost 10 years have been committed to Valencia, the Mediterráneo and its most personal interpretation.
📍C/ del Doctor Serrano, 4.
📱General Info and reservations.
At Valencia Secreta we always want to offer you the best. If after these 50 recommendations you are still hungry, you can take a look at our gastronomy section. New articles about restaurants and bars in Valencia will be available weekly.
* The photographs belong to the restaurants mentioned, unless otherwise indicated in the caption.