The paella is the most international dish in Valencia, the one that everyone wants to try when they come to the city for the first time. However, those of us here know that there is another great unknown that equals or even surpasses it as a gastronomic experience: baked rice.
This dish, which is traditionally cooked in a clay pot, includes rice, chickpeas, blood sausage, tomato, potato, bacon and garlic. And you can try it, among many others, in these restaurants in Valencia.
Forn de Sant Pere
This oven of Xàtiva prepares the arròs al forn in a centenary wood oven. You can enjoy this delight, which should be a World Heritage Site, any day of the week, Monday through Sunday. Above you have the review of @vdebonitos, who tell more details.
📍Plaça Sant Pere, 5, Xàtiva.
Alfàbega Grill
Located in Alginet, this grill specialized in meats and hamburgers leaves a hole in its embers to cook baked rice to order. Also available in our Alfàbega menu, it is prepared with rice variety “Albufera” D.O. Valencia and is priced at 14,50 euros per portion.
📍 Pol. Ind. North, C. del Censal, 21, 46230 Alginet.
Restaurant La Riuà
This restaurant in Valencia prepares up to 6 different types of baked rice dishes, such as coca, with crust or gravel, among others. The traditional one, which includes rice, chickpeas, tomato, garlic, pork ribs, blood sausage and potato, costs 16 euros per person.
📍Carrer del Mar, 27.
Racó del Turia
For 21 euros you can eat a baked rice in the heart of Valencia. They only work by order, but this is one of the most traditional and visited restaurants to eat rice in the Valencian Eixample. Its rice is cooked in a traditional clay pot with pork ribs, bacon, blood sausage, tomato, chickpeas, potato and garlic.
📍Carrer de Ciscar, 10, Valencia.
La Cova Restaurant
The top of this list is in Fontanars dels Alforins, a traditional bar-restaurant in this town, where in addition to drinking good wine, you can enjoy a baked rice that just by looking at the photo will make your mouth water.
📍Plaza Virgen del Rosario, 9, 46635 Fontanars dels Alforins.
Chaparro House
This rice restaurant in Riba Roja del Turia, serves baked rice (on request) in two versions: one, the traditional one, with bacon, black pudding, garlic head… And another one with extra pork trotters, a delicacy. The price is 15 euros per person.
📍 C/ Sequia Marxitana nº8, Riba-Roja.