Have you ever wondered what the best traditional restaurants in Valencia are? If so, you will get out of doubts by reading this post. Every one of the establishments that make up our list is characterised by making the most of the Valencian gastronomic tradition. Remember them the next time you want to enjoy the pleasures of fine dining.
Paella, fideuá, all i pebre, esgarraet… the traditional Valencian gastronomy pampers our palate with its exquisite flavours. Heirs of the Mediterranean diet, their dishes are healthy and delicious at the same time. Tasting these recipes is as easy as going to the most authentic restaurants in Valencia. Are you signing up?
Top 12 best traditional restaurants in Valencia
- Pelayo Gastro Trinquet
- Casa Baldo 1915
- Vaqueta Gastro Trinquet
- Casa El Famós
- Rausell
- Alqueria El Brósquil
- La Pascuala Winery
- Bodega Anyora
- El Sequer de Tonica
- Yarza
- Casa Mundo
- Habitual
1. Pelayo Gastro Trinquet
Considered one of the best traditional restaurants in Valencia, its lunches, tapas and rice dishes are known throughout the capital. To give just one example, savouring its seafood titaina immerses you fully in the typical gastronomy of the Cabanyal. Did you know that the restaurant has a 2023 Cacau d’Or Award?
This establishment of the Gasto Trinquet group is located in a perfect place to connect with the tradition of the city of Turia. Its headquarters hosted Valencian pilot championships for more than a century.
| Pelayo Gastro Trinquet |
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| Google score: 4,3✮/5 (de 8.391 reviews) |
| Neighborhood: Extramurs |
| Price: €€ |
| Address: Carrer de Pelayo, 6, 46007 València |
| Features: Vegetarians | Celiac | Accessible | Wi-Fi | Reservations | High chairs | Gift cards | Non-smoking | Open late | Reservations |
2. Casa Baldo 1915
It is very difficult to find a list of the best traditional restaurants in Valencia that does not include Casa Baldo 1915. In fact, it is considered one of the main references of Valencian rices, both dry and honeyed. This legendary establishment has been awarded the Amstel Cacau d’Or 2024 Special Prize.
A century of history has turned Casa Baldo 1915 into one of the most mythical places in Valencia. After dedicating itself to other activities, the establishment was converted to a restaurant by the Gasto Trinquet group. Its careful interior design evokes the unmistakable atmosphere of modernist cafés.
| Casa Baldo 1915 |
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| Google score: 4,1✮/5 (de 3.030 reviews) |
| Neighborhood: Ciutat Vella |
| Price: €€ |
| Address: Carrer Ribera, 5, 46002 València |
| Features: Accessible | Terrace | Vegetarians | Celiacs | Wi-Fi | Dogs allowed | Reservations | High chairs | Digital payments | Family style | Non-smoking | Gift cards | Open late | Reservations |
3. Vaqueta Gastro Mercat
Any bon vivant knows that Vaqueta is one of the best traditional restaurants in Valencia. Its talented way of preparing dishes such as artisan alioli and potted rice is strongly linked to the traditions of the land. To further emphasise the link that unites it to the city of Turia, it has a decoration full of nods to native interior design.
In Vaqueta, they have it very easy to recreate the most genuine Valencian food. Hidden behind the back of a greengrocer’s shop, it is located just 120 meters from the famous Mercat Central, so you have the ingredients of proximity at a step (literally). This privileged location allows dishes such as senyoret rice to be prepared as it was done in the old days.
| Vaqueta Gastro Mercat |
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| Google score: 4,2✮/5 (de 4.116 reviews) |
| Neighborhood: Ciutat Vella |
| Price: €€€ |
| Address: Carrer San Fernando, 22, 46001, València |
| Features: Grilled seafood | Sushi bar | Lounges | Private lounge | Celiac | Dog friendly | Accessible | Terrace | Family style | Digital payments | Wi-Fi | High chairs | Non-smoking | Reservations |
4. Casa El Famós
When you want to eat Valencian food the old-fashioned way, Casa El Famós is one of your obligatory stops. It is the oldest tavern in the entire Valencian Community, and its homemade recipes have passed through the hands of eight generations. His extensive career was recognized with the Valencian Hospitality Awards in 2017.
Located in an alquería (typical Valencia workhouse), the place started selling all kinds of items. However, he has been focusing exclusively on gastronomy for 75 years now. As a curiosity, the paintings that decorate the walls are the work of the father of the current managers.
| Casa El Famós |
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| Google score: 4,2✮/ (de 2.243 reseñas) |
| Neighborhood: Algirós |
| Price: €€€ |
| Address: Camino de la Iglesia de Vera, 14 |
| Features: Terrace | Fireplace | Accessible | High Chairs | Vegetarian | Vegan | Celiac | Reservations |
5. Rausell
Founded in 1948, Rausell is another of the veteran family restaurants in the capital. It is said that there you can eat one of the best patatas bravas in Valencia, to which we must add a very complete menu of rice dishes. Its contribution to local gastronomy is so relevant that the restaurant was distinguished with the Stories with Apron Award 2022.
The bar is the nerve centre of this iconic restaurant with a bar soul. Its winery deserves a special mention (the germ from which the place that it is today was born); in it, we can find more than 150 references.
| Rausell |
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| Google score: 4,6 ✮/ (de 2.553 reviews) |
| Neighborhood: Extramurs |
| Price: €€ |
| Address: Carrer d’Àngel Guimerà, 61 |
| Features: Wi-Fi | High Chairs / Vegetarian | Vegan | Celiac | Accessible | Take away | Private lounge | Reservations |
6. Alquería del Brosquil
Since it started its journey in 2008, Alquería del Brosquil has made merits to become one of the best traditional restaurants in Valencia. A good example of this is its menu, where the most authentic dishes of the Valencian table stand out above all (arroz a banda, titaina, esgarraet, etc.). Its know-how has earned it the Repsol 2021 solete.
A renovated farmhouse surrounded by orange trees serves as the headquarters for this restaurant. Despite its restoration, the building still treasures the charm of traditional farmhouses. Consequently, both the interior of the establishment and its surroundings pay a notable tribute to the Valencian orchard.
| Alquería del Brosquil |
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| Google score: 4,6 ✮/ (de 3.605 reviews) |
| Neighborhood: Pobles del Sud |
| Price: €€€ |
| Address: Entrada Casa El Llarc, 1, Castellar |
| Features: Terrace | High Chairs /Wi-Fi | Vegetarian | Vegan | Celiac | Accessible | Private lounge | Parking | Reservations |
7. La Pascuala Winery
Although it premiered in 2017, Easter has been among us since 1921. It is known as “the temple of the esmorzaret Valencia“, thanks to its gigantic entrepans. Not for nothing, it won the first Cacau d’Or Award in 2015.
This century-old restaurant usually serves as a venue for all kinds of social and gastronomic events. Despite its relocation and modernization, it has managed to remain faithful to its seafaring legacy.
| La Pascuala Winery |
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| Google score: 4,2✮/ (de 8.506 reviews) |
| Neighborhood: Poblats Marítims |
| Price: € |
| Address: Carrer del Dr. Lluch, 299 |
| Features: To take away / Accessible | Reservations |
8. Anyora Winery
Family recipes very attached to the Valencian traditions and wines with history meet at the Anyora Winery. Among its specialities we can find preserves, casquería and the famous salting boards of the Cabañal.
Before becoming a restaurant, Anyora was an old winery. Truly, its ties with oenology are still very present, having been a finalist in the GastroCOPE 2022 Awards in the category “Establishment with the best wine proposal”.
| Bodega Anyora |
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| Google score: 4,4✮/ (de 2.381 reviews) |
| Neighborhood: Poblats Marítims |
| Price: €€€ |
| Address: Carrer d’En Vicent Gallart, 15 |
| Features: Food Happy hour / Wi-Fi | Vegetarian | Celiac | Accessible | Reservations |
9. El Sequer de Tonica
The Sequer de Tonica is located in the heart of the Albufera Natural Park. This bucolic environment provides the perfect setting to prepare the typical Valencian dishes. Its menu is a tribute to local gastronomy. This is evidenced by dishes such as clóchinas, tellinas, sepietas and a varied menu of rice dishes, where classics such as “Fesols i naps” stand out.
With a simple and functional decoration, everything in this restaurant is designed to take your gastronomic experience to the top. His way of preparing the most emblematic dishes of Valencia has earned him distinctions such as the Cullera de Fusta, the Traveller’s Choice of Tripadvisor or the Top 100 of The Fork.
| El Sequer de Tonica |
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| Google score: 4,5 ✮/ (de 2.030 reviews) |
| Neighborhood: Pobles del Sud |
| Price: €€ |
| Address: Carrer dels Redolins, 85, El Palmar |
| Features: Food Happy hour / Wi-Fi | Vegetarian | Celiac | Accessible | Reservations |
10. Yarza
The chef Manuel Yarza is the architect of this restaurant, named after him. The specialised criticism puts it through the roof. The cuttlefish and squid stews, the cod fritters on titaina and the lobster with cap i pota are among its specialities.
The fish market, local products and the very personal touch that the chef gives you make eating at this restaurant an unforgettable experience. In addition, its minimalist interior design (in which only a striking vertical bottle rack stands out) is perfect for us to focus on what really matters.
| Yarza |
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| Google score: 4,6 ✮/ (de 803 reviews) |
| Neighborhood: L’Eixample |
| Price: €€ |
| Address: Carrer de Ciscar, 47 |
| Features: Terrace | High Chairs / Vegetarian | Celiac | Reservations |
11. Casa Mundo
Casa Mundo is the dream come true of Edmundo ”Mundo” Suárez and his wife. This former Valencia CF player opened the restaurant in 1953 and has not stopped until he has turned it into one of the most emblematic in the capital. The sardine coke, the cuttlefish with mayonnaise and, above all, the squid sandwich are some of their must-haves and don’t forget to order a good cremaet to finish!
Completely renovated in 2019, the decoration of the restaurant is the closest thing to a Valencia CF museum. Without a doubt, this is the perfect corner for the Valencianista fan to put on their boots with all kinds of 100% Valencian snacks and tapas.
| Casa Mundo |
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| Google score: 4,0 ✮/ (3.157 de reviews) |
| Neighborhood: Ciutat Vella |
| Price: € |
| Address: Carrer de Don Juan de Austria, 11 |
| Features: Terrace | |
12. Habitual
Located in the Colón Market, HABITUAL is the most Valencian gastronomic bet of Chef Ricard Camarena. Its menu places special emphasis on vegetables and local products to prepare dishes that evoke the unmistakable personality of the recipes of a lifetime.
The orchards of the district of Mahuella and its surroundings are what provide this restaurant. The freshness of its products plays an essential role in the elaboration of Camarena’s creations. Their grilled beach monkfish and their payés chicken rice wouldn’t be the same without those ingredients.
In addition to being one of the best traditional restaurants in Valencia, HABITUAL stands out for its great ecological awareness. That commitment to sustainability and proximity products has earned it a 2022 Sustainable Management Award.
| Habitual |
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| Google score: 4,5 ✮/ (de 2.762 reviews) |
| Neighborhood: L’Eixample |
| Price: €€ |
| Address: Mercat de Colón, Carrer de Jorge Juan, 19 |
| Features: Vegetarian | Vegan | Celiac | Accessible | / Private lounge | Wi-Fi | Gift Card | High Chairs | Reservations |
Those who are looking for the best traditional restaurants in Valencia to give themselves a well-deserved gastronomic tribute, have an unmissable appointment with the Gastro Trinquet group. Located in the centre of the capital of Turia, our establishments Pelayo, Casa Baldo and Vaqueta capture the very essence of the Valencian culinary culture. Which one will you visit first?