A Guide to Life in Valencia

With the motto ‘Cook for enjoyment’, you know it’s going to be good!
Restaurant RiFF takes local market food and creates a variety of Mediterranean dishes.
The menu includes Spanish, Greek, Italian and middle Eastern dishes. The restaurant also offers cooking classes for novices to find the passion in cooking.
Hours:
Lunch: Tuesday – Saturday from 13:30 to 15:30.
Dinner: [...]

La Salvaora Taberna Española is a Spanish tavern-style resturant in the heart of the Barrio del Carmen area of Valencia.
Choose a few plates from the list of La Salvaora’s tapas and entrees for a well executed Spanish dining experience.
Foodies will love the choices from monk fish carpaccio, pate of rabbit, deer and wild boar, tripe [...]

Sagardi is an upmarket choice for both tapas and Basque cuisine with an injection of other regional varieties.
Sagardi is based on the old cider houses and small taverns of the Basque country, where locals would gather to try the year’s batch of cider.
Sagardi continually strives for a mix of class and tradition in its atmospheric [...]

The one thing I noticed when moving to Spain was that while the croissants are look like French ones, they are always heavier and not nearly as buttery and as flaky.
I am glad to say that I’ve found a solution – El Parisien Café!
This French-style patisserie on Calle de Guillem de Castro is superb! Even [...]

Everything about Orient Xpress suggests a quick meal on the cheap. But forget anything you know about judging a restaurant by its appearance, because Orient Xpress is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

We’ll start with the good – the food is excellent. Far better than I had expected. I started with a salad followed by [...]

The ginger loft is a new cafe-lounge in central Valencia, Spain situated on C/Vitoria, a side street off C/San Vicente Martir between Plaza Ayuntamiento and Plaza de la Reina.
We offer a selection of classic and modern tapas styled dishes, using many International flavours, especially regional Asia. These can be accompanied with some wonderful Valencian Community [...]

Near the Mercado Central, you’ll find a great little Indian restaurant and cocktail bar named Dhaba in the Plaza Don Juan de Villarrasa.
Served under a concept called “Thali”: created for people who want to sample the wide array of Hindu cooking instead of having to order just one large dish.
Thali consists of various dishes, called [...]