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Most Popular Tapas in Valencia (Mas típicos tapas en Valencia)

Spanish “Tapa” is an appetizer or snack, in other words a small portion of any kind of food (can be fresh, served cold or cooked and served either cold or warm), usually accompanied by drinks. In many Spanish Provinces, tapa is almost a mandatory add-on to the glass...

Valencia’s Oranges

For most of us the title “Valencia’s Oranges” could be also written as “Valencian Oranges”. Sorry to say, but actually, these are two different (as we use to say) “animals”. “Valencia’s oranges” unambiguously define the origin of these godly fruits –...

Valencia Falla Street Food

Fallas Street-Sweets Obviously, there are no street festivities without street food. Valencian Fallas are not an exception - stalls and tents serving typical local food are lining downtown streets. Interestingly however, among all kinds of food it is not...

Traditional Valencian Fideua -Recipe Step by Step

Like many other dishes, the invention of the fideuá is attributed to an "accident", or in this case, rather to an anecdote starring two Valencian sailors (from Gandia specifically) around 1930. The ship's cook, known as "Gabrielo", knowing the devotion of the boat's...

Traditional Easter Sweets and Desserts in Valencia

Without a doubt, “La Semana Santa” (Holy Week of Easter) is one of the most wholeheartedly celebrated holidays in Valencia. As the matter of fact, the city has its own version known as “Semana Santa Maritima”. It reflects a sort of “Union in Life &...

How to Order Beer in Spain

Beer is one of the most popular alcoholic drinks across the world, and Spain is not an exception. Cerveza (Spanish name for beer) similarly as coffee (café) offers good reasons for gathering with friends giving this way “social dimensions” to the consumption of this...

How to order Coffee in Spain

In short - coffee is a dark-brownish, bitter drink prepared from roasted coffee seeds (beans). Well, while it may be a good scientific description, it does not reflect the reality. These days, the coffee is the world-wide phenomenon having multiple...

Restaurant El Asador de Aranda Valencia

For millennia, eating was (and still is) considered as one of our fundamental needs to feed organism with vital “life-sustaining” components. And then we discovered the “Dining”, an event taking our eating experience far beyond just the feel of hunger...

Café de las Horas Old Town Valencia

Among countless Valencian cafés, one of the most exceptional is certainly Café de las Horas. Located next to the Plaza de la Virgen on Carrer del Comte d'Almodóvar, this year it will celebrate 25 years of operation. Well, let’s face it – amazing 25 years...

Tips in Valencia – To Tip or Not to Tip?

The shortest answer is: No, you don't have to tip in restaurants, here in Spain, and no nobody will feel offended if you don't, but (yes, there is always a "but"): 1. Leaving behind a small change to round up to the nearest Euro makes sense (doesn't it?) 2. I always...

Café-restaurant El Menjar amb Viracre Valencia

“The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star”). This famous sentence by Brillat-Savarin (one of 20 Commandments from his book “The physiology of taste”) confirms the well-known truth: Everybody has...

Roscón de Reyes – Kings Cake – History and Tradition

So, what is Roscón de Reyes (Kings Cake in English)? No doubt, that for many of us, Christmas is an important spiritual Holiday, but for even larger part of population it is also a “Fiesta”. Like all fiestas (starting from ancient times), it’s the time...

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