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The restaurants in Guardamar are generally good value for money, varied and
cosmopolitan, plus, there's always a good selection of restaurants around that
offer excellent local cooking.
The typical dish of Guardamar is the caldero, in which the ingredients are
basically fish, in its different variations, and rice with the consommé from the
fish. Other typical seafood dishes are: cod stew, sea bream, mackerel, ray,
mojama, roe, tunny and shark.
The food in Spain is extremely healthy, with plenty of fresh fish and seafood,
combined with fresh produce from local markets, but all tastes are catered for.
In Guardamar and nearby areas, you'll find every kind of restaurant you could
wish for, ranging from a mouth watering variety of restaurants of all kinds.
Along with the local fresh fish and seafood restaurants and typical Spanish
cuisine of the region you'll also find a wealth of international restaurants -
Italian, French, Mexican, English, Thai, German, Chinese, Indian, . . . . . to
name but a few !
When contacting anyone that you see on this website, please mention that you saw
them on GuardamarInformation.com.
Lunch time in Spain is not before 2pm and dinner is usually at about 10pm but
restaurants in tourist resorts have adjusted their timetable to people wishing
to eat earlier.
Grading - restaurants are graded into four classes but this is often done
according to the décor and the number of dishes and prices of the tourist menu
available rather than the quality of the food and service.
Snacks - for light meals, many restaurants and cervecerias in Guardamar
serve a selection of tapas which are small dishes of tasty snacks eaten with a
drink. They can be served in three sizes: pinchos, tapas and raciones, the
largest.
Vegetarian - most Spanish restaurants in Guardamar and nearby areas normally
cater for vegetarians, you'll usually find a tortilla, salad or vegetable tapas.
Payment/tips - prices may not always include tax and it's usual to pay loose
change, (maximum 5%) in tips if the service and food has been good enough -
never leave any tips if the service and food
has not been good enough.
The wines of the region - the wines from the east coast of Spain have the
following labels of quality: Alicante, Valencia, Jumilla, Utiel-Requena and
Yecla, which cover quite different wines. Those from Alicante are reds and rosés
with a high alcohol content of between 12 and 16%. Those from Valencia are
usually white, dry and very fresh. The Jumilla wines (Murcia area) are easy to
distinguish because they are aged in oak restaurantrels. In both cases the
alcohol content is very high, and they are dark red and thick. Yacla has reds
and rosés with between 13 and 15% alcohol and a very pleasant mild taste.
Try a very nice summer wine called Vino Verano.
When you come across other good restaurants in Guardamar, either email the
details to
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