Where to sit, sip and slow down in Benidorm.
Coffee shops, bakeries with seats and the places Benidorm lingers in over a cortado.
Florentine is a morning tea room on Benidorm's Avenida de Europa that bakes its own cakes each day: carrot, cheese, apple, red velvet and apple tatin.
DrinkCoffee with a slice of homemade carrot cake
TipIt closes at 14:00 and all day Tuesday; decorated fondant cakes and cupcakes are made to order if you ask ahead.
El Café de Axel pours specialty coffee on Calle Apolo XI in Benidorm, with homemade cakes such as carrot cake and muffins and a shop selling its coffee.
DrinkSpecialty coffee
TipIt opens at 08:00 on weekdays and closes at 13:00 on Saturday; its Facebook page runs the occasional charity auction.
Café París is the Belroy hotel's beachside café on Benidorm's Avenida del Mediterráneo, serving specialty coffee, fresh pastries, cakes and ice cream all day.
DrinkSpecialty coffee with fresh pastries
TipIt has a large outdoor terrace a few steps from Levante beach and stays open until 01:00, so it doubles as an after-dinner stop.
Easy Coffee is a small specialty coffee bar on Benidorm's Avenida de Europa, serving breakfast, pastries and cold coffee to the Levante crowd.
DrinkSpecialty coffee, iced in summer
TipIt keeps weekday hours only, 09:00 to 17:00; look for unit 7 in the block at Avenida de Europa 12.
Guiomar is a pastry shop and café in Benidorm's La Cala that bakes everything in its own obrador daily, from breakfast pastries to cakes and burger buns.
Worth the queueHouse cheesecake
DrinkCoffee with a pastry from the obrador
TipIt opens at 07:00 for breakfast pastries and stays open into the evening, when the menu turns to its handmade burgers.
Sugarpop Bakehouse bakes New York-style cookies and cheesecakes on Avenida de los Limones in Benidorm, with specialty coffee, matcha and lemonades.
Worth the queueNew York-style cookie
DrinkSpecialty coffee or matcha with a New York-style cookie
TipIt also pours specialty coffee, matcha and lemonades to go with the bakes; Sunday is the closing day.
Aruba Gastrolounge is an all-day beach restaurant on the Poniente promenade in Benidorm, its kitchen running non-stop from breakfast and brunch to dinner.
OrderBrunch on the terrace, or homemade cake and coffee in the afternoon.
DrinkCoffee with homemade cake in the afternoon
TipThe bar mixes tiki cocktails with Km 0 ingredients; it joined the April 2026 bluefin tuna week, and the ConBrassa group also runs it.
Madness Coffee roasts specialty coffee daily at its Benidorm café near Poniente beach, one of four roasteries it runs between Alicante and Cartagena.
DrinkCoffee roasted in the café
TipIt buys each origin green, following harvest seasons, and roasts to its own profile; the café serves breakfast, lunch and dinner.
La Creu Café is a café and chocolatería on Plaza de la Creu in Benidorm's old town, serving Valor hot chocolate with churros, ice cream and pizzas.
DrinkValor hot chocolate with churros
TipIt opens at 07:00 every day, early enough for chocolate and churros before the old town fills; the terrace sits on the square.
Cafe Leroy is a friendly, family-run café just off Levante beach in Benidorm, serving breakfasts, toasties, baguettes, jacket potatoes and burgers.
DrinkTea or coffee with breakfast
TipIt is a breakfast and lunch place that closes at 15:00 and all day Sunday; find it in the passage beside the La Gavina building on Avenida de Alcoy.
Café De Kroon is a Dutch eetcafé on Avenida de Murcia in Benidorm's Levante quarter, a terrace bar serving snacks and plain Dutch and Belgian comfort food.
OrderA frikandel or a pair of kroketten with a Belgian beer on the terrace.
DrinkA Belgian beer or coffee with Dutch snacks
TipIt draws a Dutch and Belgian crowd and posts in Dutch on its Facebook page; Sunday is the one closing day.
Pinocchio Playa is an Italian restaurant, pizzeria and gelateria on Avenida de Alcoy by Levante beach in Benidorm, making its own gluten-free pasta every day.
OrderA stone-baked pizza, then an ice cream from the house gelateria.
DrinkItalian coffee on the sea-view terrace with a gelato
TipIts gluten-free menu covers the whole card, with pasta made in-house; it entered the 2026 tapas contest with a gluten-free carbonara millefeuille.
Helados Sirvent has sold ice cream in Benidorm since 1954, a Xixona heladero family now in its third generation, scooping on the Levante promenade.
DrinkA granizado, the house iced slush
TipThe founder, Luis, was born in Xixona in 1926 and sold from street carts; a second parlour faces Poniente beach at Avenida Vicente Llorca Alós 13.
Broodje Benidorm has baked Dutch bread in Benidorm since 2023, from tijgerbrood and multigrain loaves to Dutch pastries and filled broodjes for lunch.
Worth the queueTijgerbrood, Dutch tiger bread
DrinkCoffee with a filled Dutch broodje
TipIt is a morning bakery, open Wednesday to Sunday until 14:00, and announces its seasonal bakes and closures on Facebook in Dutch.
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