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Arroz del senyoret is the gentleman's rice of the Alicante coast: a seafood rice with every prawn and mussel shelled before cooking, so nothing needs peeling at the table.
The rice was created in the 1960s by Jaime Baydal at the Restaurant Baydal in Calp, up the coast from Benidorm, for diners who did not want to peel their shellfish; Calp has counted it as a local dish since 1998. Other tellings place it in Alicante or at La Pepica in Valencia. Squid or cuttlefish, prawns and clams or mussels go in already shelled. In Benidorm it is on the menus of Casa Toni, Rice at Sierra Cortina and El Barranco.
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Rice is a rice house on the Sierra Cortina estate above Benidorm, in Finestrat, cooking seven rices plus fideuà and rossejat, with grilled red prawns first.
OrderArroz de gamba roja y corvina for two, after a grilled red prawn each.
TipRice dishes are for at least two and the kitchen cooks one rice per table; dinner runs only on Friday and Saturday, so plan a long lunch.
Casa Toni has cooked fish and shellfish in Benidorm since 1992, from bay red prawns and almadraba salazones to arroz del senyoret and fideuà for two or more.
OrderBay red prawns from the plancha, then arroz del senyoret for the table.
TipIt sits in the Los Gemelos IV building on Avenida de Cuenca, a few streets back from Levante beach; Sunday is lunch only.
El Barranco is a seafront rice and fish house on Poniente beach in Benidorm, cooking arroz a banda, arroz del senyoret and rice with anchovies and spinach.
OrderArroz con boquerones y espinacas, Benidorm's own rice, for at least two.
TipRice dishes are made for at least two; a local quoted by Guía Repsol picks the salt-baked fish and the grilled baby squid.
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