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Fideuà swaps rice for short noodles cooked in fish stock in a paella pan, a Valencian dish from Gandía that Benidorm's seafood houses serve beside their rice.
Fideuà comes from Gandía, on the Valencian coast north of Benidorm. The best-known story credits Gabriel Rodríguez Pastor, cook on a Gandía fishing boat, who swapped the rice in an arroz a banda for noodles; another names Emilio López Bonías in the 1950s. It is cooked like a paella with fish stock, cuttlefish and prawns and served with allioli. In Benidorm, Casa Toni makes a marinera fideuà and Rice one with langoustine and pumpkin.
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Also in: Barcelona, Salou, Valencia.
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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