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Salazones are the salted fish of the almadraba coast: mojama tuna loin, tuna belly and roe, served thin with tomato and olive oil in Benidorm's seafood restaurants.
Salt-curing tuna belongs to the coasts that fished with the almadraba, the fixed tuna nets that made Benidorm's fortune from the 18th century until its main almadraba closed in 1952. Mojama, from an Arabic word meaning dried like wax, is cured tuna loin and a product of southern Valencia, Murcia and the Andalusian Atlantic. In Benidorm, Casa Toni serves tomato with almadraba salazones, Malaspina lists salazones among its Alicante specialities, and Rice cures its own tonyina de sorra.
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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.
Malaspina, the Mercure hotel's restaurant near Poniente beach in Benidorm, cooks Alicante rice, salt-cured fish and grilled aged meat; a Repsol Solete holder.
OrderA rice dish of the day, then aged beef from the grill if you have room.
TipIt took second prize at the 2026 Benidorm tapas contest; the Corner Bar on the same floor serves cocktails and casual plates.
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