10 editor picks in Benidorm.
10 restaurants in Benidorm, editor-picked for restaurants open monday. Open on monday, the day most kitchens go dark. All restaurants in Benidorm.
La Cava Aragonesa has run a long tapas bar on Plaza de la Constitución in Benidorm's old town since 1980, known for yescas, pintxos and more than 700 wines.
OrderA tabla of four yescas, toasted bread rubbed with tomato and topped with cured meats or cheese.
TipStand at the bar to choose from the counter; the dining room takes bookings and serves a daily set menu.
D-Vora is the RH Canfali hotel's terrace restaurant by the church of Sant Jaume in Benidorm's old town, cooking Mediterranean food with Nikkei touches.
OrderArroz a la llanda with monkfish, squid and red prawns, after a bay-fish tiradito.
TipSet menus are served to the whole table and close at 15:00 at lunch and 22:00 at night; breakfast starts at 08:00 on the sea-view terrace.
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.
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.
Puig Campana has served fish, shellfish and rice on the beach at La Cala de Finestrat, past the far end of Benidorm's Poniente bay, since 1970.
OrderOne of the seafood rice dishes, or whatever fish came in that morning.
TipBookings are taken by phone only; it runs themed menus through the year, such as a blue lobster weekend in late September.
Brasería Aurrera grills aged beef, seafood and fish over charcoal on Calle Santo Domingo in Benidorm's old town, a 50-seat room opened in 2004.
OrderA charcoal-grilled cut of aged beef, or a mixed seafood parrillada for two.
TipThe daily set menus are built around rice; it sits among the pintxo bars of Santo Domingo, the street Basque visitors made their own.
Ducado has cooked traditional Mediterranean food in Benidorm since 1980: sea bream, sea bass and other fish, lobster rice, milk-fed lamb and Iberian ham.
OrderArroz con bogavante, or whichever whole fish is on the day's list.
TipRoast suckling pig is cooked to order, so call ahead; Monday is lunch only and the restaurant closes all day Tuesday.
Taberna Andaluza cooks southern Spanish bar food on Calle del Esperanto in Benidorm: cazón en adobo, clams a la marinera, garlic prawns and hand-cut ham.
OrderCazón en adobo, dogfish marinated in spices and vinegar, then fried.
TipIts Presa Bao won the public vote at the 2026 Benidorm tapas contest; Wednesday is the closing day.
Marisquería El Puerto sits on Paseo de Colón by Benidorm's harbour, below the old town, cooking rice dishes, bay fish, shellfish and grilled beef.
OrderA seafood rice for the table, or the fish of the day from the harbour.
TipA regular in the city's 2026 food weeks: spoon dishes in March, bluefin tuna in April and the June tapas contest.
El Mesón has run a restaurant and cervecería on Calle Gerona in Benidorm for over 40 years, cooking meat, fish and shellfish over holm-oak embers.
OrderA cut of beef from the holm-oak grill, with a plate of tuna belly and tomato to start.
TipThe cervecería side serves all day from 09:00; the restaurant took part in the city's 2026 spoon-dish, tuna and tapas weeks.
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