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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; in Spain we have verified places to eat it in Benidorm, Salou and Valencia.
Arroz del senyoret · Benidorm
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.
Where to eat in Benidorm:
- Casa Toni
- Rice
- El Barranco
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Arròs del senyoret · Salou
Arròs del senyoret, the "gentleman's rice", comes with all its seafood already peeled so nothing has to be picked apart at the table, cooked in a rich fish and shellfish stock.
The name comes from the idea of a diner too grand to peel his own prawns: every piece of seafood in the pan is shelled before it goes in. On the Salou coast the Club Nàutic restaurant makes it with red prawns from the fish auction, and La Taberna del Áncora served an "El Senyoret" style arròs a la llauna in the 2026 rice days.
Where to eat in Salou:
- Restaurant Club Nàutic Salou
- La Taberna del Áncora
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Arroz del senyoret · Valencia
Arroz del senyoret is the gentleman's paella: a seafood rice where all the shellfish is peeled before serving, so the eater does not have to do the work.
Arroz del senyoret (literally 'little gentleman's rice') is a Valencian and Alicante variation on seafood paella, where all the prawns, langoustines and squid are peeled and shelled before going into the rice. The dish was reputedly developed in coastal hotel kitchens for diners who did not want to dirty their fingers. The flavour-builder is the seafood stock made from the discarded shells. La Riua and La Pepica both cook canonical versions.
Where to eat in Valencia:
- La Pepica
- La Riua
Where to eat Arroz del senyoret in Valencia: the editor picks
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