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Arròs negre is rice cooked in fish stock with cuttlefish or squid and its ink, which turns the grains black; on the Salou coast it comes with allioli and small sepionets.
Arròs negre is shared by the Valencian and Catalan coasts: rice cooked like a paella with cuttlefish or squid, garlic, pepper, paprika and fish stock, coloured and flavoured with the ink. It is not traditionally called a paella. In Salou it is one of the standard rices: the Club Nàutic cooks it with sepionets, and several restaurants put it on their 2026 rice-days menus.
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Restaurant Club Nàutic Salou cooks rice dishes and fish from the auction on the first floor of the sailing club building on the port breakwater in Salou.
OrderArroz del senyoret with red prawns from the fish auction, at €35 a portion.
TipRice dishes are sold by the portion with a minimum of two; arròs negre with sepionets is the gentlest price at €22 a head.
4R Casablanca Restaurant is the 4R hotel group's Mediterranean dining room on Passeig de Miramar in Salou, with a terrace over Ponent beach and a set lunch.
OrderA rice dish; the 2026 rice-days version was arròs negre with zamburiñas and calçots.
TipBooking ahead is the way to ask for a terrace table, though the exact spot depends on availability; the bar also mixes cocktails.
Caffe di Mare is an all-day café, restaurant and cocktail bar on Carrer de Colón in Salou, from breakfast through crab rice and paella to drinks at 03:00.
OrderArròs de cranc, the crab rice it served for the 2026 rice days.
TipIn spring 2026 its rice-days menu offered crab rice, seafood paella or arròs negre; on autumn Thursdays it pours a Tasta Salou glass with a plate for €7.
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