Fideuà
Photo: Jorge Díaz from Madrid, Spain · CC BY-SA 2.0

Fideuà is paella made with short hollow noodles instead of rice, cooked in fish stock with cuttlefish, prawns and shellfish and served with allioli, a staple of the southern Catalan coast.

Fideuà is attributed to the port of Gandia, where, the story goes, a boat cook around 1930 swapped rice for noodles so the captain would leave more of the arròs a banda for the crew. The dish spread along the Valencian coast and into southern Catalonia and the Ebro lands. In Salou it sits beside paella on the rice houses' menus, Roce and La Pasión among them.

2 editor picks for Fideuà in Salou, ranked by editorial score. All Salou signature dishes · Fideuà across every city.

Also in: Barcelona, Benidorm, Valencia.

Roce ★ 3.9

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Roce is the Salou outpost of a Cambrils rice house, opened in 2024 on Carrer de Colón below the cliffs, cooking paellas, arròs and fideuà daily.

OrderA paella or the fideuà, the two dishes at the centre of the kitchen.

TipA sister Roce runs on Carrer de Sant Pere in Cambrils; in Salou, book by phone at busy weekend lunches.

La Pasión ★ 3.7

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La Pasión is a rice and grill restaurant on Via Roma in Salou, cooking paellas, arroces and fideuà alongside meat, fish and a daily set lunch menu.

OrderA paella or fideuà for the table, the kitchen's main business.

TipThe daily menu is the value play at lunch; La Pasión took part in the Salou rice days in spring 2026 with a cod and prawn rice.

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