8 editor picks in Salou.
8 restaurants in Salou, editor-picked for restaurants open monday. Open on monday, the day most kitchens go dark. All restaurants in Salou.
Cook and Travel runs a globetrotting kitchen on Carrer de Llevant in Salou, with full-table tasting menus from smoked eel sushi to Tarragona red prawn rice.
OrderArroz seco de gamba roja de Tarragona, the red prawn rice on the €50 menu.
TipTasting menus go to the whole table and exclude drinks: Wonderland is €65 a head, a shorter rice menu €50, and the chef's table is booked separately.
Carbònic grills aged beef, fresh fish and seasonal vegetables over holm-oak charcoal on Carrer Major in Salou, backed by a cellar of more than 400 wines.
OrderThe Uruguayan Angus lomo alto, the cut the kitchen says it sells most, straight off the coals.
TipArtichokes with romesco are the seasonal favourite; the lounge bar keeps pouring after the kitchen closes, until 01:00 on Friday and Saturday.
Arena Restaurant is the Hotel Blaumar's restaurant open to the public on Passeig Jaume I in Salou, serving rice dishes and sharing plates by the promenade.
OrderA rice dish and a few raciones to share, the house recommendation in the Repsol guide.
TipArena opens from March to November only; the fish comes from the nearby fish auctions, so ask what landed that day.
La Goleta has cooked fish and shellfish beside Capellans beach in Salou since 1986, its wide windows framing one of the town's best-known coves.
OrderFish and shellfish from the local coast, the thing the kitchen has stood on since 1986.
TipSunday is lunch only; La Goleta also runs a beach chiringuito, listed on its website, for a more casual drink by the sand.
Terramar is a family-run seafood bar on the harbour breakwater in Salou, frying squid and steaming mussels since 1983, with tables looking over the port.
OrderCalamares a la romana and steamed mussels, the two plates the Repsol guide recommends.
TipTerramar takes no reservations, so arrive early; the Repsol guide flags the queues that build at peak times.
banDarra is a tavern, vermouth bar and cocktail bar on Via Augusta in Salou, cooking rice, auction fish and grilled meat from 08:00 until 01:00 daily.
OrderA rice dish or the day's auction fish off the grill, with a vermouth first.
TipThe cellar lists more than 200 wines, Priorat and Montsant among them; the 2026 rice days billed it as Malapecora by Bandarra.
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.
Palermo 1962 is a family restaurant on Passeig de Jaume I in Salou, cooking Mediterranean plates since 1962, with a lunchtime menú del día on the promenade.
OrderArroz caldoso de bogavante, lobster soupy rice for a minimum of two.
TipThe menú del día runs 13:00 to 16:00; for two or more, the lobster soupy rice from the suggestions board is €26.90 a head.
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