Where Valencia shops, snacks and lunches: the markets worth your morning.
Food markets, farmers markets and covered halls: where Valencia shops, snacks and lunches.
Mercado Central in Valencia is the 8,000 sqm modernist food market inaugurated in 1928, with 400-plus stalls of fish, produce, meat and the city's chef-supply backbone.
Go for: Fish, Produce, Tapas, Modernist architecture
Tip: Best on Saturday mornings before 11:00. Central Bar by Ricard Camarena for bocadillo de calamares.
Mercado de Colon in Valencia's Eixample is the 1916 modernist food-hall market, now a gastronomic-and-leisure space with horchaterias, wine bars and casual restaurants.
Go for: Horchata, Wine bars, Brunch, Modernist architecture
Tip: Horchateria Daniel for horchata, Habitual for arroz, Ma Khin for pan-Asian. Open daily through the evening.
Mercado de Russafa is the daily produce market for Valencia's Russafa quarter, a covered market established in 1957 (current building 1962) with fish, produce and Valencian small-producer stalls.
Go for: Produce, Fish, Russafa daily market
Tip: Best mid-morning Tue to Sat. Cana and tapas at the surrounding bars after.
Mercado del Cabanyal in Valencia's fishing-village Cabanyal is a 1958 daily produce market with a fish counter sourced from the port two blocks away.
Go for: Fish, Cabanyal neighbourhood
Tip: Best on Saturday mornings before 11:00. The fish stalls have the freshest local catch.
Mercado de Rojas Clemente in Valencia's Extramurs is a smaller covered produce market, less touristed than the Central, with 60 stalls of produce, fish and meat.
Go for: Produce, Working-quarter neighbourhood
Tip: Quiet mid-morning. The fishmonger counters have a strong following with Extramurs locals.
Mercado Mossen Sorell on Placa de Mossen Sorell in Valencia's Carmen is a small reformed covered market with a focus on lunch counters, tapas bars and wine stalls.
Go for: Tapas, Wine bars, Lunch in El Carmen
Tip: Best for lunch noon to 14:30. The wine counter at the back pours by-the-glass Valencian small producers.