Valencia: Morning Food Tour with Central Market Visit
Start your day off right and experience a true Valencian morning strolling through the city. Join this guided food tour, visit the bustling Central Market, and taste a...
Horchateria Daniel is a street-food stop in Valencia.
Editorially verified May 21, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Stand at the counter; horchata is served iced with a long farton for dipping.
Start your day off right and experience a true Valencian morning strolling through the city. Join this guided food tour, visit the bustling Central Market, and taste a...
Discover the most interesting parts of Valencia's city center while tasting local cuisine. Enjoy delicious dishes such as fried anchovies, croquetas, esgarraet, tortil...
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Address: Mercado de Colón, Calle Jorge Juan, 19, 46004 Valencia
Central Bar inside the Mercado Central in Valencia is Ricard Camarena's market-counter project, with bocadillos de calamares built from squid metres away.
Try: Bocadillo de calamares
Tip: Stand at the counter; the bocadillo is the noon order, with a cana or a vermut from the barrel.
Casa Montana on Carrer de Josep Benlliure in Valencia's Cabanyal has served esgarraet (the canonical Valencian salt-cod and roasted-pepper salad) since 1836.
Try: Esgarraet (salt-cod and roasted-pepper salad)
Tip: Reserve the tasting platter. The esgarraet pairs with a glass of barrel-bobal.
La Pilareta on Carrer del Moro Zeit in Valencia's Carmen has served clochinas (small native mussels) at the counter since 1917, with lemon and pepper.
Try: Clochinas (Valencian native mussels)
Tip: Clochinas season runs May to September. Out of season, ask for mussels (mejillones).
Cafe Madrid in Valencia is the 1959 birthplace of agua de Valencia, the cava-and-orange cocktail invented here, still poured by the carafe. Family-friendly.
Try: Agua de Valencia (cava + orange juice + gin + vodka)
Tip: Order by the carafe for two. The recipe has not changed since Constante Gil Rodriguez invented it.
Bunyolería El Contraste in Ruzafa is the rare Valencia bunyolería frying bunyols de carabassa (pumpkin fritters) and churros year-round, run.
Try: Bunyols de carabassa (pumpkin fritters)
Tip: Order bunyols de carabassa with a cup of chocolate caliente.