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Paella Valenciana (Cúrate) is a signature dish of United States; we have verified places to eat it in Asheville. Bomba rice cooked in a wide pan with chicken, rabbit, garrofó beans, green beans and saffron-tomato sofrito. Start with where to eat Paella Valenciana (Cúrate) in Asheville.
Bomba rice cooked in a wide pan with chicken, rabbit, garrofó beans, green beans and saffron-tomato sofrito. The traditional Valencian recipe served at lunch.
Katie Button and Felix Meana's Cúrate opened on Biltmore Avenue in 2011 and won the 2022 James Beard Outstanding Hospitality award. Meana was raised in Valencia, where his family ran a restaurant; Cúrate's paella Valenciana follows the canonical Valencia version (chicken, rabbit, garrofó, green beans; never seafood). The daily paella lunch became the city's standout splurge value-meal in the 2010s, and the dish put Spanish cooking on the Asheville food map permanently. The kitchen runs traditional Valencia, plus seasonal seafood paellas at dinner.
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