Restaurants and bars in Alicante
Start the day as you mean to go on, people-watching over breakfast at restaurants along Alicante's grand beachfront boulevard. Join the locals for evening tapas snack dishes in atmospheric wood-lined bars in Alicante's old quarter, El Barrio. After dinners of squid in its own ink, join Alicante bar-hoppers for all-night cocktails down by the glitzy port.
Alicante restaurant districts
Sit at a wooden table under the geraniums at reasonably priced, whitewashed restaurants in Alicante's pretty Santa Cruz area. You'll soon gather that the big attraction in Alicante restaurants is locally grown arroz rice. Try it a banda, with seafood and fish stock, under towering palms on the Explanada de España seafront promenade. Take a culinary trip from Italy to India via Japan at glass-walled El Puerto restaurants in Alicante's sleek, modern marina complex.
Alicante restaurant tips
In Alicante, restaurant kitchens keep late hours. Don't expect lunch before 2pm or dinner before 9.30pm, except at more tourist-orientated restaurants in Alicante. Look out for good-value menús del día, fixed-price weekday lunches, for a quick and easy choice. Order several evening raciones, larger portions of tapas snack dishes, in Alicante's bars, and you probably won't want dinner. Many Alicante restaurants close on Sunday or Monday evenings.
Alicante bars
Spend lazy days drinking coffee outside an Art Nouveau Alicante bar on the Rambla. As night falls over El Barrio's winding streets, drink wine al fresco or squeeze into hip music bars with Alicante's lively party crowd. Sip cocktails along the Marina's yacht-studded promenade or at open-air bars around Alicante's Calle San Fernando street. In summer, watch the sun rise from a laidback chiringuito beach bar on Alicante's golden-sanded Playa San Juan.
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