The traditional beach bar, the one with the plastic chair, squid sandwich and beer, is a luxury in itself, and much more so in this long-awaited summer of the new normality. However, there are certain summer days when you feel like something more elaborate and elegant, a surprising culinary offer. Fortunately, in this country you can also find restaurants on the beach, or almost, where you can enjoy the restlessness of a chef. Next, you have a small selection of restaurants to enjoy gastronomy from the same coast.
1. Manolo House
Last Saturday was the date chosen by chef Manuel Alonso to reopen Casa Manolo, in Daimús, Valencia. The establishment, recognized with a Michelin star, opens a new season redefining its gastronomic offer. During the confinement of recent months due to the Covid crisis, Manuel Alonso and his father Manolo have cooked many dishes hand in hand, recovering the family recipe book. In this way, Casa Manolo rescues its essence of yesteryear, a family restaurant that offers traditional cuisine and great classics with the Alonso-Fominaya seal, founders of the beach bar. Tripe, monkfish wrapped in chips or rice with lobster are examples of the dishes that can be tasted in the restaurant (it reopened on June 20). “We are going to prepare those dishes that you would always like to eat, reinvent that classic, familiar, close restaurant and, of course, without giving up the best local raw material”, explains Manuel Alonso.
2. Ses Boques
This is an authentic, unique and very hidden restaurant on the south coast of Ibiza, near the small town of Es Cubells, serving fresh seafood in an intimate cove, with views of Formentera. The wooden terraces and the shade of the pines and junipers create a relaxed atmosphere for your lunches and dinners. Fresh fish, seafood paellas and lobster stew are some of the recipes that the Ses Boques family has been preparing with passion for 42 years. Joan Ribas (Portmany) and his wife Lourdes Tur discovered this remote place four decades ago. They started with a small beach bar called Ses Boques in 1974. Their passion for food, the place and their hospitality were the perfect ingredients to start this little project. Already in 1987 was built? the restaurant as it is now known. Everything else has been word of mouth from the people who started it? to discover the restaurant. Today it is one of the favorite places for residents on the island and every customer of Ses Boques feels that warm welcome offered by its owners and whoever finds that magical cove relaxes and enjoys free time with great Ibizan cuisine.
3. Rice Dune
This establishment, born in 2002, is completely immersed in the Natural Park of La Albufera de Valencia. In fact, its name is given by the dunes of El Saler beach, which is at the foot of the restaurant. And although it is not one of the oldest rice restaurants in Valencia, this place has managed to carve out a local clientele that enjoys traditional cuisine in an enviable setting. The restaurant, specialized in rice dishes, serves a total of 50 varieties, but its Valencian paella stands out. In Duna, they prepare it with free-range chicken, rabbit, vegetables -beans and jugs- and snails. If you already have the authentic recipe under control, you can liven up with other varieties, such as the paella with crayfish and artichoke or the one with shrimp. Of course, do not forget to start the meal with one of the starters on the menu: tellinas, clóchinas, eels in all i prebre or fresh beach sepionet. They are also authentic Valencia.
4. Maca de Castro
This restaurant, with a Michelin star since 2012, is a tasting space in Mallorca. The brothers Dani and Maca de Castro were involved in the family business from a very young age and today they form a professional tandem that is committed to contemporary cuisine. Located on the first floor of the enclosure that houses the establishments of the Dcastro group. On this first floor, innovation and tradition mix fearlessly to offer the magic of Maca’s cuisine, who travels the island in search of the best ingredients: the fish market of Puerto de Sóller for caproig, the port of Alcúdia for seafood. , a producer of mare’s milk in Lloseta, vegetables from his own garden in Sa Pobla. Maca de Castro’s dishes are harmony, an ode to that Mare Nostrum, which is intertwined with the chef’s creative philosophy and is combined with the essence, flavor and honesty of the Majorcan raw material.
5. Bibo Beach House
The most traveled concept of the Malaga chef Dani García begins his second season this year in Tarifa, on Valdevaqueros beach, with his summery look, but maintaining the personality of the Andalusian chef’s project. This restaurant on the beach offers an exclusive gastronomic proposal, in which Andalusian dishes and international cuisine are not lacking. Thus, its menu has specialties such as salads, rice dishes and special red tuna dishes, such as tuna and avocado tartar toast or almadraba tuna sirloin, as well as meats and the chef’s famous brioches. Among the new additions for this second season, the lamb kebab, salad with melva, old cow steak, fried chicken or the pineapple tiradito stand out, preparations that will surely seduce the palates of the most relishing visitors.
6. Athens Beach
Located in Novo Sancti Petri, Playa de la Barrosa, Chiclana de la Frontera, this beach bar is led by Miguel Grande, a restaurateur who is also part of the management team of the famous Madrid restaurant Los Galayos. For this season, Atenas Playa has included some novelties on the menu, such as sea bass and prawn ceviche, salmorejo or a selection of pizzas. In addition, it will continue to have the classics of the house, such as the homemade salad with shrimp, the lace fritters with free-range eggs and peppers, or the Iberian torreznos. As for rice and pasta, there is also rice with lobster, and soba with snow peas, mushrooms, prawns are incorporated. And it is also worth noting the whole squid from the potera, lightly fried with tartar sauce, a salmon tartar, the Cadiz-style fried cuttlefish or the shrimp tortillas.
7. Audrey’s
It does not fit into a beach restaurant, but it is located in one of the queen towns of national tourism, Calpe, it is very close to the beach and has a Michelin star. Audrey’s, at the AR Hotels & Resorts hotel, will open from the weekend of July 3 and is the place to enjoy Mediterranean haute cuisine. The truth is, chef Rafa Soler takes this sea as his pantry. Thus, in his menu you can find marine specimens, such as the red prawn, the sea fennel, the salicornia, the cuttlefish, the mackerel, the rock mullet or the Peix de Calp. In addition, he also takes produce from the Levantine orchard and the wetland, where the rice comes from, which the chef embroiders because of its Valencian origin. So much so that his cuisine has been called by many critics as food and wine for his involvement with the products of his land and for always working with small farmers, butchers and fishermen in the area.
8. Alma Beach
Located in the cove of Port des Torrent in Ibiza, this project was born to show the soul of an island that does not rest. Known as Sa Talaia Beach in an old stage, the project is resized offering its visitors three spaces on the same beach, Alma Brasas, Alma Sunset and Alma Eat is Life (the beach wellness center). Three very different proposals under a common denominator: privileged enclave, healthy gastronomy and careful interior design. In this way, they have created a concept that invites us to discover the roots and origins of the island. A place in which to reconnect with the Mediterranean both for the space and for the spirit that is felt in it.
9. Camuri Group
Grupo Camurí is already welcoming the arrival of summer at its restaurants in Tamanaco, Camurí-Las Cuchis and Camurí Laguna-Village in the towns of Marbella and Estepona through table reservations by phone or on its website. The establishments that will maintain their usual hours will also have a Take Away service to pick up at the premises with a 10% discount on the prices of their menu.
Grupo Camurí renews its wide gastronomic offer made with the best local produce. A careful wine list completes its proposal, to which is added an extensive variety of cocktails and different natural juices made at the moment. All the restaurants also have a view of the sea and a privileged location with a pleasant climate for much of the year, thus allowing the Camurí experience to be unforgettable. The restaurants have a terrace and a chill out area with hammocks on the beachfront where it is possible to have a light snack, drinks, natural juices or cocktails, looking at the sea.
10. Nacre by Annua
Sharing space with Annua, a restaurant in San Vicente de la Barquera awarded with 2 Michelin stars by chef Oscar Calleja, is his little brother, Nácar. A bistro & sea lounge designed for the enjoyment of all the senses. The lounge terrace is a spectacular viewpoint of the Cantabrian Sea, where you can enjoy a bistronomic menu. A creative fusion proposal, with a base rooted in the region, with local fish and meat products from Cantabria, and in which the chef and his team have let their imagination run wild with …
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