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The Region of Valencia has long boasted great gastronomy that reaches beyond the rice dishes and cocas it is perhaps best known for. Here you will find an extensive culinary tradition, fantastic products and the highest-level professionals, making the region a popular destination among foodies around the world.
The professionals working in the sector are a disparate group. Some safeguard time-old recipes while others are working on the cutting-edge of the avant-garde. From small family-run eateries to award-winning restaurants, the Region of Valencia is renowned for its foodie culture.
The brand “L’Exquisit Mediterrani” groups together professionals that though may work in different areas, have one thing in common: an expertise in handling local produce. Their creations are utterly irresistible. The Region of Valencia is also committed to training new talent who know how to get the balance between tradition and innovation just right.
During your time in the area, we recommend combining wine travel with gastronomic tourism in a journey that will take you on a discovery of timeless recipes and Designation of Origin products. You can also head off in search of innovation at restaurants awarded Michelin Stars and Soles Repsol.
Join us on a discovery of the Region of Valencia’s gastronomy. There are so many dishes and specialities that it would be impossible to list them all. In this post, we therefore thought that we’d put together a selection of some of the dishes and ingredients that best define the region.
Featured experiences
2 nights of accommodation in the Rustic Oh *** house, witness to the passage of King James I through these lands with a medieval festival. We recommend bringing clothing of the time for the occasion. Dinner consisting of 3 starters, meat, grape, infusion, sweet and liquor.
incluyed: wi-fi and jacuzzi double.
House 6 rooms doubles.
An ideal place close to the capital where you can enjoy a day of hiking and Nordic walking in the Mediterranean forest at the foot of the mountains of Les Rodanes. At the end you will leave your backpack and your walking sticks and you will enter an authentic Mediterranean cooking workshop with Joan Climent and Paco Albert. Have you tried a tasting of extra virgin olive oils?
You will learn how to find the aromas and discover the properties of each oil, and then, in the cooking workshop, you will learn how to make arroz de la ribera, the authentic rice that was made on the banks of the Turia. This is a day of hiking or Nordic walking where you will take home an apprenticeship in Mediterranean gastronomy.
We promise that this experience will be short for you. Eat well and varied, while you watch the sea in the background and immerse yourself in a relaxed atmosphere.
Gastronomy and Relax is the perfect getaway to recharge your batteries and de-stress.
Includes:
-2 nights of accommodation
-Breakfast, Paella menu at El Jardín restaurant and Fusion menu at Gastrobar Ñam
-Private session in the panoramic jacuzzi
-Welcome gift
In collaboration with the L'Escaleta restaurant, we propose a unique gastronomic getaway, so that you can be surprised by the proposal created by Chef KIKO MOYA.
Includes for two people:
- 1 night of accommodation in a Junior Suite with healthy and energetic breakfast.
- 1 Sabor l'Escaleta menu dinner for 2 people consisting of 12 passes:
- 2 Snacks
- 2 appetizers
- 6 plates
- 2 Desserts
- Bread, soft drink or beer, house wine and coffee
Live a gastronomic experience; breakfast and dinner. Dishes made of the best products from our region. Drink and coffee are not included. One night of equipped accommodation for minimum 2 people. Free Wi-Fi throughout the establishment. Great playground. Natural environment: one step away from the Ojos Negros Greenway and the Salto de la Novia area. Price from.
The IX Edition of the Peñíscola Plaza Wine Fair is here, an event where more than 30 winemakers and wine distributors will meet so that attendees can taste wines from different parts of Spain, and with notable participation from the Valencian Community.
The event will take place on November 29th and 30th in the hall of the Hotel & Spa Peñíscola Plaza Suites from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
The Hotel has prepared a promotion for the occasion that includes accommodation, full board, a glass for tastings and limited gastronomic tasting tickets.
Are you traveling as a family, in a group or as a couple? Maybe with your company colleagues? Turimaestrat is your rural house. Find your independence in the 10 fully equipped rural studios and share the most incredible experiences in the 120 m2 Common Room. Cook, prepare barbecues, dance, play ping pong ... You can also take the opportunity and get to know our surroundings with a visit to the oil storage and the ancient olive trees of our region. You will get to know first-hand that much appreciated liquid gold that we have in Mediterranean gastronomy:AOVE
Accessible Tourism, will show you the cultural and historical richness characteristic of the maritime towns. * we can organise bicycle, handbike and electric scooter rent. On the Tapas Tour we guide you through the traditional local Mediterranean seafood cuisine, accompanied by Vermouth, long time associated with the area. (Non alcoholic drinks will be provided).We include our Accessible Tourism map of the maritime towns. The detailed map points out the main tourist and cultural attractions and takes into consideration; physical and cognitive accessibility, and the Braille system. Inclusive Tourism, family, singles. Tourism, open to all, independent Healthy and responsible.
If you want to know everything about orange trees and the Valencian orange, we recommend this experience. Just 35 kilometers from the capital, you can spend a magnificent Saturday touring gardens, orange groves and their history. You will be able to visit an authentic orange warehouse and learn about the current situation of the Valencian citrus industry. Every Saturday of the year (collection between October and June).
Paella workshop is an experience in which to learn how to cook the typical Valencian paella.
In the heart of the Albufera Lake in Valencia, the best plan is undoubtedly to participate in a two-team competition to make the best of paellas.
At the end, the tasting of the dishes is irresistible. It is also possible a visit guide to the natural parc.
Experience traditional Spanish food, but better: with a vegan twist.
Our friendly local guide will take you through the heart of Alicante while explaining the tapas culture in Spain and showing the city's most vibrant area.
We carefully selected small restaurants that create dishes with local and seasonal ingredients, because we know it matters to you as much as it matters to us. Supporting local businesses and veganism couldn't be more delicious :)
The day starts at 10:30 a.m. at the Viver Cooperative, from where we will drive to our vineyards. While we take a gentle stroll through the countryside, you will learn about the different grape varieties we work with, including the native pre-phylloxera varieties that we are recovering, as well as the particularities of their cultivation and the main aspects of viticulture to achieve exceptional wines.
We will then return to the Cooperative to meet the winery, where tradition is combined with innovation. You will meet Videns, our interactive vineyard, and you will visit the tank room and the barrel room while we explain the different winemaking processes.
The visit concludes with a hedonistic tasting of three of our wines accompanied by a succulent lunch, where you can sample our cooperative products, such as our exquisite oils, nuts and olive pâtés.
‘The skin of the vine’ is much more than a wine tourism experience, it is a journey to the essence of Viver and the Alto Palancia region, with which you will also be supporting our dignified agriculture project. A fantastic experience to enjoy with your partner, family or friends and celebrate the passion for wine and the pride of our land. And if that wasn't enough, we'll give you a 10% discount for purchases in our agro-shop at the end of the visit. We'll be waiting for you!
In our route Aromas of the countryside of Elche we want you to know the secrets of a centenary gastronomy, kept from generation to generation, where we highlight the gastronomy of the countryside of Elche or Camp d'Elx.
We propose you to start with a visit to an olive oil mill, El Tendre, a real treasure of the Baix Vinalopó region and a symbol and reference of the rich olive oil tradition of the region, as it is the oldest in the whole region, let yourself be seduced by the aroma and taste of the oldest extra virgin olive oil in the area, while you discover the secrets of its centenary elaboration.
But the experience does not end here. After tasting its oil, we discover another surprise: could you imagine that Elche produced wine? In Bodegas Faelo, we discover the history of wine in the region and you will learn how this precious elixir is made in a traditional way, how it was produced centuries ago and how Bodegas Faelo continues to do it now in almost the same way. Enjoy their wines while tasting typical products.
taste typical products.
At the end of the visit, enjoy their wines while tasting local products from the countryside of Elche, in a restaurant located between orchards and fields.
After recharging your batteries, we will head to the Pusol Museum, a true cultural treasure in the middle of the countryside, recognized by UNESCO for its invaluable contribution to the preservation of the local ethnographic tradition. The great recognition to the work and years dedicated to this project of community, open and participatory character comes in 2009, when UNESCO inscribes the Center for Traditional Culture School Museum of Puçol in the Register of Good Practices for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, becoming since then the Third World Heritage Site of Elche. Immerse yourself in the history and culture of Elche as you explore exhibits and workshops that reveal the secrets of rural and urban life in the region.
“Bon profit!”.