Best Michelin star restaurants in Valencia

In the city of Valencia and its province, as well as in other nearby regions, there are many restaurants of signature cuisine and top quality awarded with Michelin stars for the risk and ambition of their chefs. Unique places in the world, ideal for tourists who know how to eat well.

Signature cuisine in an art gallery with Ricard Camarena Restaurant

Valencian chef Ricard Camarena runs one of his upscale restaurants inside the Bombas Gens Centre d’Art cultural center, which features a contemporary art gallery within a remodeled industrial site. This restaurant has earned two Michelin stars for its creative cuisine, which is not too flashy and is presented as simple, but hides a very laborious and delicate elaboration. It stands out for always using local products and offering a tasting menu with the best wine list. There are days when chef Ricard Camarena himself is in charge of serving the tables. The prices of the menus are 75 € for the short, six-course menu; 90 € for the medium, nine-course menu; and 105 € for the long, eleven-course menu.

Two stars in El Poblet

El Poblet is the other restaurant in the city of Valencia with the honor of having two Michelin stars. Owned by the famous Alicante chef Quique Dacosta, but with Luis Valls as head chef, stands out for its market cuisine and tasting menus that are adapted to seasonal products. and that are prepared in an integral way by a team formed by the chef in charge, the head waiter and the wine sommelier, in order to guarantee a perfect pairing at every step. The price range is from 77 € to 138 €.

Argentine flavor in Fierro de Ruzafa

Germán and Carito are a couple of Argentinean chefs who have won a Michelin star for their restaurant Fierro, located in the lively area of Ruzafa and which stands out, as they themselves define it, for a concept that mixes “path, reflection, reinterpretation”. They propose a menu in which Mediterranean cuisine is mixed with the Argentinean tradition, obtaining seasonal vegetables, the finest fish and the best elaborated and juicy meats of Valencia. The Maridaje de Temporada menu costs 50 € per person and the Maridaje Fierro, 75 €.

Food takes the form of a painting at Lienzo

The name of this restaurant has to do with the whiteness and neatness of a canvas, where everything is possible and where you can experiment until you break the limits. It is for this risk that Lienzo has a Michelin star for its urban proposal of flavors reminiscent of traditional cuisine, reinvented by a team of experienced and high-level professionals. Located in Plaza Tetuán, it offers three different types of menus, all equally spectacular. The average price per person is 85 €.

History and luxury in Sagunto with Arrels

In the interior of the province of Seville, within the old town of Sagunto, is the restaurant Arrels, with a Michelin star thanks to the work of the young chef Vicky Sevilla. The restaurant is located in the building that was the former stables of the Palace of the Dukes of Gaeta and maintains all its historical charm, adding the most avant-garde dishes of the area, created with fresh market products: artichokes, tomatoes, seafood, meats and more. Its tasting menu costs 92 € per person.

Luxury sushi at Kaido

Kaido Sushi Bar is another Michelin-starred restaurant in Valencia, headed by Ulises Menezo and Yoshikazu Yanome and located near Mestalla. All the tradition and avant-garde of Japan come together in this small and exclusive place where there is room for a maximum of ten diners and, therefore, you have to book well in advance to find a place. Japanese haute cuisine in its best version, with the best Mediterranean products. The average price per person is 75 €.

The sea and vegetables with the creativity of La Salita

If you thought that everything had already been invented when it comes to creative cooking of vegetables and seafood, then you haven’t yet tried La Salita, an exclusive restaurant located in the Ruzafa neighborhood and with a Michelin star to its credit. A team that has been working together for many years and dishes presented as authentic works of art are the two most outstanding characteristics of this place. The price of the tasting menu is 105 €.

German origin and Mediterranean flavor at the Riff

German-born chef Bernd H. Knöller has been in charge of the Riff restaurant for many years and has managed to establish himself as one of the best gastronomic proposals in the city. The arrival of an award with the prestige of the Michelin star gave them a much greater boost and served as recognition for their original proposal of vegetables and greens taken to signature cuisine and maximum creativity. Another plus is that its menus stand out for their advanced ecological sustainability. It is located very close to the Ensanche and Gulliver Park, ideal for walking, and the average price is 90 € per person.

Quique Dacosta Restaurant

An hour’s drive from the city of Valencia, in the Alicante town of Denia, is the original restaurant and base of operations of the renowned chef Quique Dacosta, who has no less than three Michelin stars and who, along with other great Spanish chefs such as Dabiz Muñoz, Ferran Adrià and Paco Roncero, is part of the three-star Olympus. In its flagship restaurant, it offers its famous tasting menu, called Cocinar Belleza (Cooking Beauty), to which a Harmony of Wines can be added with a wine pairing personally prepared by the chef. The average price is 210 € per person.

Bon Amb in Jávea

An hour and twenty minutes drive from Valencia, also on the coast of Alicante and below Denia, is the town of Jávea, one of the most important tourist destinations within the Valencian Autonomous Community and which has many quality restaurants. One of them is Bon Amb, with two Michelin stars, which operates within an estate and has several tasting menus. The most famous is its long menu, called Tiempo, which features fourteen dishes from fourteen different countries, plus appetizers and desserts. Among the most outstanding dishes are the Mallorcan toast of fish foie and onion, the broth agripicante with reeds and mollusks and the root pickled mead with crab. The eight-pass menu costs 85 €, the ten-pass menu costs 120 € and the twelve-pass menu costs 150 €.