This place is totally awesome!! Try the menu of the day, they have different meals every day and…read moreevery time I've been here it's been good! Their tapas is good too..

An experience and a half! Cabo La Nao is a popular restaurant for me and my family when on holiday…read morein Spain. This restaurant provides the customer with fine dining, friendly staff, relaxing atmosphere and local produce. This is one thing I really enjoy about restaurants abroad is that more often than not they are able to get fresh, local produce easily and it always gives them an edge over many restaurants in the UK. The menu is splendid in here and everything just tastes so good, words can't describe!

Eating here is an incredible experience. The view is superb and the food delicious. My favorite…read morerestaurant.

This is in my top 3 tapas places in Alicante. Huge selection of tapas so definitely something for…read moreeveryone. It can be very busy with people lined up so suggest going 15 minutes before opening. Located a little outside of the main tourist area but not too far of a walk. We had the shrimp, mixed vegetables, steak bocadillo and patatas which were all super delicious. House red wine was good also! Highly recommend.

We were lucky to get a table at lunch time. Great tapas of reasonable size. Lots of sandwiches…read more(montaditos) and option to have them in GF bread. Kitchen was able to adapt to my GF needs and service was quick and friendly. Place was fairly noisy and very packed. Excellent tarta de Santiago.

Very seriously: IF YOU ARE IN ALICANTE, Make SURE YOU EAT HERE!!!!…read more This is one of the places in the world where every simple aspect of what makes a restaurant work is perfectly taken care of, and is well assembled with the others. 1. Space 2. Service 3. Food 4. City 1. SPACE. 5 stars Nou Manolin is located in a beautiful and lively part of Alicante's historical center. On the ground floor, a large (and yet intimate) square bar occupies the entire floor. This is a bar where customers sit on a first come first served dynamic. Here you can informally eat out of tapas, that are served in a gracious and fun way. It is totally unpretentious, and totally sophisticated. This hall could not be more beautiful. No one single testaurant-Indra cliche to be found here. All pure eclecticism that reveals the long term existence of the establishment. So beautiful! The upper floor is more of a table serviced restaurant, beautifully decorated in a Mediterranean-design style, and with great care for impecable acoustics. The ceiling is made of a series of John Soane-like wooden domes, made to reduce sound reflection. Such a nice way to focus on the invisible part of design, so important to make a place the right place for a memorable dinner or lunch. 2. SERVICE. 5 stars This place másters a unique combination of professionalism and know-how with warmness and lack of pompousness. The result is truly nice. You truly feel welcomed here. And feels like being in the center of the world. . At the same time you feel the enthusiasm for food and wine. No way to resist. With this service: You will automatically become a believer in the power of Alicante's gastronomy . 3. FOOD. 5 stars. Now we get serious. The best tapas!!! The marinera is the best. Amazing fresh seafood. The bacalao buñuelos are a gastronomic chapter on its own. But above all that: do not miss the fideuá. This is the best fideuás I ever had. The fideo is soft and crispy. The flavors are intense and with a bit of a good-olive-oil- bitterness. The food here is indescribable. Just come to taste it. 4. CITY. 5 stars. Something needs to be said about this city Alicante that has beautifully managed to show how to be coastal and urban in a beautiful and meaningful way. But please, keep it secret; we don't want this to become a tourist mess like Barcelona. Ultimately, just come here.

A dinner here in the lovely upstairs dining room. We were seated quickly. There were no vegetarian…read moreoptions for a main course so they offered a selection of cheeses. This is really a cop out since it requires no cooking or creativity. Others at the table reported that the fish and meat courses were good. The staff, of which there were quite a few, seemed to be a bit stressed and grumpy and that was a bit distracting from a positive experience.

I have been coming to Alicante for over 50 years. I was born and bred in the U.S. (except for about…read more5 years as a child when I started school in Spain and later 2 years after college when I also lived there). My entire family on my father's side lives in Alicante and my best friend of over 30 years lives there and is a big time foodie. I only write all of this to convey that I don't have the taste of a tourist who might be enthralled with the restaurant displaying the glossy photo of a paella and the "made for the masses" fare (which is fine if that's your thing, not knocking it). I grew up on Spanish food and I know what the real thing is supposed to taste like. First of all, this is not a "paella" place. This restaurant makes "arroces" (rices) which, while still cooked in a traditional paella pan, is not paella. There are a few differences, but chief among them is the proteins involved and the thickness of the final dish. A paella is typically cooked such that the rice is about a pinky finger's width of thickness across the entirety of the pan (although lots of places will cook them thicker which is not really a good idea). The arroces are cooked so thin that the rice doesn't even cover the whole pan. In some areas of the pan the arroz is literally one grain of rice thick. If you're looking for an actual paella Alicantina, this is not the place (although you should come here anyway). The arroces here are cooked in the traditional way over open fire (that you can see from the restaurant's interior) using "sarmiento" which is wood made from grapevines. The arroces are cooked hot and fast. They have a fixed price menu which includes an arroz (there are several to choose from, I always get the very traditional rabbit and snail arroz), and lots of plates to share. Although you won't leave hungry, you can ask for extra helpings of everything at no extra cost. The share plates are as outstanding as the arroz and include huevos rotos, a cheese and charcuterie board, pimientos de píquillo, tomato with egg and tuna, ensaladilla rusa de atún as well as dessert and coffee. If someone in your party does not want the arroz part of the meal, they offer a few substitutions that can be swapped out at no extra cost (my buddy didn't want to brave eating the snails so he opted for a steak instead which he absolutely loved). Everything was outstanding. We had friends from the states with us on our last visit. Our trip started in Venice, then Amsterdam and then brought us to Spain on our last leg. We selected the best restaurants we could find in each location. Our friends opined that this meal was the best they had had in Europe. The only drawback is how agonizingly slow it is to get your bill (although we found this to be common everywhere we went). Spaniards, and Europeans in general, are not in a hurry to do much. Especially in the Mediterranean countries and especially at lunch time. So be sure to ask for your bill as soon as your dessert comes out or it'll be a little while. The bottom line: if you are looking for fantastic authentic arroces typical of this region of Spain paired with really good appetizer tapa plates, this is a great place

This place is awful. The absolute worst service you could hope for…read more Our group ordered paellas and a few of us had steaks. The paellas came but the steaks didn't. When we asked, the waitress told us that we needed to be patient because this is a rice restaurant, not a brasserie... Twenty minutes later the steaks came out, awfully cooked. Do yourself a favor and avoid this place like the plague.

Tapas were very good and service was always with a smile and a lot of energy! The drinks were quite…read morestrong, which is unusual for European standards - and that's a good thing, means you're not getting ripped off on the alcohol. The piña colada was a bit too strong, which kind of takes the taste off a bit, but the Cuba libre is prepared in front of you with enough rum to bring down a raging bull. While 5 plates of tapas are enough to feed a party of 5, I saw other main dishes being brought out and they could easily feed two people instead of one. And they looked tasty too! All in all, it's a good inexpensive place for some good food just on the beach.

The best meal we had in a five-city tour. Their specialty rice dishes known as Paellas are…read moreexcellent. We had the pork and vegetable known as the Paella Huertana. But even the starters were superb. The bacalao and ham crockets were authentic and delicious. The vegetable cream soup was exquisite. The wine selection was great and they didn't inflate the price per bottle like the tourist trap restaurants do. The only negative is that the coffee was awful. But I wasn't there for coffee.

My favorite place in Alicante. Best rice. Best price. If you're looking for a real Alicante…read moreexperience, this is the place.

A disgrace to Playa Muchavista! Cannot express how bad the waitresses attitude was to me and my…read morewife - and how absolutely frustrating (and "up-herself") the manager/owner was after complaining. Fair enough, it's sometimes difficult to cater for vegans but it's not difficult to be friendly or polite. If you can't cook vegetables and rice without burning them, you don't deserve to charge premium rices - can't get any simpler than paella in Spain! Will NEVER eat here and if I could take my complaint any further, I would. Would DEFINITELY aski my bank to refund any charges from this place. I'm nearly 50 years old buy I actually felt demeaned, belittled and bullied here. There are MANY other good and friendly restaurants in Muchavista - this is not one of them. Avoid.

Fantastic restaurant right above the impressive San Juan beach. Its deck is 6 feet above the level…read moreof the sand so that the views of the sea are unobstructed. Rices here are espectacular and so is the fried fish and sea food. The tomato salad with salazones and mojama is not to be missed. I'd suggest not to miss either the turrón ice cream with leche frita. But remember that in Spain, rices are only meant to be eaten at lunchtime, never as a dinner meal!!!! So I'd suggest trying to come here for lunch.