Restaurants
Places To Eat in Torrevieja
You’ll find the flavour of the sea in Torrevieja’s cooking. The “arroz caldero” is the typical dish. Its essential ingredients are rice and fish. Grilled sardines, rice with anchovy, cooked mackerel, ray, sea bream and codfish are other delicacies you can eat in Torrevieja’s restaurants. It may not be so easy to find “pelotas” – meat balls, one of the famous meals of the Costa Blanca in restaurants.
Lots of people traditionally eat them for Christmas day. They are made of meat, spices and consommé.
You can discover and taste all kinds of brand new culinary styles prepared by the different restaurants of the town during the celebration of the “gastronomical days” which lasts for 5 days in March. Since Torrevieja started participating in these kinds of gastronomical events its cooking has become renowned internationally.
Specialized cooking is also to be found downtown in the many restaurants which offer everything from vegetarian to international food: Indian, French, German, Chinese, Korean, Scandanavian, Serbian, Croat, Mexican, Russian, Arabic, Belgium, Norwegian, the list is endless.
Eating Out in La Zenia/Cabo Roig
There are also numerous restautants scattered throughout La Zenia and Cabo Roig including Spanish, Seafood, Chinese, Indian and others.