Alicante · Food
EAT LIKE A LOCAL
The Alicante table — what to order and where the locals point.
Mercado Central
A modernist food hall — buy turrón, olives and salted fish where the grandmothers do.
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Arroz a banda, the original
Alicante's fishermen invented it. Any arrocería on the marina does the honors.
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El Barrio tapas crawl
Calle Mayor and the lanes off it — patatas bravas, sepia, ice-cold cañas.
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Turrón for the road
Nearby Jijona makes Spain's Christmas nougat all year — the old shops on Calle Mayor sell it by the slab.
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