Rincon de Pepe
Calle Apostoles
Murcia.
Tel. 968 212 239
This is Murcia’s most well known Tapas bar and restaurant. Always very full but service is generally quick. If you’re not sure what to order, try the “Menu de Degustacion” a variety of the restaurant’s most popular tapas.
Sunday 12 October 2008
Mar Menor Resorts
CABO DE PALOS
This is a small fishing town with a lighthouse on the hill and a very pretty marina where you can see small fishing boats and nets about the quays. Here you can book a day out on a boat. If you happen to be here in mid August you can see the “Fiesta de la Virgen” which is the main fiesta in Cabo de Palos. The fishermen along with parish and local officials accompany the Virgin in a boat in front of the port.
There is an excellent choice of restaurants in the fishing port. Park as near as you can to the Marina and then walk along until you find a restaurant that you like.
Sunday street market.
This is a small fishing town with a lighthouse on the hill and a very pretty marina where you can see small fishing boats and nets about the quays. Here you can book a day out on a boat. If you happen to be here in mid August you can see the “Fiesta de la Virgen” which is the main fiesta in Cabo de Palos. The fishermen along with parish and local officials accompany the Virgin in a boat in front of the port.
There is an excellent choice of restaurants in the fishing port. Park as near as you can to the Marina and then walk along until you find a restaurant that you like.
Sunday street market.
Murcia City Tapas Route of Restaurants
Murcia is famous for having great tapas, and some of the best tapas bars in Murcia are grouped around the Plaza de las Flores. The Spanish will often go out for “un tapeo” that’s a tapas crawl, hopping from bar to bar or restaurant trying different tapas along the way. If you would like to try “A Tapas Route in Murcia” here are some good tapas bars all situated near the Cathedral, you might like to try.
1. El Fenix Try ensalada rusa. Vegetable salad with mayonnaise and lemon
Plaza de Santa Catalina.
2. Meson de Murcia. Try Delicias de Cecina. Chunky bread with olive oil tomato and jamon.
Plaza de las Flores
3. Gran Rhyn. Lobster salad with mussel sauce
Plaza de San Pedro
4. La Buena Vida.
Winner of the best Tapa 2008 Murcia competition for “Lomos de Bacalao” –
Beer battered cod with hazelnut sauce.
Plaza Santa Catalina.
5. La Mejillonera. Try mussels in moroccan spices and lemon.
Plaza Cardinal Belluga.
6. Perela. Upmarket gourmet tapas. Try Tortas de camarones - shrimps
Calle Ruizperez
7. Pepico del Tio Gines. Toasted bread topped with ham and fried eggRuipérez, 4
La Tabernas de Las Mulas. Decorated with everything Toro (Bull) but, serving lots of pork dishes and delicious potatoes.Calle Ruperez 7
1. El Fenix Try ensalada rusa. Vegetable salad with mayonnaise and lemon
Plaza de Santa Catalina.
2. Meson de Murcia. Try Delicias de Cecina. Chunky bread with olive oil tomato and jamon.
Plaza de las Flores
3. Gran Rhyn. Lobster salad with mussel sauce
Plaza de San Pedro
4. La Buena Vida.
Winner of the best Tapa 2008 Murcia competition for “Lomos de Bacalao” –
Beer battered cod with hazelnut sauce.
Plaza Santa Catalina.
5. La Mejillonera. Try mussels in moroccan spices and lemon.
Plaza Cardinal Belluga.
6. Perela. Upmarket gourmet tapas. Try Tortas de camarones - shrimps
Calle Ruizperez
7. Pepico del Tio Gines. Toasted bread topped with ham and fried eggRuipérez, 4
La Tabernas de Las Mulas. Decorated with everything Toro (Bull) but, serving lots of pork dishes and delicious potatoes.Calle Ruperez 7
El Retiro de las Salinas
Restaurante “El Retiro de Las Salinas”
Las Salinas s/n Playa La Llana -
Tel. 968 18 43 62
Air conditioned restaurant serving excellent sea food, as well as meat and rice dishes. The restaurant is situated just 20 metres from the beach, in-between salt dunes and the Mar Menor (good place to see flamingos and migratory birds) – Paellas and rice dishes served only lunchtimes.
Las Salinas s/n Playa La Llana -
Tel. 968 18 43 62
Air conditioned restaurant serving excellent sea food, as well as meat and rice dishes. The restaurant is situated just 20 metres from the beach, in-between salt dunes and the Mar Menor (good place to see flamingos and migratory birds) – Paellas and rice dishes served only lunchtimes.
Tropical Tapas/Restaurant
Restaurante Tropical
Very good tapas and menu, the Tropical has indoor and outdoor eating. Located behind the town hall by Real de Feria shopping parade.
Very good tapas and menu, the Tropical has indoor and outdoor eating. Located behind the town hall by Real de Feria shopping parade.
San Antonio Restaurant
Paseo Manzanares
Los Alcazares – tel: 650 40 89 95
Situated very near La Encarnacion is this friendly restaurant right in the water in an old Balneario (bathing huts) on wooden stilts. Once past the front the restaurant is open air and you are sitting in the sea – it’s superb on a sunny day. Good paella, fish and tapas. You can in fact swim directly from the restaurant into the sea, and restaurant provides sun-beds as well on deck.
Los Alcazares – tel: 650 40 89 95
Situated very near La Encarnacion is this friendly restaurant right in the water in an old Balneario (bathing huts) on wooden stilts. Once past the front the restaurant is open air and you are sitting in the sea – it’s superb on a sunny day. Good paella, fish and tapas. You can in fact swim directly from the restaurant into the sea, and restaurant provides sun-beds as well on deck.
Sunday 5 October 2008
Tapas Restaurant Los Alcazares
Ramón Tapas bar and Restaurant,
Avenidas Libertad,
Los Alcazares
Tel: 968 574173
Local bar with wide selection of tapas, as well as restaurant menu. Gets very busy lunchtimes, but it’s a large restaurant so worth waiting for a table.
Lots of local Spanish atmosphere here.
Restaurant is situated on the main road in the old part of the town .
Avenidas Libertad,
Los Alcazares
Tel: 968 574173
Local bar with wide selection of tapas, as well as restaurant menu. Gets very busy lunchtimes, but it’s a large restaurant so worth waiting for a table.
Lots of local Spanish atmosphere here.
Restaurant is situated on the main road in the old part of the town .
Los Alcazares
EL PATIO RESTAURANT
Avenida la Libertad
Los Alcazares
Tel: 968 575 959
We love this busy buzzy large restaurant (indoor and outdoor eating in the summer).
Huge indoor BBQ area from where you can see busy chefs cooking. Chicken, meat or fish and and wine from the barrel!
This restaurant is good fun and specialises in serving huge plates of meat ready for you to cook at your table on a large hot stone! Ideal for sharing. Try their platters of delicious grilled vegetables and baked potatoes with olive oil, or plates of chips and hot bread.
Reasonably priced and open all year.
Avenida la Libertad
Los Alcazares
Tel: 968 575 959
We love this busy buzzy large restaurant (indoor and outdoor eating in the summer).
Huge indoor BBQ area from where you can see busy chefs cooking. Chicken, meat or fish and and wine from the barrel!
This restaurant is good fun and specialises in serving huge plates of meat ready for you to cook at your table on a large hot stone! Ideal for sharing. Try their platters of delicious grilled vegetables and baked potatoes with olive oil, or plates of chips and hot bread.
Reasonably priced and open all year.
Los Alcazares
Typical old Spanish seaside town on The Mar Menor that was once famous for its thermal baths.
We prefer the side of the town near the Spanish Air Force school as it’s still very authentic.
Parking can be difficult in summer, but drive along the main road through the old town following sign post to Hotel Cristina, just by the Air Force Base, and park anywhere on the side street.
Alternatively you can take the earlier turning by the Town Hall where there is a sign post to a car park.
Walk along the pretty promenade adjacent to the beach with its’ Victorian bathing huts on small quays that jut out into the Mar Menor sea. There are many lovely beaches in this large lagoon (or minor sea) where the water is normally warm and very salty. Further along in the resort of Lo pagan you can cover yourself in mud (See Lo Pagan) and rinse off in the clear lagoon water.
There are many restaurants and bars along the promenade and many more in the town, and we have listed some of our favourites. (see heading Los Alcazares).
We prefer the side of the town near the Spanish Air Force school as it’s still very authentic.
Parking can be difficult in summer, but drive along the main road through the old town following sign post to Hotel Cristina, just by the Air Force Base, and park anywhere on the side street.
Alternatively you can take the earlier turning by the Town Hall where there is a sign post to a car park.
Walk along the pretty promenade adjacent to the beach with its’ Victorian bathing huts on small quays that jut out into the Mar Menor sea. There are many lovely beaches in this large lagoon (or minor sea) where the water is normally warm and very salty. Further along in the resort of Lo pagan you can cover yourself in mud (See Lo Pagan) and rinse off in the clear lagoon water.
There are many restaurants and bars along the promenade and many more in the town, and we have listed some of our favourites. (see heading Los Alcazares).
La Encarnacion Restaurant, Los Alcazares
La Encarnacion Restaurante
Condesa
Los Alcazares. tel; 968 57 50 48 (English spoken).
Booking advisable in the summer. Open all year.
Charming restaurant (actually a small hotel as well) on the shores of the Mar Menor dating back to 1904 where the speciality was salt water baths. (The marble baths, which are a work of art are still there but no longer used, preserved as they were, you can ask to see them).
There is a charming Andalucian style patio full of plants and greenery, where the local ladies take their coffee or tea and play dominoes or cards in the morning or afternoon.
Lunchtime eating outside on the terrace is more casual, but in the evenings the atmosphere in the restaurant is colonial style with large fans and big wicker chairs, many old victorian photos on the walls.
Ideal to go in the early evening, (or indeed for long lunch). Walk along promenade by the sea as the sun goes down on the Mar Menor, and then dine in this seafront restaurant, facing the “La Manga strip” in the distance. Great atmosphere and food, and beautifully laid tables. Mediterranean seafood and meat dishes - the lobster rice is excelllent. Good place also for family sunday lunch.
Condesa
Los Alcazares. tel; 968 57 50 48 (English spoken).
Booking advisable in the summer. Open all year.
Charming restaurant (actually a small hotel as well) on the shores of the Mar Menor dating back to 1904 where the speciality was salt water baths. (The marble baths, which are a work of art are still there but no longer used, preserved as they were, you can ask to see them).
There is a charming Andalucian style patio full of plants and greenery, where the local ladies take their coffee or tea and play dominoes or cards in the morning or afternoon.
Lunchtime eating outside on the terrace is more casual, but in the evenings the atmosphere in the restaurant is colonial style with large fans and big wicker chairs, many old victorian photos on the walls.
Ideal to go in the early evening, (or indeed for long lunch). Walk along promenade by the sea as the sun goes down on the Mar Menor, and then dine in this seafront restaurant, facing the “La Manga strip” in the distance. Great atmosphere and food, and beautifully laid tables. Mediterranean seafood and meat dishes - the lobster rice is excelllent. Good place also for family sunday lunch.
Temporaneo Restaurant, Murcia
Temporaneo Plaza Apostoles 5
Murcia
Tel; 968 909 909
Situated near the cathedral this modern restaurant serves an excellent “menu del dia” and of course a la carte. Superb food beautifully presented. Also, lounge bar in the evenings for cocktails, and dinner.
Just one year old this restaurant has become very popular and booking is recommended.
Outside eating in the summer.
Murcia
Tel; 968 909 909
Situated near the cathedral this modern restaurant serves an excellent “menu del dia” and of course a la carte. Superb food beautifully presented. Also, lounge bar in the evenings for cocktails, and dinner.
Just one year old this restaurant has become very popular and booking is recommended.
Outside eating in the summer.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
