Sunday, 12 October 2008

Rincon de Pepe Tapas and Restaurant

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 .