Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Alicante from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Alicante
These restaurants run tasting-menu formats and put wine service close to the centre of the meal.
In Playa de San Juan, Baeza & Rufete is the city’s only Michelin-starred restaurant in our guide and runs a tasting menu. Its wine programme is exceptional, the list is extensive, and chef Joaquín Baeza presents each dish personally. The room is built around modern Mediterranean fine dining.
In Ensanche Diputación, Monastrell pairs tasting menu and prix fixe formats with a sommelier-led wine programme. Its extensive list sits alongside ingredients from the restaurant’s own gardens, and the kitchen runs three tasting menus that move from regional to more gastronomic in ambition. The terrace looks over the harbour.
Centro’s Celeste y Don Carlos works with tasting menus only, changing daily with market ingredients and matching them to personalised wine pairings from sommelier Stephanie. The wine programme is exceptional and the list is extensive. Its Mediterranean fusion cooking is built around a daily menu.
These places pair stronger wine programmes with tapas, seafood, and small-plate formats, including rooms with Michelin Plate recognition.
In Centro, El Portal Taberna & Wines combines modern Spanish tapas with an exceptional wine programme, an extensive list, and sommelier-led service. It works across small plates, à la carte dining, and a tasting menu. The room adds craft cocktails and a clear gastro-bar format around market-led cooking.
In Casco Antiguo-Santa Cruz, La Taberna del Gourmet offers modern Spanish tapas with an extensive wine list. Small plates, tasting menu, and à la carte formats give it flexibility, while the kitchen stays rooted in Mediterranean ingredients. Michelin Plate recognition and a Guía Repsol 1 Sol mark it out.
In Centro, Nou Manolín holds a Michelin Plate and works as a seafood bar with an upstairs dining room. The menu centres on Valencian seafood, red prawns, and rice dishes, while the bar and the formal room give the same market-driven cooking two different settings. The list is extensive.
Centro has 20 venues in our guide. It is the main dining cluster in the city, and it includes restaurants such as Celeste y Don Carlos and El Portal Taberna & Wines alongside several other central rooms.
Alicante has 1 Michelin-starred restaurant in our guide, with 1 Michelin star in total. That restaurant is Baeza & Rufete in Playa de San Juan.
Playa de San Juan, Ensanche Diputación, Centro, and Parque de la Ereta are the main neighbourhoods for tasting menus in our guide. The clearest examples are Baeza & Rufete, Monastrell, and Celeste y Don Carlos, each with tasting-menu formats and strong wine support.
Baeza & Rufete, Espacio Montoro, and El Portal Taberna & Wines have exceptional wine programmes in our guide. Monastrell, La Taberna del Gourmet, Nou Manolín, and Celeste y Don Carlos all have wine programmes with extensive lists.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Best of Alicante
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Selected entries from the current guide for Alicante.
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Nou Manolín holds a Michelin Plate and consecutive Opinionated About Dining Casual Europe rankings, placing it among Alicante's most recognised mid-market seafood addresses. The ground-floor bar draws a loyal aperitivo crowd around a live seafood display, while the upstairs dining room offers the same market-driven menu in a more formal setting. A reliable choice for Alicante's signature red prawns and rice dishes at the €€€ price point.
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At Baeza & Rufete, chef Joaquín Baeza channels the joyful spirit of his mentor, Martín Berasategui, into a quietly elegant culinary experience that celebrates Alicante’s seasons and scents. Within a modest, meticulously run dining room led by sommelier Esther Castillo, guests encounter modern Mediterranean menus that prize precision, aroma, and notable regional oils. Lemon basil, verbena, and wild thyme weave through a confident procession of courses, where pristine produce and characterful olive oils—Elipse Gourmet, Capilla del Fraile, Diez+Oro—amplify texture and depth. Choose between Short and Long menus, then surrender to a symphony of nuance, from luminous seafood to herb-framed vegetables, each dish revealing intensity without excess.
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La Taberna del Gourmet Alacant elevates traditional Spanish tapas culture under Michelin-starred chef María José San Román's expert guidance, showcasing Mediterranean ingredients through signature dishes like saffron-infused paella and grilled octopus in an authentic yet refined tavern atmosphere that celebrates Alicante's culinary heritage.
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One of Alicante's most established addresses for Valencian rice, Piripi occupies a prominent position on Avenida Óscar Esplá with a ground-floor tapas bar and a more composed dining room upstairs. Fish and seafood arrive daily from the auctions at Dénia and Santa Pola, underpinning a menu built around regional tradition. A Michelin Plate and an Opinionated About Dining ranking signal consistent execution within a price bracket that competes honestly with the city's mid-to-upper tier.
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Espacio Montoro takes the format of a tasting menu restaurant and reassembles it as a progression through four designed environments, Black Tech, Hi Line, Cocoon Lab, and Geoda Verde, each with distinct decor, visual effects, and curated aromas. Chef Pablo Montoro's creative cooking draws on Mediterranean produce and travel references, with five tasting menu formats and Michelin Plate recognition in both 2024 and 2025.
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Monastrell sits beside the historic La Lonja del Pescado building on Alicante's marina, where chef María José San Román's cooking draws on the restaurant's own vegetable garden, Terramón, and the rhythms of local seasonal produce. Three tasting menus progress from regional to more gastronomic in ambition. The terrace looks out over the harbour. Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025.
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Perched on the slope leading up to the Castillo de Santa Bárbara, La Ereta occupies one of the more commanding positions in Alicante's dining scene. The kitchen, led by Alicante-born chef Dani Frías, runs two contemporary Mediterranean menus built around local seafood, with the red shrimp stew a reference point for the region's produce. A Michelin Plate holder in both 2024 and 2025, it sits in the mid-to-upper tier of the city's modern restaurant category.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised address on Calle Manuel Antón, Open sits in Alicante's mid-range modern dining tier with a format that lets guests build their own media ración menu from a market-driven à la carte. The open-view kitchen and Japanese-style counter give the room an atelier quality, and the red tuna "catalana" has become one of the more talked-about dishes on the Alicante circuit.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder on Alicante's contemporary dining circuit, Alba works a wood-fired grill across a menu that draws from French, Spanish, Italian, and British larders. Sharing plates like lobster tagliolini anchor a kitchen serious about its sourcing. The address at C. de la Virgen del Socorro puts it within easy reach of the city centre.
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In Alicante's Benalúa district, Tabula Rasa has held the Michelin Bib Gourmand in both 2024 and 2025, recognising its daily-changing menu built around seasonal produce, no freezers, and no vacuum packs. Rice dishes and fideuás anchor the menu, with combinations such as rice with pork ribs and vegetables reflecting the province's agricultural and coastal traditions. At the €€ price point, it represents one of the more credible expressions of honest Alicante cooking.
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Koiné sits on Calle Bazán in central Alicante, holding a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025 with a menu rooted in the agrarian and coastal traditions of the wider Mediterranean basin. R&D experience within the Dani García Group gives the kitchen a technical grounding that sits beneath produce-led cooking with clear Andalusian influences. At the €€ price point, it occupies a practical middle tier in Alicante's dining scene.
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Set inside a villa surrounded by gardens in Alacant, Maestral has earned consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025 for its à la carte Mediterranean menu. The kitchen centres on high-quality local produce, Santa Pola shrimp and red tuna served four ways among the standouts. The terrace fills early in summer, and the private spaces draw a loyal corporate crowd year-round.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised address on a pedestrian street in Alicante's old quarter, Steki brings together Mexican and Greek culinary traditions against a Mediterranean base. At the €€ price point, it offers one of the city's more considered fusion propositions.
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All or Nothing Burger has built a loyal following across Spain on the strength of smash-format beef and a high-energy atmosphere that sits somewhere between American diner and Mediterranean street culture. Located on Calle José Gutiérrez Petén in Alicante's city centre, the operation has expanded to the Canary Islands, a signal of genuine traction in Spain's increasingly competitive burger market.
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Celeste y Don Carlos occupies a focused corner of Alicante's fine dining scene, running tasting menus only from a kitchen shaped by time in Paris and a firm commitment to seasonal market produce. Two consecutive Michelin Plate recognitions (2024 and 2025) confirm its standing in the city's upper tier. Booking ahead is not optional, it is the only way in.
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Distrikt41 occupies a considered position in Alicante's contemporary dining scene: a Michelin Plate-recognised gastro-bar on Calle Navas where two Dutch-trained chefs blend Central European, French, and Spanish influences into a menu built around sauces and grill work. The à la carte runs alongside daily and seasonal menus, making it a reliable address for serious cooking at a mid-to-upper price point without the formality of the city's starred rooms.
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El Portal Taberna & Wines on Calle Bilbao sits at the more accessible end of Alicante's tapas scene, holding a Michelin Plate (2024) and consecutive Opinionated About Dining Casual Europe rankings, reaching #369 in 2024. Under Carlos Bosch, the format follows the classic taberna model: a tight wine list, market-led small plates, and late hours that run to 2:30 am on weekends.
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Manero occupies a faithfully recreated traditional grocery store space in central Alacant, serving tapas, Iberian ham, salted fish, and high-quality tinned products at mid-range prices. A 2025 Michelin Plate holder, it sits at the accessible end of the city's serious food scene, with a format that blurs the line between eating in and taking home.
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Vituco Gourmet in Alacant presents contemporary Peruvian fusion with clear Mediterranean influence. Must-try plates include the Ensaladilla with soy mayonnaise and aji amarillo, Anticucho a la brasa, and Arroz de cerdo con aji panca y cebolla morada. Chef Javier Beltri, trained at Le Cordon Bleu and the Basque Culinary Center, blends precise technique with bold Peruvian seasonings. Recognized in the MICHELIN Guide (2023) and beloved by locals, the bright stone-walled dining room delivers warm service and vividly seasoned rice and ceviche preparations that sing of lime, aji, and olive oil.
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An asador in the traditional Spanish mold, Asador La Estancia sits on Calle de la Virgen del Socorro in central Alicante, where the wood-fired and grilled formats that define Castilian and Levantine roasting culture converge. It occupies a category that Alicante's dining scene handles differently from the seafood-forward restaurants that dominate the coast, meat-centric, fire-led, and rooted in sourcing over technique spectacle.
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Bistró de Amérigo belongs to central Alicante’s compact dining circuit, where proximity to the market, port, and old-town hotel traffic shapes what restaurants need to do well. With no published awards or fixed price tier attached, it reads less as a trophy reservation than as a city-centre bistro choice for diners weighing location, format, and Alicante’s produce-led cooking culture.
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A neighbourhood food-and-coffee address on Avenida Ciudad León de Nicaragua in Alicante's residential west side, da Giovanni sits outside the tourist circuit that clusters around the old town and marina. The format combines coffee service with a kitchen, placing it in the casual all-day category that has grown steadily across Spanish cities as an alternative to the traditional bar-bocadillo circuit.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Alicante.
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A former Dominican convent on Calle Rafael Altamira, Hospes Amérigo layers marble, glass, and iron against centuries of Alicante history. The conversion places it among Spain's more architecturally considered hotel projects, where the building's past informs the guest experience rather than competing with it. For travellers drawn to the city's old quarter, the address requires little justification.
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A 5-star resort property in Alicante carrying Great Hotels of the World membership, La Finca Golf & SPA Resort combines 120 rooms with golf, spa, and event facilities scaled for both leisure and corporate groups. Its 12 meeting rooms and theatre capacity for 350 guests position it among the larger full-service resort formats on Spain's Costa Blanca.
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Amérigo Rooftop Bar fits Alicante’s open-air drinking culture: city views, hotel-rooftop pacing, and a cocktail-led format better suited to an aperitif or late drink than a long bar crawl. With no published awards, price band, or named signature serves attached, the case for going rests on setting and occasion rather than trophy credentials.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Alicante.
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Casa Safra is a Spanish wine label from Alicante, shaped less by cellar-door tourism than by a multi-regional portfolio drawing on Alicante DOP, Terra Alta, Penedès and Utiel-Requena. The interest is terroir range: Monastrell, Tempranillo, Garnacha, Bobal and Sauvignon Blanc across still red, white, rosé and sparkling styles, with Gran Reserva bottlings anchoring its more formal register.
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Siete Bancales is a small natural-wine finca in Alicante’s Aitana hills, where altitude, limestone ridges and old terracing shape the experience as much as the glass. Expect a quiet estate format built around guided tastings, food pairings, picnic tastings and barrel lodging among the vines, with red, white and rosé wines made through a low-intervention philosophy.
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