10 Spanish gastronomic beach bars to eat luxury by the sea – EL PAÍS

Finding beach bars where you can eat well is not an easy task. The rush, the bustle and the nonchalance mix with the euphoria and the irregularity of the service in many of the places scattered along the Spanish coasts. Eating in the sun or in flip flops on the sand and near the sea is one of the pleasures of summer. Relaxation and Tinto de Verano accompany many beach meals. Moments of snacking, sharing and eating with your hands. In this decalogue of gastronomic beach bars, the pleasure is not only in the food, but in all the circumstances that surround it. In the good-pretty-cheap equation, this last maxim is not fulfilled in them. But the other two more than make up for it.Sylt MarbellaA baked turbot with succulent pilpil at the Sylt beach bar in the Lunamar urbanization in Marbella.Garcia-Santos (El Pais)This establishment is located on the same sand, between dunes and with two daily problems from almost any beach bar: parking and table reservations. Even so, Sylt Marbella is worth a visit for the quality of the dishes by Basque chef Aitor Perurena. Not to be missed is their baked turbot with a succulent pilpil. Besides, ham croquettes, tuna meatballs, salads, hamburgers, grilled squid, chicken quesadillas and bread with tomato. For dessert, the oatmeal and chocolate cookie with cream ice cream. Good summer red. Address: Lunamar urbanization. Marbella. Telephone: 951 17 09 79. Price: between 40 and 50 euros per person.Can Pujol Family beach bar with a lobster hatchery, tables in the interior dining room and some on the sand. They embroider the traditional recipes of Ibiza with fish and shellfish from the Balearic coast that are presented in generous portions and priced at reasonable prices: lobster stew; fideuás; dry and soupy rice; all i pebre of rock fish. Only rigorously fresh sea ingredients. In Can Pujol, the bullit de peix, in two turns, and its grilled fish and shellfish are essential. And sometimes, they have among their specialties a succulent marine offal: roe and livers of grouper or grilled San Pedro fish. Address: Port des Torrent old road, San Josep de Sa Talaia (Ibiza). Telephone: 971 34 14 07. Average price per person: between 45 and 55 euros.Chinchín PuertoAll the fish that is cooked in the Chinchín Puerto restaurant has the identity card of the product.Courtesy photoThis establishment is not located on the sand but a few meters from the water, in front of the marina of the Malaga town of Caleta de Vélez and next to the pleasure boats. It has the soul of a restaurant and the spirit of a beach bar. A family bar run by Sebastián Chinchín and his wife, Lourdes Villalobos, two fishing skippers. All the fish that is cooked in this house has a valid identity card: the boat that caught it and the time of the auction in the fish market, near the house, are detailed. Its Russian salad, winner of the Best Salad in Spain 2020 contest, is essential. Also the blue roe shrimp, baked fish and fried foods. Address: Puerto Caleta de Vélez (Málaga). Telephone: 952 03 04 43. Average price per person: 55 euros. La Cangreja La Cangreja beach bar, in Cartagena (Murcia Region). MedusaVisual This is a beach bar with capital letters, charming as they come. A corner on the white-sand Galúa beach, with music at all hours, where smiles are shared in an atmosphere that never fades. La Cangreja offers casual dishes, salads, fried chicken, glazed wings, Andalusian-style squid, seasoned tomatoes, baos, quesadillas and hamburgers. And some dry rice dishes like a banda, one of their most popular dishes. They even take care of the desserts like the cheesecake. Uninterrupted hours from eleven in the morning until midnight. Address: Galúa beach, km 3. Senda 12. Gran Vía de La Manga. Cartagena. Telephone: 868 78 41 45. Average price per person: 45 euros. Bibo Beach House In his beach bar in Tarifa, attractive and beachy, with a young atmosphere, always full and with a surf school included, the chef Dani García reaps uninterrupted success. His secret is none other than an international, traveling and fun menu that adapts to his clientele. In essence, at Bibo Beach House they expect dishes to share, among which there is no shortage of classic recipes in the kitchen of this chef such as oxtail brioche, cherry gazpacho or Andalusian-style fried fish. And, in addition, tuna in various versions, apart from cebiches, kebabs, tiraditos and guacamole. For dessert: Nutella to die for. Good cocktails. Address: Arrabal Sector Valdevaqueros, 9. Casas de Porro. Rate (Cadiz). Telephone: 956 92 64 22. Average price per person: 50 euros.El CrancChiringuito El Crac, in the Alicante town of Altea.workhouse collective alteaOn L’Olla beach at the foot of the Mediterranean and under the shade of palm trees, Pepa Navarro remains faithful to the idea inherited from his family of offering a seafood cuisine based on fish and shellfish from the coast cooked in simple ways. Their anchovies are added to their salted fish (mojamas and roe) with fried almonds. And, of course, salads, fish and shellfish that are pan-fried (anchovies, red mullet, squid) or grilled like cuttlefish. All before their paella rice dishes, of which El Cranc offers a remarkable list: abanda; black; Senyoret, and from the garden with chicken and vegetables. Watch out for their lobster with potatoes and fried eggs. Address: Playa de L’Olla. Altea (Alicante). Telephone: 965 84 34 39. Average price per person: 50-60 euros. Picnic area La Playa de ModaA Russian salad awaits its turn at La Playa de Moda, in Alboraia (Valencia), a beach bar on the sand that evokes the primitive picnic areas of beach.Enclave to eat with your feet in the sand and that evokes the primitive beach picnic areas. It starts at ten in the morning with the first toasts with oil, ham and cheese. It comes alive during the aperitif, and speeds up with the tapas and rice dishes that flood the tables of La Playa Moda at noon. Rations to snack, eat and share. Don’t miss the cuttlefish with mayonnaise; the Russian salad, nor their salads. Among the rice dishes in paella, it offers some notable ones: seafood with tender garlic; Iberian secret with mushrooms, or senyoret. And aside, the Valencian paella, only on request. In the afternoons they serve a variety of sandwiches, including the popular black and white sausage and black pudding. Address: Paseo Marítimo de la Patacona, 46. Alboraia (Valencia). Telephone: 608 41 77 13. Average price per person: 40-60 euros.Casa DiegoOn the sand, a few meters from La Canaleta beach, in Punta Umbría, surrounded by vegetation and with splendid views. It is a beach bar-restaurant that takes care of the materials, all that great pantry of marine products from Huelva that are treated in simple preparations: fried or grilled. The market rules and at Casa Diego the suggestions change daily. Depending on the day, octopus with potatoes; prawns; clams; coquinas; dressed potatoes; tuna in various forms, shrimp salad, cuttlefish and grilled coastal fish. They even take care of the desserts. Terrace for night drinks. Address: Canaleta beach, Punta Umbría. Huelva. Telephone: 619 08 97 54. Average price per person 50-60 euros.SalvadóA rice cooking over the fire at the Salvadó beach bar, in San Carlos de Peralta, Ibiza.@ibizafoodloversIt is not a beach bar on the sand, but a restaurant on the rocks a few meters from the water, located in a colorful Ibizan cove, surrounded by vegetation, half hidden on the Pou des Lleó beach, above the fishermen’s huts. It has been run by Joan Riera for years, who makes the flavor of some of his specialties stand out: rice dishes, barbecues and boiled or grilled seafood. And, above all, the bullit de peix and salmorreta (only by order) that few others on the island master in the same way with absolutely fresh fish that he buys from small llaüts that fish in the area. For dessert, in Salvadó it’s time to order the famous greixonera and a caleta fisherman-style coffee. Address: Platja de Pou des Lleó. San Carlos de Peralta (Ibiza). Telephone: 971 18 78 79. Average price per person: 50-70 euros.Toc al marThe Toc Al Mar restaurant, in Begur (Girona).Roger LleixaChiringuito with a quality offer located in Begur, one of the most attractive coves in Girona . His offer is based on fish and shellfish from rigorous proximity that they receive from the fishing boats in the area. Depending on the day, scorpions, dentex, red lobsters from the Begur cape, Palamós prawns, clams, octopuses, razor clams that are made at the moment over holm oak embers. And, obviously, seafood rice, soupy like lobster, apart from artichoke and cuttlefish or sea urchin and cuttlefish. In Toc al mar there is no shortage of prawn croquettes, cod fritters, anchovies in vinegar or anchovies. Not even the cocas de cristal with tomato and oil to accompany it all. Address: Carrer de Platja d’Aiguablava, 8. Begur (Girona). Telephone: 972 11 32 32. Average price per person 60-80 euros. 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