⚠ Warning: This article is perfect for anyone who is a lover of good eating, so open your appetite and get ready to know why you should visit Alicante in 2025, the year in which he has received recognition as the Spanish capital of gastronomy. This recognition, which grant a different city every year from the Spanish Federation of Hospitality and the Spanish Federation of Tourism journalists and writers, will fill the Alicante city of all kinds of gastronomic routes and events, so it will be a very appetizing destination in the coming months.

If you are going to be part of this delicious celebration, in Áreas Autocaravanas We tell you what are the most prominent dishes that you should try during your visit, as well as the closest spaces to spend the night with your motorhome, caravan, camper, van or tent.

Alicante, capital of gastronomy and rice ...

The great reason to recognize the city of Alicante as the Spanish capital of gastronomy is its virtue as «city ​​of the 1001 rice«. Although this number is a metaphor, the truth is that Alicante has a varied typology of rice in its bars and restaurants, all of great quality. You will recognize the best sites to taste it, since they are accredited with the seal «Alicante City of Rice«.

In total, there are 37 restaurants where you will find a unique gastronomic offer, with different ways of cooking the rice: baked, band, crust, sweet, dry or cauldron, each of them with different options of additional ingredients that give that special touch to the dish. You will only see this in Alicante!

... but there is also much more to try

Not everything is rice. As Spanish Capital of Gastronomy, Alicante It has a wide variety of dishes that you cannot stop taste. These are the most prominent:

• Denia prawns. The rest of the Alicante province also influences the gastronomic recognition, with products of as much quality as these prawns, fish and cooked with a traditional technique that has earned Denia the recognition of UNESCO as a creative city of gastronomy.
• Fish and seafood boiler. It is clear that the Mediterranean coast marks the path of Alicante cuisine, as is the case with this dish, which can count on the different varieties of products that can be fish in the area.
• Alicante Gazpacho. It is not the type of gazpacho that you imagine, because it is cooked with a tomato, pepper and Mediterranean ñora to which you add mere, squid and cenceñas cakes (a type of unleavened bread).
• Alicante Olleta. This is one of those dishes that arose when cooking leftovers and that today has become a traditional delicacy and very good taste. It is a vegetable stew and different part of the pig, very typical for the cold months.
• Drilled. Typical Lenten stew that mixes potatoes, spinach, ñora and cod or melva, topped with an egg at the end of the stew process.
• Jewish and Bogavante suquet.
• Engineed and sponsored. They are two types of dishes where the hardened pepper and cod are part of the base of the recipe.
• Dry octopus. The octopuses drying in the sun have become a usual image of the Alicante coast, but they are much better on a grilled plate. They are really delicious!
• All bread. To the dessert, we have known this typical sweet of Alicante cuisine, which combines the exterior very roasted with an interior spongy, which reminds of a sponge cake.

Areas near Alicante

What do you want to try all this variety of dishes? Well, we have good news! In motorhomes we have several spaces near the city, as the Alicante coast is one of the most present on our platform:

• Camper Santa Pola Area, for motorhomes, cups and vans.
• Caravaning the Marina, for motorhomes, caravans, cups and vans.
• Agrotourism El Hondo, for motorhomes and cups.
• Area 7, for motorhomes, cups and vans.

And if you want to know more gastronomic destinations, you should know that we have spaces near previous gastronomic capitals: