"Augusta is what happens when four friends from Northern Italy with New York City kitchen cred fall in love with the beachside neighborhood of El Cabanyal and open the kind of Italian restaurant they couldn’t find in Spain. Housed in a restored early-1900s fisherman’s cottage with wood shutters and original tile floors, it plays to the area’s maritime past while serving northern Italian comfort food you rarely see in Valencia, like mullet and basil ravioli, sage-and-butter veal Milanese, and cheese-stuffed Focaccia di Recco. It’s warm, ambitious, and might just be the most exciting Italian cooking in the city right now. RESERVE A TABLE" - David Neimanis