Restaurant Quique Dacosta

The Best Meals in Valencia, According to Chef Virgilio Martínez

"A high-end dining experience located about two hours from Valencia, offering a reflective gastronomic journey with a long menu."

"For a more conceptual approach to gastronomy, look no further than chef Quique Dacosta, who transcends the boundaries of cuisine to lead us through an artistic experience that, as he himself describes, is a form of communication with his guests in keeping with his desire for “culinary beauty”. His innovative cuisine, which changes almost completely every year, constantly pushes the limits of the tasting experience. Through the Octavo (Eighth) tasting menu (with a name that unashamedly pushes back against the seven established fine arts: namely, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, dance, literature and cinema) he speaks to us of an ephemeral and imaginative art that ultimately disappears on the palate via courses (with different wine pairings) that manage to remain forever embedded in the memory. Once again, he finds his source of inspiration in the Mediterranean, with an excitement that puts each of our senses to work, as in his view “cooking is a multisensory discipline”." - Michelin Inspector

The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2024

"Quique Dacosta is listed at the The World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2024 as rank 14." - The World's 50 Best Restaurants

"Rank: #42 "The man behind the eponymous restaurant is the ever-dapper Quique Dacosta, a chef with more than 30 years’ experience leading the charge of Valencia’s increasingly dazzling culinary scene. He became obsessed with French cookbooks as a teenager and set about educating himself in the culinary arts. Today, his cooking pays homage to the fish, seafood and rice dishes of the levant to create tasting menus that artfully combine the traditional with the modern."

"Rank: #74 "A student of the Spanish culinary modernism movement, daring chef Quique Dacosta is well-known for his proclivity to push boundaries."