Restaurante Vuelve Carolina

Went for lunch on a Tuesday. Sat at the bar alone but the bartender took fantastic care of me. Loved everything except that weird Caesar salad. Highly recommend

Lovely atmosphere with great cocktails and fun dishes. --- I visited here with my wife for a late lunch on a Thursday. The restaurant was pretty full, but didn't feel too intimidating or loud. I had originally reserved a space outside, but the restaurant was kind enough to reach out to me ahead of time to recommend moving me inside for a better experience given the weather and street location. Our waitress and the overall service was very friendly and prompt, having menus in both English and Spanish. As this was lunch, we went with a drink each and 3, relatively lighter dishes. My cocktail, the Euphoria (tequila and fruit juice base), was amazing. Unique, sweet, and refreshing while still getting the balance with the agave and ginger. I could have had a pitcher of this! My favorite food dish was their award-winning Patatas Bravas, an untraditional take on the classic appetizer. It was very well prepared, and I loved the creaminess of each bite. But it was the chipotle-sauce that accompanied it that really made it my favorite dish. We also had the tacos and a rice dish with cherry that they only serve on Thursday's. The tacos are a bit pricey (25 euros for 4), but my wife especially loved them. The rice dish was a fine accompaniment, but felt it needed something a bit more - either a saltier or more contrasting component to balance the sweetness. To end our experience we also ordered a dessert, going for La Pantera Rosa (Pink Panther). It was presented very cutesy and very pink, but I enjoyed it and appreciated the crumble with the creamy strawberry ice cream. I would be very happy to come here again, but also am excited to one day try some of Quique Dascota's other establishments.

The music and ambient is quite like relax lounge that takes you out of the city amd street sounds outside. The food is very easy to eat with execuisite taste. We had the menu viajero and loved everything in it. The service is great and they are very happy toexplain all the plates and help with all you neee or want to know. Super amables. Oh we did not try the cocktails but the bar looks grrreeeat

The food was amazing - I really regretted not bringing a bigger appetite so I could try more things. The chargrilled iberico pork was really tasty and I had an excellent passionfruit pisco sour as well. The staff were lovely. Would definitely come back here - extra hungry!

High expectations (including the price) but massively let down after each course came out as just average, if not below average. Apologetic waiters until the manager couldn't sort out anything for our expensive bill, where we only ate less than half the food and drink. Friendly cocktail waiter but each cocktail was just bitter and not paired to the meal at all, unless it was to mask the foods taste. Largest let down was the crab 'sandwich' as it was hard to believe how poor someone could mess up an ingredient that good. The sandwich being a stretch, as puff pastry accompanied a blended crab mush omelette, and not worth a single bite further. (Photo included) For €70 a person cocktail course, it wasn't even worth half the price. Go anywhere else if you have any sense about decent food, there's so much better out there and for much better value. Never left a negative review but left quite angry at how poor the experience had been and €150+ out of pocket. The restaurant's loud 'club' music thankfully drowned out our complaining.

They won't lower the volume of the music, it's difficult to keep a conversation without yelling. The menu doesn't include some of the dishes that are inside if the menu itself. It feels like a bit of a ripoff. Also, cheap fritos from Mercadona with some salty sauce are NOT a decent appetiser.

Incredible!!! And so affordable too! The set menus are amazing value for money and every dish is an explosion of flavours. Service was personable and pleasant. The only minor thing is there was a bit of a draft because the door was kept open during lunch. Highly recommend!

Very cool place. Very instagrammable. The food is also very nice and the service is great. We had to ask our server to slow down a bit because we wanted to have extra time to enjoy the place!

This was our last full day in Valencia and my friend who lives there had planned a lunch for us here. We had some friends that were available last minute and the restaurant was nice enough to allow them to make a reservation as well and seat us all next to each other. My first note walking in was that the restaurant was beautiful. From all the foliage, to the decor, and even the bathrooms were really cool... props to the designer. We all did the coursed lunch which made it easy to sit back and enjoy everyones company without having to coordinate ordering enough for everyone. Lunch was definitely a great way to experience this restaurant and the creativity of the dishes was really unique. For what you get, this is very affordable for such a top notch experience.

Ive been a fan of Quique Dacosta's for a long while now. However the journey down to Denia where his flagship has always eluded me. I come back to the area a couple years later and he's now got three restaurants! So what do I do? Go to all of them of course! Having carted me around for a good day and also cooking for me in their home, I felt I needed to treat my friends to a night out. Since we had done many traditional eateries the few days prior, it was time to get a modern take on the local Spanish cuisine. Unlike the remote flagship in Denia, Vuelva Carolina is smack dab in the middle of the Valencia city center. After the stone like facade with the large open glass windows and doors, the makeup is majorly blonde wood throughout, accented in every way. It's very modern, nothing like the tapas bars in the rest of the old town. A set of banquettes line the left side, recessed into the wall.Plentiful bar seating is opposite. As you look forward,the wine cellar towers above the entrance to a back dining room, with the kitchen and restrooms sweeping to the right. It is notable that chef Dacosta has built El Poblet, the former restaurant owned by his parents where his flagship lies now is right next door. We are seated in the middle of the main room my friends peruse the menu and realize these are takes on many of the foods they grew up with. So I let them order, after all this is their night. We are started with a bowl of olives, a selections of rolls and bread crisps. My friends being the Spaniards they are, immediately get a bottle of Pazo Senorans Albarino from Galicia. My friends confer with our server and we end up with: -Mackerel wrapped in bitter greens -Jamon sliced thin in savory sauce -Shaved una belly in savory sauce -Foie gras cuba libre -Scallops in their shell -Grilled octopus with pimenton -Date cake with almond ice cream -Chocolate torte with mandarin oranges znd their gelee -Violet Yogurt Everything was delicious. My friends quickly realized the flavors were all mostly from their childhood but the presentations were all reinterpreted. Sometimes no initial recognition but when it hit their palates, you could see the look in their eyes of familiarity. All I know was it all tasted great. The service was solid and they took great care of us. I think some of it may have been because of an encounter Ill describe below. I got to use the restroom and as I walked through the back dining room I saw a familiar face. A man I had seen at lunch at Ricard Camarena's restaurant earlier in the day. We look at each other and we start to chat. Turns out he's Rafael Palacios of the famous Palacios Rioja family. He however has decided to go on his own and make wines with the Bobal grape in Galicia. He's sitting with a local winemaker of Bodega Mustiguillo. What are the chances in all of the restaurants in Valencia and all of the time slots, that I would run into this man twice in the same day? The world is a crazy small place. When I get back from chatting with him and the restroom, the sommelier shows up with a bottle of 2012 Mestizaje. I look at my friends, they look at me. "Did you order this?" I say. "No. I have no idea where it came from" they respond. The somm then tells my friends that Rafael and his friend had sent it over. Talk about hospitality! They dont even work at the restaurant. I think the mutual love of food however, could not have gone un noticed and as I always say, "the best way to be accepted by a culture is to eat their food". Not only did I get to celebrate with my friends, we got the opportunity to make new ones. I will definitely be visiting their vineyards in my next trip to Spain. Top that off with the great food we had, it made for one great night. We had just missed chef Dacoasta by an hour or so, but I would be headed to see him in Denia the next night. An awesome alternative to your familiar traditional Spanish fare, done with flare and creativity, with plenty of Spanish hospitality to boot.

Not super impressed.. But good and they try. Better on paper. The cava was good and the bao bun and pork taco delish... But overall felt like it was missing something. The Tikka masala taco was good too but tasted like Tikka masala in a taco, not jumping off the plate. Solid three star

Experiencia gastronomica con altibajos y sufrimiento por si te vas a quedar con hambre hasta el final. El menu individual, 27 euros mas las 4 copas de vino, mas el pan, suma casi 80 euros. Los 2 primeros platos, desiguales, unas cebolletas rellenas minimas, una presa iberica que hay comer con pinzas, por lo desgadissima. El plato de mouse de foie con cuba libre muy bueno. Del arroz con bacalao, solo destacaba el fondo por su sabor pero el resto de ingredientes no estaban integrados, nada memorable. Dos postres, el de yogurt con violetas muy bueno, la ganduja de citricos, olvidable. El cafe sin ningun detallito. El local, con un abuso en el aprovechamiento del espacio. Temiamos por nuestras espaldas cada vez que el servicio nos pasaba las bandejas rozando. Servicio desbordado. La experiencia real no estuvo a la altura de las expectativas.

Very good tapas, some with tastes i've never tasted before. Friendly staff & atmosphere. I can higly recommend this place (which i'm doing right now ;))

Poor service spoiled our meal. You can tell a lot about a place by the way it treats travelers. We booked Vuelve Carolina based on the New York Times recommendation. Upon arrival, we were led past multiple vacant front tables into a back room and given a table close to a family with young children. We asked to be moved and were. Our waiter didn't bother to even greet us, was snippy about helping us with the WiFi password, and proceeded to get one of our four orders wrong. He then apparently handed us off to his co-workers and we never interacted with him again. Subsequent waiters were cold, and this is not a stuffy place. The food was good but the meal was definitely tainted by the attitude of the servers, which is a shame as this was our first meal in the wonderful city of Valencia.

The tapas menu wasn't as good as i thought . I believe their normal menu food is more delicious. Service was excellent.