Salou. Costa Dorada. 25 March 2025. Who likes real rice, likes it cooked in all imaginable ways: soupy, with fish, with meat, with chicken, mountain, with vegetables, risotto, with mushrooms, with curry, black... If this is it In your case, you have to come to the Salou Rice Gastronomic Days, from March 28 to April 13, 2025, and try the best rice recipes that are cooked in the capital of the Costa Dorada.
During these days, no less than 20 restaurants in Salou prepare their best rice dishes with Bayo, and paired with During these days, no less than 20 restaurants in Salou prepare the best rice dishes with Bayo, from the Ebro Delta, and pair them with Castell d'Or wines and cavas, which brings together 16 Catalan cooperatives and has been selected for the second year as the Best Cellar in Catalonia for the quality of many of its products.
So, if you love rice, don't hesitate for a moment and choose where you will start to taste the best rice dishes in Salou in 2025:
- La Taberna del Áncora (Autovia from Salou to Reus): includes appetizers, desserts, wine and as a main course, rice in a tin of cuttlefish with artichokes, shrimps and clams, for 33.75 euros (VAT included) per person, minimum 2 people.
- Restaurant Bar “El Morro” (Via Roma, 3 in Salou): starters, desserts and main courses to choose from, as well as wine/cava. You can choose between fried rice, seafood rice or rice with vegetables, all for 25 euros (VAT included), per person, minimum 2 people.
- El Racó de Nico (Via Augusta, 19 in Salou): offers starters to share, desserts and a main course to choose from blue crab rice or artichoke, galera and cep rice. Includes wine/cava for 32 euros (VAT included), minimum 2 people and prior reservation.
- Cook & Travel Restaurant (Carrer Llevant, 5 in Salou): Mediterranean menu with house appetizer, starters to share, dessert, and main course to choose from shrimp dry rice with garlic or mushroom and truffle risotto with parmesan, and wine/cava for 45 euros (VAT included) per person, minimum 2 people.
- MRKT Gastrobar (Carrer Francolí, 8 in Salou): starters, dessert and a main course of mountain rice with shrimp broth and candied Iberian ham, wine/cava, all for 40 euros (VAT included) per person, minimum 2 people.
- Bufacaldos Restaurant (Passeig Miramar, 20 in Salou): sharing menu, dessert and squid rossejat in two textures with chive garlic and oil, plus wine/cava, for 45 euros (VAT included) per person, minimum 2 people.
- Malapecora by Bandarrra Restaurant (Via Augusta, 14 in Salou): the menu consists of a starter with a tasting of textured rice dishes, a main course of rice from the Pyrenees, dessert, wine/cava for 39 euros (VAT included) per person, minimum 2 people.
- Thai Salou (Barbastre Street, 13 in Salou): includes a starter, dessert, wine and a main course of pork shoulder stewed with five spices and jasmine rice, for 32 euros (VAT included) per person.
- Arena Restaurant (Passeig Jaume I, s/n Hotel Blaumar in Salou): offers a menu with starters and desserts to choose from and a cod rice with galleys and artichokes with touches of saffron, and wine for 36 euros (VAT included) per person, minimum 2 people.
- 4R Casablanca Restaurant (Passeig Mirarmar, 12 in Salou): offers starters, desserts and a main course of dry mushroom rice with Iberian secret, foie gras and piquillo pepper, plus wine/cava (with a supplement of 2 euros) for 34 euros from Monday to Friday, or 36 euros at the weekend. Prices include VAT and per person, with a minimum of 2 people.
- O Mar Restaurant (av. Carles Buïgas, 29 in Salou): includes starters to share, a choice of dessert and a main course of seafood rice with senyoret style and artichokes, and wine for 39 euros (VAT included) per person, minimum 2 people.
- Caffé Di Mare (calle Colón, 2 in Salou): with starters and desserts to choose from, and a main course also to choose from black rice, rice with cod and seafood paella. Includes wine for 29 euros (VAT included) per person, minimum 2 people.
- Amaranto (Carrer Rosa Sensat, 6 in Salou): offers a menu with a choice of starter, shrimp and artichoke rice and a choice of dessert and wine/cava for 25 euros (VAT included) per person, minimum 2 people.
- [M] nudo (Passeig Miramar, 6): includes a starter, dessert, and a main course of monkfish rice, artichokes and smoked eel, plus wine, for 40 euros (VAT included) per person, minimum 2 people. Reservations must be made at least 3 days in advance.
- La Taska Gastrobar (Via Roma, 22 in Salou): starters to share, a choice of dessert, and as a main course, sweet octopus rice with baby squid. Includes wine/cava for 35 euros (VAT included) per person, minimum 2 people.
- The Terrace at Hills – Infinitum (Camí de Hills street in Salou): offers starters to share, desserts and a main course of creamy rice with calçot and Iberian tear, plus wine/cava, for 38.50 euros (VAT included) per person with a minimum of 2 people.
- Tagliatella Salou (Murillo street 6-10 in Salou): starters to choose from and share desserts and a main course to choose from risotto mare monte, Iberian risotto or risotto a la carbonara. Also includes wine/cava for 26 euros (VAT included) per person, minimum 2 people.
- Restaurante Castillo de Javier (Barbastre street, 16 in Salou): offers starter, desserts and a main course to choose from mellow cheek rice, artichokes and calçot or lobster rice soup, wine/cava for 48 euros (VAT included) per person, minimum 2 people. Reservations are required.
- Morabito (Passeig Miramar, 34 in Salou): menu with a starter of steamed mussels from the Ebro Delta, dessert and as a main course a sweet rice with artichoke and galera. Includes wine/cava for 19.50 euros (VAT included) per person, minimum 2 people.
- Deliranto (Michelin Star and Repsol Sun, on Llevant Street, 7 in Salou): offers a tasting menu called “The Interninable History”, with prior reservation.
For tastes, rice
The Gastronomic Rice Days are the first activity of the Salou Food Experience 2025 Gastronomic Agenda, which proposes various experiences throughout the year to enjoy the best gastronomy of the Costa Daurada.
During the presentation of the Salou Rice Gastronomic Conference, christened with the slogan “For tastes, rice”, the president of the Association of Hospitality Entrepreneurs (AEH) Salou, Pep Moreno, highlighted that “if there is one thing that Salou has as a gastronomic cultural wealth, it is that it includes a wide variety of restaurants, and rice is the link that can unite a sushi restaurant, a Thai, a Spanish and an Italian. These are the first conferences that were held, they continue to be very successful and restaurateurs are eagerly awaiting the date for them to begin.”
For his part, the councilor for Economic Development of the Salou City Council, Hèctor Maiquez, noted that “we are satisfied with the celebration of this event, fully consolidated within the local gastronomic agenda of Salou”; and "given that this year the municipality holds the status of capital of Catalan Culture, we want to link gastronomy and oenology to the great cultural wealth, tradition and product of the territory".
Jordi Amell, CEO of the Castell d'Or Group, and the commercial director of Hostaleria de Bayo, Santos Martínez, also participated in the presentation event.
