Where to eat in Los Alcázares — the best local restaurants and tables worth booking, filtered by cuisine and picked for tourists, expats and families.
Los Alcázares eats along the water. The promenade and its piers are lined with restaurants looking out over the calm Mar Menor — Restaurante Ramón on a pier over the lagoon, Restaurante San Antonio at the end of another with 360° views, and La Tropical for a seafront paella. It's a relaxed, family scene, strong on fresh seafood and the region's rices.
Being one of the Mar Menor's most international towns, it's not all Spanish: alongside tapas favourites like La Taberna del Toro and the seasoned El Delfín, you'll find good Italian at Little Sicily and Nepalese-Indian at Gurkha Durbar. Round the day off with a speciality coffee at Madness or a café asiático — Murcia's own — along the front.
A dependable Mediterranean and European restaurant on the front, popular with the town's international crowd.
A well-regarded, first-class Spanish restaurant in town — traditional cooking done with care.
A Nepalese and Indian restaurant — a nod to the town's big international community, and a good change from the seafood.
A proper, authentic tapas bar — generous plates at very fair prices, a lively local favourite.
A family beachfront restaurant known for its seafood paella and tapas, with tables looking out over the lagoon.
A friendly Italian for pizza and pasta — a reliable family option among the seafront restaurants.
A Mar Menor institution on a pier over the lagoon — fresh seafood and Mediterranean plates with water on three sides. Book for a table on the deck.
At the end of a pier with 360° views over the Mar Menor — traditional Spanish food and tapas with about the best sea view in town.
The piers. Restaurante Ramón sits out over the lagoon, and Restaurante San Antonio is at the end of a pier with 360° sea views. La Tropical and the beachfront chiringuitos also put you right by the water.
La Taberna del Toro is the local favourite for proper, generous tapas at fair prices, and Cafetería Bar Joaquín is known for standout tapas alongside its breakfasts. El Chato is the pick for a more formal traditional Spanish meal.
Plenty — it's one of the Mar Menor's most international towns. Alongside the Spanish seafood you'll find Italian (Little Sicily), Nepalese and Indian (Gurkha Durbar) and Mediterranean-European spots popular with the resident foreign community.
Caldero — a fisherman's rice cooked in fish stock and served with alioli — is the coast's signature, alongside fresh Mar Menor fish and prawns. Finish with a café asiático, the Murcian coffee with condensed milk and liqueur.