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LA INDIANA Yes. This November, La Indiana is celebrating its 9th anniversary! And after 9 years it continues to be in the vanguard as one of the city’s most prestigious night clubs. Quality is of importance here, from the attractive and professional staff, the great music pumping out of the speakers, and those extra touches that make all the difference... including free parking with valet included. At La Indiana every client is made to feel welcome and looked after. Its excellent location, in the centre of the city and 3 colourful salas with different music in each one, all make it perfect for an unforgettable night out. It is just a few minutes walk from Plaza Ayuntamiento! For all these reasons, La Indiana continues to be the night club of reference in Valencia on a local, national and international level. It is first choice as a venue for major events and the club of choice for visiting international artists. All of this has made La Indiana a reference point as the finest night club in Valencia.

‘La Reina de la Noche’ as it is known by many, has a wonderful programme lined up for lovers of luxury. Many clubs have imitated La Indiana but not one has bettered it. La Indiana... where amazing things happen! Open 00.00h - 07.30 h on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. VIP room - R’n’B, Funky and Soul MAIN room - House Up room - Pop Thursdays/ jueves - CAMPUS Fridays/ viernes - COSMOPOLITAN Saturdays/ sabados - INDIANA

Great! Funky and cosmopolitan crowds enjoy these very cool and authentic (yet different) Italian restaurants.Legendary Italian chef Massimo Sbrozzi owns both Amarcord and Alter Ego. He produces some beautiful dishes with original & innovative recipes including tasty stuffed pastas, ravioli, risottos and carpaccios. See listings for more details.

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Editorial NOVEMBER 10

‘TRAINS AND BOATS AND PLANES’ CONTENTS EDITORIAL - 5

VIDAS DE VALENCIA - 6 ART IN VALENCIA - 7

Station to Station - 8 VALENCIA MUSIC - 10

DUTCH GIRL IN VLC - 11 FOOD - 12

RESTAURANT OF THE MONTH - 13

CHILL OUT - 16

NOVEMBER 10 LISTINGS - 17

ARTS & theatre - 17 live music - 18 clubs - 19

chill out - 20

CERVECERIAS - 22

TRADITIONAL PUBS - 22 Restaurants - 23

shopping - 29

CLASSIFIEDS - 30

OFFICIALITUS - 34

VALENCIA FOOTBALL - 36

24/7 VALENCIA PARTY PEOPLE - 38

CLUBLAND - 39

ZONA PLAZA XÚQUER - 40

VALENCIA WORLD - 42 WOMAN - 43 LA3 - 44

MAP - 45

AGENDA . CLUBS & LIVE MUSIC - 46 CARPE DIEM / OCHO Y MEDIO - 48

Trains and boats and planes…where would we be without them? As of this November, the airline Ryanair will be bringing many more tourists from all over Europe and beyond to Valencia. It’s wonderful news for this fair city, for the bars and the restaurants, the hotels and the hostels.

it has been said that our cosmopolitan staff combines experience with enthusiasm and variety with verve. The ‘24/7 Valencia’ team includes writers, photographers and designers from America, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Germany, France, Holland, Ireland and Spain.

This is an historic moment for Valencia as the high-speed AVE train between Madrid and Valencia will be in full swing as of December of this year! With a journey time of just 90 minutes, it will mean better communication between the coast and the capital with far more business and tourist links being formed. We’ll write about boats in the future! Fittingly, we have an article on the Valencia train station especially for our readers.

We are the only English speaking guide to Valencia whose editorial team are long-term residents of Valencia and we have made a lifelong commitment to Valencia by buying property here. We’ve paid our dues, we’ve earned the respect of locals, expats and tourists and people say we deserve the support we have received. Thank you to all of our advertisers, over the years, for making ‘24/7 Valencia’ the oldest monthly guide to Valencia in any language.

Talking of our readership, many thanks for all of your emails of support for this magazine. We are the only guide to Valencia recommended by the local, national and international media. This includes the widely circulated local papers Levante EMV and Super Deporte, the nationally renowned El País and the internationally renowned Lonely Planet, Time Out, Rough Guide, Let’s Go, Guardian Unlimited, CNN.com, Business Traveller Magazine and many more.

It has been 10 years since ‘24/7 Valencia’ began and we continue the 10th anniversary celebrations with a live performance by the up-and-coming local band “Folk-Jazz-Arabe” at the highly popular Slaughterhouse Librería y Cafeteria on C/ Denia, 22. The party is on Thursday, November 25th. The gig starts at 20.00h, giving you plenty of time to enjoy post-concert drinks and tapas in Ruzafa, one of Valencia’s most bohemian and colourful of barrios. The entrance fee is just 3 euros and space is limited… so reserve your ticket soon by ringing 96 3287755!

A well-travelled reader, now based in Valencia, recently got in touch say that: “24/7 Valencia is an open-minded magazine for open-minded people.” We are here to serve our readers and

See you there and see you next month! 24/7 Valencia team

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editor: Will McCarthy. contributors: Altogringo, Anita Darling, Heino, John Murphy, Gooru, Mark Hulton, Owl, Tim Birch, David Rhead, José Marín, Erica Choate, Amparo Oliver, Lolita Devine, María Angélica Sao Pedro, Kaiko, El Gazza. Marilûz Vergaz. Layout & design: www.dsignes.net printed by: signografíco. distributed by: groovy cat Ltd. email: ed@24-7valencia.com móvil: 650 639 177 online: www.247valencia.com Views expressed by the contributors are not necessarily those of the editor. 24/7Valencia does not accept responsibility for date/time/venue changes. According to copyright law any reproduction, either total or partial, is completely forbidden without written permission of the editor. All articles, past and present, printed in 24/7Valencia magazine are copyright of Orange Skies, S.L. © 2010 Legal deposit: D4562606

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VIDAS DE VALENCIA Outside Miss Sushi In Canovas

Ecléctico Bar

Gambrinus

Ruzafa

Arte

Beer C/ Salamanca, 4

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ART IN VALENCIA

FÉLIX CANDELA 1910-2010 Hasta 2 enero 2011 IVAM

C/ Guillem de Castro, 118 (Zona Carmen) Tel: 96 386 30 00 www.ivam.es

André Kertész FotografiAs Hasta 30 enero 2011 MuVIM

C/ Guillem de Castro, 8 (Zona Carmen) Tel: 96 388 37 47 www.muvim.es

CRISTINA GARCÍA. MARÍA LIONZA

“EL PEQUEÑO PUENTE SOBRE EL RÍO”

C/ Corona, 36 (Zona Carmen) Tel: 963 883 565 www.museuvalenciaetnologia.es

C/ Borrull, 16, bajo (Zona Botanico) Tel.: 961 13 14 99 www.doctornopo.es

Hasta 19 diciembre 2010 MUSEU VALENCIÀ D’ETNOLOGIA

Desde 17 de noviembre hasta 22 enero 2011 DR. NOPO

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Station to Station There is something magnificent and Jules Verne-like about old main line railway stations that their clean-lined, concrete and glass modern counterparts, however beautifully designed, can never quite recapture. In December 2010, the ultra-fast AVE (Alta Velocidad Española) train will arrive in Valencia from Madrid at a new, purposebuilt station under the Gran Vía Germanias. As Valencia advances into a new age of high-speed rail links, underground tunnels and metro systems, the grand old Estación del Norte is beginning to look more and more like an obsolete museum piece. But as a monument to Valencia’s Modernist past and the top-hatted gentlemen who dreamed of bringing Valencia into the modern world of the 20th century, it’s well worth preserving. The Estación del Norte was a replacement for the first main line station in Valencia, which had been built and designed by the British company Beatty and Shepherd (now Balfour Beatty Engineering) in 1850. It stood on what is now the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, more or less where the Telefónica building is today, with its tracks squeezing through the old medieval city walls, which were still yet to be demolished. The British were

soon bought out by Valencia’s very own Andrew Carnegie-style industrialist, the first Marqués de Campo, who, along with some other bewhiskered big nobs of 19th century Valencia, set up the Compañía del Norte and started work on the first railway lines out of the city. They had big plans and, in 1906, the old station was demolished and replaced by the present-day one. The building of the new station, along with the demolishing of the medieval walls and the spread of the city to the south and west, was a sign of Valencia flexing its muscles in an attempt to lose its provincial tag in favour of a more cosmopolitan image, opening itself up to the wtorld, pushed along by Valencia’s ambitious, larger-than-life mayor, Cirilo Amorós. This was a time when the new central post office was also built and the port was being improved and expanded as a motor for business, sending Valencian goods out to the rest of Europe and putting the city firmly on the map. The original plan was to build the station on the Gran Vía Marqués del Túria, close at hand to the mayor and his cronies… these Cánovas folk always want everything right

on their doorstep. However, it was decided that this was too far from the city centre and instead the busy C/ Játiva (Xàtiva), which followed the route of the now demolished walls, was chosen, much to the dismay of the citizens of Ruzafa who didn’t want the dirty iron beast to pass so near to their houses. The owners of the bullring also complained that the building work would affect trade. But there was no stopping the dreams of the powers-that-be and work went on regardless, Ruzafa being rewarded with new housing developments and plenty of jobs for its residents. Despite the desire to show how worldly and cosmopolitan the city could be, the station designers, like all Valencians who get misty eyed over the thought of women with metal combs in their hair collecting oranges in their frilly aprons, couldn’t resist the temptation of making the whole thing a modernist celebration of all things stereotypically Valencian. Flat and long like a rural masía (farmhouse), the building is painted tobaccostain yellow with stucco motifs of orange branches and folkloric scenes from the Valencia huerta both inside and out. Above the front entrance are two mosaics

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of Valencian women dressed like falleras lolling about in the countryside and (weirdly) a couple of naked cherubs playing with some dangerous looking railway equipment. Inside, the station is bursting with Art Deco modernist touches like the goldfish bowl lamps hanging from ornate, iron branches. The wood-panelled entrance hall has ceramic signs wishing passengers a pleasant journey in ten languages including English, Arabic and Japanese (but not Valenciano!) and a row of wooden confession box-like ticket booths. Ceramics and ironwork are everywhere, with the old station bar (now the information centre) particularly plush with its idyllic scenes from the Albufera. One thing is missing, though – the sea. No anchors or boats, not even a few fish amongst the rice fields and orange trees. A classic example of Valencia living up to its image as a city with its back firmly to the sea. The huge roof covering the platforms has some nifty ironwork (they just don’t rivet and weld like they used to, do they?) with a ventilation strip down the middle to let the steam and smoke out and two large twentyfour hour clocks moulded into the pillars. The five-point star of the Compañía del Norte is also everywhere giving the place a bit of a feel of Soviet architecture amongst all the showy modernism, something Franco and Article © 2010 24/7Valencia

his mates later obviously failed to notice. With all the comings and goings it has seen over the last century, the station, like any of its type, has become part of countless memories. George Orwell in his book ‘Homage to Catalonia’ talks of spending a sticky, uncomfortable night stuck on a train at Valencia’s Estación del Norte during the Civil War. When the treasures from El Prado museum were sent to Valencia to keep them out of the hands of Franco’s advancing armies, they arrived here by train. The station is also the classic place to arrive in Valencia during Fallas. Just walk out the front and you’ll be right in the middle of a marching band and within easy hearing distance of the mascletà. But it’s obvious that the station is now starting to look like it has outlived its purpose. It’s too small for the new high-speed lines, there’s nowhere comfortable to sit and it’s cold in winter and boiling hot in summer. Beautiful but unpractical in the 21st century. The new Joaquín Sorolla station built next to the Gran Vía Germanías is provisional, with the definitive project to be finished at some imaginary Valencian time in the future. The Estación del Norte building will be part of the project as a kind of grand entrance to the more functional modern station similar to what has been done at Atocha in Madrid or Liverpool Street in London. The first S112

high-speed trains will arrive from Madrid on the 18th of December. There will be 1317 trains a day (one train per hour at peak times) and city centre to city centre will take just 90 minutes. The railways are hoping to be competitive on price with the airlines and they even claim it will be cheaper than going by car. Although no official prices have been released, we were told that they would be between 85€ and 120€ return with some offers at weekends. Pretty expensive for a family but doable if you’re pushing the boat out for a once-in-a-while night out in Madrid, or a trip to the theatre or the museums. The whole thing is, of course, aimed principally at business folk and perhaps for the first time the idea of living in Valencia and working in Madrid becomes a possibility. Those hundreds of thousands of Madrileños who spend summer at the beach in the Valencia region will also have another option to avoid the legendary August traffic jams. This may be the start of Valencia finally looking more towards the sea, as many Madrileños will see it as their gateway to the beaches and while the grand old station will stand as a monument to the past, Cirilo Amorós will finally get his wish of having a station near the plusher parts of the Gran Vía. David Rhead and José Marín

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VALENCIA MUSIC

VIVA TIRADO

Viva Tirado - Rodando las calles

Noelia Sayas: Songwriter / vocals / guitar Nacho Pereda: Arranger / Spanish guitar/ chorus Alessandro Cesarini: Electric and double bass Pau Vidal: Flute Rainer Enrique / Lázaro Machado: Percussion Miguel Asensio/ Paco Casas: Drums

How did Viva Tirado begin?

or there…

We are a Valencia-based band. The heart and soul of Viva Tirado is Nacho Pereda and myself, Noelia Sayas. Between us we run & direct everything concerned with the band. On an artistic level, I write the songs and Nacho deals with the arrangements and production. We’ve been working together since 2006, although the project first saw the light of day in 2001. We’re at our best, musically speaking, at this moment in time. We have a great band, a new album that is making waves, more than 60,000 visitors on our MySpace page and a loyal public who always have a great time at our concerts. That makes us happy!

Where have you played and what was the experience like?

Could you explain what your music is about? Viva Tirado is a fusion band, a Latin mixture of really alternative music, which is at its most potent when we play it live. Reggae, tango, rumba, and ska …everything is allowed. The lyrics lead the song and each story is expressed via the different styles we fuse together. The sound of the band is distinctive for its Spanish guitar with a Cuban flavour, Latin percussion rhythms, flute melodies and a rhythm section that incorporates jazz, Latin or rock touches. Where does the inspiration for your lyrics come from? From the street, the bars, heartbreaking affairs, love, loneliness or the company of others, the urban, daily life, the inopportune but also the exceptional and the unique, any experience, a real or fictional character, a worry, a joy. The streets of the Barrio del Carmen, the electric colour of the blue sky, the terraces in summer, enjoying olives in the sunshine, breathing or sweet and forgotten grudges, a revolution within, to roam the streets, half-lies. The words come and go and some fortunately remain for the odd refrain of ours, here

This summer we presented our new album “Rodando las Calles” (Roaming the streets) in the south of Spain and we played some festivals, concert halls and bars in Belgium and Germany. In September, on our return, we finally played in our hometown of Valencia at El Loco and it was a great concert. The tickets were sold out and we all had a wonderful time. We hope that 2011 will be a great year with plenty of travelling and festivals. Can you explain your new record to us? ‘Rodando las Calles’ is a more musical album than our debut album, ‘El Indecente’. We’ve had more of a helping hand from outside sources, more musicians and we were co-produced by Miguel Pino and produced by Javier Martin (the bassist of the world-renowned Ojos de Brujo) as well as the collaboration of some musicians from that band. The concept of the album is completely different to our debut. Although the message and character of Viva Tirado remains via the lyrics, it is on another level musically. There are 13 songs on the new album, which starts with a flute melody that serves as an intro and takes you wherever you want to go and then come 12 tracks that combine reggae, rumba, the ʻson Cubanoʼ, swing, a real melting pot. We have included three songs from the debut album, but they are different versions with new arrangements and with the entire band playing on them. We didn’t want to have the songs as stark as they were on the debut, we wanted to show what Viva Tirado sounds like with the whole band in full effect. Why the title “Rodando las Calles”? Well, the reality is that for me and Nacho this

world of music during our years together has been roaming the streets, the bars, the concert halls, any place you can get a gig, different cities, travelling near and far to get our music out there. All of this at a slow pace like reggae but constant and never stopping. That’s why we chose the title of the album. Where can we find your new album in Valencia? Right now we don’t have a record label or distributor. We sold 3500 copies of our debut album by ourselves! We have already sold 500 copies of our latest album since August and we’ve always sold them via live concerts and local bars and restaurants. So through friends who support us you can find the album in the Barrio del Carmen at the Laundry Stop (C/ Baja, 17), La Marrana and El Colacao (C/ Alta), La Mari y sus Tacones (C/ Alta, 28), Prêt-à-Porter (C/ Murillo, 10), La Vaca Verde (Plaza Mosen Sorell, 11) and in Cabañal at La Paca (C/ Rosario, 30) as well as at La Pirámide Musical of El Corte Inglés in Nuevo Centro. The album only costs 10 euros. Are you going to play live in Valencia in November or December? Definitely! All of our concerts are announced via our MySpace page so you can find out the date, the time and the place. We’ll soon be playing in Dub Club on C/ Jesus, 91. Anyway, thank you to the editor Will McCarthy, a good friend of ours, and the ‘24/7 Valencia’ team who have supported our band from the very beginning. We’ll see you all soon!

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DUTCH GIRL IN VALENCIA

There’s a New Dutch Girl in Town! Only she looks a bit different from the rest of the typical Dutch we know. Non-blonde hair, dark brown eyes, a very well-spoken Dutch accent and not someone you’d recognise as a typical Dutch tourist. You know…those who dress far from elegantly and love to wear these comfortable clothes, matching colours I wouldn’t dream of. So let me introduce myself before someone jumps to the conclusion that Dutch people aren’t trendy. I’m new in town and at ease in this city where almost everyone is unknown to me. It’s like coming home to a world I didn’t know before, listening to Spanish conversations, although I don’t understand a word of them, and recognising my own roots whilst looking into their faces. When I first came to Valencia (as a trendy Dutch tourist), my goal was to see as much as possible…in five days! So I walked from El Carmen all through the Río Turia, saw a movie at the Hemisfèric, touched everything in the Science Museum and dragged myself to the Oceanográfico. Because of huge blisters in my sweaty sandals, I decided to rent a bike and headed for the beach. With my legs sore as hell and my ass hurting, I dozed off at Playa Las Arenas,

flirted with an Aussie and ended up with that hot guy in the apartment of my four star hotel. Valencia had it all! How could I not fall in love with the energy of this beautiful city? At last I had found my destiny! Some of you may think I found my destiny in pure and simple love, wanting to share my life with that stranger and trying to do whatever possible to move to Spain and live happily ever after. Think twice! I didn’t. Apart from not being that typical Dutch girl, I am also a little bit crazier than the rest. I easily talk to strangers, offer them a light even though I don’t smoke and open myself to any interesting new encounter. How else would you set up your life as a new girl in town? Apart from meeting students at the private school, there are so many ways to practice your Spanish or anything else that needs to be refreshed. A single girl, born in Colombia, with a figure to be proud of and her face shining because of happiness, will easily be found sitting at a bar all by herself. At least I do! “Look out for dangerous men!” my stepmum always said and I did. I looked for them and they flirted back. I had the funniest conversations with these playboys and liked to explain that there’s more to life than just sex. Oops, they thought it would be easy. But isn’t that what most of us know by now? Life is everything but easy. Moving to another country with different people and strange traditions will never be an easy road. Especially when you do it all alone, with nothing to begin with, discovering how flexible you really are.

I expected my new life to be everything I always dreamed of. Far away from all the horrible stages in life I had to go through back in Holland. Far away from terrible events, even though my memory never fails to remind me. But look at me now. Strong, independent and happy like never before! I longed for so many years to move to a warmer climate with people I could relate to. To really follow that dream and to sit here while writing my story makes me realise how lucky I am and what a thrill it is to do exactly what you wished for. Nine months after my intensive city trip to Valencia, I gave birth to the first day of my new and exciting life after crying my eyes out at the airport in Holland. How painful it was to say goodbye to family and friends even though I knew I had made the right decision. I looked for a new place to stay, started to learn Spanish and tried to find new friends and lovers, not necessarily in that order. So did I succeed? Hell yeah I did! My duplex penthouse in El Carmen is awesome, by now I speak Spanish, English, French and Dutch fluently and my new friends (with or without benefits) come from all over the world. Like I told you…I’m a little bit different from the rest. A Latin girl with the Dutch nationality, but far from the conservative type. Not married, no kids and so far no job. A penthouse and no job? Trust me…. there’s a very abnormal explanation for it all. Jumping to conclusions can be very tricky. I do it all the time!Mónica Navarro Email: monicafotografia@gmail.com www.flickr.com/photos/moni navarro Marilûz Vergaz Tel: 652 731 976 Article © 2010 24/7Valencia

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FOOD

Pie in the Sky

It’s getting cooler, a cook’s favourite time of year for comfort food. I’m thinking ‘nursery’ food, granny’s food, mum’s Sunday lunch – all those dishes that warm the cockles of your wee heart and make you the happiest person in the world. What would the world be without winters and the comfort foods with which to see them through?? A different place indeed, let me tell you. Oh, the joys of slow-cooked, warm slop! I love the summer, don’t take this the wrong way, I’m sick of warm slop by winter’s end, but come October / November of each year, I’m absolutely fanging for pheasant, lamb shanks, sticky toffee pudding, boeuf bourguignon and their cousins. However, my favourite comfort food of all time, that dish that takes me to heaven and back every time, has got to be a good ol’ smoked fish pie. Snakes alive! It is the best dish in the world. You may think it’s an ordinary old excuse for getting rid of nasty seafood but honestly, do this right and you’ll be serving even the Lords and Ladies seconds and thirds! The trick with a fish pie is, quite simply, LOTS of fish. Seems obvious really, but how many times I’ve eaten in a restaurant where I’ve been served a bowl of béchamel sauce and a few bits of skanky fish floating in it, I don’t know. Gross. Honestly, fill your pie dish almost to the brim with fish and seafood, throw in plenty of onions and chives for flavour, make a dreamy, lemony mash for the top and then you’ll know what I’m talking about. Fish pie goes to another level entirely when you add your favourite smoked fish to it. Try the ‘hot’ smoked salmon, or smoked haddock, perhaps some smoked oysters or mussels, food doesn’t get any better! The quantities in this recipe are a rough guide; buy more or less, depending on the size of your dish. Gently bring the milk just to a boil and remove it from the heat. Add the roughly chopped red onion, bay leaf and bunch of thyme and allow to infuse whilst you make the roux and assemble everything else. Then, make the roux by gently melting the butter and, with the temperature still low,

Smoked Fish Pie • 200 gm smoked salmon/haddock, or more if you like • 4 fillets portion salmon, skinned • 4 fillets your choice white fish, cod • 2 onions, finely diced • 2 leeks, finely diced • 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped • 1 bunch chives, finely chopped • 1 bunch parsley, finely chopped • • 600 mls milk • 1 red onion • 1 bunch thyme • 1 bay leaf • 110 gm butter • 110 gm flour • • 3 – 4 potatoes • 1/2 cup milk • Juice and zest of 1 lemon

Aim to leave about an inch to the top of your dish, so you can now spoon the lemony mashed potato over the top of the fish. Bake in a moderate oven (160 – 180ºC) for around 45 minutes. You may like to put a tray under the pie dish so that any bubbling over doesn’t burn to the bottom of the oven. If you like, once the mash has slightly browned, you can sprinkle over some of your favourite grated cheese to melt and go all gooey and golden on top. This will take about 5 minutes at the end of cooking – just enough time to put the plates in the oven to warm and cook a pile of fresh or frozen peas. Place the dish on the table with a big spoon, pile the plates up next to it and get a nice warm bowl for the peas, crack some lovely wine and sit down amongst friends to share what is one of the best, in my opinion, meals which can be shared – delicious! Enjoy yourselves, eat well and dance all night. Stay tuned next month for a Christmas treat! Buen provecho! Professional Chef Erica Choate © 2010 24/7Valencia

stir in the flour. It will become like a thick paste so continue cooking this for about 2 minutes – this is an important step. If you don’t cook the roux long enough, you’ll have a fish pie that tastes of raw flour – blah! Meanwhile, chop the potatoes into rough cubes and boil until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain and mash with lemon zest, a squeeze of lemon juice, milk and salt to taste. Set aside. Drain the milk discarding the onion, bay and thyme, and now whisk it into the roux, keep the heat low and whisk constantly until the sauce has thickened to a béchamel sauce, about 8-10 minutes. Choose an ovenproof saucepan, or casserole dish – the Spanish cazuelas are perfect too, and fill this with the fish you have chosen, chop it all up into nice bitesize pieces. Stir through the onion, leek, garlic, chives and parsley. Now, pour over the béchamel until it just covers the fish.

BUZZING IRISH PUB

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RESTAURANT OF THE MONTH

MEDITERRANIART I was explaining to an open-mouthed Valencia native the other day that when I was a kid in England, olive oil was something you bought from Boots or Timothy White’s in miniature bottles and was warmed in a teaspoon for the relief of earache and removal of excessive earwax. There are still recipes and instructions on the Internet that describe the cure – one even adds garlic to make it even more effective! We got on to the subject when this Spanish friend was telling me that as a teenager some years ago, he had stayed with a family in the north of England for three weeks to learn English. After two weeks of fish and chips and beans on toast (the only things he could stomach), he asked if he could cook them a Spanish meal. The mother agreed and when he went out to buy the ingredients, he was horrified at the price of olive oil when he finally found it. He made the family a tortilla Española and served it to the family with a ‘French loaf’ (he found it extremely funny that a barra or baguette should be called a French loaf in the UK) and a bottle of Spanish red wine, ‘Bull’s Blood,’ which was about all you could buy in those days in supermarkets. The only one in the family who actually ate the tortilla was the youngest child of the family. The mother, who had watched him cook it in the customary copious amount of oil, declared it far too oily. The dad ate the French bread and drank the wine and the elder son had baked beans – again. Thank God he didn’t try them on paella! Dinner out this month was at a relatively new venue in C/ del Mar, one of my favourite streets in the centro histórico. Mediterraniart has opened where an art gallery has stood for as long as I can remember. Its owners, a friendly and very enterprising threesome comprising of a couple (he from Spain and she from Italy) and

a friend, have made the wise decision to keep the gallery element alive and show art on the walls in the light and pleasant space. I went with two companions on a Thursday night arriving at 22.00h to find the restaurant well-filled and service in full swing. We were shown down a few steps into the dining area to our table and immediately welcomed with glass of cava each. We noticed as we looked through our menus that there was no background music, just the chatter of fellow diners and people up in the bar at the entrance, and it made for a good ambience. We gave our order, actually we left the choice to the chef, and chatted. A basket of warm bread rolls was delivered to the table accompanied by a carafe of yes, you guessed it, olive oil – their own home-grown and bottled Cosecha Propia, and what an oil! Quite delicious dribbled over the excellent bread, thank goodness the real food followed shortly after or we’d all have just dined on the oil and bread! Each dish that arrived was placed in the centre of the table for us to share. A tabla of Jamón Ibérico Bellota 4 star, wafer-thin slices and delicious, arrived first followed by Patatas del Rey (potatoes slowly fried with onion and peppers, and served with more of that ham and poached eggs with grated Italian truffle). This was followed by a little puff pastry stuffed with Rabo de toro (oxtail), foie and wild mushrooms and sprinkled with raisins. Alongside this came a dish of homemade pumpkin ravioli (I think I am one of the few people who really don’t like pumpkin, but I did try it and it was fine!). Next came a Milhojas de foie con manzana (a multilayered puff pastry and foie and apple confection), beautiful to look at and tasted as good, too! Another plate held tiny, melt-in-themouth baby goat (Chuletitas de cabra lechal) chops served with gorgonzola and potatoes – lovely. We drank an excellent Pago de los Cappelanes ‘joven roble’ Ribera del Duero from their small but well-chosen wine menu.

We could all have quite easily stopped there but of course there was dessert to come, a tiramisu served in a wine goblet that P thought excellent and a very moist and not too sweet brownie with vanilla ice cream. Rafa, one of the owners, joined us to chat over a ʻcoffee tequilaʼ. He and his partners have crafted a restaurant and menu that is intended to offer excellence and value for money, they are hoping that people will pop in for anything from a drink and tapas to a full meal or just a drink or coffee at their bar. Looking around at the obviously happy fellow diners and drinkers it is clear that they are beginning to achieve their aim. They serve quality paella every day. Mediterraniart deserves to become well-known in the city, not just for its food but its service and ambience as well. Oh, and make sure you try the olive oil!

Tim Birch

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ROCAFULL In 1982, Luis Gilabert and his brother opened

stars have played gigs here too, like Senior i el Cor

Prices are great, a long drink will cost you around

infamous Plaza Xúquer in the Blasco Ibáñez area

of the Valencia pop-rock indie band La Habitación

special teas, beers and glasses of wine 2€. Get in

a little bar in the corner, slightly hidden, of the

called Rocafull. 28 years later, it all belongs to Luis

and, according to his wife and daughters, he is there every day and it is his love and passion.

Rocafull is small but large in life, busy all day and

all night with locals and friends of Luis’, and people

Brutal and Euro-Trash Girl themselves. Members

Roja have not only played but are regulars at the bar, too. It is probably Valencia’s most famous indie hangout and that often makes for a cosmopolitan and open atmosphere. Erasmus students are very welcome!

6€, a freshly ground coffee around 1.20€, and now for their current offer of two pints for 5€! Luis

no longer runs a kitchen but big pots of nuts and

‘kikos’ (a Spanish snack made of fried sweetcorn, sounds strange but delicious!) are kept behind the bar for anyone with the munchies.

who just pop in for a quick drink or a chat. Picture

It’s not just the friendly, welcoming ambience that

Refurbished two years ago, it still feels like the bar

you’ve got Rocafull! The pavement terrace outside

Estrella Galicia, only served in around five bars

as it will forever more. Ambient lighting, burgundy

‘Cheers’, where everybody knows your name, and overlooks the leafy park and hustle and bustle of the centre of Xúquer and has probably three

times more tables than inside. Luis loves music, and loves people suggesting it. As a friend and I were there this evening, members of the band

Euro-Trash Girl were sitting next to us at the bar,

exchanging CDs, popping behind the bar to cut

attracts the punters but the special beer on tap

in the city. The beer is not stored in your average

keg, but huge brass barrels, one visible behind the bar and the other four hidden behind the scenes,

which make for a smoother, lighter drink as the

gas is natural. The ‘tostada’ is darker and much richer in taste, too.

some jamón Ibérico left over from a birthday party

As for the name, Luis and his brother wanted a

bar banter.

drink, made from brandy, coffee and egg white all

over the weekend, and joining in on Luis’ friendly

Music seems to be a large factor in the Rocafull ambience. Indie and alternative music from Europe and the U.S.A. and rock being the norm, a different

it’s always been and the essence has remained – walls, pictures of people that have played there

during the years. Oh, and you have to check out the sink in the toilets...I’ll say no more.

Pop in any day, any time, take a seat, have a beer of

your choice and enjoy. A well-known gem tucked in the corner of a lovely large green plaza.

Valencian name and a ‘Rocafull’ is a cold coffee

Lolita Devine

whisked together and served in a short tube glass.

Rocafull

refer to it as El Roca (as you may know, and can

Tel: 96 332 09 54

Having been christened Rocafull, most people see printed on the coffee cups, too!) and Luis is

thinking of dropping the ‘full’ altogether. After all, most people have anyway!

Plaza Xúquer, 14 (Zona Blasco Ibáñez) Open every day 15.00h – 1.30h

Terrace open until 00.30h

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ARTS & theatre Museums / galleries AULA CAM LA LLOTGETA-ESPAI D’ART IV Mostra d’Humor Gràfic Internacional Hasta 12 noviembre CENTRO CULTURAL BANCAJA Orphanus Custoditus. 600th Aniversario del Colegio Imperial de Niños Huérfanos de San Vicente Ferrer Hasta 9 enero 2011 CIUDAD DE LAS ARTES Y LAS CIENCIAS (L’Hemisferic, Museu de les Ciencies Principe Felipe, L’Oceanografic) www.cac.es COL.LEGI MAJOR RECTOR PESET Let’s Get Lost Pablo Fuentes Hasta 5 diciembre FUNDACION CHIRIVELLA SORIANO Lo Real Hecho Sagrado Santiago Ydáñez Hasta 9 enero 2011 GALERÍA BENLLIURE Pintura Moderna y Contemporánea de los Siglos XIX y XX Permanente GALERIA KESSLER BATTAGLIA En Tránsito José Sienra Noviembre GALERÍA LUIS ADELANTADO XII Convocatoria Hasta 5 noviembre We Shall All Play in the Ruins Jason Mena Desde 12 noviembre GALERÍA ROSALIA SENDER Rosa Torres Hasta 11 diciembre GALERÍA ROSA SANTOS Naturaleza Muerta Mavi Escamilla Hasta 6 noviembre Fotografía Pascual Arnal Desde 12 noviembre GALERÍA D’ART ESPAI VISOR Equlibrio Oswaldo Maciá Hasta 20 noviembre Luis Gonzalez Palma Desde 23 noviembre INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DE VALENCE I Love Us Carmen Gray Hasta 30 noviembre Belle Epoque c’est Demain Vincent Michea Hasta 30 noviembre Benjamín, Portbou Carlos Alcañiz Hasta 30 noviembre La Transparència de la Mà Damunt la Cuixa Wilfrid Rouff Hasta 30 Noviembre IVAM INSTITUT VALENCIÀ D’ART MODERN EXPOSICIONES IVAM Entre Dos Mundos José Bedia Hasta 23 enero 2011 Colección Christian Stein. Una Historia del Arte Italiano Hasta 23 enero 2011 1910-2010 Félix Candela Hasta 2 enero 2011

Compass in Hand Colección Judith Rothschild Hasta 16 enero 2011 JARDÍN BOTÁNICO Perifèries 10 Rafael Tormo i Cuenca Hasta 27 noviembre Wildlife Photographer of the Year Hasta 14 noviembre LA BENEFICENCIA CENTRE VALENCIA DE CULTURA MEDITERRÁNEA Imágenes para la Inmortalidad en la Dinastía Han Hasta 21 noviembre Recorrido por la Prehistoria Valenciana, desde el Paleolítico hasta la Época Visigoda Exposición permanente L’ IBER DE LOS SOLDADITOS DE PLOMO Exposición Permanente: Guardias Españolas, Coleciones Valencianas, Almansa, Vida Cotidiana, Tirant y Serie Histórica. MUVIM L’Aventura de la Pensament Exposición permanente Fotografías André Kertész Hasta 30 enero 2011 New York Rises Eugene de Salignac Hasta 30 enero 2011 Tender Puentes. Diálogo Fotográfico Entre el Siglo XIX y la Actualidad Hasta 30 enero 2011 Valencia, Color en Directo Bernad Plossu Hasta 30 enero 2011 MUSEU DE BELLES ARTES SAN PIO V Pintura Gótica Colección Permanente MUSEO DE PREHISTORIA DE VALENCIA Historia del Dinero Exposición permanente Imágenes por la Immortalidad Hasta 21 noviembre MUSEO VALENCIA D’ETNOLOGÍA Huerta i Marjal Exposición Permanente María Lionza Cristina García Rodero Hasta 19 diciembre OCTUBRE CENTRE CULTURAL CONTEMPORANIA La Genealogia de la Consciència (I, II y III) Mira Bernabeu Hasta 28 noviembre SALA PARPALLÓ Impresiones y Comentarios: Fotografía Contemporánea Portuguesa Hasta 9 enero 2011 UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA, LA NAU Lo Que Pudo Ser y No Fue El Arte Gráfico en la Colleción Martínez Guerricabeitia 1975-76 Hasta 12 octubre Cartografías Silenciadas. Espacios de Represión Franquista Ana Teresa Ortega Hasta 7 noviembre Periferias 10. Desde la Crisis.La Vida como Desafío Hasta 28 noviembre Refugiados Saharauis, Hasta Cuando? Hasta 21 noviembre Spadari, Cronista Visual Hasta 30 enero 2011

opera PALAU DE LES ARTS Aida Giuseppi Verdi Sala Principal 13, 19, 22, 25, 28 noviembre 20.00h theatre CARME TEATRE Incisiones 4 – 7 noviembre Un Poyo Rojo 20 – 21 noviembre Wad Ras 25 – 28 noviembre Perversidad en La 237 2 – 5 diciembre ESPACIO INESTABLE Como Cuando Soplan de las Velas Hasta 7 noviembre Sky Train 11 – 14 noviembre Yo Nunca Seré una Estrella de Rock (danza) 18 – 21 noviembre Parpariados, El Encierro de la Conciencia 24 – 28 noviembre No Subject 2 – 5 diciembre TEATRE EL MUSICAL Non Solum 3 – 7 noviembre Las Aventuras de Tom Sawyer 9 – 14 noviembre Cinco Horas con Mario 17 – 21 noviembre Brujas 25 – 28 noviembre Les Cadires 2 -19 diciembre TEATRO DE MARIONETAS LA ESTRELLA. SALA LA PETXINA Juan Sin Miedo Noviembre TEATRE MICALET Hamlet? Això Ho Pague Jo! Hasta 26 noviembre TEATRE OLYMPIA Uhhhh! Hasta 12 diciembre El Testigo Desde 3 hasta 14 noviembre Mayumaná Desde 16 hasta 23 noviembre Pagagnini Desde 24 noviembre hasta 14 diciembre TEATRE PRINCIPAL El Condenado por Desconfiado Hasta 7 noviembre 1901, Homenaje a los Ballets Rusos (danza) 10 – 14 noviembre Carmen (danza) 24 – 28 noviembre Angelina o el Honor de un Brigadier 1 – 12 diciembre TEATRE RIALTO Los Intereses Creados Jacinto Benavente Hasta 12 diciembre TEATRE TALIA El Búho y La Gata (The Owl and The Pussycat) 2 – 21 noviembre El Último Beso 24 – 28 noviembre

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NOVEMBER 10 / NOVIEMBRE 10 24/7 VALENCIA LISTINGS cinema BABEL *versión original www.cinesalbatrosbabel.com UGC CINE CITE www.ugc.es FILMOTECA CINEMA INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE CINEMATOGRAFÍA CICLOS IVAC – LA FILMOTECA www.ivac-lafilmoteca.es FILMOTECA DEL IVAC CICLOS NOVIEMBRE Woody Allen Hasta 28 febrero 2011 Michelangelo Antonioni Hasta 7 diciembre La Bestia en la Pantalla Aleister Crowley y el Cine Fantástico Desde 3 hasta 24 noviembre Básicos Filmoteca (Primera Parte: 1896-1931) Hasta 16 diciembre addresses MUSEUMS / GALLERIES ALMUDÍN Pl. San Luis Bertrán, 1 Tel: 96 352 54 78 - ext. 4521 BACKSERIES GALLERY & SHOP Breton de los Herreros, 4 www.backseries.com CENTRE CULTURAL BANCAIXA Pl. Tetuán, 23 Tel: 96 387 58 64 CENTRO COREOGRÁFICO DE LA COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA Parque de la Granja, s/n, Burjassot Tel: 96 390 47 74 CIUDAD DE LAS ARTES Y LAS CIENCIAS (L’Hemisferic, Museu de les Ciencies Princípe Felipe, L’Oceanografic) opera PALAU DE LES ARTS Autopista del Saler, 1 Tel: +34 96 197 58 00 Fax: +34 96 395 22 01 www.lesarts.com theatre CARME TEATRE C/ Gutenberg, 12 Tel: 96 392 42 71 www.carmeteatre.com ESPAI ATHENEIA C/ Guillem de Castro, 65 Tel: 615 578 344 - 657 857 792 www.xikanda.com ESPACIO INESTABLE C/ Dr. Sanchis Bergón, 5 Tel: 96 392 16 30 www.espacioinestable.com L’ALTRE ESPAI C/ Platero Suárez, 11 Tel: 96 353 92 00 OFF TEATRE C/ Turia, 47 Tel: 96 384 11 85 TEATRE EL MUSICAL Pl. Rosario, 3 Tel: 96 367 31 95 TEATRE MICALET C/ Mestre Palau, 3 Tel: 96 392 14 82

TEATRO DE MARIONETAS LA ESTRELLA (LA PETXINA). C/ Dr Sanchis Bergón, 29 Tel: 96 371 73 84 TEATRO OLYMPIA C/ San Vicente Mártir, 44 Tel: 96 351 73 15 TEATRO PRINCIPAL C/ Barcas, 15 Tel: 96 353 92 00 TEATRO RIALTO Pl. Ayuntamiento, 17 Tel: 96 353 93 00 TEATRE ROMÀ DE SAGUNT Pujada al Castell, s/n Sagunto THEATRE SALA MORATÍN Pl. Ayuntamiento, 17 Tel: 96 353 93 0 TEATRO TALÍA C/ Caballeros, 31 Tel: 96 398 64 22 cinema BABEL C/ Vicente Sancho Tello, 10 Tel: 96 362 67 95 FILMOTECA (CINEMA INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE CINEMATOGRAFÍA) RIALTO Pl. Ayuntamiento, 17 UGC CINE CITE Espai Campanar Av. Tirso de Molina, 16 Tel: 902 100 842

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El Loco (Zona Juan Llorens) C/ Erudito Orellena, 12 Tel. 96 326 05 26, www.lococlub.org Osaka Monaurail is one of the best Soul & Funk live shows on earth. Live in Valencia! Friday 26 November at 23:00h. Tickets 15€ in advance at Disco Mardigras! Disco Oldies and Amsterdam. Soul & Funk Dj before and after concert. Info: discosmardigras@hotmail.com El Loco is a dynamic live venue with an eclectic choice of indie, funk, rock, fusion, blues and more. Check some music and dance later.

live music Black Note (Zona Aragón) C/ Polo y Peyrolón, 15 Tel. 96 393 36 63 Top choice for music lovers who love it live - jazz, blues, R’n’B, soul, funk, flamenco and rock. See listings. Café del Duende (Zona Carmen) C/ Túria, 62 Tel. 630 455 289 Great club specialising in authentic flamenco music and culture. See listings. Café Mercedes Jazz (Zona Ruzafa) C/ Sueca, 27 Reservations: 96 341 83 78 In the cosmopolitan Ruzafa district, an excellent addition to the live music scene with a packed programme of live jazz, flamenco and weekly live chamber music too. Run by real music lovers, with a concert stage and café-bar to chill with a great choice of cafés, beers and cocktails. Durango Club (Meliana) C/Llanterners, 35 Poligon Industrial La Closa, Meliana www.myspace.com/durangoclub Rock club on the outskirts of Valencia with great live bands and a loyal crowd.

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2 Noviembre 22:15 Piano Duo Session 9 Noviembre 21:30 Melisa Aldana Trío 16 Noviembre 21:30 Jorge Pardo & Albert Sanz Dúo 23 Noviembre 21:30 Evariste Perez Quartet 30 Noviembre 21:30 Bill McHenry Quartet Jimmy Glass Jazz Bar (zona Carmen) C/ Baja, 28 www.jimmyglassjazz.net This darkly lit bar plays the finest jazz with cool photos and a wide range of coffees and spirits. It has weekly live music and is a very relaxing place to unwind and relate. The owner is a real jazz lover and it shows. Concerts every Tuesday at 21.30h La Caverna (Zona San Vicente) C/ Cuenca, 70 Live music. Mod, soul, rock & roll, reggae and more. La Claca (Zona Carmen) C/ San Vicente, 3 www.laclaca.com Live flamenco on Sundays. La Edad de Oro (Zona Juan Llorens) C/ San Jacinto, 3 Tel. 649 255 048 Live music every Thursday & Friday. Mirror (former Cormoran) C/ San Vicente, 200 New name, improved sound and a hipper interior. Check international bands from around the globe.

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NOVEMBER 10 / NOVIEMBRE 10 www.247valencia.com Octubre Centre (Zona Carmen) C/ Sant Ferran, 12 Tel. 96 315 77 99, www.octubre.cat Features the best local and national indie bands on the scene. Palau de la Musica Paseo de la Alameda, 30 Tel. (+34) 96 337 50 20 E-mail: info@palauvalencia.com www.palaudevalencia.com Excellent classical music concerts in the Rio Turia gardens with musicians from around the world. See website for current programme. Smooth Jazz Club (Zona Canovas) C/ Salamanca, 17 www.smoothjazzclub.es A welcoming and spacious jazz club with a varied programme. Wah-Wah (zona Blasco Ibáñez) C/ Campoamor, 52 Tel. 96 356 39 42, 645 792 674 Indie rock in a student zone… www.wahwahclub.com

clubs Zona Plaza Ayuntaiento Mogambo C/ Sangre, 9 Piccadilly Downtown club C/ Embajador Vich 7 (junto a Hotel Astoria). www.groovelives.com Groovelives. Open all night, every night! Zona Patraix

Les Portes Matias Perelló, 15 Ruzafa Fantastic! Check this one out. A friendly crowd, an ample selection of infusions, natural juices, home-made cakes, highly original salads and superb cocktails. Enjoy great live performances with multi-use space for your own enjoyment every day of the week! Open from 16.00h to 03.30h Zona San Vicente La Indiana C/ San Vicente, 95 www.laindiana.com Newly opened and with a fantastic new interior. Thursdays has Fiesta Elephunk. Friday is Fiesta Cosmopolitan. 3 Ambients. In the zona VIP, check out R&B, Funky, Soul. With DJ Chicho, in la sala principal enjoy the best House with DJ Jose Mª Aboga and Javi Zaragoza and the upper floor has commercial and Latin sounds with DJ Nando y Edu. Zona Juan Lloréns Café Carioca Juan Llorens 52 www.cafe-carioca.com Superb House music and more and a fantastic mosaic interior and groovy beats. Cool club for the beautiful people. La Edad de Oro C/ San Jacinto, 3 Tel. 649 255 048 Live music and its classic mix of pumping sounds…from rock & roll to house! Open 22.00h until 4.00h, Thursday to Saturday. Habana Valencia Juan Lloréns, 41-43 A new name and funkier interior. House, Funky House, and exotic grooves till well past dawn.. Magazine Club C/ de Perez Escrich, 19 Rock’n’ roll disco. Peatonal C/ Juan Lloréns, 39 Zona El Carmen

Dub Club C/ Jesús, 91 www.dubclubvalencia.com Nice one!!! From the owners of reggae lovers Juanita. Very spacious, ethnic vibe, DJ sessions and cafe-theatre. Reggae, ragga, funk, soul, jazz and more. Cosmopolitan crowd, and check out the groovy washroom!!! Live music every Sunday & Tuesday 20:00h! Follow us on Facebook : “dubclubjuanitaclub” Zona Ruzafa Excuse Me! C/ dels Tomasos, 14 (next to Mercado de Ruzafa) This place has been getting a buzz around town with clubbers. Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night in Valencia from midnight until 7.00 am! Two rooms: one is more organic with pop/rock ’n’ roll/garage/soul and the other more electronic with groove electro/space disco/new wave/cosmic boogie. Check it!

&Ártico C/ Arolas, 11 Tel. 96 391 08 57 Dinners - cocktails - chill out - art space - electro funky beats. Bigornia C/ Museu, 10 Arty crowd of the Carmen scene with electro, hip-hop, funk, techno and more. Good vibes. Blau C/ Alta, 11 House and funk with a crowd to match. Bolseria Café C/Bolseria, 41 Tel: 96 391 89 03 Hot tropical vibe with swinging crowd at weekends. House, Latin, funk and pop. Bounty C/ Jose Iturbi, 4 Tel. 96 391 71 94 One of the funkiest all-night clubs going, ‘70s funk, soul and disco. A bit hidden away. Café Madrid C/ Abadía de San Martín, 10 Off C/ San Vicente near Plaza de la Reina so dead easy to find! Classic Valencia nightspot. Calcatta C/ Reloj Viejo, 6 Just one minute’s walk from Calle Caballeros.

One of the few discos in the Carmen to stay open all night, until around 8 am. Club 47 C/ Quart, 47 Music Box C/ Pintor Zariñena, 16 Tel. 96 391 41 51 An all-night disco in the Barrio del Carmen! The Music Box is an infinite collage of styles and ages: Drum’n’Bass, Electronic, Pop, Soul, Rock’n’Roll. Frankenstein Rock & Roll Club Marques de Caro, 5 Near to the Carmen swimming pool, a hang out for lovers of rock’n’roll! Immortal C/ San Dionisio, 3 Feel ‘heavy metal’ and like hard rock? Plenty of like-minded souls in a loud bar. Rock on! Juanita Club C/ Lepanto, 8 Rasta Vibrations. La Claca C/ San Vicente, 3 Open every day off Plaza de la Reina. Live flamenco Sunday in a legendary meeting point. La Flama C/ San Roteros, 14 Near the Torres de Serrano, this is a musiclovers meeting point with a rock & roll crowd. Pinball C/ Concordia, 3 www.pinballvalencia.com For lovers of psychedelia, northern Soul, funk. Groovy atmosphere, buzzing at weekends. Radio City C/ Santa Teresa, 19 Tel: 96 391 41 51 Free disco Fri - Sat nights, live flamenco every Tuesday. Funky and friendly club. Turmix C/ Dr. Chiarri, 8 Close to C/ Alta, open Thurs – Sat from 23.30 to 03.30h. Rock, garage, indie guitar disco. Zona Plaza Cedro Tornillo C/ Campoamor, 42 Tel. 96 392 55 27 www.eltornillo.com INDIE scene. Electronica beats collide with guitar, loads of students partying, dancing. Look out for the distinctive huge nail outside! Velvet C/ Campoamor, 58 Psychedelic, alternative student vibe. Very spacious and loud and buzzing at weekends. Zona Canova Number One Plaza Canovas, 6 www.gruposlasanimas.com Upmarket nightclub. Zona Blasco Ibañez Miniclub Blasco Ibañez, 111 Used to be Zenith. Funky new club open every Thursday, Friday and Saturday until well past dawn.www.myspace.com/miniclubvlc Zona Benimaclet Swan C/ Juan Giner, 15 Groovy!!! A spacious, hip, popular spot for lovers of retro ‘60s, psych pop, mod y más.

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Soul Gandhara C/ Eugeñia Vines, 225 Every Saturday night with Hip-hop and R&B with legendary DJ Cosy O. Vivir Sin Dormir Pl. Neptuno, 42 Tel: 96 372 77 77 Legendary nightspot by the beach with a name said to sum up Valencia’s attitude to life! Zona Alameda Singles Prolongacion Paseo de la Alameda, 43 Tel: 96 1210 85 27 Part of the prestigious Las Animas group. Zona Puerto La3 c/ Padre Porta, 2 www.groovelives.com Indie & electrónica sounds on 3 floors Estrella Damn Lounge America’s Cup port (Marina Real Juan Carlos I) Open again! Funky, open-air club by the port with a great mix of DJ’s.

DB drinking & fooding C/ Conde Altea, 20 Tel: 963 163 144 Luxury chill out. Ecléctico Bar Plaza Canovas Del Castillo, 8 Tel: 655 478 021 Cool. Run by a welcoming couple, wines, tapas, cocktails, bocadillos, menu del dia, Wonderful selection of magazines & newspapers. Zona Rio del Turia Quiosco Rio Turia Paseo Alameda s/n (junto estación Metro) By the famous Calatrava bridge, a great chill out café-bar for the family. Wicky Parque de Cabecera Tel. 656 856 899 and 679 40 45 24 Nice one! Fantastic combination of chill out bar, restaurant and cafeteria. Zona El Carmen

chill out Zona Plaza Ayuntamiento Cafetería Rialto Pl. Ayuntamiento, 17 Open all day and every day. Check out the Art Deco ceiling! Mancini C/ Moratin, 1 Tel: 96 394 42 89 Open Mon-Wed 9.00h - 21.00h. Thurs-Sat 9am-1.30am. Mellow atmosphere, mixed crowd, good service. Healthy menu del dia 7.50€. Great terrace.Wonderful retro design and said by many locals to have the best coffee in the centre! Mancini is open for private parties from 17.00h onwards and has a catering service too. Moon Bar C/ Músico Peydro, 39 Reservations: 676 333 465 Run by a Valencian family, homemade breakfasts, lunch and dinners. Starbucks C/ San Vicente, 44 Your favourite coffees, teas, hot chocolate… The Bodegueta Pl. Mariano Benlliure, 4 Tel: 96 351 97 38 Cool! Breakfast, lunch and dinner, Spanish tapas, wines and beers… The Ginger Loft café C/ Victoria, 4 (just off Plaza Mariano Benlliure) www.thegingerloft.com Classy café bar with superb cocktails, classic and original tapas and Sunday brunch run by a friendly, well-travelled international staff.

Afterwork C/ Murillo, 9 izq Open from 9am - 1.30am. Young, friendly crowd with good selection of beers and wines. Afterwork has 2 unique rooms with different vibes. ‘The Tasca’ specializes in traditional Spanish tapas, cooked on the spot. Check their patatas bravas! After work’s ‘Pulpo club’ is a music lounge and a hang out for mod, indie and rock fans. Every wednesday 20:00h - 22:00h guacamole / mojito / burrito 5€. Good, cheap and fun! Just 1 minutes walk from the Torres de Quart. Al Pans Queso C/ Serranos, 19 Tel: 615 979 484 Highly popular with a very open crowd. &Articio C/ Arolas, 11 Tel: 96 391 08 57 Dinners - cocktails - chill out - art space - electro funky beats. Bar Negrita Pl. Negrito Sister bar of Negrito with breakfasts and montaditos from 08.00 – 15.00h. Booktique C/ del mesón de Morella, 3 Café Bahiano C/ Calatrava, 12 Very popular Brazilian bar. Café de las Horas C/ Conde Almodóvar Tel: 96 3917 336 Marrying baroque with kitsch, classic with camp, this is ‘chill out’ in grand style. Café Infanta Pl. Tossal, 3 Tel: 96 392 16 23 In the heart of the Carmen, Café Infanta is spacious yet cosy inside. Great terrace.

Café Lisboa Pl. Dr. Collado, 9 Tel. 96 391 94 84 An excellent café bar in one of Valencia’s most atmospheric plazas. Good mixed crowd of students, locals, visitors and a very popular terraza. Open 09.00h and all day until late. Lots of bocadillos, coffees and beers. Barça and Levante football on TV at the weekend. Café Madrid C/ Abadia San Martin, 10 Elegant chill out bar with nooks and crannies, famed as one originator of ‘Agua de Valenca.’ Café Museu C/ Museu, 7 Tel: 96 393 31 08 Bohemia at its finest, with a mellow terraza in a tranquil part of the Barrio del Carmen. Café del Negrito Pl. Negrito Tel. 96 391 42 33 Classic Carmen hangout. Liberal 30-somethings, arty crowd, lots of people wearing glasses! Café Tertulia 1900 C/ Alta 4 Open every day, with 3 floors for part-time daydreamers and nightlife schemers. Cafetería Rialto Pl. Ayuntamiento, 17 Tel: 96 394 08 77 Salads, bocadillos, pasta, international beers, cocktails and spirits. Lovely art noveau ceiling and free live music (jazz, swing, blues…) Cafetín Pl. San Jaime, 3 Watch Valencia nightlife morphing at night from the terraza of Cafetín. What a view!

Zona San Vicente Café Lorquiano C/ Alzira, 12 An impressive programme of events, open from 18.00h every day (except Tuesday).

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El Laboratorio (junto Pl. de la Virgen) Pl. Cors de la Mare de Deu, 3 Tel: 96 392 61 93 18.00H - 01.30H Young international staff & clientele. The coolest-and cheapest-place to chill off the Plaza de la Virgen. Free tapas with drinks. Tues = Language Exchange Night; Wed = cocktails 2x1, mojito 3.50€ Exhibitions, Theme Nights, Parties, Clothes X change, Ethnic Fiestas, Art & Photography...Mixed drinks start at 3.50€!!!!! Felino C/ Calabazas S/n Tel: 685.84.36.29 Arty chill out bar next to the Mercat Central. Tasty breakfasts and lunches, cool music. Gilda C/ Ensendra, 9 (corner Plaza Viriato) Tel: 96 3260393 Funky new authentic Italian chill out bar in the old centre. Near to Radio City so easy to find. Girasol C/ Turia, 52 Movil: 650 245 563 Spacious, darkly lit chill out bar, mellow and friendly. Choice sounds, intimate corners. Horchatería El Siglo Pl. Santa Cantalina, 11 Tel: 96 391 84 66 Great terrace and a real Valencia experience for the local delicacy of horchata. Founded in 1836, they claim to be the oldest in Valencia. John Silver C/ Alta, 8 Open Monday to Sunday, liberal atmosphere and guitar rock soundtrack filling three floors

Juanita Club C/ Lepanto, 8 Rasta Vibrations just two minutes walk from the Torres de Quart, open every day from 20.00h. Fantastic cozy interior, a real Reggae lover’s paradise, relaxed atmosphere. Very popular DJ sessions at night with Roots, Dub and more. Authentic vibe… Follow us on Facebook : “dubclubjuanitaclub” La Bodegueta C/ Caballeros, 10 Intimate bar, with ‘tapas caseras’ and music reflecting the flamenco-loving owner Isabel. La Cava del Negret C/ Calatrava, 15 Tel: 96 392 33 01 Open every day from 12.00h, great bar on Pl. Negrito with terraza and some of the finest agua de Valencia around. Friendly staff, superb terraza, next to fountain and a great selection of cavas and champagnes. Good music and reasonable prices. Recommended. La Magarota C/ murillo, 11 Tel: 665 04 15 08 Open from Tuesday to Sunday, 20.00h to 01.00am. Friendly and bohemian tapas bar with a fine selection of Spanish and international choices, including hams, salads, carpaccios, cold meats and more. Experienced and popular Valencian and Brazilian owners, atmospheric, soulful interior with an eclectic mixture of boho locals and visitors of all ages. Jazzy and chill out soundtrack. Less than a minute’s walk from the Torres de Quart. Fine selection of beer and wines too! Mata Hari (La Casa del Te) C/ Portal de Valldigna, 9 Open from 18.00h, closed Monday and Tuesday. Delightful tea hang-out in quiet side street of the Barrio Carmen. Teas from Morocco and Libya. Pepita Pulgarcita C/ Cavallers, 19 Superb chill out bar with choice soundtrack as you watch the world go by. Impressive white interior, tasty tapas, tintos and cavas too! Picapiedra C/ Caballeros, 25 Definitive of the alternative Carmen scene. Highly popular with students, punks, hippies and adventurous tourists. QArt! Calle de Guillem de Castro, 78 46001 Valencia, España Tel: 963 916 115 Gay friendly, spacious café bar with a good mixed clientele and a wonderful selection of cocktails, beers, coffees. Very busy at the weekends,which is a good sign and popular during the week. Just a stone’s throw from Torres de Quart so easy to find. Tasty lunches and dinners served too Santa Catalina Pl. Santa Catalina, 6 Tel: 96 391 23 79 Just off Plaza de la Reina and reputed to be one of the best for horchata. Santa Compania C/ Roteros, 21 Tel: 96 392 22 59 Very popular, classy wine and tapas bar run by experienced staff. Cheese and ham recommended. Sol i Lluna C/ del Mar, 29 96 392 22 16, www.solilluna.net Cafe-bar with ample terrace, good crowd of locals and foreigners. Varied tapas

and meals to be savoured on balmy evenings. Buzzing atmosphere at night and great music soundtrack too.

St. Jaime C/ Caballeros, 51 Tel. 96 391 24 01 Valencia Café society par excellence. Set in what may be the best corner of the centro histórico, this long established café bar has a cosmopolitan crowd, lots of room upstairs and one of the best terrazas in the city. Watch the characters stroll down C/Caballeros. Stone Budha Lounge C/Túria 28 Reservas: 622 500 048 Wonderful chill out bar near to the Torres de Quart. Mellow ambience, lovely cocktails. Taberna Cavallers C/ Caballeros, 23 Tel: 96 391 25 16 The wood interior gives a feeling of warmth and modernity. Over 50 tapas to savour.

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C/ Valencians, 4 (Zona Carmen) Tel. 96 114 40 99 Zume C/ Valencians, 4 (just off Plaza Negrito) Tel: 96 114 40 99 Great! Natural fruit juices, crepes, cocktails, teas and infusions. Friendly atomsphere and spacious interior with cool music soundtrack. Big choice of juices from South America, try the Açai Amazonian berry for an energy boost! Run by a friendly Brazilian Team. Open every day Zona Juan lloréns Tango y Truco C/ Calixto III, 10 Tel: 96 385 18 37 www.tangoytruco.net Great bar with truly cosmopolitan atmosphere and staff that speak English, Spanish and

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NOVEMBER 10 / NOVIEMBRE 10 24/7 VALENCIA LISTINGS Italian. Tango, old and new, is the soundtrack as well as Manu Chao, U2 and Bob Marley. Zona Ruzafa Café Dublin C/ Sueca, 51 Trendy and comfortable chill out bar with breakfasts, cocktails, ground coffees, live sports and quiz! El Desvan del Café C/ Puerto Rico, 4 Tel: 96 344 16 86 A rather bohemian café bar with distinctive interior and good choice of infusions.

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Rocafull Cafe Pl. Xuquer, 14 www.rocafull.tk Every day from 15.30h til late, Rocafull chills during the day and rocks as evening turns to night. A key meeting point of the ‘indie’ community, with DJ sessions all week including Valencia face DJ Jordi. A great beer selection makes it popular with the Erasmus crowd. Groups: Franz Ferdinand, Jet, Teenage Fanclub, Interpol, White Stripes. Zona Plaza Cedro Sinpy Jo’s C/ Cadiz, 43 Tel: 670 904 294 In the heart of Ruzafa, Valencia’s Bohemian quarter, Sinpy Jo’s is a meeting point for young people of all nationalities and locals. A perfect place to have your evening coffee or try one of their many imported beers. Good music in a great atmosphere. Happy Hour from 18.00h to 21.00h, Mondays to Thursdays. Pub quiz Weds 22:30h. Tula C/ Cadiz, 62 Kickin’!! Colourful chill out bar with trendy interior, fresh juices and breakfasts. Open all day from 9.30h to 01.30 am. (Zona Ruzafa) Ubik Café C/ Literato Azorín, 13 Tel: 96 374 12 55 Emblematic of the buzzing barrio of Ruzafa. Wonderful, spacious and welcoming cafebar/ second-hand bookshop. Spanish & Italian tapas, beer, wine, bohemian crowd, friendly atmosphere. Closed Monday.

Cafe Infinito C/ Poeta Mas y Ros, no 35 Tel: 617 27 20 42 www.cafeinfinito.net Superb! International & English Speaking staff with a friendly atmosphere and packed agenda including talk ‘n’ tapas, ladies night and more. Tornillo C/ Campoamor, 42 Tel. 96 392 55 27 A meeting point for faces from the indie and electronica scenes. Definitely worth checking.

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Trapezzio Café Pl. Músico Lopez Chavarri, 2 Turangalila C/ del Mar, 34 Tel. 96 391 02 55 Well prepared Mediterranean dishes. Drag queens sing for customers in this original restaurant. Venial C/ Quart, 34 Tel: 96 391 73 56 The first choice gay venue after hours.

Zona Plaza Honduras Bar Rock Kracken Pl. Honduras, 37 ‘Relax’ with pounding rock & roll a la AC/DC, Motorhead, Guns ‘N’ Roses up to the present. Turn it up! Café de Las Letras Pl. Honduras, 37 bajo An English flavour and literary vibe with the aroma of coffee.

Tam Tam C/ Emilio Baro, 20 Very special, one of the finest chill out bars in the city. A bohemian hangout with a spacious, soulful interior. Eclectic sounds for an eclectic clientele. One of Valencia’s best kept secrets…

Magnus Termas (Sauna) Av. Puerto, 27 Tel: 96 337 48 92 Mogambo C/ Sangre, 9 Every Thursday - “Disco demolition”. Nuncadigono C/ Turia, 22 The latest gay sex-club. Oh! La La… C/ Dr Monserrat, 28 Tel: 96 315 64 16 18.00h – 03.00h, spacious restaurant-pub. Pekado Pl. Vicente Iborra, 9 Tel. 96 392 41 39 The seven deadly sins are served after you enter the gates of hell of this restaurant. Qart Café C/ Guillem de Castro, 80 Sant Miquel Pl. Sant Miquel, 13 Tel. 96 392 31 29 Spartacus C/ Flassanders, 8 Gay sex shop

ADN Pub C/ Angel Custodio, 10 (Barrio del Carmen) Café de La Seu C/ Santo Caliz, 7 Spacious, arty chill out bar, near the cathedral. Colectivo Lambda of Lesbians, Gays and Transexuals C/ San Dionisis, 8-1 (Barrio del Carmen)

BEER C/ Salamanca, 4 Tel. 96 374 14 31 One for the lads and lasses who like a pint and more... Beers from around the world: Czech, German, British, U.S.A., Irish, Danish, Belgian. Every day a free montadito with each beer. Every Tuesday from 19.00h to 24.00h, Beer 2 x1! Wednesday has paella. Thursday has popular beer prices, if it is your horoscope month, your second ‘copa’ is free. Monólogos every Thursday at midnight.

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NOVEMBER 10 / NOVIEMBRE 10 www.247valencia.com TRADITIONAL PUBS Zona Plaza Ayuntamiento The Guinness House Pl. Patriarca, 6 Excellent! Open from 8.00h – 24.00h and later on Friday/ Saturdays. Guinness House serves breakfasts, snacks and coffees. Set in a tranquil square, a good mix of ages and nationalities in this upmarket pub with a friendly staff. Screens for football matches and all your favourite beers including Guinness! Relax on the mellow terraza or lounge on the classy Chesterfield sofas in the VIPs-style area at the back! Zona El Carmen Finnegan’s Pl. de la Reina Tel: 96 392 28 62 www.finnegansofdublin.es The legendary meeting point in the heart of Valencia for those who like a good pint. Excellent terrace with fine view of the Cathedral. A genuine Irish pub with big screen for sports-lovers who like it live. Spacious and warm interior, good selection of beers and tasty traditional lunches. It is internationally famous for all the right reasons. Great for the craic in the evenings. A classic. O’Hara’s C/ Cajeros, 1 / C/ Danzas, 5 A short stroll from La Lonja and within spitting distance of Home hostel. Celtic tavern with a mellow vibe, and all your favourite beers.

are international language exchange nights, Thursdays is couch surfers meeting point and Sundays is the legendary pub quiz! St Patrick’s Gran Vía Marqués del Túria, 69 Tel: 96 351 36 42 www.stpatricksvalencia.com “A true Irish pub” that knows the craic!! Friendly helpful staff and cosy traditional interior. Healthy mixture of well-dressed Spanish, soccer and rugby lovers… All sports (cricket, golf, rugby, football…) on 4 big screens. WiFi for all our customers, pool and terrace. Great selection of beer, whiskies and very good music (rock-pop, 60´s, 70 ´s…) Open daily from 16.00p.m till late.Till very late weekends (in case of earlier starting sporting events, please enquire at the bar. We might help.). Get your fidelity card (card for every 5 pints… 1 free!) We never close. First Monday of every month from 18.00h -20.00h, live Celtic music with the band “Trib”. Tasty Spanish food available everyday for 3.50€ including ham, tortilla, cheese and more! Open Saturday and Sunday from 13h for Premier League football matches. Zona Avenida Aragón Manolo el del Bombo Pl. Valencia Club de Fútbol, 5 Tel: 96 930 460 A traditional Spanish bar with a different interior - a football museum with photos of the legendary Manolo del Bombo, the chap with the massive beret and drum. Just across from Mestalla stadium, a Mecca for football fans from all over the world. Friendly atmosphere. Sally O’Brien Av. Aragon, 8 Tel: 96 337 40 12 Open daily from 17.00h - 02.00h, 03.30h at the weekends. Top one! New ownership, good vibes, great service and plenty of activity! Sally O’Brien has gone up another level with an attractive exterior and two floors with nooks and crannies, separate room for private parties and live football on TV. Erasmus are welcome and the Sunday quiz (19.00h - 21.00h) is a fantastic excuse for Spanish and English speakers to mingle. Cash and prizes for the winners! Sally’s great again! Zona Plaza Xuquer

Sherlock Holmes Plaza Manises, 3 Tel: 96 391 83 42 www.sherlockvalencia.com Excellent English pub in the heart of the old town, so you won’t need to be a detective to find it. Plenty of your favourite beers including Guinness, Grimbergen, Becks and more. Live football matches on big screen: Champions league, Primera liga and Premier League. Tuesday night is the highly popular singles night from 20.00h to 22.00h! Live music every Friday. Zona Canovas Portland Ale House C/ Salamanca 10 Yes! Valencia’s first true American pub, run by a friendly American team with draft beers available, sports and an increasingly mixed crowd of locals, visitors and English and Spanish speakers. They now brew & serve their own beer ! Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Max Max C/ Vinalopó, 11 (Pl. Xúquer) Tel: 96 362 68 67 http://maxmaxvalencia.blogspot.com Renowned pub for heady nights of live Celtic music (pipes, fiddles, guitars). A local student and Erasmus favourite, well-located in a buzzing night-time zone. Very spacious,

wide screen for all sports, pool, friendly staff and good music soundtrack. Good vibes! The Dragon (Bar Internacional) C/ Virgen de Pilar, 12 (L’Eliana) British-run bar with good reputation for food. Popular with the expat crowd from the area.

Restaurants Afro-Cuban Babalú C/ Manyans 17 (next to Plaza Redondo) Tel: 96 315 50 40 ¡Fiesta! An excellent restaurant-bar-club for those who love authentic Cuban food. American Brautigan Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 110 Tel: 96 339 06 42 Hey dude! You want Budweiser, Tex-Mex burgers, nachos and more? Valencia rocks, man! Burger King Pl. Ayuntamiento, 19 Tel: 96 352 58 00 Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 108 Tel: 96 362 363 Foster’s Hollywood Pl. Ayuntamiento Tel: 96 352 02 64 Big portions. Burgers, fries and milkshakes. McDonalds Pl. de la Reina, 15 Tel: 96 392 35 91 Easy to find, with the city’s cathedral as the backdrop. Snooker Burger Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 151 Tel: 96 356 18 25 Tony Roma’s Pl. Canovas de Castillo, 2 Tel: 96 351 34 33 Arabic Dukala C/ Dr Sanchis Bergon, 27 Tel: 96 3926253 Classy Arabic cuisine. Kuídate C/ Hospital, 19 Tel: 663 75 60 95 Authentic Arabic cuisine, with a welcoming Moroccan owner. Comfy interior and wonderful terrace. Great menu del dias for 10€ on weekdays including couscous. Sahara C/ del Mar, 52 Tel: 96 352 66 89 Set in a tranquil part of the old centre. Just 2 minute’s walk from Plaza Reina. Arabic restaurant with Moroccan chef and staff. Lovely interior, tasty cuisine and chilled soundtrack. Tetería La Kasbah C/ Poeta Mas y Ros Tel: 96 320 93 67 Intimate Arabic restaurant. Kasbah has a funky interior with typical low seats and tables. Argentinian Rincón Gaucho C/ Conde Altea, 51 Tel: 96 395 20 17 Rustic hospitality, quality meat imported from Argentina, cut and cooked to your taste.

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NOVEMBER 10 / NOVIEMBRE 10 24/7 VALENCIA LISTINGS Asian Fusion Banyan Lounge Bar & Grill C/ Comedias, 5 Tel: 96 315 48 90 Located just off the Calle de la Paz, this small and cosy place will be making headlines with its appealing menu, stylish interior and relaxed ambience. With culinary pick ups from around the world. Delicious Satays, steaks and fresh fish roasting in the lava stone grill. Nelson Luu Asiatic Cuisine C/ Bordadores, 3 Tel: 96 391 42 26 From London to Valencia, near the Cathedral. Expert cuisine from Asian chef, Cantonese... Wok it Your Way C/ Salamanca, 7 Tel: 96 3280844 www.wokityourway.com Great name! Eat in or takaway. Asian salads, rice, noodles, meat or fish. Healthy and popular. Wok Quing C/ Juan Llorens, 51 Tel: 96 382 70 60 Natural Asian cuisine. Wok to Walk C / San Vicente, 10 Tel: 96 315 4862 www.woktowalk.com Brazilian O Rei Da Caipirinha C/ Vicente Sancho Tello Tel: 96 362 59 36 Open daily, Brazilian football memorabilia lines the walls. Cool Brazilian sounds and native staff. Barbecues every Sun at 13.30h. Chinese Festin C/ Polo y Peyrolón, 25 Tel: 96 362 98 38 All your favourites: Wan Tun soup, fried rice, beef, shrimps, 15 Duck dishes to choose from. Gran Muralla Pl. Porta del Mar, 6 (next to Juzgados) Open daily from 11.30h to 16.30h and 19.30h to 0.30h. Menu under 6€. Colombian Aire Latino C/ Taquígrafo Martí, 20 Live music and South American specialities. Tierras Colombianas C/ Erudito Orellana, 12 Tel: 96 382 12 24 Genuine Colombian cuisine, cosmopolitan zone. Excellent Terrazas Django Pl. Don Juan de Villarrasa, 1 (Zona Carmen) Tel: 96 327 03 72 Absolutely fantastic sunny terrace to enjoy tasty breakfasts, classic tapas and traditional Mediterranean dishes. French Atmosphére (Institut Français) C/ Moro Zeit, 6 www.restauranteatmosphere.com Open 08.00h to 20.00h, delicious homemade food from expert chefs. Cinquante Cinq C/ Joaquín Costa, 55 Tel: 96 325 50 29 French bistro in an upmarket, cosmopolitan

zone. Homemade dishes, relaxed atmosphere. Crêperie Bretonne Annaik C/ Bordadores, 4 Tel: 96 153524 Excellently located by the Cathedral, with a vintage car as one table, double-decker bus as part of the interior! Homemade crepes with tasty fillings, quiches, salads. El Bicho Raro C/ Conde Montornes, 9 Tel: 96 392 49 20 One of the best French restaurants in Valencia. Authentic atmosphere. La Francesa del Carmen C/ Sogueros, 5 Tel: 96 3 23 51 63 Superb homemade, authentic French cuisine with North African touches like cous cous. German Bierwinkel C/ Guardia Civil, 4 Tel: 96 393 42 88 Hearty German cervecería in Benimaclet student zone. Imported beers, German cuisine. Greek Rincon Griego C/ Conde Montornes Tel: 96 394 44 43 Legendary amongst Greek restaurants in the community. Take away as well.

one of the most unique washrooms in Valencia Huge selection of pasta dishes, including lasagne, gnocchi, tagliatelle, penne and bucatini, ravioli. Homemade tiramisu is a decadent treat. Especially popular with a trendy arts crowd, women out in groups and romantic couples. Da Ugo C/ Correjeria, 7 Tel: 96 3 217 635 Italian owned restaurant with combination of Italian and Valencian cuisine. La Pappardella C/ Bordadores, 5 (next to Cathedral) Tel: 96 391 89 15 www.viciositalianos.com. Popular Italian restaurant without pizza and emphasis on Piadinas and pastas. La Strada C/ Quart 17 Tel: 96 392 41 77 Excellent! Hip pizzeria and pasta restaurant just a brief stroll from Torres de Quart. 10€ daytime menus, around 15€ at night.Friendly service and tasty meals, popular with couples and groups and bound to be popular over the festive season! English Speaking Waiter. Maramao C/ Corretgeria, 37 Tel: 96 392 31 74 Open 14.00h to 16.00h and 20.30h to 24.00h. Arty, independent Italian in the heart of the atmospheric centro historico.

Indian / Pakistani Taj-Mahal C/ Dr. Manuel Candela, 20 Tel: 96 330 62 64. One of the best Indian restaurants along the coast. Authentic Indian cuisine, chefs with 12 years Brit experience. Classic menu with all the favourites: Chicken Tandoori, Chicken Tikka, King Prawn Tandoori, Lamb. Variety of rices, attentive bilingual staff on hand to serve ‘English’ or ‘Spanish’ version of spicy. About 18€ per head. Taj Mahal now has home delivery until midnight for minimum price of 20€. Check out the British and Indian products at their shop next door! Curry powders, cornflakes, ketchup, tinned beans, and loads more. An expat’s dream! Italian Zona Plaza Ayuntamiento La Vita é Bella Pl. Mariano Benillure, 2 Tel: 96 351 07 37 La Nicoletta Pizza ristorante C/ La Paz 33. Oficina: 963253960 - Móvil 608003463 www.lanicoletta.es

Paparazzi C/ Baja, 42 Tel. 96 315 45 88 New! Set in a quiet corner of the atmospheric old town. Run by a friendly and experienced owner, enjoy wonderful homemade Italian cooking including; Lasagna, Parmigiana, Canellones, Pasta and a lot more !!!!! Business groups and romantic couples are all welcome. Tasty Menu for 10€ every day and evening. Wednesday night has live Jazz with menu for 10€, Thursday night has live flamenco. Closed Sunday night and all day Monday.

Zona El Carmen Al Pomodoro C/ del Mar, 22 Tel: 96 391 48 00, www.viciositalianos.com. Very popular, good value, great pizza. Bacco d.o.c. C/ Derechos 29, bajo (1 min from La Lonja) Tel: 96 391 19 65 Everyone welcome at this distinctive and very original Italian restaurant in an excellent location. The setting is fun and a little decadent, with stalactites hanging from the cave-like setting and

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Lambrusquería C/ Conde Altea, 31 -36 Tel: 96 334 07 53 lambrusqueria.wordpress.com/about This is an absolute jewel of an Italian restaurant! Italian-owned and with Italian chefs, it is highly popular with both locals and visitors. It combines traditional Italian cuisine - a wonderful choice of freshly served salads, cheeses, pastas, meat and fish dishes, with reasonable prices so it is great value for money. Zona Plaza Honduras

Accapella C/ Conde Altea, 60 Tel: 96 3748424 A warm welcome from a family run restaurant. Well presented pasta and pizza dishes in relaxing and spacious surroundings. The music is mellow and the interior is gentle on the eye. A qualified wine connoisseur can recommend what goes best with your dish. Wonderful terraza. A good night out… Alter Ego C/ Conde Altea, 40 Tel: 96 374 97 23 www.ristorantealterego.com Great! Funky and cosmopolitan crowds enjoy this very cool and authentic (yet different) Italian restaurant in the heart of the cosmopolitan Canovas area. Delicious Italian tapas, risotto and Spanish rice dishes and Argentinean beef to savour in a hip and welcoming interior. Legendary Italian chef Massimo Sbrozzi produces some beautiful dishes with original & innovative recipes including tasty stuffed pastas, ravioli, risottos and carpaccios. Also enjoy Italian cheese and hams. Touches of vodka, wine or brandy add a lovely flavour. The stuffed tortellini is delicious. Check out their delicious truffles, and homemade tiramisu. Recommended. Don Salvatore Italiano C/ Conde de Altea, 41 Tel: 96 334 13 04 www.donsalvatore.com A real treat of an Italian restaurant. Delicious pasta and pizza, healthy salads including fruit and cheese choices. Great for groups and couples looking for something a cut above the usual. Wonderful terrace and bilingual owner, a great Canovas success story. Spot the Valencia footballer!

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Amarcord C/ Serpis, 50 Tel: 96 3556 568 In a cool area of town, upmarket Italian cuisine with open plan kitchen. Lovely Argentinean beef, innovative pasta, risotto and more rice dishes to savour. See Alter Ego for more details. From the same owner. Italian Pizzeria Il Bocconcino C/ Quart, 1 Tel: 96 323 03 98 Authentic Italian pizzeria / bocatería run by an Italian family. Japanese Ao Yama C/ Joaquín Costa, 3 (next to KFC) Tel: 96 374 89 43 Different midday menus (3 dishes, drink, dessert, coffee) for 7€. Miss Sushi Plaza Canovas, 9 Tel: 96 061 46 14 www.misssushi.es

Well placed in the centre off Plaza Redondo, typical Korean cuisine, meat and rice dishes. Macrobiotic Kimpira C/ Juristas, 12 Tel: 96 392 34 22 Macrobiotic food, comfortable setting, now in the old centre. Mexican El Mexico de María (6th Anniversary!) C/ Denia, 20 Tel: 96 332 80 78 Friendly Mexican restaurant, superb homemade dishes in the funky, bohemian Ruzafa barrio. El Mexico de Maria has Mexican cuisine with 5 years of culinary experience in Valencia with a fine combination of traditional and fusion Mexian cuisine for their loyal clientele. To make your choice easier there is now a menú de degustación which consists of nine dishes and a dessert. Organic La Morhada Mercado Cental, Paradas 225 y 227 Tel: 96 382 91 34 lamorhada@yahoo.es Completely organic vegetable & fruit produce at Mercado Central. Home delivery service! Portuguese Café Pessoa C/ Literato Azorin, 2 Tel: 96 341 75 14 Great! An authentic Portuguese café bar/ restaurant with traditional dishes plus modern touches including cod platos at the weekends. Enjoy their tasty salads and quiches during the week. Spanish / Valencian Zona Plaza Ayuntamiento

Kokura Pere i borrego 10 (C/ Alta – Na Jordana) Excellent! The most exotic Maki collection in Valencia. Check out their fusion cuisine with modern ingredients via their web www.kokura.es for delivery or come visit their intimate lounge setting. Experienced staff and a friendly welcome. Sushi Cru C/ Pintor Zarinena, 3 Tel: 96 392 54 92 Great Sushi bar with cosmopolitan staff and hip clientele. Loyal following, Recommended. Korean Airiang C/ San Martín, 11 Tel: 96 352 32 05

Carpe Diem C/ Martínez Cubells, 4 (off Passeig Ruzafa) Tel: 96 342 77 80, www.carpediem-vlc.com A genuine Spanish restaurant right in the centre of Valencia, on a mellow side street, dead easy to find! Friendly service, trendy interior, expert chefs and authentic Valencia cuisine! Enjoy fish dishes, Spanish tapas and rice dishes including paella on their mellow terraza as you watch the world go by. Savour their delicious salads, chilled white wines, and desserts. An international staff are on hand to help you with your choice. Enjoy their Tapas menu. Zona San Vicente Tasca Jesús C/ Jesús, 22 One of Valencia’s famous Spanish restaurants. Wonderful Spanish tapas and ample bodega. Zona El Carmen 33 Lounge Restaurant C/ San Dionisio, 8 Tel: 96 392 41 61 www.33loungerestaurant.com Mediterranean tapas, expertly made fresh paella, homemade desserts

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NOVEMBER 10 / NOVIEMBRE 10 24/7 VALENCIA LISTINGS and bossa nova soundtrack. Bajando al Sur C/ Dr. Monserrat, 32 Tel: 96 392 50 86 Bar Almudín C/ Almudín, 14 Tel: 96 392 57 13 Bar Kiosco C/ Derechos, 38 Tel: 96 391 01 59 Great terrace and economic menu del días, a brief stroll from La Lonja or Mercat Central.

Bar Pilar C/ Moro Zeit Tel: 96 391 04 97 Every major Spanish city has a tapas bar regarded as ‘quintessential’. Established in the early 1900s, this one is high up on the list in many guides. Veteran waiters serve excellent tapas: habas, ensaladilla rusa and the famous mussels. Open daily midday to midnight just off Plaza Tossal, not hard to find. Now that’s what we call atmosphere... Boatella Tapas Pl. Mercado, 34 Tel: 96 391 13 14 Great tapas bar with all your favourites. Fine terrace and top view. Bocatame C/ Turia, 61 Tel: 96 391 08 70 Bohemian sandwich bar with plenty of choice and space. Bocateria La Vaca Verde Plaza Mercado Mossén Sorell, 11 Tel: 96 3154 061 Wonderful name. This original place has salads & homemade bocadillos with a wonderful selection of fillings for meat-eaters and vegetarians. Check out the international milk carton collection on the wall! Bodeguilla de Gato C/ Catalans, 10 Tel: 96 391 82 35 Try it! Firm favourite amongst locals in the know. Tapas, vino and copas. Real atmosphere… Burdeos in Love C/ del Mar, 4 Tel: 96 391 43 50 Classy wine bar with stylish cuisine. Capdepera C/ Roteros, 9 Tel: 96 315 55 84 Fresh choice of Mediterranean dishes, including Mallorcan specialities. Tasty!

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c/ Dr. Monserrat, 14 (near to Torres de Quart) Mediterranean cuisine and more... Carosel Taula de Canvis, 6 Tel: 96 1132 873 Cool restaurant near to the Mercado central. Authentic Mediterranean dishes with delicious and beautifully presented salads, wondeful paella, informed clientele, spacious and relaxing interior. Valencian chef and English speaking host. Dos Aguas C/ Marqués de Dos Aguas, 6 Tel: 96 251 64 26 Good value Spanish menu del días, great view.

9:00 - 01:30 todos los días El Botijo C/ San Miguel s/n www.tascaelbotijo.com Spanish tasca in the Barrio Carmen! Great terraza, delicious tapas, a top ensaladilla rusa and great tabla de quesos too. Cool flamenco, rock and pop sounds, welcoming vibe and friendly Andalucian/Valencia owners. Perfect size portions and informed service. Be sure to try Valencian tinto no. 12! El Generalife C/ Caballeros, 5 Tel: 96 391 78 99 Wonderful terrace, view of the Plaza del Virgen. El Carmen Miranda (food & cocktails) C/ En Plom, 9 Tel: 96 336 62 83 Great! This is a brand new & authentic Spanish restaurant, tucked away in a quiet corner yet easy to find as it under a minute’s walk from the Torres de Quart. Run by friendly Spanish owners with a wonderful evening meals & good service. We enjoyed their paella! Great group meals.

El Peix Daurat C/Doctor Monserrat 14. Tel:.635 413 476. www.elpeixdaurat.com Open Tuesday to Saturday (14.00h - 16.00) – (20.00h - 24.00h) Wonderful lunch-time paella every Friday afternoon.Superb! By sheer word of mouth, this hidden gem of a restaurant has become a favourite of discerning customers. Chic & tasty Mediterranean cuisine and from around the world. Situated in a quiet street in the old centre, just 2 minute’s walk from Torres de Quart so easy to find. They use different techniques and cooking traditions to create Mediterranean dishes with their unique flavour. El Rall Pl. Tundidores, 2 Tel: 96 392 20 90 Legendary paella restaurant, prime location by La Lonja and Plaza Negrito. El Somelier Pl. Mossen Sorell, 11 Tel: 96 315 40 61 Hip little tapas bar with excellent cheeses, hams. ‘Jornadas’ of wine tasting during the year. Erba Cipollina C/ Viriato, 7 Tel: 96 392 04 96 Clean presentation, calm atmosphere. Escalones de La Lonja C/ Pere Compte, 3 What a great setting! A terrace by La Lonja. Espaivisor C/ Corretgería, 40 Tel: 96 392 23 99 www.espaivisor.com/restaurante.php Superb, imaginative and tasty Mediterranean dishes. Gregal C/ Los Borjas, 3 Tel: 96 392 58 99 L’Antigua Bodegueta 1833 C/ Purisima, 6 Mobile: 677 405 931 Authentic, friendly, warm and intimate Spanish tapas bar with a great selection of tapas including ham, cheese, meat and fish choices. La Caragola Pl. Mossen Sorell, 9 Tel: 615 992 803 La Cava C/ San Fernando, 20 Tel: 96 392 08 34 La Greta C/ Pere Bonfill, 7 Tel. 96 332 24 47 Alternative vibe, cool music, tapas and open, liberal crowd. Vegetarians are catered for.

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NOVEMBER 10 / NOVIEMBRE 10 www.247valencia.com Tel: 96 392 27 35 Very spacious, arty, and buzzing at the weekends with an alternative vibe… Los Arcos C/ Blanquerías, 10 Tel: 96 391 71 31 Quality cuisine by the Torres de Serranos.

La Huerta y La Botella Obispo Don Geronimo, 8 Tel: 963 923 705 A chic yet friendly new Spanish restaurant with traditional rice and Mediterranean dishes prepared in a modern way as well as delicious and trendy desserts and succulent salads. In a quiet street, just off Calle Caballeros. Valencian cocina includes Michelin trained chefs. Choice wine list too. Menu del dia is 10€. Average price for evening meal is 20€. La Llantia Dorada C/ Hierba, 4 Tel. 96 391 27 16 Creative cooking with a mixture of Caribbean, Mediterranean, and Asian influences. La Lola C/ Subida de Toledano, 8 Tel: 96 391 80 45, www.lalolarestaurante.com reservas@lalolarestaurante.com. Very cool, popular and excellently located by the cathedral tower. A distinctive interior combines minimalism with ‘60s Spanish retro and space for 50 customers. This is ‘nueva cocina española’! La Mari y sus tacones C/ Alta, 28 Tel: 96 3156377 Chic yet friendly Spanish tapas and vino bar/restaurant. La Nave C/ Nave, 15 Tel: 96 351 95 06 Down-to-earth, menu del días for under 8€. La Salvaora C/ Calatrava, 19 Tel: 96 392 14 84 New! Cool ‘Taberna Española’ in the heart of the Barrio Carmen. Flamenco legend photos, excellent ham, cheese and wine aplenty! Las Damas C/ Damas, 3 Tel: 96 352 12 97 Unpretentious restaurant in a quiet corner of town. Good value menu del días for under 8€. La Surcusal C/ Guillem de Castro, 118 (at IVAM) Tel: 96 374 66 65 This modern, creative restaurant has become a talking point in and outside Valencia. Not for those on a budget- 50€ a head. La Tarara C/ de la Cruz 4, 646 178 092, 646 524 877 Homemade dishes near the Torres de Serranos. La Xirgu C/ dels Borja, 4

Lolitas & Sibaritas (Paella, Tapas y Copas) C/ Caballeros, 10 Tel: 96 3924495 www.lolitaysibaritas.com Original! Perfectly located in the heart of the old centre. Miniature tapas and ample dishes with fusion influences from around the world. Mediterannean, Asian, Arabic, French and more. Cool crowd in the evening and more mellow in the daytime. Menú del día 12€ - 16€. Paella every day. Maria Mandiles C/ Padre Huerfanos, 2 Tel: 96 336 62 13 www.groovelives.com A warm welcome with tasty food and lovely terraza. Mattilda C/ Roteros, 21 Tel. 96 392 31 68 Creative cuisine.

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Mediterraniart C/ del Mar, 29 Tel: 96 0 715 790 mediterraniart@gmail.com Great! Open very day of the week, Mediterraniart is an authentic and elegant Valencia chill out bar/restaurant run by a friendly, young and experienced team. Paella everyday, typical Spanish tapas including bravas, calamares, ham and cheese and mediterranean salads and dishes. Menú del día 9,50€ & 14€. Dinners betwen 20-

25 €. Mellow & cool music soundtrack with soul, funk, jazz, house and more. Mesclat Doctor Beltrán Bigorra, 10 Teléfono: 96 306 5852 Authentic and wide choice of natural hamburgers. Messana C/ Catalans, 8 Tel: 96 315 59 75 www.resturantemessana.com Neboa Pl. Vicente Iborra, 4 Tel: 96 391 37 21 Atlantic cooking from Galicia. Nou Carxofa C/ Baja, 42 Tel: 96 391 02 98 Restaurant area at the back serves homemade dishes. Good value, tasty and good music. Ocho y Medio Plaza Lope de Vega, 5 Tel: 96 392 20 22 www.elochoymedio.com Creative cooking with Mediterranean influences. Fish and meat dishes with fresh ingredients. Very special. This is a very classy combination of Spanish arrocería with exquisite rice plates and a wonderful ‘carta de diseño’. A beautiful and relaxing interior and wonderful view of the square. There is a menú del día for 15€ and expect to pay between 25€ 30€ in the evening. Great wine list, too. Refugio Restaurante del Carmen C/ Alta, 42 Tel: 96 391 77 54 A warm and authentic Mediterranean fusion restaurant with touches of Asia and a new carta, too. See ‘Something Different’ for more details. Restaurant L’hamadriada Pl. Vicente Iborra, 3 Tel: 96 326 08 91 New! Tasty dishes in a quiet corner of the Barrio del Carmen. Restaurante Tahine C/ Corona, 8 Tel: 96 315 60 42 Fusion cuisine. Serranos C/ Blanquerías, 5 Tel: 96 391 70 61 Another great Valencia landmark close by the Torres de Serrano. Sesame C/ En Bou, 10 Tel: 96 391 30 62 International cuisine in a quiet corner of the Carmen. Great service. Seu-Xerea C/ Conde Almodóvar, 4 Tel: 96 392 40 00 British-born owner/chef for one of the best regarded fusion restaurants, a minute from Plaza de la Virgen. Creative and affordable. Sidrería El Molinón C/ Bolseria, 40 Tel: 96 391 15 38 Specialities are Cocina Asturiana. Sol i Lluna C/ del Mar, 29 Tel: 96 392 22 16, www.solilluna.net Breakfast from 09.00h to 13.30h, imaginative meals with delicious salads and international dishes. Recommended. Tapa2 Gastronomik C/ Carda, 6 Tel: 96 392 14 70 Fusion cuisine.

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NOVEMBER 10 / NOVIEMBRE 10 24/7 VALENCIA LISTINGS Tasca Angel C/ Purísima, 1 Tel: 96 391 78 35 Excellent tapas- sardines, prawns, cuttlefish and much more, all grilled. Indie music fans: This is Robyn Hitchcock’s favourite! Tintofino Ultramarino C/ Corretgeria, 38 Tel: 96 315 39 64 Like a fine wine? Oh, that’s superb! Tapas, cheese, and meat too! Trafico de Bocatas C/ Roteros, 16 Tel: 96 391 91 74 Over 20 years of great sandwiches. Vintara Plaza de la Reina, 19 Tel: 96 392 41 85 Great paella is available from Monday to Friday and there are other rice dishes to be enjoyed as well as fresh Spanish tapas, tasty meat and fish dishes. Winery (Envinarte) C/ Serranos, 6 Tel: 96 391 39 30 A classy winery by the Torres de Serrano. Yuso C / de la Cruz, 4 izquierda Tel: 96 315 39 67 The real deal. Valencian chefs and Valencian staff. Superb paella, arroz en fesols i naps, arroz a banda, patatas bravas, salads and more. Classy Valencian restaurant by the old Arabic wall near Torres de Serrano. Homemade food, only open Friday - Sunday. About 18€ a head. Zona Ruzafa

Tel: 96 372 75 30 One of Valencia’s very best bodegas, down-toearth interior. Busy at weekends! Essential. Zona Plaza Xuquer

C/ Conde Altea, 39 Tel: 96 3819 444 La Taska Sidreria C/ Conde Altea, 39 Tel: 96 3819 444 www.lataskasidreria.es Every Thursday is cider day, with free cider with your meal. Enjoy the finest cuisine from Northern Spain including well-prepared octopus, cod, sausage and tortilla dishes. Their natural Asturian cider is served in the classic way by the waiters in this friendly and warm restaurant, combining fine service with fresh produce. A wonderful selection of red, white and rosé wines to choose from too. Successfully run by 2 brothers of Asturian descent. If you bring this copy of ‘24/7 Valencia’ with you, you get a free bottle of cider with your lunch or dinner! Zona Rio del Turia

Basilico C/ Cadiz, 42 Brunch every Sunday from 11.00h onwards with eggs, fresh bread, delicious juices, salmon and bacon. Big hit with students at only 8€. Cadiz 70 C/ Cadiz, 70 Tel: 96 334 15 74 Excellent wine bar in the heart of Ruzafa district. Cool jazz, quality tapas to savour. Ganxo C/ Literario Azorin, 4 Tel: 96 328 55 48 Run by a Spanish/Irish couple, homemade food in friendly surroundings. Zona Canovas Las Lunas C/ Ciscar, 35 Tel: 662 047 091 / 695 192 336 E-mail: laslunasvlc@yahoo.es Great! Brand new restaurant in the cosmopolitan Canovas zone run by an experienced staff. At the bar or in the dining room, you may enjoy an informal lunch or dinner consisting of tasty tapas, as well as the finest homemade meals for their menus, in classic Mediterranean style. Savour their delicious grilled meat, especially prepared by their chef Gustavo Casella. Las Lunas stands out for its combination of Spanish, Italian and French cuisine in a rustic and friendly atmosphere.

La Masia de los Jardineros In Río Túria (Parallel with bus station) Tel: 627 209 992 Peaceful spot away from the crowds. Menu del día for 9.50€, paella, salads, and fideua. Wicky Parque de cabecera - Tel. 656 856 899. Enjoy an ample carta of Mediterranean and meat dishes in pleasant surroundings. Zona Juan Lloréns Amics Meus Cafe C/ Calixto III, 6 Tel: 96 384 55 28. One of the best café-bocaterías in the Juan Lloréns area. Bodega Bar Valero C/ Palleter, 51 Tel: 96 385 50 78 Alternative crowd ambience and music (blues, rock, flamenco) add to a bohemian interior. Casa Nuria Asador C/ Tarazona, 8 Tel: 96 382 39 60 Hidden treasure off the beaten track combines Spanish/French Mediterranean dishes. L’ Albergina C/ Calixto III, 17 Tel: 96 323 03 64 A restaurant always busy at the weekend means customers keep going back. Recommended. Taberna del Bou C/ Pintor Vila Prades, 17 Tel: 96 384 45 17 Rabo de toro, embutido, homemade paté, eggs, hams, cheeses, bacalao, vegetarian menus. Zona Manuel Candela Bodega “El Labrador” C/ Dr. Manuel Candela, 58

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Plaza Xuquer, 13 Reservations: 622 233 101 or 629 255 040 www.tabernasjos.com Taberna Jos Plaza Xuquer, 13 Reservations: 622 233 101 or 629 255 040 www.tabernasjos.com Authentic local restaurant in a great area. Enjoy some of the best value traditional Spanish cooking in Valencia. 8€ lunchtime menu and 12.95€ dinner with open bar included. All your favourites, including paella, Spanish tapas, homemade stews and more. Great for couples and groups. Check their website for more information. Exclusive offer for 24/7 Valencia readers; take this coupon with you and you get 10% discount (Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays 5%). Zona Cabañal Casa Montaña C/ Jose Benlliure, 69 Tel: 96 367 23 14 Established in 1836, this is an historic bodega and tapas bar, one of the best in all Spain. Over 1000 wines and crunchy patatas bravas, croquetas de bacalao, mussels. Framed posters and photos of Spanish ‘figuras’ and large barrels of wine line the walls. Excellent choice for locals and visitors. Zona Playa y Puerto Antigua Casa Calabuig Av. del Puerto, 336 Over 100 years of history, with the port just across the road from this popular bar restaurant. Varied tapas and menus del día only 7€. Earthy and typically Spanish. El Tridente de Neptuno Paseo de Neptuno, 2 Tel: 96 356 77 77 www.hotelneptunovalencia.com Upmarket restaurant by the sea with room for 100 diners, creative, Mediterranean dishes. La Bodegueta del Mar C/ Eugenia Viñes, 229 Tel: 96 3 718 490 Quality Valencian restaurant by the sea. La Pepica At the Beach - Av. Neptuno, 6 Tel: 96 371 03 66 Legendary paella restaurant with room for 400 guests. Rice and seafood, with paella Valenciana a speciality. Hemingway did eat here!

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Thailand. It also very spacious so perfect for groups and couples looking for something authentic, tasty and memorable. A great night out and an affordable day-time lunch menu too.

Diablito Food & Music C/ Polo y Peyrolón, 57 Tel: 96 328 80 08 Fun pizzeria “food and music” restaurant with interesting starters. Large African interior.

Turkish Doner Kebab KILIM Paseo Ruzafa, 8 / C/ Ángel Guimera, 46 All your favourite kebab dishes to eat in or take away. Gazza’s favourite! Vegeterian

Hamburguesería Take Away Tel. 96 315 60 30 C/ San Miguel, 6 ( junto plaza del Tossal ) El Carmen, Valencia

Refugio Restaurante del Carmen C/ Alta, 42 Tel: 96 391 7754 New! The ‘Cooking Revolution’! Previously La Cañameria. Refugio is truly a restaurant of the Carmen. Run by a warm, bohemian Valencian couple with years of culinary experience this is now a Mediterranean fusion restaurant with touches of Asian cuisine. Warm, wooden interior with intimate corners. From MondayFriday they have a 10€ menu and a plato del dia for 6.50€. They do a great paella and special wine nights too. Good music soundtrack and mixed clientele. They also do food to order. 13:30h - 16:00h / 20:30h - 24.00h. Open everyday. Takeaway

VLC (Menjars.Foods.Comidas) C/ San Miguel, 6 Tel: 96 3 156 030 www.vlcfood.com Great! Just off C/ Quart and Plaza Tosall so easy to find. Friendly takeaway run by a welcoming staff, including English speakers and open until really late at weekends. They have Hamburger, chips and water for just 3.20€! Nugget dishes, salad choices, lots of burger combinations. For a minimum of 8 €, they have a free delivery service by bike in the Carmen area. Open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdays, Sundays from 20.00h -00.00h and Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays 20.00h - 04.00h. Tapas Bars The Bodegueta C/ Mariano Benlluire, 4 Tel: 96 3 519 738 Great! Valencian owned, international staff at this Spanish Tapas Bar. Thai

Thai Gardens Valencia C/ Joaquin Costa,26. Zona Canovas Tel: 96 333 66 13 valencia@thaigardensgroup.com

Prêt-à-porter C/ Murillo 10 ([barrio del carmen) Tel. 963 128 768 www.elpretaporter.blogspot.com Superb! “Quality cuisine from around the world for everbody”. Friendly, experienced and welltravelled chef has fresh & quality international dishes to takeaway including paella, couscous, curry, pasta and more. They also do dishes to order for groups, catering, parties, cakes. Just a stone’s throw from Radio City and the Torres de Quart. Open Mon - Sat / 12:00h - 16:00h

Thai Gardens C/ Joaquin Costa,26 Zona Canovas Tel:96 333 66 13 valencia@thaigardensgroup.com Superb! Check out this impressive Thai restaurant in the cosmopolitan Canovas zone. Authentic Thai cuisine by expert Thai chefs with all ingredients imported weekly from Bangok. There is an afternoon lunch menu for 14.60€, from Monday to Friday, including dessert and drink. The carta offers the best of real Thai cooking that truly reflects Thai culture. The setting is truly wonderful, with all the impressive furnishings imported from

La Tastaolletes C/ Salvador Giner, 6 Tel: 96 392 18 62 Highly recommended. Emphasis is on tastiness and nutrition. Spinach, musaka, hummus…

shopping On the whole, the Carmen clothes shops are more alternative. The Colón stores tend to be high street names. Zona Plaza Ayuntamiento La Violeta (Flower shop, express delivery) Pl. Ayuntamiento, puesto 2 Tel: 96 352 13 99, 667 326 340 Popland C/ Moratín, 5 Tel: 96 394 27 76, www.popland.es Prenatal C/ Poeta Querol, 8 - Tel: 96 351 68 29 Size Alternative Shop C/ Periodista Azzati, 11 Tel: 96 310 60 75 Will Shop C/ Padilla, 3 Tel: 96 352 46 07 Zona El Carmen 8ES++ C/ Bolseria, 28 Tel: 690 60 56 81 Albero Pl. Mercado, 9 Tel: 96 391 65 17 Bacilococo C/ Purísima 3, bajo Tel: 96 391 56 15 Bugalu (retro) C/ Derechos, 22 Tel 96 391 84 49 Confecciones Drácula C/ Roteros, 1 Tel: 96 392 17 98 (Dolls, mod and retro clothes, Vinyl) Confettis C/ Quart, 69 Mobile: 687 100 608 www.confettis.es Great! A wonderful shop where colour and ‘alegria’ is all around. A shop for all the family with party ‘piñatas’. Emeeme 1964 C/ Numancia, 1 Tel: 96 315 40 53 Welcoming artisans have opened a genuine Valencian ceramic print shop. Euforia vintage C/ Quart, 63 - Tel: 96 322 6193 www.euforiavintage.com Fetitxe C/ Santa Teresa, 17 Tel: 96 315 58 47

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NOVEMBER 10 / NOVIEMBRE 10 24/7 VALENCIA LISTINGS Irai C/ Alta, 38 Tel: 96 392 33 62 Original and exclusive designs. La Moda Me Incomoda (Great name, logo) C/ Cordellats, 6 Tel: 96 391 39 08 La Room (Unisex T-shirt shop) C/ Cordellats, 6 Tel: 96 392 03 69, www.boomlapop.com La Tenda de Roba C/ Trench, 2 Tel: 96 392 56 48 Quality jeans and cords. Great prices & service! Madame Bugalu C/Danzas, 3 Tel: 96 315 44 76 From the owners of Bugalu. Chic! Monki C/ Calatrava 11, bajo Tel: 96 392 45 16, www.monki.shop Namo Bhudda C/ Purisima, 5 Tel: 96 391 65 09 Superb quality and friendly owner. Numero 1 C/ Corretgeria, 1 Tel: 96 312 18 37 Funky trainers! Opera prima C/ Corretgeria, 9 Tel: 96 3919868 Delicatessen Quicksilver Boardriders Club C/ de la Paz, 34 Tel: 96 352 67 20 Raíces C/ Corregeria, 4 Tel. 96 392 0193. Genuine ethnic imported clothes. Skateworld (www.skateworld.es) C/ Comedias, 14 / C/ Moratín, 7 Tel: 96 353 18 38 / 96 394 48 09 Trendy Trend C/ Centenar de Plom, esquina C/ Na Jordana Trendy clothes with friendly service. Urban Klan (Skate wear / Hip-Hop) C/ Museo, 5 Vent du Nord C/ del Mar, 8 Tel: 96 391 63 47 Xocoa C/ San Vicente, 7 Tel: 96 351 77 39 Classy chocolate shop! Zak Kolel C/ Derechos, 32 Tel: 96 392 21 59 Zityest, Skate & Music Shop C/ De Las Cocinas 4b Zona Colon Ann Summers Paseo Ruzafa, 16 www.annsummers.com Valencia’s very latest erotic shop for women. Arnau (sports shops) C/ Castellon, 13 Tel: 96 336 36 49 C/ Alicante, 13 Tel: 96 351 03 29 Bang & Olufsen Galería Don Juan de Austria Tel: 96 351 22 58 Benetton C/ Don Juan de Austria 28, Tel: 96 351 44 04

El Corte Inglés C/ Colón 1 / Colón 27 Tel: 96 315 95 00 Emporio Armani C/ Colón, 66 - 68 Tel: 96 394 29 52 Foot Locker C/ Colón, 7 Tel: 96 394 47 02 Zara C/ Colón 11 / Colón 18, C/ Don Juan de Austria 22 Zona Campanar Mercado de Campanar Avenida Tirso de Molina, 16 www.mdf.es LATE NIGHT SHOPPING Vips Marqués del Turia, 49 Tel: 96 352 96 01 Open all week and all year, from 09.00h till 03.00h. Restaurant stays open till closing-time. Good selection of magazines, DVDs, CDs and confectionery.

CLASSIFIEDS AIRLINES Valencia is now well and truly ‘on the map’. Find some very good deals via the Internet. Airberlin.com ba.com Easyjet.com Iberia.com Jet2.com Ryanair.com Thomsonfly.com Transavia.com Virgin.com vueling.com APARTMENTS TO RENT 40 flats Av. Instituto Obrero, 20 www.40flats.com New! Conveniently located by the City of Arts & Sciences on the river, 40 flats offers 40 modern, fully equipped and furnished apartments. Privacy, proximity to the City of Arts & Sciences and price makes these apartments unique and ideal to ensure your stay in Valencia is as pleasant as possible. Whether you’re here on holiday or a business trip, get in contact with 40 flats, experts in accommodation… 50 flats C/ Espinosa 13, esquina GranVía Fernando el Católico Tel.: (34) 96 323 95 50 www.50flats.com Luxury apartments in the central Botánico zone. Recommended. BEAUTY & HEALTH CARE Assari Shiatsu C/ Navarro Reverter, 6 - 2 Tel: 96 373 10 68 Bluezone Day Spa C/ Correos, 13 Tel: 96 353 03 01 Estudio Yoga C/ de la Paz, 23 – 1 Tel: 96 391 32 89

Fitness First Gran Vía Germanias, 43 Tel: 96 310 76 00 Herboristería Ruzafa C/ Ruzafa, 34 Tel: 96 373 42 58 J. Navarro Herbolario C/ Arzobispo Mayoral, 20 Tel. 96 352 28 51, www.terraverda.com O2 Centro Wellness Av. de las Corts Valencianas, 18 - 20 Tel: 96 317 36 00 Oblivium C/ Hospital, 6 Tel: 96 392 61 59, www.centrooblivium.com Oblivium is a relaxation centre specialized in flotation therapy and situated a 4-minute walk from Plaza del Ayuntamiento. Piscina Valencia C/ Arquitecto Mora, 2 Tel: 96 360 47 08 Quiropractic C/ Cirilo Amorós, 58 - 2 Tel: 96 338 13 20 Spa del Mar C/ del Mar, 50 Tel: 96 351 39 37 BIOPARC BIOPARC Av. Pio Baroja, 3 Tel: 902 106 980, www.bioparcvalencia.es Metro: Nou d’Octubre Bus: 95, 17, 7 The largest zoo in Europe and it is in Valencia! Open every day of the year from 10.00h until 18.00h and 10.00h until 21.00h in summer. 41€ all year pass, 20€ adult day pass, 15€ children, 16.50€ retired, 17€ each for groups of 20 or more. Children under three free. BOOK SHOPS Casa del Llibre Passeig Ruzafa, 11 Tel: 96 353 00 20 Spanish bookshop is a very welcome addition for English speakers / readers everywhere. Over 20,000 books in English, including art, music, literature, science, education. Fnac C/ Guillem de Castro 9-11 Tel. 96 353 90 00 Upstairs you will find a good collection of English books including language aids, travel guides, novels past and present, art books… Kanda Books C/ Tapinería, 18 Tel: 639 740 746, www.kandabooks.com New second-hand bookshop in the city centre with great books in international languages & handmade greetings cards and books exchange available. Just a 1 minute walk from the Plaza de la Reina. Leolo Libreria infantile y juvenile internacional C/ Turia, 50 Tel: 96 3 15 40 24 ww.librerialeolo.com Great international bookshop for children, teenagers and parents. Staff speaks French, German, Spanish and English. Just 3 minute’s walk from Torres de Quart. Slaughterhouse Librería y cafetería. C/ Denia 22 - 46006 Valencia 963287755

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BIKE HIRE Orange Bikes C/ Editor Manuel Aguilar, 1 Tel: 96 391 75 51, www.orangebikes.net Valencia, with its flat landscape, excellent climate, bike lanes and compact size, is a cyclist’s dream. Orange Bikes is a modern, reliable and friendly shop with bikes to hire at only 12€ a day. Electric bikes and repairs also available and easy to find! English, Spanish spoken. Recommended.

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CITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Av. Autopista del Saler, 1, 3, 5, 7 Tel: 902 100 031 www.cac.es Fantastic! Designed by internationally famed Valencian architect Santiago Calatrava, this is a great day out for all the family! It combines an impressive science museum, a massive aquarium, super hi-tech cinema, a classy underwater restaurant and a state-of-the-art opera house too. COMIC SHOPS Futurama C/ Guillem de Castro, 53 Tel: 96 351 9188 www.libreriafuturama.com Thousands of comics from around the world, over 200 titles in English. COMPUTER SHOPS Informatica y telefonia C/ Turia, 11 Tel. 96 39 247 25 Computers, laptops and mobile phone repairs and visits. DENTAL CLINIC Dental Clinic IVID C/ Quart 66 Tel. 96 391 00 80 is in the centre of Valencia, next to the Torres de Quart. Our highly qualified and friendly team do complete teeth restoration, crowns, bridges, implants, aesthetic fillings, dental hygiene, covering all your dental needs. DVD HIRE Nostromo C/ Carcineros, 22 (Zona Carmen) Tel: 96 3 924 081 Independent cinema, classics, rarities, underground. Version Original (Zona Carmen) C/ Turia, 26 Tel: 96 338 08 55 www.original.onored.com 12h-14h -17.30h -21.30h (Closed Monday and Tuesday)

Ecorganic Avda. Blasco Ibañez 66 bajo / corner of Poly y Peyrolon Tel: 96 3 892 003 Open all day Monday to Saturday 9.30 – 20.30h Sunday 10h – 14h www.ecorganicweb.com Great! Spacious ecorganic shop with a wonderful selection of quality goods for all of your needs. Good variety of healthy breads and cereals, pastas, organic vegetables & fruits, herbs, natural cosmetics, vitamin supplements, macrobiotic, gluten and sugar –free foods, childrens’ food, fair trade products, books and magazines. Friendly, helpful and experienced staff, this is a wonderful shop and highly popular with locals and visitors. Discounts for cyclists! EROTIC BOUTIQUE La Mecedora C/ Mantas, 3 Tel: 96 315 48 61, www.la-mecedora.es New and near to Mercado Central. For men and women. DVDs, lingerie, toys and more… ESCORT SERVICES La Divina Comedia C/ Mantas, 16 (next to La Lonja) Tel: 96 3 154 324 www.ladivina-comedia.es FOOTBALL CALENDAR 7 nov a las 17.00 Levante - Deportivo 8 nov a las 21.30 Sevilla - Valencia 10/11 nov Copa del Rey 2nd Leg Valencia – Logroñés Levante - Xerez 13/14 nov Valencia - Getafe Málaga - Levante 20/21 nov Villarreal - Valencia Levante - Racing 24 nov 20.45h Champions League Valencia - Bursaspor 27/28 nov Valencia - Almería Hércules - Levante 4/5 dec Real Madrid - Valencia Levante - Atlético 7 dec 20.45h Champions League

Manchester United - Valencia VALENCIA CF Mestalla stadium, Aragón/ Facultats metro, lots of buses incl 9, 10, 12, 29, 30, 31, 32, 41, 79, 80. Tickets available from the ticket office at Mestalla, club souvenir shops, La Caixa and selected tobacconists. Prices from: league €25, cup €10, Europe €30. LEVANTE UD Ciudad de Valencia stadium, 11/70 bus, Machado metro, Estadi del Llevant tram. Tickets from €25 available at ground on matchday. GIFT SHOPS Casa Monet C/ Serranos, 36 Tel: 96 392 48 28 www.yessy.com/vksieski Lovely gift shop run by a friendly and entertaining English owner, Vlad. Just by the Torres de Serranos. La Pulga C/ San Fernando, 22 Tel: 96 3 91 82 15 Yuste Artesania Pl. del Mocadoret, 5 Tel: 600 293 081 Just off Plaza de la Reina, a definitive Valencian ceramic shop. HAIRDRESSERS Emilio Pl. Mercado, 12 Tel: 96 392 45 67 Welcoming atmosphere, mosaic interior and reasonable prices just a stone’s throw from Mercado Central. Open MonSat 09.30h – 13.30h, 16.00h– 20.00h. Closed Tues and Sat afternoons. Kibbutz (barrio Carmen) C/ Bolsería, 31 Tel: 96 391 24 06 Highly colourful and trendy hairdressers. HEALTH / LEARNING & TEACHING Acupuncture Pain Clinic C/ Denia 38 p9 Tel: 633231220 Specialised in pain treatment. Money back guarantee. Providing exceptional value. Centro Flow Pilates, Yoga, Siestas with meditation. Fluent English Speaker. Fullyqualified. Based in the centre. Tel: 626 118 641 flowcentervlc@gmail.com Pilates Classes Tel: 637242227 Forming groups now. Good value classes with experienced teachers. Notice the difference! Call Marta. The Grinberg Method C/Bolsería 17 -1 Tel: 626 542 097 www.grinbergmethod.com email: novella@MetodoGrinberg-esp.com HOLY GRAIL Valencia Cathedral Plaza de la Reina Tel: 96 391 81 27 Cathedral Mon-Sat: 10.00h - 17.30h Sun and Holidays: 14.00h - 17.30h Free entry on Sundays

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NOVEMBER 10 / NOVIEMBRE 10 24/7 VALENCIA LISTINGS El Micalet Mon-Sat: 10.00h -18.00h Sun and Holidays: 10.00h - 13.00h and 17.00h - 18.30h Price: 3€ The Holy Grail, the only chalice in the world verified by the Vatican as the cup that Jesus Christ drank from during the Last Supper, is right here in Valencia Cathedral! Forget Indiana Jones, Da Vinci Code and King Arthur. It’s just a brief stroll to Plaza de la Reina to find what eluded so many for so long! HOSTELS Alberg Juvenil Ciutat de Valencia C/ Balmes, 17 (zona Carmen) Tel: 96 392 51 00 www.alberguedevalencia.com Center Valencia C/ Samaniego, 18 (near Plaza de la Virgen) Tel: 96 391 49 15, www.center-valencia.com Hilux (zona Carmen) C/ Cadirers, 11 Tel: 96 391 46 91, www.feetuphostels.com Run by experienced travellers, beautifully designed individual rooms set in a quiet corner of the old town. From 25€… Home (zona Carmen) Pl. Vicente Iborra Tel: 96 391 37 97 C/ La Lonja, 4 Tel: 96 391 62 29 www.likeathome.net One of the funkiest hostels in town set in the heart of the centro histórico. Run by people who are well-travelled and it shows. Cool, comfy furnishing and bright interiors really do make you feel at home. All your backpacker needs are catered for: Television, DVD, books and Internet can all be enjoyed. Hostal Antigua Morellana (zona Carmen) C/ En Bou, 2 Tel: 96 391 57 73 www.hostalam.com Single: 45-55€, Double: 55-65€. Eighteen rooms in an 18th century building with 21st century comfort. Air conditioning and TV in all rooms. Unfussy, comfortable and excellently located. Hospederia Del Pilar (zona Carmen) Plaza de Mercado, 19 Tel: 96 391 66 00 Single: 11-16€, Double: 22-30€. Hostal El Rincón (zona Carmen) C/ Carda 11 Tel: 96 391 79 98 / 96 391 60 83 Single: 10-13€, Double: 18-24€ Indigo Youth Hostel (zona Carmen) C/ Guillem de Castro, 64 Tel: 96 315 39 88 www.indigohostel.com. From 13€. Nest Youth Hostel (zona Plaza Reina) C/ de la Paz, 36 Tel: 96 342 71 68, www.nestyh.com HOTELS Ad-Hoc *** (zona Rio Turia) C/ Boix, 4 Tel: 96 391 36 67, www.adhochoteles.com Cónsul del Mar (zona Puerto) Av. Puerto, 39 www.hotelconsuldelmar.com Holiday Inn Valencia **** Paseo de la Alameda, 38 Tel: 96 303 21 00, www.holiday-inn.com

Neptuno **** C/ Paseo de Neptuno, 2 Tel: 96 356 77 77 www.hotelneptunovalencia.com Petit Palace Bristol *** C/ L’Abadia de San Martín, 3 Tel: 96 394 51 00, www.hotelpetitpalacebristol.com Petit Palace Germanías *** C/ Sueca, 14 Tel: 96 351 36 38 www.petitpalacehotelgermanias.com Sidi Saler ***** Playa de Saler, s/n Tel: 96 161 04 11 www.hotelessidi.es The Westin Valencia ***** C/ Amadeo de Saboya, 1 Tel: 96 362 59 00 www.westin.com/valencia LANGUAGE SCHOOLS English Classes Experienced teacher and teacher trainer. Business, general and conversational English. Recommended. All levels. Tel: 67 21 62 2 32. English Tower C/ Ciudad de Bolonia, 6 (Nuevo Centro) Tel: 96 347 89 27 English Tower Business Centre C/ Terrateig, 1 Bajo 16 (Nou Campanar) Tel: 96 193 50 68 Opening hours: 10.00h – 14.00h, 17.00h – 20.00h. Established language schools with more than 16 years experience.

Glenburn School of English C/ Ciudad de Mula, 19 bajo (near Av. Aragón) Tel: 96 393 35 88. English school with welcoming atmosphere and experienced native staff offers courses at all levels for adults and children and prepares students for FCE, proficiency and E.O.I. exams. Offers Spanish for foreigners, French and German. Excellent translation.

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Lenguas Vivas (near Ángel Guimerá) C/ Palleter 43 - 45 - Tel: 963821058. An increasingly popular academy which offers Spanish, English, French, Italian and Chinese courses/translations. Groups or private classes for all ages and from all backgrounds welcome. Preparation for DELE, Trinity, TOEFL and TOEIC exams. Highly-qualified and native teachers in a professional and friendly atmosphere. LAUNDRETTE

The L@undry Stop C/ Baja, 17 Tel: 96 391 35 28, 687 255 275 Open daily 09.30h ‘till 22.00h! (Sat&Sun: 14.30h ‘till 22.00h). Valencia’s first cyber Laundromat/Laundrette! The L@undry Stop is a different place where you can surf the web, chill with a drink or read a book while your clothes get washed. Washing 5€, Drying 3€, Soap .50€, Internet .50€/20 min. MARKETS El Rastro’ Next to Mestalla Stadium - Sunday morning Mercadillo de Cabanyal Every Thursday morning Mercadillo Central Plaza Mercado/ Plaza Redonda - Sunday morning Mercado de Las Flores Plaza Ayuntamiento - every day Mercado ‘Los hippies’ Plaza de la Merced - every day Mercadillo de Jerusalén C/ Pelayo / Convento Jerusalén / Matemático Marzal - Thursday morning Mercadillo de Ruzafa Every Monday morning

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NOVEMBER 10 / NOVIEMBRE 10 www.247valencia.com MUSIC SHOPS Bosco C/ Cadiz, 8 (Zona Ruzafa) Tel: 96 341 44 22 Music shop with acoustic and electric guitars. Discos Amsterdam (Nuevo Centro, local 80) Av. Pio XII, 2 Tel: 96 348 39 65 damsterdam@wanadoo.es Classic shop for collectors and specialists! ’50s to present day, first and second hand. Fnac C/ Guillem de Castro, 9-11 Tel. 96 353 90 00 CDs, DVDs, computers, cameras… Harmony Records Pasaje Dr. Serra, 9 (Zona Centro) Tel: 96 352 18 39 Mardigras! Pl. Virgen de la Paz, 2 (Zona Carmen) Tel: 96 391 11 07 Soul, Funk, Jazz, Disco, Hip-Hop. Vinyl.

Estudio Gestalt Valencia C/ Del Mar, 27, 1 (near Plaza de la Reina) Tel: 657 012 800 Site: http://terapiados.net E-mail: david@terapiados.net. Psychology and Gestalt therapy consultation. Individual and group sessions in English. If you are interested, we can have a first meeting with no charge. TATTOO SHOPS X TATTOO C/ Quart, 48 Tel: 96 391 40 65 TRANSLATION SERVICES

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Officialitus If you ask most foreign residents what they least like about Spain, they will invariably name two main gripes. One is the ubiquitous noise pollution within a 20-metre radius of many native Spanish citizens. The other is unquestionably the bureaucracy. When I first came to Spain, I quickly learned to take a newspaper with me when visiting any government building to while away the hours. Nowadays I take my laptop and set up my office while in the queue. People mistake me for a civil servant myself and hand me their neatly filled-in forms (which I then chuck away to beat them in the queue). Actually, some surprisingly imaginative functionary has encouraged them to set up touch screens where you press the name of the counter you wish to visit and promptly receive a ticket to join the corresponding queue. The problem is, only the civil servants themselves know which queue you’re meant to be in. Thus, you end up collecting six or seven tickets to hedge your bets like a lottery whilst the amorphous mass of people known as the queue milling impatiently around you stares balefully on. I once went to enquire about getting an EU tax number, so I got tickets for the VAT counter, for the EU counter, for imports and exports, for self-employed people, and one called

‘certificates’ for good measure. In the end, the last counter’s functionary told me I should have got one for ‘census’ and stared at me as if I were incredibly stupid. Then he went for a coffee. Government-speak is a disease found in all countries, and I suspect more so in those which have suffered a dictatorship, but in Spain it is truly a language in itself – even a spoken one. You can stand by while a civil servant talks to you in this language whilst addressing their colleagues normally, as if interpreting: “This bloke’s supposed to fill in his home address before signing and paying” becomes “You are required to complete the details of your habitual place of residence prior to executing your signature and furnishing the payment.” To compound this, civil servants wanting to pass their exams must learn this language well to fit in, with the result that after years many of them – be they police officers or secondary school teachers – feel they have to use ten words instead of two when speaking to the public in order to sound professional and cultivated (when in fact it makes them sound like they have some peculiar speech impediment). Another offspring of dictatorships is a penchant for official-looking paperwork,

stamps, etc., which even seems to have lasted into the Internet age, with its resulting massacre of trees. You can see web pages intended to speed up bureaucracy that ask you to print out the receipt or form you’ve filled in and take it to the office to be stamped. The word ‘doh!’ springs to mind. I remember many moons ago chatting away in Spanish for 15 minutes in a job interview before my interlocutor began looking at my CV and exclaimed: “You don’t speak Spanish!” (I had no official certificate to my name, and this experience was my first lesson in Spanish bureaucracy – that papers are seen to be more convincing than people). I told this tale to my hippie British flatmate, who with the aid of Tipp-Ex and a photocopier then rapidly produced several university degrees for himself and soon found a job. This was my second lesson – that they don’t bother checking the papers anyway. Incidentally, getting your qualifications officially recognised in Spain is a notoriously lengthy (and fairly costly) task, and even then it often isn’t considered to be as good as the Spanish equivalent. Hopefully the Bologna Process will change all this, but it may explain the lack of foreign-born citizens in Spain’s civil service (or anyone of foreign descent in positions of public power), an obvious Article © 2010 24/7Valencia

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flaw in a country whose economy thrives on tourism and whose inability to speak languages is well known (Check out some public tourist information and signs. The signs on the Patacona beach are a scream in French, German and English.). But the fact is this is more than just a laughing matter. I calculate I spend at least two weeks a year embroiled in bureaucratic work when I could be working for the economy. Multiply this by several millions of working citizens (Spain’s purportedly high unemployment rate should be taken with a pinch of salt – I know of many working while claiming dole) and you get a mind-boggling amount of man-hours lost to the economy. Not to mention the fact that a job in the Spanish civil service is practically a job for life, no matter how badly you do it (I have had my bank account embargoed three times for the same mistakes made by functionaries, amid numerous other horror stories). A friend once broke open the champagne on hearing she had passed her oposiciones (exams to work for the government), saying “I’ll never have to work again!” Another civil servant I bumped into in the market nonchalantly doing her shopping during working hours. I know of only one civil servant who decided to leave his job and go back to the private sector – he got bored and pestered his boss to give him something to do other than meeting me for two-hour coffee breaks, but his boss had nothing more to offer him. I think you get the picture.

This situation has given rise to the figure of the ‘gestor’ – someone you pay to do the paperwork, which in other countries presumably gets done by the civil service. Not that you’ll fare much better; I have got through three in as many years. The first handed in my papers late (so I lost my right to dole), the second charged me the Earth for doing chores a monkey like myself could do, and the last one continued to charge my bank monthly after I had stopped employing him. Such sloppiness (or dishonesty) leads some to simply ignore the law and work around it in Spain, and it is depressing to see that they often do better as a result (if only in terms of their sanity), at least in the short term. Nevertheless, I must point out that many Spaniards do indeed work hard and put in unpaid overtime. But it seems to me that one reason for this is that the other half of the working population seems to be living off them. Many of you will have heard of the recent general strike against labour reforms and tinkering with pensions, with the usual media attention on fringe pickets seeking public sympathy by burning tyres, blocking traffic and shouting at people. However, you may not know that months earlier there was already a strike against wage cuts by civil servants – natch – ironically perhaps the only Spanish social group where few fear for their job in times of recession, not to mention the usual summer threats from air-traffic controllers

unsure whether to accept 200,000€ a year and an unprecedented strike by judges. In Valencia, the public transport workers usually strike around Fallas time to the delight of Valencians and tourists alike. They have recently taken to do doing so around the Formula 1 weekend to see if they can scupper the local economy that pays their wages in summer, too. Forecasts say that by 2050 only half of Spain’s population will be of working age. Let’s hope they’re not all in the civil service. Many unemployed people seem to see this as the only way back to employment, which is not surprising when disproportionate social security payments for the newly self-employed deter any budding entrepreneurs. Spain is also on its way to having the EU’s oldest population. Yet the strikes indicate that people in general seem to be unwilling to face the necessary and inevitable changes that demographics have thrust upon us with a public sector creaking under the weight of the population’s age. As a self-employed person creating wealth for the state but with no dole, pathetic health insurance, no union and the crummiest foreseeable public pension, I feel I have the right at least to feel annoyed when I see some – by no means all – civil servants providing a poor service when we’re all paying for it.

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WE O N LY S I N G WHEN WE’RE WINNING This month’s write-up is going to be short and not so sweet due to the fact that I am typing this piece with one finger of my left hand, due to the fact that the other arm is in a sling after a touch of bad luck has left me temporarily one-brazoed. Another slice of bad luck has also seen Valencia slip from their dizzy heights at the top of the league after a very poor run of results. If their game against Barça was to show us just how good Valencia are this season – if they could challenge the big boys – then at half-time we would all have agreed that the Chés were a match for the Catalans. Due to a Pablo Hernández goal, Valencia were leading after forty-five minutes and the same said Pablo should have left the half-time scoreboard 0-2… but missed a relative sitter.

The reigning champions came out in the second half and turned the game around to run out 2-1 winners, even though Iniesta’s equaliser did smatter of offside. VCF were guilty of not taking their chances when they presented themselves and paid the price. Their tactics of denying Barcelona possession in the first half really had the Culés struggling, but in the second half Valencia were incapable of maintaining the ball and Barça were just too good. Nursing a wounded ego, the blanc i negres had a tricky away trip to Glasgow Rangers in the next round of the Champions League. On paper, after their disappointing home loss to Man Utd, Valencia needed to get a positive result in Scotland. Emery decided to change his system and left one man up front against five defenders. Needless to say, Valencia played very little football until the manager decided to change his tactics. Rangers were in good form and should have wrapped the game up in the first half, but thanks to some poor finishing and good keeping from Cesar, they were denied. The Scots

eventually took the lead thanks to a headed goal from Edu who quite sportingly decided to even things up by scoring an own goal to level the match, what a decent chap! Rangers had several more chances to snatch the three points and Valencia seemed content to sit back waiting for the final whistle which, when it came, meant that VCF were still third in the table and needed to win their next home tie against Rangers. The Scottish champions thus came to Valencia undefeated this season in any competition and nerves were rife in an half empty Mestalla until Soldado somehow scrambled in a shot between keeper and defender, only after Rangers themselves had hit the post from an inspired Naismith. The Scots were shaken by the goal and never exerted the same pressure in the second half. Valencia’s almost total control of possession led to another Soldado goal to literally wrap up the game whilst Tino Costa knocked in a late one, leaving the scoreline 3-0 and VCF in a situation where they only realistically need to beat Turkish side Bursaspor to ensure their safe passage to the second round. © 24/7 Valencia 2010

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Emery in pensive mood...

Valencia vs Rangers

Losing against Mallorca

Soldado has arrived Back in the league, their nex t opponents were Mallorca, a team that had recently had a couple of good draws against Madrid and Barça. Here in Mestalla they went one better and won by two goals to one. The first Mallorca goal was a nonexistent penalty, after a shocking decision from the referee, whilst the second was just terrible defending from Ricardo Costa and Maduro. On reflection, Valencia lost the game before they even stepped on the pitch, Emery yet again having another brainwave by playing Fernandes and Albelda in midfield and Banega as ‘mediapunta’. Valencia were incapable of moving the ball around the pitch and the game was crying out for the

introduction of Juan Mata, who Emery kept on the bench. Mata may not be in the best form of his career at the moment but he is still Valencia’s best player. Emery obviously thinks differently. Mestalla whistled their team off after the substandard performance, a fact that was repeated seven days later when Emery’s team were incapable of beating bottom-placed Zaragoza, who held on to a 1-1 draw. The Maños also played the last 30 minutes with one man less but the Chés have seen their early season confidence disappear. Three straight defeats in the league has been slightly offset with an easy victory against Logroñés in the Copa del Rey. But where it really

counts, in the league and Champions League, then Valencia are looking decidedly shaky. It is not an altogether unimaginable situation for the team after this summer’s sales, but still VCF should be capable of applying home advantage against ‘weaker’ teams. Obviously, something isn’t quite tickety-boo down Mestalla way. I’ll sign off now as my finger is starting to go numb.

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CLUBLAND 2011 already approaches as we sit back and wonder what has happened to 2010. As we move into the year’s penultimate month there is no time to reflect on what a great year it has been so far, as Clubland is as busy as ever. As always, this Clubland page will try to take the lid off what will be the best clubs and parties to attend across the city throughout November. I have picked out a variety of nights and clubs from different music genres to allow you to make a valued judgement on where you would like to hit the dance floor, to make sure you have the best night known to man. We will start with Miniclub (Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 111), a club that continues to develop an impressive programme of international guest DJs as well has having the best resident DJ in the city, Daniel Kyo. After a great October which saw DJs from all over Europe attending, as well as some of London’s finest underground house DJs over Halloween weekend, November looks just as impressive with line-ups of underground house and techno, including Matthew Dekay on the 6th and my personal highlight, Alexkid of Rekids and the Cadenza stable on 26th. With the club’s excellent sound system and up-for-it and knowledgeable crowd, this is a great intimate venue and party that really does offer the underground sound of Valencia. The November programme at Miniclub would not look out of place at any of the best underground clubs across Europe and with the club often bursting at the seams with people, the name ‘Mini’club may have to be addressed! www.myspace.com/miniclubvlc Excuse Me! (C/ dels Tomasos, 14) moved away from their home where Miniclub now resides and is now in Ruzafa in a sumptuous venue near to the market (which I would also recommend visiting!). The two rooms play a mix of indie, punk, soul, space disco, cosmic house, nu disco, Italo, groove electro and anything else that takes the DJs’ fancy. The club hosts some serious DJ talent with local boy Nacho Marco a resident at the venue. November has more guests than is really necessary, but this only makes things better for us clubbers. October saw the visit of Tim Sweeney from New York, who played one of the best disco and house sets I have witnessed in Valencia this year, so November needs to work hard to maintain the standard, but with London’s Pete Herbert and Dicky Trisco on the 20th and Baby G of Berlin on the 26th, I don’t think we need to worry about the standard dropping. http://www.myspace. com/excusemeclub

La Indiana (C/ San Vicente, 95) is one of the most well-known clubs in Valencia and has been for a number of years. After a fire caused the venue to shut and reopen complete with an equally impressive look as previously, La Indiana continues to attract the local and visiting masses alike. Based in the centre of town, the club has three rooms mixing up sounds from house to pop to funk to R&B. With a young and good looking crowd (including the staff!) passing through the venue from Thursday to Saturday, this venue is worth a stopover should you be visiting the city. www. laindiana.com Soul (@ Gandhara, C/Eugenia Viñes, 225 by Playa Malvarrosa) continues to dominate the R&B market in the city every Saturday. Soul head honcho DJ Cosy O is joined by international guests and residents playing hip-hop, R&B, dancehall, reggaeton and funky classics. This night has now firmly set itself back at Gandhara for the winter, after a successful summer at Rumbo. DJ Cosy O is joined by residents and guests throughout November as they rock the foundations of Gandhara and the international crowd that attend. www.facebook.com/soulvalencia For many, the Barrio del Carmen is the perfect place to hang out. You can kick off early with some great restaurants, take in a couple of bars and then be only a stone’s throw from some of the most exciting venues in the city. In an area all about the party with an array of clubs that are open seven nights a week, two of the best venues are Music Box (C/ Pintor Zariñena, 16) and Radio City (C/ Santa Teresa, 19). With resident and guest DJs plus live artists passing through both venues, you can hear an array of top music from Latin to flamenco, breaks to electro, funk and pop to indie. With such a high number of quality nights over the month ahead, it seems impossible to pick the highlights. However, I am going to make a particular mention of Bass City which runs every Wednesday at Radio City, providing Valencia with the often forgotten underground sounds of dubstep and drum & bass. Check out their sites where you can view the month’s line up for yourself! www.myspace.com/themusicboxclub & www. radiocityvalencia.com

can cram into a night’s worth of debauchery! It is open Fridays, Saturdays and Holiday Eve. With international DJs including London’s JoJo De Freq passing through on a regular basis, the programme is always exciting, creative and fun. November sees some of Spain’s premier DJs and artists head to Valencia with guests from Madrid and Barcelona placed perfectly alongside local talent and international stars like Circo Loco resident, Andrew Grant. http://www.la3club. com/ In the Mercado de Campanar by the Río Turia is Laydown (C/ Tirso de Molina, 16) and it does what it says! Well, for some of the night, anyway. This venue is fully equipped with beds that welcome you to relax, eat and drink through the evening. Relatively commercial at weekends, this venue is for those of us who like quality drinks and food in great surroundings, listening to excellent music and where the view of those also in attendance is definitely not too shabby! www. laydownvalencia.es I would have no concerns writing another three pages of information on the massive number of nights going on in the city and it seems a little unfair to be leaving out a number of venues and parties who will be adding to the vibrant scene, so get stuck into the 24/7 Valencia listings to see what else is happening in our fair city. If you have picked up this nationally and internationally recommended magazine in a bar, get chatting to the staff and patrons for their local knowledge. Fold Out Top 3 Nights for November – 1. Alexkid – Miniclub, Friday 26 November 2. Pete Herbert and Dicky Trisco – Excuse Me!, Saturday 20 November 3. Bass City – Radio City, every Wednesday

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LA3 (C/ Padre Porta, 2) reopened in October after the usual summer break. You’ll find it in a side street, just off Avenida del Puerto. It is barely eight minutes by taxi from the centre and is open all night until 7.30h! The club offers an infectious mix of music that seems to mould together so well over the three rooms of nu disco, indie-electronica, electroclash plus live performances, underground beats, showcases and just about anything else they © 24/7 Valencia 2010

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MILES RODDIS Tell us a bit about your background Well, I originally come from Sheffield, in the north of England. After uni and VSO in Laos, I spent 25 years with the British Council, living mainly in the Muslim world: Peshawar, at the base of the Khyber Pass and so much in the news these days, five years working in TV and directing the British Council’s Language Centre in Cairo, Isfahan in Iran, Khartoum (far and away the toughest of all) and Jordan. What brought to you Valencia? It was that selfsame British Council, more often known here in Spain as the Instituto Británico. I came here to direct the centre in the late 1980s. Ingrid, my wife, and I so enjoyed the city that we bought ourselves a scruffy little apartment in the Barrio del Carmen. More than 25 years on and now renovated, it’s still our home. Has Valencia changed much? Enormously. When I heard I was being posted here, I had to look up Valencia in an atlas. Nowadays, what with budget airlines and short break holidays, megaprojects such as the City of Arts & Sciences, the America’s Cup and Formula 1 (and let’s not overlook the achievements of Valencia

Club de Fútbol), the city’s firmly on the map of Europe. It’s also changed a lot in attitude. There’s still that envious glance towards Madrid and a certain paranoia towards Catalonia but much of the old inferiority complex has been shrugged off. Nowadays, Valencia stands proud and, for the most part, content to be Spain’s third city.

an anthology that came out last year. But you grow weary of bouncing around in mammy wagons and opentop, open-sided buses. So nowadays I write about softer Mediterranean lands – country and regional guides to Spain, Italy and France with a tonic of cold Nordic air every three years as I research Norway’s far north. Do you have a new book out soon?

The city has also morphed so much physically. The suburbs have been pushed outwards, gobbling up fertile huerta and new barrios have become fashionable. Despite the NIMBYness of our local Asociación de Vecinos, El Carmen retains its marcha and it’s always a delight to stroll the streets of upcoming Ruzafa and the Eixample.

One comes out this month in a familiar but different form. Lonely Planet racks up huge sales from its guidebooks in translation. So my ‘Valencia Encounter’, already on the streets as ‘Valencia de Cerca’ in Spanish and the Italian ‘Valencia Incontri’ is joined this month by a French version, ‘Valence en Quelques Jours.’

Could you tell our readers about your work with Lonely Planet?

Next March, fresh editions of the Bible-thick guides to Spain (where I cover the Valencia region and Balearic Islands), and France (where I write about Languedoc-Roussillon) will be in the bookshops.

This year I racked up my 50th title for Lonely Planet. Most work is collaborative and you share a book with a team of two to five or six other authors – sometimes as many as 20 on a brick-thick guide such as ‘Europe on a Shoestring.’ My first gig was such a one – ‘Africa on a Shoestring.’ On my first research trip I covered tourist meccas such as Chad, Sudan, Djibouti and the Central African Republic. A piece I wrote about that last one earned me a chapter in ‘Best of Lonely Planet Travel Writing’,

And in May 2011, a new edition of Norway, the place that keeps me well glued to the laptop these days, will be out.

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Good evening and welcome to the month of November, readers, in which the days will be shorter, I may put my currently nonexistent blog into action (as mentioned in October) and I will stick to a strict diet of pineapple and chicken breasts (as separate dishes) because if I thought I ate complete and utter naughty, calorie-filled rubbish in Summer then nothing was to prepare me for this past month. I’m not saying I have got fat exactly but I could definitely do with eliminating a toxin or two and generally giving my body a little bit of TLC and a top-to-toe cleanse. I still haven’t got ValenBisi – don’t know what I’m waiting for, so don’t ask - but then they still haven’t finished putting the ones in near my work, so there’s not much point until I no longer have to ‘ride to work’ to have to walk for half an hour / get on public transport anyway. Entirely defeats the object. October has been another whirlwind, action-packed, fly-by-before-you-knowit month, wouldn’t you agree? I really wasn’t expecting any excitement at all, in fact I was looking forward to more evenings in and a little wind-down for a few weeks as I am going on holiday this coming week and wanted a little quiet time before I went, but to be honest, I really cannot remember when the last time I actually sat down on my sofa was. Scary stuff! Talking of scary, Halloween is obviously THE event of the social calendar for October and it was all anyone talked about for weeks. I absolutely love fancy dress Photo Mateo Sanchis. Article © 2010 24/7 Valencia

peoples’ plates out of their hands with on more than one occasion, which would have been an absolute disaster indeed.

so this particular holiday is right up my street, and I haven’t been to any carnivals at all this year so I was dying to put on a tutu / headdress / doctor’s coat/ veil, etc. I am signed up to tons of brilliant websites I utterly recommend to anyone who will listen that send an e-mail to your inbox with fantastic discounts and offers for the City you live in. Offerum, Citydeal and Groupon are just a few, and you can purchase anything from 70% off manicures and dinners for two for 20€ to dance lessons and whole hams, and most of the deals have value dates far, far off in the future. You can even give them away as gifts! All of the sites I subscribe to were offering spooky Halloween weekends away, and some friends and I decided to head off to a four star, full-board hotel with fancy dress party included for a ridiculously cheap price, and had an absolute blast. As was to be expected, the age range of the guests at the hotel was about 80 years, with young families and buses of OAPʼs eating side by side in the colossal, all-you-can-eat buffet hall, but the night of Halloween itself there were far more people of our age group and the embarrassment we dreaded going through over dinner in full-blown terrorific costumes did not manifest itself as every guest there was dressed up as ghouls, pumpkins, witches, zombies and more. I was the Angel of Death, wearing huge black feather wings which I very nearly knocked

After dinner we headed up to our rooms for some drinks and then back down to the party which was in full swing, though the most alarming moment of the night was perhaps when a creepy old man in a black cloak was sitting taking photographs of my girlfriends and I as we strutted our stuff on the dance floor. I suppose in our right minds we should have alerted security to the pervert (pervert alert, it rhymes!) but it didn’t really click til later that that might be what he was, and by that time we had moved onto the nearest nightclub. We were in a town not too far from here, but bearing in mind we are all city guys and gals, we knew we couldn’t expect much from the nightlife. We got to the club, in the middle of an industrial estate (I must stress it was the only place open) and thank goodness – got in free as we were in fancy dress! It’s all perks. Once inside, however, we began to wish we had been refused entry. Apart from the fact that there were literally maybe five women in the whole club, which was a little odd, and little Miss M. had run out of silly string and there is nothing more fun on Halloween, the music was variations on a ‘Remember the ‘90s techno hardcore trance’ theme. Not up our street. At all. We are normally quite the party animals, but I can assure you, we have never left a club so fast in our lives. We are just not cut out for anything less than David Guetta these days! Back at the hotel, N. and I sat down in the armchairs in the room, as all the others sat and chatted, and fell immediately asleep, tutus, glitter, wings, wands and all, and only just made it down for breakfast the next morning, the best meal of the package! The several bacon and egg butties I ate at 10 in the morning were just what the doctor ordered before a long stroll with my buddies along the avenues. If only every weekend was three days, I say!

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NOVEMBER N OVI EM B R E MONDAY / LUNES EL LOCO: Drag the River + Austin Lucas + Cory Branan (desde EEUU) 21.00h 7€ (anticipada) / 10€ (taquilla).

Nimri + Ratolines en concierto 22.30h 12€ / 15€ / La1: Elyella + Fono / Pi: Andrew Grant (desde EEUU) / La2: Colectivo Jaleo Real 1.00h. MUSIC BOX: Susana Blank + Jessie James 24.00h. PICCADILLY: 1DJ / 1Hora con Gomezkemp + Alternand + Play 4 You. SATURDAY / SÁBADO 6

JIMMY GLASS: Piano Solo/Dúo Sessions con Alberto Palau y Joan Soler (jazz) 22.15h – 24.00h 4€ consumición Aforo Limitado. MUSIC BOX: Paco Plaza 2.00h Gratis. RADIO CITY: Joni Amador, Juan Carlos, Ángel Moreno, Antonio el Jano y El Bareta (flamenco) 23.00h 7€ con consumición.

CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: Leo Molina, Yolanda López, Javier Calderón y Christian Sabalete (flamenco) 23.30h. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Jaixira (trio, jazz) 23.00h / 00.30h 8€. DURANGO R&R CLUB: Y & T 23.00h. EL LOCO: The Zombies 22.30h 19€ / 22€. 47 CLUB: Sergio Máñez 23.30h Gratis. LA3: Dorian + 2Pias DJs / Aitor.AP DJ / Hippster 1.00h. MUSIC BOX: Paco Paco DJs 1.00h. PICCADILLY: Cinnamon + Xharles Boina + Slash 1.00h. WAH-WAH: These New Puritans (indie) 21.30h 6€ / 9€.

WEDNESDAY / MIÉRCOLES 3

SUNDAY / DOMINGO 7

BLACK NOTE: Bill Toms (rock) 23.30h 8€. MUSIC BOX: DJ Maravillas 2.00h Gratis. RADIO CITY: Bass City (dubstep / drum & bass) 24.00h Gratis.

BLACK NOTE: Lucas Jiménez + Ivan Cervera (fusion) 20.00h 10€. OCTUBRE CENTRE: Carlos Gonzálbez Trio (jazz) 19.00h 7€. MONDAY / LUNES 8

THURSDAY / JUEVES 4

BLACK NOTE: Tonky Jam (Open Jam Session) 23.30h 5€.

TUESDAY / MARTES 2

BLACK NOTE: Sex & Rock & Roll + DJ Quique Lledó (rock) 23.30h Gratis. CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: María Lizana, Tomás de los Cariño, Quique Naval, Enrique Sevilla y Rober Molina (flamenco) 23.30h. DUB CLUB: Jazz Jam con Pere Munuera & Friends 22.00h Gratis. EL LOCO: The Inspector Cluzo (desde Francia) 22.30h 12€ (anticipada) / 15€ (taquilla). 47 CLUB: Electro Popnography con Xharles Bhoina 23.30h Gratis. MUSIC BOX: Fiesta de Presentación Concurso DJs / Steve DJ 23.00h Gratis. WAH-WAH: Triángulo de Amor Bizarro (indie rock) 21.30 10€ (anticipada) / 12€ (taquilla). FRIDAY / VIERNES 5 BLACK NOTE: Gene Taylor + Fabulosos Blueshakers + DJ Quique Lledó (blues desde EEUU) 23.30h Gratis. CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: José Serrano, Tonetti y Juan de Pilar (flamenco) 23.30h. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Jaixira (trio, jazz) 23.00h / 00.30h 8€. DUB CLUB: Circuito Café Teatro 23.00h 6€. EL LOCO: Kurt Baker & Radio Days + Onepercentres 22.00h 10€ / 13€. JUANITA: DJ Mandievus 23.30h Gratis. LA EDAD DE ORO: Centelles 23.00h 5€. LA3: Najwa

TUESDAY / MARTES 9 BLACK NOTE: Dos Animales (rock) 23.30h Gratis. EL LOCO: Jonah Smith 22.30h 10€. JIMMY GLASS: Melissa Aldana Trio (jazz) 21.30h 10€ Aforo Limitado. RADIO CITY: Leo Molina, Juanma Maya, José Antonio y Chicho (flamenco) 23.00h 7€ con consumición WEDNESDAY / MIÉRCOLES 10 DUB CLUB: Cabina Abierta 21.30h Gratis. MUSIC BOX: Xino DJ + Pinball 2.00h Gratis. RADIO CITY: Bass City (dubstep / drum & bass) 24.00h Gratis. THURSDAY / JUEVES 11 CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: Esther Garcés, Tonetti y Manuel Heredia (flamenco) 23.30h. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Remigi Palmero + Amanda Peiot 22.00h (cantauor) 9€. 47 CLUB: Fono 23.30h Gratis. MUSIC BOX: Concurso DJs / Ion Din Anina 23.00h Gratis. WAH-WAH: Bellrays + Jesse Malin & St. Marks Social 20.30h 18€ / 22€.

FRIDAY / VIERNES 12 BLACK NOTE: The Oldians (ska) 23.30h 8€. CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: Lucila Duarte, David Muñiz, Juan de Pilar y El Piraña (flamenco) 23.30h. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: So Cubano (quartet, música cubana) 23.00h / 00.30h 8€. DUB CLUB: Circuito Café Teatro 23.00h 6€ / DJ Furry Gratis. 47 CLUB: Miss Yuls 23.30h Gratis. JUANITA: Soul B 23.30h Gratis. LA3: Zombie Kids / Victor Fos + Pablo Cebrián / Strap Party 1.00h. MIRROR: Imelda May (desde UK) + Cat Club 20.30h 20€ / 23€. MUSIC BOX: Depeche Mode Night 24.00h. OCTUBRE CENTRE: Lawrence English (experimental desde Australia) 22.30h 5€. PICCADILLY: Kaspar & Hoser vs. Cat’n Crocker 1.00h. WAH-WAH: The Cabriolets + Modelo De Respuesta Polar (indie pop) 22.30h 8€ /10€. SATURDAY / SÁBADO 13 CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: Isabel Julve, Manuel Reyes y Manuel Quintero (flamenco) 23.30h. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Pau Viguer Trio (jazz) 23.00h / 00.30h 8€. DUB CLUB: Jah Macetas en concierto (reggae) 22.30h 5€ + Pon Top Sound. 47 CLUB: Pablo Cebrián 23.30h Gratis. JUANITA: Rocksteady Beatz 23.30h Gratis. LA EDAD DE ORO: Los Bolidos 23.00h 5€. PICCADILLY: LeyDJ + Barbra + Slash PD 1.00h. SUNDAY / DOMINGO 14 BLACK NOTE: Rockin’ Rumble with Nu Niles + Nick Curran and the Lowlifes 21.00h 15€. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Ruzafa Ensemble (pequeña big band) 19.00h 8€ / Jam session (vocal y instrumental) 20.30h Gratis. EL LOCO: Bad Plus (jazz) 20.00h 15€. OCTUBRE CENTRE: Gorka Benítez + David Xirgu (jazz) 19.00h 7€. MONDAY / LUNES 15 BLACK NOTE: Tonky Jam (Open Jam Session) 23.30h 5€. TUESDAY / MARTES 16 JIMMY GLASS: Jorge Pardo & Albert Sanz Duo (jazz) 21.30h 10€ Aforo Limitado. MUSIC BOX: Paco Plaza 2.00h Gratis. RADIO CITY: Joni Amador, Juan Carlos, Antonio el Jano y Dani de Francisco (flamenco) 23.00h 7€ con consumición.

twentyfoursevenvalencia 47 BLACK NOTE: Metralleta Kelly (funk) 23.30h Gratis. MUSIC BOX: DJ Maravillas 2.00h Gratis. RADIO CITY: Bass City (dubstep / drum & bass) 24.00h Gratis. THURSDAY / JUEVES 18 BLACK NOTE: Sex & Rock & Roll + DJ Quique Lledó (rock) 23.30h Gratis. CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: Kallardó (flamenco) 23.30h. DUB CLUB: Jazz Jam con Pere Munuera & Friends 22.00h Gratis. 47 CLUB: Electro Popnography con Xharles Bhoina 23.30h Gratis. OCTUBRE CENTRE: Ratolines (pop) 22.30h 5€. FRIDAY / VIERNES 19 CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: Manuel Serena, Amaro Carmona, Manuel Reyes y Manuel Quintero (flamenco) 23.30h. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Big Hollers (rhythm & blues) 23.00h / 00.30h 8€. JUANITA: Soul B + DJ Angel + Big Flora 23.30h Gratis. LA EDAD DE ORO: Bastard Cousins Band 23.00h 5€. MUSIC BOX: Ion Din Anina + Gypsy Box + Balkan Hotsteppers 24.00h. PICCADILLY: Rey Lagarto + SIRA 1.00h. SATURDAY / SÁBADO 20

TUESDAY / MARTES 23 JIMMY GLASS: Evariste Pérez Quartet con Ohad Talmor (jazz) 21.30h 12€ Aforo Limitado. RADIO CITY: Tomás González, Juan de Pilar, Kike Sevilla y María Linzana (flamenco) 23.00h 7€ con consumición.

Kostrok DJs Lurbe + Hosen + Mustache Me / Marina DJ + Pablo Cebrián 1.00h. MIRROR: Love of Lesbian 21.00h 20€ / 23€. MUSIC BOX: DJs Invitados? 24.00h. WAH-WAH: Second Coming + Top Models + La Gran Alianza + DJ Jesús Ordovás (pop rock) 22.00h 10€.

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DUB CLUB: Cabina Abierta 21.30h Gratis. MUSIC BOX: DJ Maravillas 2.00h Gratis. RADIO CITY: Bass City (dubstep / drum & bass) 24.00h Gratis.

BLACK NOTE: Thais Morell (bossa desde Brazil) 20.00h 10€ con cerveza. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Ruzafa Ensemble (pequeña big band) 19.00h 8€ / Jam session (vocal y instrumental) 20.30h Gratis. EL LOCO: Manolo Tarancón + Los Perros del Boogie 20.00h 6€.

THURSDAY / JUEVES 25 CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: Marisa Pérez, Juanma Maya y José A. de Torres (flamenco) 23.30h. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Irene Aranda Trio (jazz) 22.30h / 24.00h 8€. DURANGO R&R CLUB: Electric Six + Anyone 23.00h. LA EDAD DE ORO: Robitango + María de Plata 23.00h 5€. MUSIC BOX: Concurso DJs / Bava Party 23.00h Gratis. SLAUGHTERHOUSE: Folk-Jazz-Arabe 20.00h 3€ (Aforo limitado) 24/7 Valencia Fiesta 10º Aniversario. FRIDAY / VIERNES 26

CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Nasty Boogie (blues / rhythm & blues) 23.00h / 00.30h 8€. DUB CLUB: Fiesta Tacones Rumberos con To the Kada Ualaseua en concierto (flamencoreggae-Latin) 21.00h + DJ Vulva & Cinnamon DJ 5€. EL LOCO: Abbey Road (tributo a Beatles) 22.30h 15€ / 18€. 47 CLUB: Parrusian Bells DJs 23.30h Gratis. JUANITA: Bad Foundation + Jahsanti Selector 23.30h Gratis. LA3: Cycle DJs + Cumple Fono / La Lupa Records / Las Fem Fatale DJs 1.00h. LA EDAD DE ORO: The Beerbellys23.00h 5€. MUSIC BOX: Steve DJ + Miss Yuls 24.00h. RAZZMATAZZ: BARCELONA / PRIMAL SCREAM ‘SCREAMADELICA LIVE’ 20.00H ENTRADA 35€. WAH-WAH: Fiesta 10th Anniversary L.A. (pop-rock) 22.30h 16€.

BLACK NOTE: Groove Project (funk) 23.30h Gratis. CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: Marta Sol, Tomás de los Cariño, Javier Zamora, Óscar de Manuel y Manuel Quintero (flamenco) 23.30h. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Chuck Loeb & Carmen Cuesta (jazz fusion) 23.00h / 00.30h 10€. DUB CLUB: Circuito Café Teatro 23.00h 6€ / Rocksteady Beatz Gratis. EL LOCO: Osaka Monaurail (funk) 22.30h 15€. 47 CLUB: Groovekey 23.30h Gratis. JUANITA: Sputnik DJ 23.30h Gratis. LA EDAD DE ORO: Go Freaks 23.00h 5€. LA3: Obtuso + Chicks on Speed DJ set / Nuria Ghia & Sergio Máñez / DJ Soak + Scratch & Set DJ 1.00h. PICCADILLY: Maricon DJ y su Comando G + Slash PD 1.00h. WAH-WAH: Julio de la Rosa + Ctrl Alt Supr (pop rock) 22.30h 10€ /12€.

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SATURDAY / SÁBADO 27

BLACK NOTE: Marco Requena & Luis Vargas (flamenco) 20.00h 10€.CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Néstor Mont (cantautor) 19.00h 8€ / Jam session (instrumental y vocal) 20.30h Gratis. OCTUBRE CENTRE: Yei Yi & Co (quintet, jazz) 19.00h 7€.

CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: Celia Romero, El Chino, Aroa Maya, Juan de Pilar (flamenco) 23.30h. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Chuck Loeb & Carmen Cuesta (jazz fusion) 23.00h / 00.30h 10€. DUB CLUB: Gregtown en concierto (reggae) 22.30h 7€ con cerveza. EL LOCO: Festur 2010 (pop rock valenciano ‘80s) 19.00h 7€ / 10€. 47 CLUB: Fono 23.30h Gratis. JUANITA: Beatgordis 23.30h Gratis. LA3: We Are Standard + Scorsese en concierto 22.30h 12€ / 15€ / Void Camp live +

MONDAY / LUNES 22 BLACK NOTE: Tonky Jam (Open Jam Session) 23.30h 5€.

MONDAY / LUNES 29 EL LOCO: Steve Wynn & Miracle 3 (indie de EEUU) + Situations 21.00h 15€ / 18€. TUESDAY / MARTES 30 BLACK NOTE: Dos Animales (rock) 23.30h Gratis. JIMMY GLASS: Bill McHenry Quartet (jazz) 21.30h 10€ Aforo Limitado. MUSIC BOX: Paco Plaza 2.00h Gratis. RADIO CITY: Kallardó con Rafael Vargas ‘El Chino’, Miguel Pérez, Pepe Pérez y Dani de Francisco (flamenco) 23.00h 7€ con consumición.

DECEMBER DICIEMBRE WEDNESDAY / MIÉRCOLES 1 DECEMBER /DICIEMBRE EL LOCO: Teenage Fanclub (desde UK) 22.00h 24€. RADIO CITY: Bass City (dubstep / drum & bass) 24.00h Gratis. THURSDAY / JUEVES 2 MIRROR: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan (indie desde EEUU) 20.30h 24€ / 30€. FRIDAY / VIERNES 3 EL LOCO: Josh Rouse + DJ Juan Vitoria 22.00h Aforo Limitado (200 personas). SATURDAY / SÁBADO 4 EL LOCO: Josh Rouse + DJ Juan Vitoria 22.00h Aforo limitado (200 personas).

ARROCES, MARISCO FRESCO, CARNES, PESCADOS Y TAPAS El local dispone de sala no fumadores y amplia terraza. Una oferta inmejorable para organizar cenas y comidas de empresa, eventos, despedidas y mucho mĂĄs. Abierto todos los dĂas. Cerca de la Plaza del Ayuntamiento. RICE DISHES, FRESH SEAFOOD, MEAT DISHES, FISH DISHES AND TAPAS. The restaurant has a no-smoking area and an ample terrace. A wonderful place to organise lunches and dinners for groups, families, businesses, events and more. Open everyday. Very near Plaza del Ayuntamiento.

c/ Martinez Cubells, 4 - 46002 Valencia - tel. 963 427 780 www.carpediem-vlc.com

Quality Mediterranean restaurant in an emblematic square in the historic centre. Recommended in the Michelin guide 2009/2010 Meat dishes, Rice dishes, Fish dishes, Foie and chocolate desserts are all specialities Expect to pay between 30-50 euros Warm interior and good service Jazz music soundtrack 13.00h -16.00h/ 20.00h -24.00h Open everyday