Bon Aire, Rice restaurant in El Palmar, Valencia, Spain
Bon Aire is a rice restaurant in El Palmar, a village in the Albufera area of Valencia. It serves dishes such as Valencian paella with chicken, rabbit and artichokes, and rice with seafood, using local ingredients and rice with a Valencia designation of origin.
Francisco Roig and his wife María Romero founded Bon Aire in 1981, starting from a plot of land and building the restaurant with their own hands. Later, their daughter Rosa and son-in-law Raúl Magraner took over, and in 2018 the restaurant won the international paella contest in Sueca.
At Bon Aire, rice is the center of the meal, and the kitchen follows the local tradition of cooking it to order. Many families from El Palmar and Valencia come here for Sunday lunches and celebrations, and the dining room fills with the sound of conversation and the smell of saffron and broth.
The restaurant is in the center of El Palmar, and you can get there by car or by bus. It is a good idea to book ahead and order your rice when you reserve, so you spend less time waiting at the table.
The founder, known as El Tío Paco, worked for years as a fisherman and farmer in the Albufera before opening the restaurant, and he passed on his knowledge of the land and the lake to the kitchen. Even today, the rice dishes are still prepared with the same care for local products and traditional recipes.
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