Canyamel - Valencia

Our local friend recommended us this place for its great paella. Indeed the paella was very tasty, simply exceptional. The waiter was also very nice.

We went to this place mostly because all the other restaurants were closed. The only positive thing about this place is a big parking lot. About the food we ordered patatas bravas and mejillones as starters, then vegetable and seafood paella. Mejillones were decent, although many of the shells were empty. Patatas bravas were okay, but instead of that nice, slightly spicy sauce they used regular ketchup. And for the paellas the seafood one didn’t taste too bad (I guess that’s a win at this restaurant), but they literally put 4 shrimps on top and that’s all. The vegetable paella was absolutely terrible. It was greasy, they probably didn’t use salt at all and the rice was undercooked. We ate like 1/4 of it and couldn’t eat more. When we complained to the waitress, her argument was that ‘yeah she doesn’t like vegetables’. We didn’t want a refund or anything, a simple sorry would be enough. Save your time and money and don’t go to this place.

We stopped by for lunch, mostly because parking here was easy, which can't be said for all of El Palmar. We had a combined paella, which we enjoyed even if it was a bit on the fat side. I guess you could say both the food and the experience as a whole was average.

Restaurant with very good price/quality ratio. We ate a salad from the house, a sepia and then a vegetable paella. with beers rations of alioli bread and a dessert lemon ice cream. all euros. We were spared half the paella that prepared us to carry on two tapers. the attention of the waitress, claudia, excellent. we ate on the terrace, in the sun. a delight.

Fantastic paella, period. Very reasonably priced, friendly staff. Very easy to get to in Palmar. GPS takes you with no problems. From Valencia, about 20 min, watch out that you will go through a few single lane bridges.