TOP restaurants you must visit in Costa del Sol

When you arrive in Marbella you can experience a significant amount of new sensations. The heat of the sun, the fresh air of the sea, the smell of its sea waves, and the glamor of its luxury villas. And the best restaurants in Costa del Sol!

A perfect weather favors all these feelings. But this land has a lot more to offer that complements this idyllic environment: a fresh and creative cuisine that will match the taste of the most demanding.

Here it’s a list of the best restaurants in the zone to fully live Marbella’s dream life. Grab your fork and knife and let’s start!

 

Casanis Bistrot

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This Mediterranean bistro has French and Belgian kitchen influences. Casanis Bistrot offers a creative cuisine resulting from Guy Sirre’s travels in search of flavors, aromas, and textures. Together with the chef in charge, Fabián Cangas, it completes a mix that brings the visitor to taste an exquisite cuisine. They run one of the most representative restaurants in Costa del Sol.

Chef Fabián Cangas is from Mendoza, Argentina, but he has also lived and worked in Buenos Aires, New York, and Sydney. His passion for cooking goes by using seasonal products and implementing them into traditional recipes. Due to this, Casanis Bistrot gets new ideas every season.

For him, details make the difference and that means, plus other things, cultivating their own garden in order to offer the highest quality, avoiding pesticides and other harmful chemicals. Leading to a fresh taste.

Located in Marbella old town and it opens every night for dinner. So you can book a table to have a placid time in one of its several spaces with different ambiances: main room, inner patio, and terrace. But also, you can access the other two rooms and their wine cellar under request. These options open the possibilities to enjoy alone, in couples or in groups.

 

La Plage Casanis

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La Plage Casanis brings you on a tropical trip to the beautiful beaches of Marbella. This modern restaurant is itself at Playa Real de Zaragoza and it has 200 hammocks facing the sea in summer, the paradise on Earth.

With two scenes, terrace and inside the restaurant, it offers organic food with no more additives than heat in its wood grill and an elaborate wine list. 

Famous for its taste and incomparable atmosphere, it also offers a cocktails area with a bartender whose performance enlivens any party. Perfect to live a new experience under Marbella sunrise.

And, if you prefer, book a sunbed and spend the day kissed by the Sun anytime Monday to Sunday.

 

Leña Marbella

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From the famous chef Dani García this is a place where licking your fingers is allowed.  Vegetables, chargrilled dishes, pinchos, and all delicatessen you can taste for a flame-grill experience. This restaurant is proud to go a step further than its clients’ expectations. 

Clean work with the best produce and a respectful way to prepare all its menus. All this is seasoned by the cosmopolitan experience of a chef that has got 3 Michelin stars and has traveled all over the world.

One of the prettiest restaurants in the world, awarded at the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards 2021 ceremony. The stone and wood decoration makes the atmosphere a branch of sensations that brings the guest to their most primary self.

Book your table in Leña Marbella Monday to Sunday and make this experience yours.

 

El Patio

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Part of Marbella Club, El Patio is a place you would want to visit at least once in your life. It’s a very unique restaurant considered by its owners as a magical sanctuary where its guests can appreciate the smell of jasmine.

El Patio is an all-day dining in our convivial courtyard, so it becomes the perfect place to relax on your own, drinking a coffee and enjoying your time with a good book, or to meet friends for lunch or even drink some cocktails in the purest Marbella style. Travel with your senses to a stress free corner of the world while tasting typical Mediterranean cuisine.

Visit this jewel Monday to Saturday from 12 PM.

 

Back

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A tapas kitchen jumps into our list of restaurants you need to visit in Marbella. With an urban style, it makes a difference from any other place in the city. Its soul, more casual and light-hearted, brings a new light to the hearth of Marbella. 

The perfect combination of kitchen, room, and a dedicated wine cellar full of Andalusian wines of the best qualities. Managed by chef David Olivas and sommelier and head of the room Fabián Villar, Back became a gastronomic reference in Andalusia and has been awarded as the best creative cuisine restaurant in 2020. 

Open Tuesday to Saturday, don’t lose the opportunity to feel the iconic atmosphere of Back.

 

Los Marinos José

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Leaving Marbella we have a short drive to Fuengirola to visit one of the best-specialized restaurants on fresh fish and seafood. Los Marinos José has a great selection of alive seafood, probably one of the best restaurants in Costa del Sol. The products are exposed so they demonstrate their high quality. 

José Sánchez, together with his family, has run this traditional restaurant for more than 30 years. And they found a way to get the freshest seafood: they go fishing by themselves with their own boat!

As a highlight, there is a great selection of high quality wines, proper to become the perfect combination with the sea products Los Marinos José offers.

In front of the Fuengirola promenade, the sea views over its tables while tasting delicious dishes is a pleasure. Go to Fuengirola beach and don’t lose the chance to try the freshest seafood and fish from Tuesday to Saturday.

Have you enjoyed reading about them? It’s time to try these restaurants by yourself.

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