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Location: C/ del Comte d’Almodóvar, 1, Ciutat Vella, 46003
Venue Type: Cocktail Bar / Café Bar / Weird & Wonderful
Year of Inscription: 2024
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| EBG Rating: | 8.5/10 |
| Choice/ Quality of Drinks | ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Broad menu of drinks options with beer selection the only real shortcoming, however ably compensated by alternatives. |
| Style/ Décor | ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Baroque, Moorish, hints of the Belle Époque and a dollop of good old kitsch. A one room café with plush reds and blues, café furniture and portraiture on the walls. A terrace too, if for some reason you want to forgo all that. |
| Atmosphere/ Character | ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ A place with an excitable feel owing to the novelty factor and, at night, the feeling of grabbing a table inside. It morphs over the day from café to evening bar, but really comes alive later at night as the sense of the outdoors reduces, and the feeling that this is the only place in the world increases. |
| Amenities/ Events | ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Food, snacks, outdoor seating, takeaway options, occasional themed events |
| Value For Money | ❤️❤️ City centre prices, but not extortionate. |
| Description | Along with Casa Montana, Café de las Horas is a bar famous not only in Valencia but more widely over Spain and Europe. Hugely distinctive, its baroque interior with lavish decoration and furnishings of rich blues + reds, with Moorish style star-studded ceiling is an eye catching ensemble that tells of a venue working much, more harder than average to provide something out of the ordinary. In Spanish society, where bars are largely regarded as an aluminium counter and some canteen furniture, especially. While de las Horas takes inspiration from history, it is only a middle-aged venue, established more than thirty years ago, inspired by the idea of literary café bars, (which Valencia didn’t have an abundance of), making its reputation in the present rather than the past. Famous for its pitchers of the citric and lethal Agua de Valencia, there is a broad versatile menu covering everything from breakfast needs to late night cocktails. It opens at 10am and shuts at 1:30am, giving the place a sense of permanence and ubiquity. Yes, as years go by this place will be obvious, passé even to some, but unless Valencia expands its bar range to put it in the shade, you’ll be hearing more and more about it. (Added July 2024) |
