Hy very interesting streets this neighborhood of the Petxina that rubs with the channel of Turia between the Gran Vía and Avenida Pérez Galdós. Cultural and leisure projects as interesting as the Teatret de la Caixeta sprout in the area, THE CONCERT ROOM EL LOCAL CLUB, the Sports and Cultural Center The Petxina or the Mythical Akuarella by Juan Llorens, Pub that closed at the beginning of the year after three decades active because of the catastrophic economic situation derived from pandemic. The street at hand this month is named after a religious born in Xàtiva, Alfonso de Borja, that arrived at the cusp of the Catholic Church in the year 1455 by becoming the number number 209 Under the name of Calixto III. Chance has planted the Jesús and Maria Catholic College in the first apple of the street, But since we don't like to pray, And a lot of eating, We start our tour asking Javi some chipirones in the Doré cafeteria, The specialty of the house. Today we put our boots with a breakfast at home and a good assortment of Argentine empanadas, We buy true crafts made with leather (since we will not have Fira Alternative this year in the riverbed) And we stop to take a chato of wine in one of the most charming warehouses and movement of Valencia. Let's go!
Sugar Home Bakery & Party Studio
— Gran Via Ferran the Catholic, 35
The smell of sugar invades you as soon as you cross Sugar Home Bakery threshold & Party Studio. This creative pastry corner touched with details of pastel turquoise is the refuge of many mothers who take their children to extracurricular (Next to it is the School Jesus and Mary and very close Escolapias) And they wait for their sweaty children by snacking a whim with something sweet, They have a lot and very good to choose from: cookies, muffins, Content de Limon, cheesecake, caramel cookies, chocolate cake with mousse of Nutella… Ana and Gisela, Mother and daughter, Bake all this for five years in the workshop from behind, where they also prepare fondant cakes decorated to taste and sweet pastry tables and chucheías for events, and breakfast gourmet at home to surprise someone special morning.
13 Repulgues
— Gran Via Ferran the Catholic, 35
This Argentine empanadas store is the daughter of the pandemic. We explain ourselves. Facundo is an Argentine backpack, of missions, who renounced a fixed job in Australia to come to Valencia, The Australian offer was tempting but still knew Europe (Beyond Italy) and could more like the desire to continue touring the world. So, By life carambolas, It ended in Valencia, Working at the Los Picapiedra Bar of El Carmen. The idea was to keep its way after a while, Towards Denmark, But that dystopian virus arrived that has had us locked at home with the borders between sealed countries and had no choice but to stop, confined between four walls with his brother Francisco, to the one who cooking Argentine empanadas. Y… ¡Oh, surprise, They were good, even more than moms! They made an old Chinese cake store and opened the business with small savings take away 13 Repulgases in August 2020 offering Neapolitan pizzas, Milanesas and a good assortment of Creole empanadas made with all Argentine knowledge and a lot of creativity. They have the classic ham and cheese (Hours), and the argenta of veal meat, olives, egg, onion, Red pepper and spices - that traditionally fought in pella fat (vaccine)—, But they have innovated with that of entrails roasted with Chimichurri and egg (Roast), The roasted pumpkin cream with beicon and caramelized onion (13 repulgues), or the Valencian, made with leek cream and shredded prawns. By the way, repulgies are the folds that close the empanadas and it is said that the ideal is that they have thirteen, Hence the name of the business. Stop and discover the taste that these thirteen repuls hide.
Silence
— Calixto 3, 15
Taconcete is not a simple shoe and duplicate repair store, that also. and be careful, For a whopping 32 years. In this corner of Calixto III Street, the leather is also worked to prepare all types of custom accessories by order. Tired and frustrated by the little crafts that they saw in the craft fairs in the area in which they have participated (The thing has noses ...), They decided to throw the anchor and sell their art only from their Calixto III barracks. In the input showcases some examples of what they can do rest: Bracelets of different fur, A walled wal, easily, They can dedicate five days of work. When we visited the store-workshop were involved in the printing of an African motif in a leather bag, custom made. The possibilities are infinite, They also fit all kinds of fricates. Do you want your name in the belt with the letters of the Lord of the Rings? Made.
Valero Winery
— Palleter, 54
The Valero winery, Only her, It is enough claim to visit the area. For its history, for its decoration, for your food, For its clientele and for their concerts, When there were. When they left us. From 1987, two brothers, Antonio and Javier, They run between barrels this old cellar converted into bar, Looking sideways at his mother, That he sits at the long table every morning and talks with the clientele. Here it is mandatory to ask for fried morro, one of its specialties, and Falafel, The best of the Valencian Community, they say. But there are many other tapas deployed in the bar, in the traditional way, And they also prepare snacks and homemade food plates every day from Monday to Saturday. You can enjoy a good ration of Paella, noodle, Oven rice, Gazpacho Manchego The Ternera tail by 8-10 euros. The clientele is varied, But many musicians visit Bodega Valero for their musical atmosphere (blues, jazz y rock) and for the many acoustic concerts that have been held here over the years. Small photos framed for several walls of the premises remembering the most memorable bowling, You will find, among many others, To Tonino Gaitán (former program reporter Whoever falls falls) singing a good ranchera. Those who have heard it say that the broken voice of Chavela Vargas imitates great. You can spend hours curious in the corners, Between Elvis posters, Morrisey y Led Zeppelin, An antigas mask, Ancient radios and accordions, and old coffee grinders. Before leaving we look at a cover framed by the Turia billboard of 1987 announcing the premiere of the play ¡Ay, Carmela!, The one we could see last month at the Teatre Micalet with the same actors who performed it does 24 years, Pilar Almería and Josep Manel Casany, clients and good friends of the winery.
Carto-Art
— Palleter, 40
You have to deviate a little from Calixto III, But we have not been able to avoid the visit to this recycled cardboard box store called Carto-Art. The factory was founded by Álvaro's father in 1931 And he converted it to it in store-workshop in 1992. From the outside you will see two old machines for the manufacture of boxes, of those who worked to pedal, and a good assorted of boxes with all kinds of tasks, To save junk in the closet, To wrap a special gift, With drawers, To "bind" race final projects, with drop -down side to show models, jewelry type to save the fallera arrangements and the bun underneath ... bring the measures, Choose the form, Decide the print and take a box to save the most precious treasure in it (o Ball -made socks). Bonita, it will be.
Umami
— Calixto 3, 17
Dulce, salado, acid, Bitter and Umami, One of the five flavors that our palate can perceive, The most difficult to describe, The most sophisticated. And the one that gives name to this restaurant led for five years by Miguel, A Valencian chef with titration. In your kitchen you will not find a fryer, Because here what commands is healthy food, Market and Kilometer zero cooking in the baked, steamed or low temperature, With good broths and extra virgin olive oil. Of umami salts smelling you, No to fritanga, And without a trace of acidity in the stomach after tasting the menu of the day for a very affordable price: thirteen euros, Drink part. First, For example, A Green Leave Salad with Beicon, mushrooms, corn, blueberries, Fresh cheese and red fruits vinaigrette; and second, Bobby Jew with fried tomato sauce, SHE, Egg and Egg Cooking at low temperature. All watered with a good Valencian wine (The friars, the house), And to end, A good Cremaet Made the Licor of Ron Valencian La Caña. Miguel is a gastronomy professional and lives this world with passion, Hence its frustration in the absence of generalized gastronomic culture of people who do not see beyond Breakfast caloric or hamburgers, But he doesn't know what an artichoke and renie of fish is. The same is still that they have not tried a well -cooked fillet rodaballo as the one they prepare in Umami.
Granujas
— Calixto 3, 18
Granujas is the temple of porting in Valencia. Not a cart will see in this sustainable breeding store that Sara and Adriano have been with care for three years (online, a lot more). Here you will find bandits and backpacks with regulatory rings to take small skin with skin, Fulls designed to carry newborns, coats and covers. Of all types and prints. They also rent portabebés if you need them for a trip, An excursion, a specific moment or, simply, Because you don't know how to decide, and offer ergonomic porting advice. They also sell swimsuits, Baberos, the Tot, Reusable or biodegradable cloth diapers, breeding books, bottles, Files and wood or silicone toys. Here nothing, NOTHING, It is plastic, At least not oil derived plastic. The bioplastic made of plant products such as corn or potato starch is welcome. If you are a person concerned about ecology and sustainability, also for parenting, Granujas is your store in Valencia.
Gastromantic
— Calixto 3, 19
Ten years have already open this simple and charming place where Silvia prepares homemade food with a fun touch. How he likes to innovate, Every week the proposals of your menu vary, But we will always find rice and fideuàs at noon, In addition to delicious vegetarian and vegan options: cauliflower fritters with carrot and curry cream, Bulgur Tabulé with feta cheese, Nuts and Lima Oil… The nights in your inner courtyard are special, And more if we dress them with the croquettes of Gorgonzola, rice, Nuts and tomato jam, Curry chicken or squid in its ink, or with some cod bumps in tempura with Esgarraet and there oli gratin, With their cocas or baos, or some of their home desserts.
FORN PASTISSTERIA TONET I ROSETA
— Calixto 3, 23
Tonet Father launched the Tonet Pastry Forn some thirty years ago, But this Calixt III venue is a workshop since the beginning of the Civil War, Five families of bakers have gone through here. The first, it tells us, served the bread to the barracks of the Civil Guard of Arrancapins when everything was field. Tonet was butcher, had a sausage company in Meliana with other partners but decided to get out of the business and raise an oven. Without having any knowledge or experience with flour! A friend baker taught him the basics of the craft and he, valent, He went ahead. Today it is their children who sail an oven with a workshop in the pantry where all elaborations are made absolutely. For pipe and brownles donut (laxative), the cakes (also without sugar, but only by order), the cake of anus and raisins, and many types of breads made with a lot of poulfish so that the dough ferment as before, lime, slowly. Tonet says that "bread does not want races", That's why they run them. You will find gluten -free buckwheat breads for celiac, of olive and anus 100% integral, of spelled, Galician and bregaos with the crumb very tight. All craftsmen! But if what you beaten is a sweet bite to stay with the degain, A very typical sweet of here made with the dough of the croissant and anous. You will return and return to him!
Charlie Brownie
— Calixto 3, 35
¿Brownie? The name is explained why Charlie Brownie was a cafeteria before, who mutated in restaurant keeping, of course, he brownie Chocolate with vanilla ice cream in your dessert letter, Next to the cheese cake with coulis of red fruits or dulce de leche or the cinnamon brioche bread torrijas and merengada milk ice cream. In his kitchen a Colombian coexist, a Spanish and an Italian, What gives an idea of fusion Mediterráneodetodo that can leave the stoves. You can start with a rice taco and cassava with pulled pork, avocado emulsion, Gallo peak and hummus of beans, A cassava croqueton stuffed with confited duck and apple, or some veal and chicken arepas, and end a rice, That never is missing.
