Many are the years that loads Dénia street behind them, A Way born in the shelter of Russafa Street, and dies on the wall of the busy and chillona train station. Children who are now not so children remember how the balls sneaked after that wall and had to jump it to recover them. These were times to play together on the street, to run in front of the dairy doors and the bulk oil store, greet the tasca the garlic that did not close either day or night, enter an ideal cinema where one could watch two films for three pesetas, Buy in the Pollería, Do not lose sight of wrestling forces (The acquaintances catch) who trained in the gym and replenished forces later at the Los Navarros Bar, or dream in a small theater where some lucky ones could see Blasco Ibáñez act. The street of cobblestones where the neighbors had dinner in Corrillo has become one of the most eclectic in the Russafa neighborhood, Where we can taste Delicias from Brazil, Fresh seafood, Asian cuisine or lifelong tapas, Buy us a unique jewel or hand -made backpack, Enjoy an exhibition of the most current art, See a good play or dance the unimaginable.
Cosín Study
— Dénia, 3
Our first stop is a bass with wooden door and striking showcase, You have to see what style. How could it be otherwise?, This is the den of an interior design study (workshops, housing, restaurants, Hotels, stands of fair) and graphic. They dare with everything, They confess, Always with a very present eagerness that pushes them to overcome each job. They are characterized by a personalized advice from each client and by timeless designs that escape fashion. They love undressing spaces, Use natural materials, They flee from ostentation and create shelters with style where one can only feel comfortable.
Bottles
— Dénia, 4
In this place art and love for the kitchen are breathed. Between beautiful paintings, The diners enjoy the best fish and seafood, Basque meat, of the spoon dishes made with the best market product that Edmundo prepares with affection since he opened the doors of Bocamada in 1976. Of a letter that changes every week and where everything is fresh, We must highlight the famous lubina to the salt, For many, The best in the city.
5 Coffee bar
— Dénia, 5
He 5 Café Bar Mira, on the one hand, to the busy street Denia and, on the other, To the quiet and pedestrian street of the clergy, what gives him the immense luck of possessing one of the best terraces in the entire neighborhood. Its interior is equally cozy, chaired by a beautiful piano to which their armchairs look, decorated with pleasure, You know, one of those places where one feels comfortable without knowing why. We assume that their well -thrown reeds and their homemade tap vermuts help, Its delicious tortilla skewers, His Pepitos and, on animated nights, His great cocktails (The Spritz, The Yayo or the Negroni are the essentials).
Pipe
— Dénia, 6
The Asian touch puts it in Boru, The latest incorporation to the street that has already unleashed a lot of curiosity. Opened just a few weeks ago, Boru offers a perfect fusion of Spanish and Asian cuisine, With some gyozas Ajillo chicken and a ramen Cooked that we die to try. Everything we eat will be in Bole, Hence the name (Pipe It is Bol in Japanese), So we find several bowls at the table ready to be filled with our commands. Modern and pleasant atmosphere, definitely, A street color note.
SIO2
— Dénia, 14
In this beautiful store-workshop we find true jewels, and not figuratively, real jewels, But in glass. Tiziana Chiara is the artist responsible for space, The creator of the pieces we see exposed, All of them timeless and modern, spoiled until the last detail, that have led him to win the Avant -Sardian Craft Prize of the Valencian Community in 2018. With the reform that has carried out just a few weeks ago, Now we can see your full workshop, Understand the creative process of the artist, Feel the warmth of the space where art arises every day. The new blown glass line is truly impressive, With aerial jewelry, transparent, They simulate clouds, Without belittling its most urban and colorful collection ideal for any occasion. We will also find Cotó de Cótó brand bags, and metal jewelry of the pedram brand.
KOWALSKI
— Dénia, 20
Kowalsky it, definitely, one of the most cool stores that you will step on in life. He was born six years ago with the aim of selling beautiful arts material, Discs and books. With the passage of time it has been reinvented, incorporating into its curious repertoire shoes and iconic brand clothing, antiques, Restoration material, bulbs and electrical material, Bastons, Music group t -shirts or sunglasses. Among his treasures we see a leather suck School NYC, (Yeah, Yeah, The classic), (Yeah, Yeah, vale 1.200€, But you just have to see her and touch her to fall in love), Hats Bailey of Hollywood and jeans Levy’s, Three essential garments to revive the great film The wild one With a Marlon Brando who removes the hypo. If we unite a glasses model Ray-Ban American, of acetate (those that are no longer manufactured), let's prepare hearts.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FOOD & BOOKS
— Dénia, 22
This old butcher shop became ten years ago in one of the neighborhood classics, Opening its doors as a bar-librería. But it has rained a lot from the beginning, And now to the offer of books and drinks also add an ambitious gastronomic proposal, that presents a short but intense letter, With a lot of Italian product (His current owners come from the beautiful neighboring country) Like the chivito of porchetta o The Italian sausage table, Unabarcable hamburgers (Of those that challenge the law of gravity, But in the end we eat as we can because they are delicious), and a wide vegetarian offer. The cultural aspect continues with the drawing classes (model in leather included) Every week, changing exhibitions and the sale of books at a very good price. Larga vida a Slaughterhouse.
Tanned Emilio Gómez
— Dénia, 23
From 1940 This family is dedicated to the sale of everything related to the skin (wallets, belts, creams) and footwear products (templates, laces, brushes, dyes). Entering your premises is a trip to the past, Well, little has changed in the more than 70 years in which different generations of the clan have continued with the legacy of their ancestors.
Los Navarros
— Dénia, 28
Los Navarros is the traditional bar of brave and squid, Of those who already remain few, especially in a neighborhood as fashionable as Russafa, where the most sophisticated proposals abound. Here nothing brunch, Here lunch and lifelong meals, We return to the essential: to the tortilla skewer (of potato, Well, ham, queso, tuna), to the very fritita lace, to the homemade Russian salad. There are currently two brothers, Amparo and Manuel, children of a family from always, who has seen all the changes in a neighborhood that has not stopped bringing surprises and that, They assure, has improved a lot in recent years.
APPEAL
— Dénia, 31
In Russafa there are lots of hairdressers, But this has a particular philosophy: is the only one that uses all products 100% natural and organic. We forget discolorations or molded with aggressive products, here it does not smell like ammonia or anything like it, And the results are stronger and healthier hair. The price? A little higher, But if the result is also, justified remains. Good atmosphere, Better music and a lot of sympathy are guaranteed.
The Ruzafa School
— Dénia, 32
Everyone who comes to the Ruzafa School must feel like having a good time, to move, of laughing: This is the only requirement to enter then, otherwise, They offer everything and for everyone. Unlike other more specialized schools in a specific dance, Here we can dance tango, lindy hop, flamenco, capoeira, hot (A simple and very fashionable Brazilian dance), Eastern or African dance, and many other fun disciplines. In the variety is taste, And here an extremely varied offer ends, without knowing how, making sense, Well, we only see among their walls smiling. And not just students, but of any occasional visitor who comes to enjoy his varied cultural programming, that proposes markets, silent cinema with live music, dance social, Language or concert exchanges.
Isabel Soria – Valencian clothing
— Dénia, 35
The picturesque street Denia also houses the only Valencian costume store in the Russafa neighborhood, so well known for being the epicenter of the Falleras Festivities, full of lights, casales and lively street stalls during those days. Its owner says that they have been in this place for more than twelve years, offering custom clothing, fabrics and dressings for the party that the inhabitants of the neighborhood aman or hate.
HAT GALLERY. SANAHUJA& PARTNERS
— Dénia, 37
Upon entering we find a lot of different chairs, All of them shocking. Wait, It is actually the same chair, only that all are part of a project in which 40 artists modified the same piece, making each one a unique specimen. This is just one of the many initiatives that arise in this place where architecture are found, Art and design, and where exhibitions are made, projections, workshops, performances, concerts or conferences. SANAHUJA&partners is the heart of this living space, An architecture study closely linked to the Mediterranean (They are based in Ibiza, Castellón and Valencia) which reflects in his works the sea, The light, The landscape, Mediterranean culture and its people with designs that respond to that innate human need for connection with nature.
RIBAGS HOUSE
— Dénia, 44
Surely you will remember Treillos Rivadulla (His slogan sounded "Tieillos Rivadula, The decision is yours "). GOOD, because it is the son of the owner of what was one of the most powerful Valencian furniture stores who has followed the family steps and has founded Ribags, A unique artisanal backpack brand, made with high quality beef skin. David started making bags for his friends with discarded family factory, And he ended up founding his own brand years later, moving its exceptional product by markets all over the country, leaving pieces for sale in stores from different cities, Until this place opened its doors in the number 44 of the street that occupies us. A ribag you have to see it, Touch and smell it, because it is an artisan piece that will accompany us maybe: If a strap is broken or an area descend, We can move on to us in this multifunctional space that puts this unique product on the map and 100% Valencian. We are looking forward to seeing the new collection in textile, cheaper and, safe, Same of cool.
PLASTIC MURS
— Dénia, 45
Go pictures, Who had them. This simple contemporary art gallery whose main interest is urban culture, Contemporary painting, Design or ceramics shows on its walls the best of artists such as the Valencians Pichiavo, César enjoy and Antonio Tone, or the International Dulk, Liam Fallow o Philip Gerald. Its owner tells us that most sales are made outside Spain, But that artists have to expose in many cities, move your art to be claimed and recognized in your own land and outside it. Thus survives a gallery like yours, that brothers the eyes of the walkers with their daring art, current and always surprising.
Café Artysana
— Dénia, 49
Very in the line of the new look that the neighborhood is taking, Artysana coffee proposes a selection of healthy and rich food, In a cozy environment and with an interesting cultural proposal. His brunch is already known as delicious and abundant, Its inner terrace is more than appealing, And on Saturdays they are holidays where we always find live music. It is worth highlighting the multiculturalism of the premises, where inhabitants of the neighborhood are together with occasional visitors from the city of all corners of the globe, all attracted by the atmosphere and the good vibes of this little bar with much to offer.
RUSSAFA ROOM
— Dénia, 55
In the facilities of an old industrial machinery company born in 2011 Russafa Room. They open their doors in the heart of a neighborhood that for many years adopted the theater as part of his daily life, whose inhabitants attended weekly to one of the many theaters that splashed the environment, and even actively participated in the theatrical functions of Ataneos, salas, salons or recreational. They were other times, But Russafa is printed that theatrical tradition, So you just had to resurrect that spirit. And it seems that they have achieved it. Arden Producciones is the company in charge of giving life to this space, A contemporary author's theater company that specializes in historical recreation. The room currently hosts its productions and those of many other local companies, national and international, forming a program for all audiences that incorporates languages such as theater, the dance, music, Plastic arts and literature.
Miss Brazil Gourmet
— Dénia, 62
There are business that only conceives in Russafa. This is the case of Saudades do Brazil, The only city store specialized in Brazilian products, that could not be found in another place more than here. We take a look at your shelves and we want to try everything. We found Farofa, that seasoned cassava flour that accompanies various dishes, tapioca, That crepe of cassava flour that we can fill with sweet or salty, delicious cheese bread, liquor to la caipirinha, Brazilian coffee (of the fort), cookies, Smoked Brazilian sausage, drumstick and all proven delights or to try. Very curious also the cosmetic corner, With the specific products for curly hair most used in Brazil or Pintouñas manufactured in the country. A discovery.
Nolich space
— Dénia, 73
We arrive at the end of the road when we stumble upon space Nolich. At the door they welcome us a mannequin and plane chairs. We would not know very well how to define this place, So we enter to ask. It turns out that it is a coworking where companies work and freelance dedicated to the audiovisual world; Everyone who has to do with the creation of audiovisual culture has its hole here, because among these walls collaborations and very interesting synergies are created. Nothing more and nothing less than 420 square meters await us inside, occupied between photography rooms and video clip, Assembly rooms, dubbing, Event and Meetings Room, Camerinos and Relax area. A luxury. We already imagine the events that have happened here: pop up stores, Product presentations, fashion shows, Photographic Shootings The Courses in form, They are just some of them. They rent the super space for events, so, for asking, That is not.
