In Montolivet the neighbors enter the fish market to ask for a parsley bun, and Amparo, The pastry maker, They call her by name, that is to say, still maintains the essence of the neighborhood that neighboring Russafa has lost due to gentrification and the empire of chic. The neighborhood takes its name from a 14th century hermitage dedicated to the Virgin of Mont Olivet located where today stands the neoclassical Church of Our Lady of Monteolivete from the 18th century., on the banks of the Turia, that would drown her in the flood of 1957. After this historical note, and before starting the tour, We are going to stop at a ground floor on Vicent Lledó Street where the letters you are reading and thousands of printed projects are printed that seek good advice to get started and a final finish of the best quality that generates the least possible environmental impact.. Impresum is family and with it we begin a tour that will take us to pastry shops, a fishmonger, two traditional bars, a restaurant newcomer, a fallero museum and a game store to learn mathematics, very close to an ultra façade kirsch what you have to go see (Tucumán street, 9) if you are willing to suffer a mini epileptic attack.
Learning mathematics
—Tucumán, 1
Learning mathematics is a project that wants to get children to stop seeing mathematics as boring.. Just because, mathematics can be worked in another way. Jordi and Malena, the mathematics of the couple and the visible face of the project, offer courses online and they sell games and manipulative materials that you can touch and try in their space on Tucumán Street. (better by appointment: 601 194 609). The star product is the Camelot Junior, a manipulative game made of wooden pieces that consists of building a path with towers and stairs so that the knight and the princess can be together. They also have board games, dominoes, puzzles, wooden numerical blocks and any material that helps to better digest the math ball.
Faller Museum
— Pl. Montolivet, 4
Inaugurated in 1971 at the Mission House of San Vicente de Paul, the Faller Museum takes a tour, with pasodobles playing in the background, by the evolution of the Fallas through their pardoned dolls, made official in 1934. The oldest ones are made with wax and wood, They have a naturalistic aesthetic and are dressed in cloth clothing.; The most recent ones smell like Styrofoam and reproduce the hackneyed Disney patterns.. A fallera breastfeeding (1936), a cocoa extraperlist (1943), a woman rubbing a kid's belly (1964), and embogador (the one who fixes the enea chairs) with the little finger escaping from the espardenya, Indiana Jones (1986), Jacques Costeau (1998), Piquer shell (2008) and Amparín Fish (2017) they happen to show the material evolution, thematic (traditional, social, caricature, costumbrista, sentimental, policy…) and the tone that has been given in the dolls saved from the flames for more than eighty years. The other great attraction is the posters announcing the Fallas, that start with that of maestro Segrelles of 1929 and lead to the most modern, signed by renowned designers such as Iban Ramón, author in 2016 of the graphic image of some Fallas that were about to be declared Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
Bar Batiste
—Lluís Oliag, 33
Bar Batiste is one of the oldest in the area. Batiste was Lola's grandfather, What's useful for you? (custom made) the rice you ask for even if he has never cooked it, he dares with everything! Tapas, all the ones you want too: Squid (The specialty of the house), squid casseroles with broad beans, shrimp cakes, Garlic prawns… More hearty, the bull's tail and the all i pebre, or a good beef burger. And Cremaet to crown the Breakfast, a homemade vermouth for the aperitif and a lunch menu at €9.50 that includes a drink, dessert, coffee and sympathy. The clientele here is lifelong.. “This is from the house, let him put it on”, tells us about a client who has not yet been served because he is serving us. Well that, let him put it on.
Mora fishmonger
- Windowed, 2
The park in front was a small market where Pescadería Mora already served fresh fish direct from Mercavalencia back in the day. 1945. With the disappearance of the market, The Mora brothers had to move to the ground floor where today they serve national products (all, except Norwegian salmon) freshly unloaded from the ship every morning. Cuttlefish and beach squid, northern hake, whiting and monkfish from Vigo and Cullera, Huelva chirlas, cigalas the emperor, that comes in a large piece. What is left over from the day is cleaned and frozen to keep the octopus company., the zamburiñas and the reds, the jewel of the Mediterranean within reach of few.
Dulzumat
—Plata, 83
Los panettones They hang upside down in a corner of Dulzumat so that the food doesn't stay down., They are chocolate and orange, white chocolate, milk or raisin chocolate with rum with candied orange. Amparo serves them to you in this pastry shop with more than twenty years of history in which, except the bread, absolutely everything is made: shells (typical Valencian Christmas sweet that we have told you about before in the Tasta'l d'Ací section), chocolates, macarons, nougats, bread from Cadiz (marzipan filled with candied fruits), tartlets, quince, renowned cakes, anise rolls, pestiños, orange muses or coffee... It is the neighborhood's reference pastry shop and a mandatory stop for anyone passing by Avenida de la Plata.
Olrait
—Pedagog Pestalozzi, 1
Olrait arrived in the neighborhood in April 2021 to fill a void. It is a more modern restaurant that has proposals on the menu such as satay Indonesian chicken (grilled skewers with peanut sauce and rice), French fries with Yopi curry sauce, bitterballen stew (round meat croquette typical of Holland) and vegetarian chili with rice, nachos and cheese. But there are also the flavors from here, in the wild boar stew or on the varied tapas table where you can try the homemade Teruel ham croquettes, duck with blueberries, shrimp and Cabrales cheese. The meat for the hamburger comes from the Central Market and the fish is bought from the Mora brothers who we told you about above.. As we said, quality product cooked in recipes from here and there.
Peter’s Delicatessa
—Pedagog Pestalozzi, 3
In this artisan bakery and pastry shop founded in 1980 by Peter Früh Eckert you will find specialties from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. German rye bread, more bitter, dense and resistant than our wheat, and sweet delights like Tea biscuits (artisan butter pastes), Linzer cake with dried fruits and currant jam, he strudel apple, German Black Forest cake (Genoese chocolate sponge cake soaked in syrup, filled and covered with chantilly cream and cherries macerated in kirsch, that is to say, cherry brandy) or the Austrian Sacher tart, made with a very spongy chocolate cake with a layer of jam inside and covered with dark chocolate. Typical of Christmas are Florentiner cookies made with caramelized almonds and Stollen, a very spicy German sweet bread in the shape of an oblong loaf covered in a large blanket of icing sugar made with dried fruits, raisins and candied fruits. It can compete with the old man panettone perfectly, give it a chance.
JM
- Peter Alexander, 38
Squid sandwich. At JM you order a squid sandwich. Or horse meat with garlic and potatoes. For him Breakfast you will know it and by the menu from noon to 11 euros you will return. But there is much more than delicious, simple food at popular prices., Galician razor clams and fresh oysters rest on the bar, little puddles, fresh slices of octopus and red shrimp that warn us that we can go up one more step, ordering, for example, a grilled fish or a seafood stew. JM are the initials of Jordi and Miguel, the children of the founder of this bar who since 1992 feeds the residents of the neighborhood and all of Valencia, who come to this corner of Montolivet to enjoy the food and service of a traditional bar.
