With the faults to touch, The streets slowly adorn on party and fill with a peculiar noise and smell. Around the houses bursts stalls and locals full of licks that cause long and eager tails. People are waiting to be able to buy and taste the fritters of that stop that is put in the square or that place that opens in the corner. That is why this year we have decided to look for these particular places these days, those who transport us to traditional tastes, As made at home. Despite, This time we don't do it alone, But we have a team of very special tasters who have accompanied us through the different stops distributed by Valencia and with whom we have been able to share a good time. Follow here our route through the ephemeral stops of Cape and Casal fritters.
9the stop: «I am very faller, I was born a 13 March and all.”
Picó Masià ice cream parlor with Guillermo del Mar
San José de la Muntanya Avenue, 24 (Outside the walls)
⭐ The stop
Picó Masià (web i Facebook) It is an establishment located in the La Petxina district run by two Xixonencos brothers, Anna I José. They inherited from their parents the business, those in charge of opening more than 30 Years a premises on the same street. José and Ana are the axis of business, are responsible for making the fritters this season or to attend to their abundant clientele, signal that have top quality products, heirs of the know how Xixon. His work revolves around three of the star products of our territory: nougat, the fritters and ice cream. Once each of the seasons are finished, They go to rest and rediscover their in Jijona.
⭐ The taster
Since he returned to Valencia after studying in Madrid, Guillermo del Mar combines its two passions: is fashion designer and faller to bone dock. With his partner, they have a atelier Near the Hospital Casa de la Salut where they design wedding and party dresses, as well as organize all kinds of events. It tells us the need to place Valencia on fashion map, To make a benchmark as Madrid and Barcelona are, With his passage, and the luck that had to participate in the Valencia Fashion Week.
The fallera vein comes to you as a child, since a born a 13 of March: «I am very faller, I was born a 13 on March and all, prepared to enjoy the Fallas ” - he tells us. Despite being from the Russafa neighborhood, is part of the little family of the Blanqueries fault. this year, With her friend Gloria as President, has decided to translate in a very special way, com a faller major, Since there was no candidate girl in the fault and so the children's fallera, the girl, would you have accompaniment.
⭐The donut
Are not the first fritters of the year for Guillermo, But they are grateful to them, as they make good face and look so perfect. Does it all remembering those who prepare her grandmother at home. These, unlike, They carry less pumpkin, As the people in the neighborhood like, According to Anna tells us. The Picó Masià brothers want to have the happy neighborhood and prepare them in the style of Valencia, of the pinch, as it tells us that in Alicante (and in other Valencian counties on the side) the fritters are not made the same: They do not have pumpkin, Sometimes they have sagí and the pasta is much more liquid and, That is why they need to be made with mold, as for example, You can see in this video.
Grateful to eat and oily genes to the touch, The fritters of Picó Masià are a good option that you can find until more or less Easter. Take!
Type: pumpkin fritters
price: 3,30 € the half dozen
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8the stop: "Here has brought me to childhood"
Casa Isabel with Irina Pérez
Avinguda d'Amado Granell, 29 (Four Races)
⭐ The stop
Isabel is the regent ofthis takeaway food house open every day on Avinguda d'Amado Granell (former General Urrutia). Born worker, Isabel manages the kitchen and the careful attention of this space that she converted during the crisis from an initial house of lepolias that did not help her make ends meet. The prepared dishes, notably the rice, they are a lot of fun and the prices are among the most popular in the Montolivet neighborhood.
These Falles days he has decided to make pumpkin fritters and churros early in the morning and in the evening. With a counter facing the same avenue, If you are close to there, Take advantage of a look at the genre that has.
⭐ The taster
Irina Pérez was surprised that we took her to try these fritters at Casa Isabel, Because as a child she lived houses further on the same avenue. Laughter and leaf in equal parts, He has not imported at all to walk from Pintor Gisbert Street, in Russafa, where he has his ceramic workshop called THE BAJITO, to taste these fritters that have transported him to childhood.
Degree in Fine Arts and with higher ceramic studies at the School of Art and Superior of Ceramics in Manises, Irina is a benchmark in ceramics in Russafa and her co -elections, signed as a New, have come to national and international shops. In his workshop El Bajito does ceramic courses for people who want to learn from scratch and also intensive weekends courses that are an experience that everyone is happy.
⭐ The donut
Between the rows of red leaf plin, Irina has tasted the fritters from Casa Isabel. Although pumpkin is not as present as in other fritters (There are people who love it most), are very crunchy and the contrast between the inside and the outside invites to taste a second.
Type: Fillless fritters (o of wind) i xurros
price: 5 € the dozen
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7the stop: «To accompany with a chocolate, Pray for us!»
Bunyols Bolea with Pepiu de Castellar
Carrer de Enric Navarro, 19 (Benimaclet)
⭐ The stop
We enter the street of Enric Navarro and if not out because we see from afar the tail that is formed, This Benimaclet fritter stop, one of the most famous, would go unnoticed. Let's talk about Bunyols Bolea. While we are waiting for, those who are in the tail, Neighbors of a lifetime, They greet and comment on the row there, It's already the time of snack. And that is always a good signal, have a parish true to your product. Behind the counter, well organized, Prepare xurros, fritters and chocolate. A poster accompanied by photos announces it very clearly: «Those of a lifetime, from 1948 ".
⭐ The taster
Pepiu o, more specifically, Pepiu de Castellar He is a nearby man, multifaceted, a river of energy and humor. She is currently working as a producer and screenwriter, But he also sings, Touch the ukulele, and even dared to challenge the Fallera Mayor of Valencia. Besides, We can see him on tour in his own show: Pepiu a bacs. After a year and a half, Continue to delight us with a show in which it combines traditional music , current letters and comic strips of everyday life. What is your goal? Transmit a life approach: Within a situation that may seem bad, There is always a good part (Although sometimes it does not work…). Definitely: an artist from head to toe.
When he has come to meet us, yeah sense topos Ni Pinta, I didn't know what we wanted from him, But soon he has felt at home and he has treated us wonderfully. In front of a water with gas (that might seem a gintonic to the photo!), has given us his point of view on the fritters he has tasted.
⭐ The donut
Freshly made, hot, crunchy… The first impression, accustomed to pumpkin, they seem to us tasteless. But we don't let ourselves be taken by prejudice. We try them again and curiously surprise us. The second donut, a little less hot, invites us to continue eating, since the frying point is perfect and you noticed that they are well kneaded. Contrary to those of pumpkin, These wind fritters are very good even if they cool a little.
Might need to go back to the stop and buy a chocolate and a few more fritters. The waiting clientele has not cheated on us at all.
Type: Fillless fritters (o of wind) i xurros
price: 3€ / half a dozen
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6the stop: "I think the tire faster than my mother"
The Tonets del Carme with Bruno Laurent and Ester Torá
Sant Dionís Street (Old City)
⭐ The stop
Antoni and Victor, sister, are the heirs of the stop The Tonets del Carme. Youth - they do not reach thirty - and sort entrepreneurs, These faults have been headed by the business that the family of Antonio has run, originally from Bétera, of more than 30 years. Located on Sant Dionís Street, near the decline of Sant Miquel and the Mossén Sorell market, It is one of the most emblematic stops of Carmen. Antoni tells us that he has been accompanying his parents for many years in the previous stop they had and that, When there was good clientele waiting, He was already starting to throw fritters in the boiler with the red oil. From time to throw it he realized that he had taken so much practice that he began to throw them into the oil faster than his mother. Something already suggested that you would be a continuator of the family business.
⭐ The tasters
Today we accompany two members of theFrench Institute of Valencia, they are not only a co -man, but they go the sea of good. Captured in the most cultural part of the institute, Ester Torá is in charge of managing the auditorium of the Institute: cinematic projections, Concerts — which you can consult In his agenda–, llum i so, etc. From Murcia, Ester also helps in the organization of the French Center: It's an ideas machine, because from his passions there is not only the photo, but she is embroidered in metric cloth and is passionate about searching between objects in the old markets she later restores.
Bruno Laurent comes from a small Occitan People in the Perigord and is in charge of The media library. If the repository of books and magazines in French is remarkable, The music is more, as it is the largest background of French -speaking music accessible from all over the state. Besides, to their project called The French Fonoteca (look for it to the @laFonotecaFR xarxes) We will find a daily dip for the latest fashion and the great classics of music produced in countries where the French language is spoken: a discovery you can't let. Besides, Last month, Bruno offered us a tasting music at the Radio Program 'Wood Track' of the broadcaster ICat.
We wanted to count on them for the tasting of fritters because they gave us a point of view exterior of this Valencian lick. Ester confirms us that in Murcia the most similar one is the churros, but declares a fan of the Valencian fritters. Bruno, Llepol by nature, The Figa fritters of the Tonets stop has been loved more.
⭐ The donut
Tonets del Carme sell pumpkin and fig fritters. Although most of the pumpkin they use is of ecological origin, Antoni insists not to advertise it because at the moment they cannot get the 100 % to serve. Surrounded by ancient clay books, They make the paste of their fritters right there they affine toasted pumpkin. A pasta, on the other hand, Bambollejant well alive, As you can see in this video. Get to know them and try some fritters with craft accreditation.
Type: Pumpkin fritters and figs.
price: 6 € the dozen pumpkin fritters / 9 € the dozen fig fritters.
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5the stop: "The oil at its point so that the hole is not closed!»
Barbara fritter with Immaculate Cerdà
Corner of Carrer del Pes de la Farina with Almodí Street (Old City)
⭐ The stop
We can find the stop Barbaric fritters near the garden next to the Basilica of Our Lady of Valencia. Inescapable on a route by ephemeral donuts of Valencia, You need to get to know and tasting the pumpkin fritters and the albard figs they do with a good love at this fleeting stop that will be until Sunday 24 of March open. Ben Enjorn Barbara and his daughters, they help throughout the morning, They are already preparing the figs one by one, lifting the piece, and peel to pumpkin kilos that take advantage of one of the pasta dark of the fritters of Valencia. More than 25 Years Makes Barrara rides the stop around the square and has a loyal parish that does not lack this fallera appointment. She herself acknowledges that the pasta "shouts" when you are already good for frying.
⭐ The taster
It was clear that Immaculate Cerdà had to illustrate in the tasting of Barbara's fritters. Of family of bakers, Immaculate is the head of the Linguistic Normalization Unit of the Diputación de Valencia and academic of theValencian Academia de la Clengua. Of several years ago, For Fallas it offers us exquisite materials that prepare with great esteem to know the lexicon of the fallera party. This year they have had the design study Great and with the DJ Biano to make This video that comes to the coret. We are also moving forward that they prepare videos about the rich vocabulary of pyrotechnics; therefore, If you want to be aware of all the news, search them on all networks with the name Valencian in the Dipu.
Returning to the pumpkin fritters, Immaculate tells us that for her Barbara's are the best in Valencia. It has not been to take them with their hands and stain to open carefully and show us the interior of orange, that the Valencians traditionally call Color pumpkin. It tells us about how the Valencians, perhaps because of our deep agricultural culture or maybe because it is an easy fruit to grow, We have made us a fruit like pumpkin, who came from America and that we introduced it to a good thing of traditional dishes. «They go out of Valencia and are surprised to eat toasted pumpkin or cakes with pumpkin and here is so normal and so good!»–They tells you while making a boss of pumpkin fritters and also albard figs.
⭐ The donut
originating from Casinos and Elian, Barbara and his daughters offer us pumpkin fritters and albard figs. See Barbara doing the donut of the donut is priceless (See here A video). It controls all the details of the pasta and the oil that must be in its point "so that the hole is not closed". And has been one of the introductors of the Figa Albardada in the city of Valencia, also called Note In other counties. It is worth the morning to not take too many people in the tail, But if you find, Wait for you to attend, Because it is very worth.
Type: Pumpkin fritters and albard figs.
price: 8 € the dozen fritters / 12 € the dozen figs albard.
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4the stop: «You will no longer find anyone to paste the fritters like this!»
Fritters crespo with Pedro Rubio
Plaza de la Creu del Canyamelar (Cabanyal-Canyamelar)
⭐ The stop
Crespo fritters is located in the heart of the Canyamelar, This year it does 21 years that have been planted the stall there and the whole neighborhood knows them. Fa 55 years, But, they make fritters as they ran the Crespo Bar on Escalante Street. Experience, We could say that Mila and her children have a blanket. Just look at Arthur in front of the boiler pouring the fritters into red oil with good thing about grace and his brother. «Enter, enter! You will no longer find anyone than pastte fritters like this!»Mila tells us in reference to her other child, which is at the back of the metricity stop, grazing vigorously and without rest the pastim of the fritters (See the video). Along the house with a counter to attend, We find tables for customers who want to eat fritters or churros with melted chocolate in the sun of this seafront of Valencia. Several neighbors we see with the camera and curious about the fritters of the Crespo family told us without asking them "you will not find more good!».
⭐ The taster
We know Pedro as a result of the contact we had with the collective The clochinists. When we contacted him to tasting at the Crespo stop and we told him that we trusted him because he was a gastroaddicte couldn't tell us no while he was laughing for the adjective we had just awarded him. If Pedro is a greatest passion for Valencia's Clotxine, is also an asset in the faller world. Belongs to the commission Cervantes – Stop Jofré . Despite the swallow that has these days, We have been able to fish it to know what one of the most famous fritters in Canyamela-Cabanyal, a neighborhood that knows the best. These are the first to taste this year and they have not disappointed it at all.
⭐ The donut
The Crespo family prepares fritters and churros with a family recipe, In this case without pumpkin. We talk to Mila, the expert, It emphasizes that they are better as they do not rebel and retain the essence of this fallera lick. The pumpkin makes them straps right away tells us. We emphasize with surprise that there are a few traditional stops in Valencia that make donuts without pumpkin, sometimes called wind fritters. Fritters that are historically older than pumpkin those, Since the Valencians did not know the pumpkin before this fruit of the Americas arrived to us.
Type: Fritters of wind (and also churros).
price: 3 € half a dozen.
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3the stop: «The Cracked It That, of Catadau, made them sweet potato »
Bunyols on Puçol Street with Palmera.Vir
Puçol Street, 10 (Benimaclet)
⭐ The stop
A group of friends, Protection, The another amparo, they cook endlessly during 20 Days fritters in one of the premises of the parish of Benimaclet located on Puçol street number 10. At home they prepare the pumpkin, They love toasted pumpkin more than the bull, And there frigge the fritters as the clientele comes. Although their respective family traditions are in mind to make the recipe, They have also innovated with fritters filled with dates that make in the company of the Four more present fig tree.
The adventure began 15 Years when a group of friends decided to sell fritters to pick up some money to buy dolls and houses for a Bethlehem that mount for Christmas at that same place on Puçol Street. Years pass, But the two Amparo and Tere continue to offer us these to the neighborhood and visitors of other barracks that are eating up there.
⭐ The taster
For, better known as Palmera.vir, is Benifaió Illustrator. Your portfolio is Instagram, An application that has allowed him to become known throughout the territory. Proud of his career, Continue with various projects such as the poster for the XIX Craft Show from Columbus Market or the series of instructions dedicated to the day of the woman and emblematic buildings of Valencia that, according to vir, It is a like a big village, friendly and who sees rejuvenating every day thanks to the cultural unattainable milesties that arise in the city. Also in the line of design, He co -labeled the magazine You run stores With a word dictionary, phrases and sayings in Valencian.
Tasting a donut is rebellious to us that he is a faithful follower of the grandparents and his wisdom. Sa iaia Virgínia - the generation of Virgías three with our protagonist -, of Catadau, He taught him to do and confess how difficult it was to get them to paste them to make the hole in an automatic act where you are barely thinking time to think. Besides, We are surprised by telling us that in some towns in the Ribera Alta they make sweet potato stuffed fritters or with a mixture of pumpkin and sweet potato.
⭐ The donut
The Puçol street pumpkin are slightly crunchy on the outside and soft inside. The pumpkin sinks are appreciated that have not been diluted in the pasta. Figure and date fillings stand out, fruits that give a sweet and special flavor to the donut dough.
Type: Pumpkin fritters, of fig and dates.
price: 6 € a dozen pumpkin and 9 € A dotzena de Figa or Dàtil. They can buy for units.
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2the stop: "Put me in 20 twelfth, I am very fainted!»
NTRA PASTERIA OVEN. Sra. of the helpless with Enric Alepuz
Carrer del engraver Jordan, 58 (The Fonteta de Sant Lluís)
⭐ The stop
The pastry oven Ntra. Sra. of the helpless is out of the classic faller route, In the neighborhood of La Fonteta de Sant Lluís, Right next to the famous Hams Round. However, It is worth entering those streets and notice the smell of vegetable village that still has Valencia. Past the square, where in the background is the church and the famous fountain that gives the quarter name, We find this oven, Currently run by Carlos - who has resumed a business that was familiar -, which offers us a great variety of sweet and salty. These days with the help of Marta, to curate, sell fritters in a small door to the side of the oven where the neighbors take their heads impatient to try them.
As Iaia Pilar taught him, In preparing pumpkin and, of a more modern test, They also make chocolate stuffed.
Carlos tells us that they prefer to put toast pumpkin, as it keeps all the nutrients and a deep taste that does not water like when you boil it.
⭐ The taster
Enric Alepuz It is an energy mixture of arnadí and Chinese sauce coenta. Trained in graphic design, Lately he is caught in the picture of the Nursery concerts of the July Fair of Valencia. Since this does not have enough, The Motor of Enric is the battery of the Valencian groups Turtle i Gener. The latter have just removed new disk: awarded it Sing the electric body. To complete the circle, Besides, is the founder of a temporary tattoos brand, Tattoonie Temporary Tattoos. Raised between Montesa and Almussafes, Memble, Iŀlusonat, From when you were preparing fritters, at home or baked they had near, and they were black pumpkin black. Also remember the last lap he bought from it, In the center of Valencia, and that he had to pull. Luckily today he has been able to breakfast. Or that we have seen in his smile.
⭐ The donut
In the Forn de la Fonteta de Sant Lluís we can buy pumpkin fritters, and also fritters filled with chocolate. Freshly made, are crunchy enough on the outside and soft inside: a good combination. Pumpkin taste is very successful, ni mass ni massa poc. Besides, Noteworthy is the price, one of the cheapest in Valencia: 4 euros the dozen.
Type: pumpkin fritters and pumpkin fritters stuffed with chocolate.
price: 4 € the dozen.
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1the stop: "I will come and" I will run ""
Biennese fritters with Pepa Gómez
Avenue of the Kingdom of Valencia, 22 (the Eixample)
⭐ The stop
Fritters bienve It is at the confluence of Avenida del Kingdom of Valencia with the street of the painter Salvador Abril we find a house with decoration of traditional Valencian tiles that attracts our attention. Pepa Gomez, Levante TV journalist, has been curious about the structure in front of Amparo, the donut, originally from donut - ironies of destination -, that runs the business for third generation. His grandmother already had the stop near the Russafa Market and, Although Amparo followed studies that made her away from the fritters, The repeated phrase of his grandmother - when he was already much greater -, "I will sell and have 'I will Arrapar'» make it convince to continue the family tradition, not out of something that appeared later to bring it up.
⭐ The taster
Pepa Gomez wanted us to kindly accompany us before the broadcast of today's mascleta that leads in Levante TV. Not only does it present, directs and produces the program To remmat In this channel, but also in the radio program We want TRAU of Radio Levante (97.7). Fallera to the bone dock, She has been President of the Fault Borrull-Socors he 2017 and the 2018 and now she is the vice president of the Falles i+e. Defines your fault as a brave cultural association in which all falleros are very different, but where they find a meeting point to experiment and innovate. A day like today (8 of March) It emphasizes that the real challenge is to stop talking about women's challenges because this means that effective equality has been achieved between men and women.
⭐ He donut
In Bunyols Bienve we find pumpkin fritters and fig fritters macerated with anise and mistela. Amparo has for (bon) custom to make the fritters entrusted with customers at the same time as they sell. The pasta already good and swollen and of a manifest pumpkin awaits us before gracefully pour it into red oil, drilling it with thumb. Amparo has left us to scrun inside the stop and showed us the pumpkin bollida that he uses to make the fritters as well as the figs in soak with mistela and anise. With a slightly crunchy texture, We immediately find the taste of pumpkin inside.
Type: pumpkin fritters and fig fritters.
price: 5 € the dozen.
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