Name: Ricard Camarena Restaurant
Address: Valencia, ES

Ricard Camarena's two-star kitchen inside the Bombas Gens arts centre in Valencia, built on the Valencian huerta and on broths reduced to their essence, where vegetables are the point rather than a side.

By Dimitris Stathopoulos

The cooking

The through-line is the huerta, the fertile market garden that rings Valencia, and the kitchen keeps its own supply lines to growers to get it at the exact moment it wants. What the restaurant is most known for is its broths and juices, extracted from vegetables and fish and reduced until they carry an astonishing amount of flavour with very little fat, a clean, direct force that has become its signature.

Why it is in VANE

It holds two Michelin stars in the current guide, along with a green star for its work on sustainability and its ties to local growing. A city restaurant that never loses its connection to the country around Valencia. A researched profile, drawn from the restaurant's own record and reporting, not a first-hand VANE visit.

Where

Bombas Gens arts centre, Valencia

Kitchen

Chef Ricard Camarena

Michelin

Two Michelin stars, current guide, plus a green star

Style

Contemporary Valencian, vegetable-led, built on broths

Best for

A long lunch built around the market garden

VANE selection. Chosen with a critic's eye and judged independently. It's here because we judged it, not because it paid.
On this profile: a researched profile, drawn from the restaurant's own record and reporting, not a claim of a first-hand visit. Where we have eaten there, the review says so.
Image: Photo: Ricard Camarena Restaurant (official)

Ricard Camarena Restaurant

The cooking

Why it is in VANE

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