Casual food

Casual food often receives less respect than it deserves. Perhaps because it is associated with speed, ease or low cost. But an informal place can also have product, intention and a clear way of solving a meal without turning it into a mere errand.

This selection brings together places in Alicante designed for eating in a lighter, more direct or more flexible way. Useful spots for a pause, a meal without solemn booking, an easy dinner or a plan that does not need the structure of a gastronomic restaurant. Informality, when well understood, does not lower the experience: it makes it more usable.

The criterion here is not grandeur. It is usefulness with a certain level: places where you eat with pleasure, without excessive apparatus and without the sad feeling of having chosen only because it was nearby.