Malaga cuisine

Typical dips and food in Malaga

Malaga cuisine is rather varied and embodies the healthy "Mediterranean Diet", with fresh fish and seafood, locally grown vegetables and fine olive oil from the province of Jaen, home of the world's best olive oil, only 214km away. As a coastal town, Malaga offers a great variety of freshly caught fish, such as mullet, whiting, hake, sole, anchovies and seafood such as lobster and baby squid.

Mediterranean diet recipes

A wide range of top quality restaurants, tapas bars and beach bars offer Malaga’s speciality, fried fish; the typical "Espetos" (sardines on the spit) are the most popular along the Chiringuitos (beach bars). A lot of the fish is drenched in flour and then fried in a large quantity of olive oil, then to be served accompanied with gazpacho (cold vegetable soup) or Ajoblanco (made with almonds, garlic, virgin olive oil, stale bread, muscatel grapes, vinegar and salt), specially in summer.

The locals enjoy good food in company, so you will find a wide range of good Tapas bars to choose from. The Tapa is the Spanish name for a great variety of small tasty dishes served hot or cold that you normally get served as a snack with your beer or wine. Talking about wine, Málaga is famous for its Moscatel wines. For example, the Pedro Ximénez is an intensely sweet, dark, dessert sherry.

Typical Malaga Food & Gastronomy

When it comes to meat, the surrounding mountains, especially in the Ronda Mountain ranges, have an excellent wide variety of delicious meats and sausages due to the tradition of hunting.

Malaga's pastry still preserves the taste of the region´s medieval Moorish past with a great use of almonds and honey, as well as popular monastic recipes, especially in Antequera, such as the popular Roscos and Tortas de Almendras.