El Xato restaurant on the Costa Blanca chosen as one of the 5 best restaurants in the world!

Did you know that on the Costa Blanca you can enjoy the best Spanish gastronomy?

Spain is world famous for its excellent gastronomy with renowned chefs such as Ferrán Adriá, the Roca brothers and many more. Indeed, the best chef in the world is the Spaniard David Muñoz. This is due mainly to our good raw materials and our great passion and gastronomic culture. The Costa Blanca is not far behind, offering a surprisingly wide range of top-quality cuisine. Today we are going to talk about one of these restaurants located in the Alicante town of La Nucia, El Xato.

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El Xato: Michelin Star restaurant in Alicante

El Xato, which has a Michelin star, has recently been named one of the 5 best restaurants in the world according to Tripadvisor users. Far from competitions and juries. People like you, who have been there, have tried the food and enthusiastically left the restaurant. Only one restaurant in Spain with 12 Michelin stars can brag about being ahead of El Xato and that is Martín Berasategui’s Restaurant, headed by Berasategui himself, a chef who is in second place in the World Ranking after the French chef Alain Ducasse who has 20 Michelin stars.

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El Xato: over 100 years feeding its customers

There is a beautiful story behind this restaurant called ‘El Xato’ after the affectionate nickname given to founder José Cano Cano, who in 1961 took it over and worked with great effort alongside his wife, Esperanza Fuster Devesa, to get it to the point where it is now.

Years later, the expert hand of Cristina Figueira, Francisco’s wife and José Cano’s daughter-in-law, was at the forefront of the kitchen. Cristina Figueira, who expanded her culinary technique under the guidance of the great Joan Roca at his restaurant in Barcelona, Celler de Can Roca.

With various options such as the Temptations Menu, as they describe it: ‘Feel the “temptation” to try a complete menu with six appetizers, four individual starters, a main course to choose between fish or meat and a delicious dessert.’ Or the Centenary Menu “El Xato”, Mediterranean cuisine, bold and surprising, reflected in each ingredient chosen, and in each creation, resulting in superb dishes, of outstanding quality, allowing your imagination to run wild and your mind to fly to a world of flavours and balances. They all have the option of being paired with wines.

Don’t let anyone tell you about it!