The restaurant owned by the three-Michelin-starred chef, located in the heart of Valencia, maintains a different perspective on gastronomy, proposing a traveling cuisine that collects and represents global trends!

‘Vuelve Carolina’, which in 2024 received the award for the Best Creative Bravas at Madrid Fusión, is recognizable for a proposal and a way of enjoying around the table that is unique, attending to its playful character and its desire to share, becoming a meeting point for local and international audiences.

“We are really happy, Vuelve Carolina continues to be a place to be in the city for the local and international public, and continues to surprise those who visit us,” says Dacosta.

Valencia, March 13, 2026. Three-Michelin-starred chef Quique Dacosta celebrates this year the XV Anniversary of Vuelve Carolina, a pioneering restaurant in Valencia, located at Calle Correos, 8, in the heart of the city. To celebrate, Dacosta and his team, led by Beatriz Manzanares, Gonzalo Silla, Giuseppe Bono, and Karina Hurtado, will recover historical dishes that have marked different stages since its opening, revisiting flavours that are part of the shared memory of its customers. Thus, from March 19, anyone who visits Vuelve Carolina will have the opportunity to enjoy an iconic dish as a surprise, thus being able to savor the history of one of the most established restaurants in the city.

Foie gras yogurt, flame-grilled pork belly bao bun, spider crab ravioli, patatas bravas, mejillón tigre (stuffed mussels), boletus and parmigiano coca (flatbread), or cuttlefish with seaweed pesto, will be just some of the creations that throughout the year will seek to excite all diners who come to celebrate the anniversary with the entire restaurant team.

The restaurant proposes a trip around the world without leaving Valencia, on a journey where the diner decides which are their stops. You can enjoy Korea with the chicken and kimchi arroz en llanda, Singapore with the soft chili crab sandwich, or Mexico with the rib tacos. There are so many points to visit, as well as ways to do it. Always accompanied by a creative look and a cocktail menu for which the customer does not need a passport.

In this way, Vuelve Carolina proposes an experience based on the concept “Not only cuisine,” a definition of what the restaurant is and offers. It perfectly summarizes the intention: to provoke a multisensory experience where music, dishes, cocktails, accompaniment, and connection with other participants in this urban oasis are combined. This recipe for happiness has several ingredients, some of them secret…

Dacosta, awarded as the Best Spanish Restaurant Entrepreneur by the Royal Academy of Gastronomy, began the Vuelve Carolina adventure in the midst of an economic crisis, but quickly managed to position a restaurant that set a trend in the Valencian Community with a proposal that sought to show the chef’s travels and experiences around the world, always under the parameters of quality and excellence that the brand treasures. All this, in a city that was still far from the gastronomic explosion that it is experiencing at the moment, and that has further elevated one of the most successful concepts of the Quique Dacosta Group to the Olympus of restaurants in the city of Turia.

Between memories and novelties, throughout the year the goal is to continue to excite and discover new flavours, making happy all those who sit at the table.

Report by ’24/7 Valencia’ team
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