Mercat Municipal de Dénia — Local services in Dénia

A great place to visit. Lots of stalls selling fresh food (meat, fish, fruit & veg, dairy etc.), dried goods and flowers. There's everything you're likely to need, at great prices.

There's also café-bar stalls, where you can have a drink (and people-watch!), or a cheap bite to eat; Bar Viciano is particularly recommended.

It is open from 7am, daily except Sunday. Get there early: it closes at 3pm, though most of the stalls start packing up before then, and the bars have stopped...

This is a real market hall, not one that has been exclusively converted into bars for tourists. Come here in the morning for local cured meats (Maite is my favourite), cheese, olives, fresh fruit and vegetables, meat and of course fresh fish from the port of Dénia. Stop for “almuerzo” - a sepia bocadillo would be my suggestion - big enough for two - or maybe swing by the wine & tinned fish shop for a glass of...

We waited around 20 minutes for a table of five and it was worth the wait! The two people working there are very nice and understanding. We took 2 cocas de hidago de monkfish, pimientos, pulpo (amazing) and pan, tomato and mustard with hamburger meat on it. We also took 7 cañas and everything...