Marbella Restaurants

If you are looking for a place to eat in Marbella, then you have hundreds of restaurants to choose from.

In the Old Town of Marbella are some great tapas restaurants, and some of the smaller ones up the cobbled streets can be the best. We have been to numerous tapas bar around there and they were great. Instead of a bar crawl, a tapas crawl is quite common here.

Around Orange Square are the typical kind of tourist places with large menus selling practically everything from English Breakfast to Paella.

Then you have all along the main street, the Golden Mile in Marbella and down by the sea front are also lots of restaurants to choose from...its quite a large area.

For Italian style food, there is Da Brunos, which has three restaurants in Marbella: twoalong the main road and one by the sea front - and one has now opened up in San Pedro. They serve pizzas, pastas, fish, meat, risottos etc. We have had a couple of meals there but found it a little bit hit or miss and will stick to the pizzas! Da Brunos on the seafront promenade normally has live music at the weekends.

For Spanish food, as mentioned before, there are lots and lots of tapas places around Marbella Old Town to choose from.

For international food there is La Comida, which my husband went to and had a fantastic meal ... he was so excited that he took me there a couple of weeks later but the food and service was terrible and expensive for what it was. Zoizoi is in the Old Town, lovely courtyard to sit in in the summer. El Patio de los Perfumes looks like a beautiful restaurant set in the Old Town of Marbella, decorated beautifully and you sit in a lovely lit courtyard.

For Oriental food there is Sukho Thai which is a sister restaurant of Thai Gallery in Puerto Banus. This restaurant is along the Golden Mile between Puerto Banus and Marbella just passed Da Bruno Restaurant. We went there once, it was good food, but we found the tables very close together so cramped and dark. Then there is Lime & Co, just before that on the Golden Mile which is decorated amazingly with a mixture of Oriental and Modern food. Loved the food, but once again, was sitting on top of the people next to you so you can't really hold a private conversation.

In the summertime you must book a table as it gets very busy. And generally the busier it is the worse the service can be. I'm sorry to be so negative, but we have yet to find one restaurant around Marbella / Puerto Banus where the food and service is consistently good throughout the year. The only restaurant that comes close is Picasso's in Puerto Banus, because they are busy all year round.

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