Discover the 2025 Agenda Preámbulo: a journey through the senses
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Coming to Malaga and not sure where to eat? At the Malaga Premium Hotel, on Calle San Juan, we live in the city centre every day, and this is the guide we give our guests: signature cuisine, terraces with views, old-school bars and fried fish. We also include the restaurants of our own group, Grupo Premium, and we say so clearly so you know which ones they are.
The restaurant of the Malaga Premium Hotel, at Calle San Juan 11, is our choice for a good dinner right in the centre. Signature cuisine with a Malaga soul, market produce and a menu that changes with the season. If you can’t decide, the “Bite by bite” tasting menu takes you through the menu in several courses for €35 per person, or €51 with wine pairing (prices as of October 2026). Sit in its gastro-lounge, with a central bar and large windows, or on its small urban terrace. See Bendito.
On the fourth floor of the Hotel Alcazaba Premium, at Calle Alcazabilla 12, Batik blends Mediterranean cuisine with international touches on a seasonal menu. What makes it special is the view: the Alcazaba and the Roman Theatre, right in front of you. It also has a tasting menu. Batik website.
For a special occasion, Malaga city centre has several restaurants with a star in the 2026 Michelin Guide. Two of them are Kaleja, where Dani Carnero cooks his ember-grilled “cocina de candela”, and José Carlos García, at Muelle Uno in the port, with creative Andalusian cuisine.
One of the best things about eating out in Malaga is doing it outdoors almost all year round. As well as Batik‘s terrace facing the Alcazaba, the centre has these rooftops.
On the fifth and top floor of the Malaga Premium Hotel, with views of the San Juan church tower, the Cathedral, known locally as “La Manquita”, and the Montes de Malaga. It’s the place for a sunset cocktail or a drink after dinner, with bites from Bendito’s kitchen. Bookings on +34 951 90 29 86. See the terrace.
The chill-out rooftop of the Hotel Alcazaba Premium, with cocktails and the Alcazaba right in front of you. Nearby, on the same Calle Alcazabilla, El Pimpi‘s terrace looks out over the Roman Theatre.
At Calle Trinidad Grund 29, in Soho, Malaga’s street-art district. Here the beer is brewed in full view and is only served at La Fábrica. It comes with food to share, plus brewery tours, tastings and live music. Phone: +34 952 12 39 04. La Fábrica website.
For a company dinner, a celebration or a meeting, Yubá Experience is a private, self-contained room inside the Malaga Premium Hotel. Chef Mario Rosado serves tasting menus with wine pairing and explains every dish at the table. Bendito and La Fábrica also have group menus. See Yubá Experience.
Malaga’s old town is best explored bar by bar, and there are classics any local would recommend.
On the Alameda Principal and open since 1840, it is one of the oldest wine bars in the city. Malaga wine (Moscatel, Pedro Ximénez, sweet or dry) is served straight from the barrel, and your tab is chalked on the bar. Order some prawns or mussels on the side.
An 18th-century house with two entrances, on Calle Granada and Calle Alcazabilla. Its terrace, facing the Roman Theatre and the Alcazaba, is the place for a glass of sweet wine with monument views.
Two bars that are always busy. Casa Lola, on Calle Granada, is all tiles, pinchos and vermouth on tap. La Tranca, on Calle Carretería, is a small, noisy tavern with a great atmosphere and cheap tapas.
For fish, head to Atarazanas Central Market. Besides the fish, seafood, fruit and meat stalls, it has a bar area where you can eat freshly fried fish made with produce from the market itself. Don’t leave without looking up at its huge stained-glass window.
The sardine espeto, grilled on a skewer next to the embers, is eaten on the beach: at the beach bars of Pedregalejo and El Palo, the seaside neighbourhoods east of the centre, a few minutes away by taxi or bus.
In Malaga lunch is from 2 pm to 4 pm and dinner from 9 pm, and many kitchens close between lunch and dinner. At weekends and in high season it’s worth booking ahead, especially if you want dinner on a terrace.
If it’s your first time, order sardine espeto, fried anchovies, Malaga salad (cod, potato and orange), porra antequerana or ajoblanco, and toast with a glass of sweet Malaga wine.
A very local detail: order your coffee the Malaga way. A “nube” is mostly milk, followed by “sombra”, “mitad” and “solo”. This way of ordering was born at the now-closed Café Central on Plaza de la Constitución.
For signature cuisine, at restaurants such as Bendito or Batik. For tapas, at the old-town classics: Antigua Casa de Guardia, El Pimpi, Casa Lola or La Tranca. For fried fish, at Atarazanas Market.
On the city-centre rooftops and terraces: Batik and La Terraza de la Alcazaba, facing the Alcazaba; La Terraza de San Juan, with the Cathedral in the background; or El Pimpi’s terrace, next to the Roman Theatre.
Sardine espeto, fried fish, Malaga salad, porra antequerana, ajoblanco and sweet Malaga wine.
At weekends and in summer, yes, especially on terraces and at restaurants with tasting menus. At tapas bars you can usually just turn up and eat at the bar.
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