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MARBELLA. Where to eat. Regional Cooking

If you want to appreciate traditional regional cooking, cooking as it is known in Marbella and Málaga, you merely to have to visit one of the many local cafes or restaurants to be found in the local districts at the centre or on the outskirts of the town.

Many of these establishments have passed down from grandparents to grandchildren, and have kept alive the original flavour as much in the decoration and renovation of old properties as in the labours in their kitchens, with closely guarded family recipes, almost like renovation projects themselves, using traditional ingredients and cooking techniques, the pots full of delicious ingredients, the mountains of plates, the jugs stuffed of spoons and where the nearly forgotten traditions are still maintained in the era of the mobile phone and the internet…

To get a flavour of this tradition…