Javea offers typical dishes of the Mediterranean and a range of International cuisine too. With the fisherman supplying the town with freshly caught fish, it isn’t a surprise that seafood dishes are predominant in the restaurants and bars. A local dish is “cruet de peix” a fish stew, and fried fish is a tasty tapas, like “gambas” and “calamares”. Grilled sardines are low priced and fresh, and taste fantastic accompanied with wine, bread and ali oli (garlic mayonese). 

The most popular and characteristic dish is Paella. This consists of rice cooked in a wide, cast-iron pan (called paella) with other ingredients such as meat, fish, seafood and vegetables. Beans and parsnip paella and pork and vegetables are common varieties. Rice forms a part of many dishes, such as "Arros al forn" an oven baked rice dish with meat and vegetables or "Arros amb fesols i naps" which is rice with beans and swede.

Some of Javea’s traditional dishes include “Coques” which are mini pizzas with oil and a tomato sauce on, red peppers and olives, and are sold fresh in the bakeries. Stews are another dish, a popular one has snails in “caragols amb bull I ceba”.

In the Old Town and Port you can find tasty tapas in may bars. They are little portions of traditional foods, like prawns, anchovies, or serrano ham, spicy pork sausages with paprika “sobrasada” and lots more, it is not too expensive, and depending how hungry you are, you can order a little or a lot!

Local desserts are made using locally available ingredients, such as almonds, oranges, raisins and figs. Well known items include "pastissets de boniato" sweet potato pasties, "mona de pasqua" a sweet bread, and "torta" delicious almond cake.

To accompany all this food Javea enjoys some of the most interesting wines produced by the vines which can be seen in fields around the area. When dining out in Javea it is worth looking at the “menu del dia”, the menu of the day offers around three courses with wine and bread, for very reasonable prices.