Gluten-Free Near Valencia’s Old Town
Gluten-free food within a short walk of the cathedral.
Everything here is within about a kilometre of Plaça de la Reina, useful when you are sightseeing in Ciutat Vella and need to eat now. Tiers run from 100% gluten-free to options only, so check each one.
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chök - Valencia
100% GFchök's bakery-café on Sant Vicent Màrtir in Ciutat Vella sells gluten-free cinnamon rolls (classic, pistachio and more), rookies, brookies and cookies, some of them vegan. Its own site gives daily hours of 9:00-21:00.
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chök Pau
100% GFchök Pau, on Carrer de la Pau in Ciutat Vella, is a café and obrador from the chök brand selling sweet bakes and coffee. chök's site gives opening hours of 9:00 to 21:00, Monday to Sunday.
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Berguna Gluten Free
100% GFA large vegan brunch spot, café and obrador in Ciutat Vella. The menu runs from eggs Benedict with avocado and savoury waffles to salmon poke and teriyaki chicken, plus cakes such as pistachio cheesecake, and there is gluten-free beer.
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BENORI - Sushi Para Llevar
100% GFA sushi takeaway on Calle Almirante Roger de Lauria in Ciutat Vella. Benori's own site says all its products are made gluten-free.
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Gato Blanco Restaurante
100% GFA family restaurant on Carrer de Lleida in La Saïdia with healthy Mediterranean cooking and a children's play area. The restaurant says its whole carta is gluten-free, including the kids' menu and breakfasts.
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Pizza Natura
100% GFPizza Natura builds its whole carta on a millet-and-quinoa dough and calls itself 100% gluten free. The line-up leans healthy-Italian, with pizzas such as Tropical Burrata and Veganissima.
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El Obrador del Celíaco Café
100% GFA gluten-free obrador and café in La Saïdia from the team behind El Obrador del Celiaco, with chocolate-filled croissants, six-seed hogazas and empanadillas such as tuna and onion.
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Sana Locura
100% GFA small bakery-café on Convent de Santa Clara in Ciutat Vella, part of the Sana Locura brand, selling breads, sweet and savoury bakes, individual empanadas and coffee, including a ham-and-cheese bocadillo and an almond croissant.
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chök - Ercilla
100% GFchök's Ercilla shop in Ciutat Vella, an obrador and counter for the brand's sweet bakes. The brand also runs chök shops that are not gluten-free; this one is labelled '100% gluten free' on chök's own shop list.
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La Pappardella
Coeliac-association advisedAn Italian restaurant on Bordadores in Ciutat Vella that makes fresh egg pasta in-house every day. Its menu marks a small set of 'Gluten-free choices': penne, Il Nostro Hamburger on gluten-free bread, risotto, and chocolate and pistachio cakes.
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Al Pomodoro
Coeliac-association advisedA busy Italian pizzeria on Calle del Mar in Ciutat Vella. Its gluten-free menu covers salads, gluten-free penne, gnocchi, a burger on a gluten-free bun and a chocolate cake, plus a gluten-free menú del día (€17.90). There is no gluten-free pizza.
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LALOLA Restaurante
Coeliac-association advisedAn arrocería near the Cathedral in Ciutat Vella cooking Valencian paellas, from the paella valenciana with free-range chicken to seafood paella, plus gluten-free bread with tomato and all i oli.
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Arrocería Ricepaella Delivery Take Away
Coeliac-association advisedA rice and paella takeaway on Carrer del Músic Peydró in Ciutat Vella. The menu tags five dishes 'Gluten-free': the cauliflower and ribs rice, cherry and vegetable rice, seafood rice, baked rice and esgarraet.
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Restaurante Japonés - MOMIJI ATELIER
Coeliac-association advisedA modern Japanese restaurant in the Mercado de Colón (Calle Jorge Juan, 19) in l'Eixample. Its carta marks allergens and says those marked with an asterisk can be removed on request.
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La Papita de leche Take Away
Coeliac-association advisedA Venezuelan takeaway counter on Avenida de María Cristina in Ciutat Vella. The only gluten-free items publicly listed are churros and buñuelos made with yuca and pumpkin (the Spanish coeliac federation's Fallas 2025 list on celiacos.org).
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Civera Marisquería
Coeliac-association advisedA seafood restaurant (marisquería) on Carrer de Mossén Femades in Ciutat Vella. Its menu is not published as text online, so ask on the day which dishes are gluten-free.
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El Rebost d'Alboraia
Coeliac-association advisedAn artisan butcher's and deli on Carrer d'Alboraia in La Saïdia: a shop, not a restaurant. Its own site says all its products are gluten-free.
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McDonald's
ProtocolA McDonald's on Carrer de Xàtiva in Ciutat Vella. McDonald's Spain offers some burgers, such as the Big Mac, on a gluten-free Schär bun, and cooks its fries and Deluxe potatoes in dedicated fryers.
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La Vita e Bella
OptionsAn intimate Italian pizzeria and pasta restaurant in Ciutat Vella. Its website has a 'Sin Gluten' section, but the pizzas and pastas on the standard menu, from Margherita to carbonara, are not marked gluten-free.
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Honest Greens
OptionsThe Ciutat Vella branch of Honest Greens, a healthy-bowls chain, on Carrer de Pascual i Genís. The chain publishes allergen information by dish, and the banana bread is labelled gluten-free; bowls and market plates rotate, so check each one.
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Almalibre Açaí House El Carmen
OptionsA vegan açaí and juice bar in El Carmen with specific gluten-free swaps — extra GF bread, GF beer, and GF granola to take home — rather than a GF kitchen across the board. No dedicated certification is claimed, so the rest of the menu needs asking about.
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Khambú Quart
OptionsKhambú is a vegan and vegetarian fast-casual spot on Calle Quart in Ciutat Vella. Burgers come on wheat buns but can be switched to a gluten-free bun for €0.50, there's Daura gluten-free beer, and the New York cheesecake is labelled gluten-free.
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Kuzina
OptionsA Greek restaurant on Conde de Almodóvar in the centre, with dips like tzatziki, melitzanosalata and fava de Santorini, plus octopus, mussels saganaki and lamb paidakia. Gluten-free bread replaces the pita for €3.50.
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CLANN Bar Tapas
OptionsA tapas bar in El Carmen built around the grill: calamari, king prawns, white fish, a 1kg T-bone, rabbit in garlic sauce and veal sweetbreads. The only item labelled gluten-free is a Tyris Märzen beer.
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Burger King Plaça de l'Ajuntament
OptionsA Burger King on Plaça de l'Ajuntament. The gluten-free options are the 'Sin Gluten' burgers on a gluten-free bun and classic fries fried to order in a separate basket (per a 2021 FACE note); everything else comes from a shared fast-food kitchen.
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McDonald's
OptionsA McDonald's near Joaquín Sorolla station where burgers and sandwiches can be swapped onto gluten-free bread. A Tarta choco sin gluten and a Cerveza sin gluten are also listed, per the chain's allergen documentation.
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Lia Valencia
OptionsA well-reviewed Mediterranean restaurant in Ciutat Vella that publishes its own allergen menu, with gluten-free bread (including a wholemeal option), gluten-free beer and gluten-free desserts all specifically available, plus an adapted kitchen area. Reviewers say they always know what they can eat here.
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Café Infanta
OptionsA bar-café in El Carmen serving Spanish tapas, coffee and cocktails late into the night. The beer list includes a gluten-free Tyris Märzen, and the food carta carries allergen information.
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Naked & Sated Valencia
OptionsThe Valencia branch of Naked & Sated, a 'real food' chain, in Ciutat Vella. The large menu covers pizzas, burgers, poke bowls, salads and 'donaked' desserts.
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Restaurante Ampar - Valencia
OptionsRestaurante Ampar marks its menu with a per-dish icon system — a circled S for dishes suitable for celiacs, a wheat-stalk icon for ones adaptable on request — covering starters like burrata-topped tomato salad and foie turrón, through to a full range of rice dishes (paella valenciana, arròs del senyoret, lobster with garlic shoots) and desserts. It's fine dining, with prices to match, and the allergy-icon system is more granular than a general 'ask your waiter' disclaimer.
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Pura Vida Açaí
OptionsAn açaí bar in Ciutat Vella with a short menu of açaí bowls, chai and matcha lattes. Some bowls come with granola, Lotus biscuit or galleta María, so not every item is gluten-free.
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MESTIZO - Café de especialidad • Brunch • Tapas
OptionsA specialty-coffee brunch café in Ciutat Vella with a handful of specific gluten-free items: house GF bread as a €1.20 swap on toasts and bagels, GF beer, a GF granola yogurt bowl, and a GF coconut alfajor. Not a GF kitchen across the board, but clearly marked where it applies.
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Cult Café
OptionsCult Café's default bread is organic sourdough, which contains gluten — buckwheat bread is available if you ask. On the menu itself, only two dishes are explicitly marked 'SG' (sin gluten): yogurt with granola, and the açaí bowl. Everything else needs a direct question to staff rather than being pre-marked.
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Giardino del Carmen
OptionsGiardino del Carmen is a Mediterranean restaurant in El Carmen known for seafood and josper-grill cooking. Its online allergen chart flags which dishes contain cereals with gluten; the Mejillones a la lima y mix de pimientas, for example, carry no cereals icon.
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Ginos La Pagoda
OptionsGinos in the La Pagoda building on Plaza de la Legión Española, Pla del Real: an Italian chain restaurant with a separate 'carta sin gluten' of gluten-free pasta, a few gluten-free pizzas, garlic bread and tiramisù, including Rigatoni al Forno and Pizza Pollo Barbecue.
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Hamburguesa Nostra
OptionsA burger chain outpost in Ciutat Vella where every burger on the menu can be ordered with a gluten-free black-sesame brioche bun, and Daura gluten-free beer is on tap. It's a bun swap on a shared-kitchen menu rather than a dedicated GF operation, but it's clearly documented in their own allergen PDF.
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Hundred Burgers San Vicente
OptionsHundred Burgers on Carrer de Sant Vicent Màrtir in Ciutat Vella. Most burgers can take a gluten-free brioche bun for €1 extra (not the Carlton Banks, Showdown or Three Crown), there is a gluten-free nachos tortilla, and the chain says its patties are only meat.
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Oslo
OptionsOslo is a vegetarian and vegan restaurant in Ciutat Vella whose carta marks dishes as gluten-free or available in a gluten-free version, from vegetable ceviche and sushi poké to aubergine musaca and matcha cheesecake.
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