Cafe de las Horas has held Calle Conde de Almodóvar 1 since 1994, one street off Plaza de la Virgen. Founders Marc Barrachina and Manuel Castillo built a neo baroque stage set: chandeliers, tapestries, fresh flowers, opera on the speakers.
24/7 Valencia calls it a Parisian cafe, an English tea room, and an American cocktail lounge rolled into one. The description has stuck for three decades.
The house Agua de Valencia is the city's reference version, built on the bar's own citrus liqueur.
Neo baroque excess inside a 19th century building: red walls, gilt frames, marble tables.
Visit Valencia lists it among the city's essential bars and terraces. The tables outside catch the cathedral foot traffic.
Tourists from the plaza by day, Valencians by night, everyone under the same chandeliers.
Tripadvisor holds it at 4.1, ranked inside the top 350 of nearly 4,000 Valencia venues. Waits form on weekend evenings; reviewers call the drink worth it.
Plaza de la Virgen sits one street south. Doors open daily at 10am and drinks run past midnight, later on weekends.
What to order
- 01
Agua de Valencia, by the jug
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The cocktail list after
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Tea, if it is 5pm