Seafood cuisine and typical dishes from the Huelva coast

To talk of the seafood cuisine of Huelva is synonymous with sea, with salt. Of fish like sole, skate, red mullet, flat fish, sea bass, tuna, sea bass, sea bream and mackerel. those that leave the market every morning destined to giving the best flavour to a gastronomic tradition that will delight the most discerning palate.

Enjoy the taste of the sea in Huelva and feel the gentle sea breezes of the Atlantic on any of the infinite beaches along the coast of Huelva.

Sardines in pepper sauce, sea bream with onion, swordfish in yellow sauce, tuna with tomato, grilled fish…

Those wonderful wedge clams, fine clams, razor shells and Venus clams, all tasting 100% of the sea. It is, as those who try them will say, like taking a bite out of a wave, and they can be eaten either cooked with garlic, or unadorned, simply opened by the steam.

Noodles with mackerel, seafood stews of monkfish or sea bass…, quite delicious.

Sole from the estuary, skate in paprika, fried fish in general…, so rich and varied!

From fried sole and flatfish to pickled fish, roasted mackerel and sardines, as well as "puntillitas" or "el choco", local names for the cuttlefish, which are used to create a great variety of dishes, most notably broad beans with cuttlefish and of course… the wonderfully delicious fried cuttlefish.

And without forgetting anchovies, both in vinegar as well as fried which are marvellous without exception, accompanied by products from the garden like red peppers or a roast pepper salad… in a word, what more can we say. The perfect complement.

Any table of seafood in Huelva simply must include shellfish, beginning with delicious prawns and fine crayfish to accompany a good bowl of seafood rice and, as you would expect as it's Huelva we're talking about… white prawns. The star of the sea on the Huelva coast.

This prawn is a compulsory delicacy for all those who want to know what the Huelva sea tastes like.

And from the traditional style, to the more modern and innovative cuisine with restaurants like Acanthum.

Acanthum is the flagship of innovative seafood cuisine in the province of Huelva where thanks to delicacies provided by the Atlantic along the Huelva shoreline, we are blessed with such dishes as risotto of sea anemones, proof of Huelva's creativeness and that it has a pure taste of the sea. 

And finally, the "grelhado" octopus…

This octopus, with a decidedly Portuguese influence, is roasted with local wine and as an innovative touch it is presented to the customer on a smoking dish.

A cuisine full of salt, a cuisine full of flavours, all very different but flavours which bring smiles and make the mouth water for all who come here and tempt the traveller to repeat the experience of feeling the sea in your mouth, feeling the south and feeling the Huelva seashore.