Experts' Choice Award Horchateria Santa Catalina
What the experts agree on
Valencia's oldest horchateria (200+ years) serves the iconic local ritual: sweet horchata paired with fartons (finger-shaped pastries for dunking). The elegant, tiled dining room attracts long-time regulars savoring this Valencian tradition.
“It’s also famous for being the oldest horchateria—over 200 years old—according to its sign out front.”
– Afar Magazine
Concierge "More colorful majolica tiles adorn the elegant main dining room, where perfectly coiffed matrons sit chatting while they dip long donuts called (we're not kidding) fartons into their horchata."
Lonely Planet "Horchata is a sweet, opaque, very Valencian drink made from pressed chufas (tiger nuts), into which you dip large finger-shaped buns called fartons; both name and taste are to savour." Full review
National Geographic "For a traditional taste of horchata, a drink made from tigernut milk, pull up a chair to one of the marble-topped tables at Horchateria de Santa Caterina, where the walls of painted..."
