ANDALUCÍA - MÁLAGA - PEDREGALEJO - CHIRINGUITO EL LIRIO

Miguel Renoir Spanish Guides
Jul 12, 2016
2 min read

Updated: 4 days ago

CHIRINGUITO EL LIRIO (PERMANELY CLOSED, NOW A BURGER BAR!)

There are many great things about Málaga. The big blue skies, 300 days of sunshine a year, the beaches and the food. Málaga has some of Andalucía's best Chiringuitos. These are beachfront bars and restaurants that specialise in tapas, salads and above all else, lots of fish. You will find skewers of freshly caught and salted Mediterranean sardines, dorada (gilthead bream), lubina (sea bass), salmonete (red mullet) and other locally caught fish.

There is typically meat available, but these places are renowned for their fish and seafood tapas, hot and cold. The menu is basically a list of things caught in the sea that day. For the best Chiringuitos, head just east of the city towards a strip of beaches and to Málaga's oldest fishing neighbourhoods, Pedregalejo. The seafront is a long row of restaurants. On the sand, in front of the Chiringuitos, are boats full of stones, and olive wood burns slowly. This is the traditional way of grilling fish.

Try Restaurante El Lirio, which was founded in the early twentieth century. It offers high-quality fish at reasonable prices, served in a friendly family atmosphere right on the beachfront.

There is seating downstairs and upstairs with views over the blue Mediterranean.

Aside from all the usual fish dishes, like sardinas grilled in the boat in front of the restaurant

You can also choose from the daily catch on show inside the restaurant

El Lirio also offers some great gazpacho, fish soups and their flagship dish the arroz caldoso con boquerones (soupy rice with anchovies) is simply amazing.