Flores Raras

Flores Raras is Quique Dacosta's restaurant on Carrer de Correus in the old town of València, with Carolina Álvarez as chef. Until January 2026 it was called El Poblet, and it holds two Michelin stars.

El Poblet had been part of the city's dining scene since 2012. The name itself came from Dénia, where Dacosta's flagship restaurant first opened as El Poblet before it took the chef's own name. For two decades Luis Valls worked alongside Dacosta and gave the Valencia restaurant its character, until he left to lead the food at a cultural centre in the city. Dacosta announced the change at Madrid Fusión, and the restaurant reopened under its new name in the same rooms, with ownership and management still in his hands.

Álvarez, who was born in Mexico, came from Dénia, where she had been head chef of Quique Dacosta Restaurante, the group's three-star house. Her cooking works by taking things away rather than piling them up, so each plate rests on fewer elements. The produce is Valencian: the rice fields and lagoon of the Albufera, the market gardens around the city and the belt of citrus groves, a range the kitchen has long studied in detail. A vegetarian menu can be ordered without notice.

Delia Claure runs the dining room, and Hernán Menno writes the wine list. Handing a kitchen of this level from a chef who shaped it for so long to one trained in the group's own flagship keeps a thread running through the change of name. A chef from Mexico cooking the Albufera and the citrus groves of Valencia also brings a second culture to a menu built on a single region, and the new name signals that the restaurant intends to be read afresh.