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Kaleja
Must try
A long tasting menu or a short à la carte with a minimum number of dishes; Guía Repsol mentions menus at €100 and €130. The Michelin Guide highlights the eel maimones de all i pebre and the corvina cooked over embers with parsley sauce and Moroccan lemon; Repsol, the gazpachuelo, the embers-roasted peppers and the pringá de puchero (slow-cooked stew meats). In 2026 reviews: veal sweetbreads with miso mousse and the squid.
About
Kaleja is a Sephardic word meaning 'little street': it is in the old Jewish quarter, a few metres from the Museo Picasso. Dani Carnero cooks the Andalusian flavours of his childhood over embers and on a slow heat ('cocina de candela').
Good to know
Book in advance: there are only two seatings (13:30-14:30 and 20:00-21:00), Tuesday to Saturday. Ask for a seat at the bar facing the kitchen if there is one (March 2026): it is the best way to see the 'cocina de candela' (cooking over embers). Do not rush: the long menu can last three or four hours. Not a plan for small children.
Getting there and parking
Pedestrian centre: park at the Alcazaba car park (Calle Alcazabilla) and continue on foot towards the Picasso Museum, or take the metro to Atarazanas.
Near here
La CosmoMálaga market cuisine by Dani Carnero (Bib Gourmand) · Calle Císter · 5 minThe informal bar of Dani Carnero, the chef of Kaleja, in the shadow of the Cathedral: open kitchen, white décor, local produce and Málaga se
Uvedoble TabernaTavern with modern tapas · Calle Alcazabilla · 5 minModern Mediterranean tavern by chef Willie Orellana, with a terrace next to the Roman Theatre and the Alcazaba.
Roman Theatre of MálagaCulture · Málaga (centro) · 5 minTheatre from the early 1st century AD, from the time of Augustus.jpg/960px-Patio_del_Museo_Picasso_M%C3%A1laga_(2018).jpg)
Museo Picasso MálagaCulture · Málaga (centro) · 5 minMore than two hundred works by Picasso donated by his family, in a 16th-century Renaissance palace