Nueva Andalucía

Spread across the valley behind Puerto Banús and ringed by golf courses — the reason locals call it the Golf Valley — Nueva Andalucía is residential at its core but draws diners from the marina for two very different reasons. One is El Bigote, a long-standing temple to seafood and arroces where the rice arrives at the table still bubbling; the other is a clutch of polished, internationally minded rooms catering to the villa crowd. The Saturday street market is an institution, and the dining tracks the area's split personality: serious Spanish cooking on one hand, brasserie and global comfort on the other. It is unflashy by Banús standards, which is precisely its appeal to those who live here.