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Kaleja

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Kaleja is the Sephardic word for “alley”, Michelin notes, and the restaurant is in Málaga’s old Jewish quarter, a few steps from the Picasso Museum. The chef, Dani Carnero, revives traditional Andalusian recipes, cooking slowly over hot coals in what the restaurant calls “candle cooking”.

From Where to Eat in Málaga: Tapas, Espetos, the Market and the Tables Worth Booking, under “One Michelin star”.

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Where
Calle Marquesa de Moya 5
Booking
Booking needs a card: Kaleja charges €100 a head for a no-show or a cancellation with less than 24 hours’ notice. If you want the counter, say so in the booking notes.
When
Michelin lists it open from Tuesday to Saturday, for lunch from 13:30 to 14:30 and dinner from 20:00 to 21:00.

As the guide had it on 21 Oct 2026. Check prices and hours with the place itself before you go.

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    La Cosmo

    Citorah says Dani Carnero, the chef at Kaleja, also runs this more casual place, with an open kitchen, and Michelin says it’s committed to transparency about its produce and where it comes from. Michelin recommends eating at the bar and ordering the hake salad.

    The catch Bread costs €2.50

  • Museum

    Museo Picasso Málaga

    Citorah says The Museo Picasso Málaga fills the Palacio de Buenavista, Calle San Agustín 8, a 16th-century palace that mixes Renaissance and Mudéjar elements. The collection display, Structures of Invention, shows around 144 works from 1895 to 1972, hung so that work from different decades shares each gallery. Below the palace, Phoenician and Roman remains are on view, among them a Phoenician city wall from the early sixth century BC and vats from a Roman salt-fish factory. It’s the city’s essential museum for Picasso.

  • Restaurant · Centro Histórico

    El Pimpi

    Citorah says Pepe Cobos and Paco Campos, two men from Córdoba, founded the bodega in 1971, in an 18th-century house built on an old Roman road. The menu is local and seasonal, El Pimpi says, and it names the huevo de toro tomato, jamón de castaña and sweet muscatel wine among it.

  • Sight · Centro Histórico

    Roman Theatre

    Citorah says The Roman Theatre (Teatro Romano) sits below the Alcazaba at Calle Alcazabilla s/n. It was built in the early years of the 1st century AD, and lay hidden under streets and houses for centuries until gardening works in 1951 uncovered its vaulted entrance. Much of the seating, the marble-paved orchestra and the stage survive, and under the glass pyramid on Calle Alcazabilla are the vats where the fish-salting works that later took over the site made garum. The visit is the theatre plus an interpretation centre, and it costs nothing.

    The catch The site may close when the state weather agency issues an orange or red heat warning

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