Restaurant L'Encesa

Should you book Restaurant L'Encesa in El Port De La Selva? Yes, if you want Mediterranean, market-fresh seafood and grill cooking in a casual setting with sea views. The draw is direct: local, market-led cuisine, a tastefully decorated restaurant, and fish from local markets cooked in a charcoal oven. It feels built less around ceremony than the coast’s core pleasures: good product, heat, rice, seafood, and a view that roots the meal in place.

Choose it when setting matters alongside seafood. The available information points to fabulous sea views and a relaxed, casual dress code, not a highly formal dining premise. If the view is a major reason for booking, say so when you contact the restaurant; the more important the outlook is to the occasion, the more it is worth making that priority clear in advance, because the room’s appeal is closely tied to eating by the sea rather than simply ordering seafood in town.

Book for market seafood, paella, and the charcoal-grill format

The kitchen’s clearest identity is Mediterranean market-fresh seafood and grill cooking. Come for fresh grilled fish, paella, rice dishes, and brasa seafood handled in a product-first way. The restaurant serves local, market-fresh cuisine and fish brought from local fish markets, baked in a charcoal oven. That gives the restaurant its point of difference: the meal is not abstract or overly composed, but lets the market and grill do most of the work.

At about $55 per person, the restaurant makes sense when the table orders around seafood, rice, and the grill. That is where the sourcing angle matters most: local market product and charcoal cooking are the grounded reasons to choose it over a generic seaside stop. If the group wants grilled fish, paella, rice dishes, and sea views in El Port De La Selva, it is a strong fit. The value is clearest when everyone leans into those strengths rather than treating it as an all-purpose option.

The available menu details are broad, not exhaustive. Signature areas are fresh grilled fish, paella, rice dishes, and brasa seafood, so the safest strategy is to lean into those categories and ask what is best from the market that day. That matches the market-led premise: use the listed specialties as the framework and let the day’s seafood guide the final choices. For a table, build the meal around one or two anchor dishes from the grill or rice section and keep the focus on freshness.

The room is casual, but the view is the premium

The experience is casual rather than formal. Casual dress fits, and the appeal is the combination of market seafood, charcoal cooking, and sea views. The room and outlook are part of the value. The tastefully decorated setting supports that feeling while keeping the meal relaxed, coastal, and centered on seafood rather than a rigid dining script.

The most grounded reason to prioritize it is the simple combination of local seafood, rice dishes, brasa cooking, and the view. In practical terms, Restaurant L'Encesa is easy to understand: a classic seaside equation, with the specificity of local market fish and charcoal heat, rather than a long list of extras or a heavily described service style.

For planning beyond this table, use our full El Port De La Selva restaurants guide to see where it fits within the town’s dining options. If the meal is part of a wider stay, Pearl also has El Port De La Selva hotels, bars, wineries, and experiences guides for building the rest of the day around the coast rather than treating dinner as a standalone stop. Think of this restaurant as one coastal piece of a broader day, where setting and meal reinforce each other.

The verdict: book it for a casual seafood meal where market product, rice, charcoal-grilled cooking, and sea views are the appeal. The sweet spot is an order shaped around fresh grilled fish, paella, rice dishes, and brasa seafood, with the table letting market seafood, the grill, and the seaside setting lead.