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Angle
Star chef Jordi Cruz’s ‘second’ Barcelona restaurant is a delight, and better in some ways than his flagship ABaC. Review: Angle restaurant, Hotel Cram, Barcelona Note: I prefer to review restaurants on their own merits and not in relation to other establishments but when you visit two in a week that are run by the…
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Mangled menus
Note: this was originally posted on my work website www.bcnfreelance.com but it’s probably more at home here. It’s a truism that we eat with our eyes. The appearance of food is inseparable from how it tastes; indeed, experiments have shown that even skilled chefs are sometimes unable to identify flavours if presented to them in…
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Fismuler Barcelona
Fismuler Barcelona in the Hotel Rec is deservedly one of city’s hottest new restaurants. Review: Fismuler Barcelona | Hotel Rec | Sant Pere – El Born Fismuler’s Madrid mothership has held a steady orbit in the rarified air of high praise since launching in 2016, transporting diners in the Spanish capital to happiness with fresh,…
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Blanc (Mandarin Oriental)
Chef Carme Ruscalleda takes charge of the informal Blanc restaurant in the Mandarin Oriental Barcelona hotel with fabulous, unfussy dishes. Review: Blanc, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Eixample, Barcelona Blanc restaurant is like an unlucky-in-love Hollywood star: glamorous and beautiful but seemingly unable to settle down with the right partner. The story of its dalliances with chefs even…
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Lasarte
Lasarte – Barcelona’s only three-Michelin-star restaurant – offers distinctive, sure-footed cooking of the very highest standard. Review: Lasarte Restaurant, Monument Hotel, Eixample, Barcelona Barcelona’s reputation as a destination city for fine dining has mushroomed. But until recently, it did not have a restaurant with three Michelin stars. This irked local food journalists no end. They griped…
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Gouthier
Gouthier, in the uptown district of Sarrià, is Barcelona’s go-to bar for top-quality oysters. Review: Gouthier bar-restaurant, Sarrià, Barcelona Gouthier oyster bar is in Sarrià, an uptown Barcelona district that still feels like the separate village it once was. Its terrace spills out onto a pretty square far beyond the roaming range of most tourists. No…
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Céleri
Not quite vegetarian, not quite vegan, but entirely invigorating; a demonstration of the heights humble produce can reach in the hands of a great chef. 2018 Update: Céleri is now PERMANENTLY CLOSED. Review: Céleri restaurant, Barcelona When a chef whose CV glitters with Michelin stars decides that what he really, really wants to do is cook simple vegetable dishes,…
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ABaC
Haute cuisine but lacking heart? Some exquisite dishes let down by directionless menu with disappointing desserts at one of the city’s finest restaurants. Review: ABaC restaurant, Barcelona I really wanted to love ABaC. Its chef, Jordi Cruz, is someone I’ve admired for a long time. I’ve watched him rise from Barcelona’s ranks of talented young cooks to become a…
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Mercer Restaurant
Beautiful restaurant with cooking to match – but understaffing stops it reaching its potential. Review: Mercer restaurant, Hotel Mercer Update, September 2015: Please note that head chef Xavier Lahuerta has now left Mercer restaurant. Click here for my review of the latest iteration of Mercer restaurant. The Mercer is a gorgeous hotel. It’s built into…
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By Neighbourhood
Here’s a barri per barri breakdown of the Barcelona restaurants and tapas bars I’ve reviewed in FoodBarcelona (plus a few other random places I like thrown in for free). To see them on a map, click here. Barcelona Restaurants by Neighbourhood La Barceloneta Bravo 24 Pez Vela Rangoli La Cova Fumada 1881 per SAGARDI El…
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Menu Translations
Menus in restaurants in Spain can be dangerous. Not because of the food but because of the language used; there’s often a real risk of choking with laughter at the typically terrible translations into English. More seriously, badly-translated menus are a danger to profits and to a restaurant’s reputation. Confusing the customers will not…
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Gresca
There are days when you just don’t want to gamble. It’s always great to try new places but if you want a guaranteed good lunch, a no cabe duda certainty that you will sit down, eat and leave happy, then you need to go to somewhere tried and tested. It seems strange to refer to…
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Caldeni
2015 Note: There is now an updated review of Caldeni here. 2014 note: Caldeni now has an excellent ‘meat bar’ spin off next door. Check out my recent post on Bardeni. In the company of Dan, a friend and fellow food enthusiast, I headed for lunch yesterday to Caldeni (C/ València, 452) near the Sagrada…