Category: Bite-sized Reviews

  • L’Antica Pizzeria Da Michele Barcelona

    L’Antica Pizzeria Da Michele Barcelona

    Napoli’s finest pizzeria lands in Barcelona’s Eixample district. The Southern-Italian charm is impossible to import fully but the pizzas have survived the journey. Bite-sized Review: L’Antica Pizzeria Da Michele Barcelona, Eixample, Barcelona Recently, I posted about the time 20 years ago when I visited L’Antica Pizzeria Da Michele in Naples. In short, it played a part in…

  • Ca l’Isidre (2017)

    Ca l’Isidre (2017)

    Ca l’Isidre restaurant in Barcelona updates its decor but keeps what makes it great: high-class cooking. Bite-sized review: Ca l’Isidre restaurant, El Raval, Barcelona I wrote a full review of Ca l’Isidre restaurant in 2015. To read it, click here. Consider this post (based on a visit in early May) a minor update. It is…

  • Cecconi’s Barcelona

    Cecconi’s Barcelona

    Cecconi’s Barcelona, the restaurant attached to Soho House Barcelona members-only club, offers its quality northern-Italian cuisine to the general public.. Bite-Sized Review: Cecconi’s Barcelona Italian restaurant, Soho House, Gothic Quarter, Barcelona Soho House Barcelona is a members-only club in the Barri Gòtic. It’s a delightful place to spend time, either to work or play. It’s…

  • La Falconera

    La Falconera

    UPDATE 2018: La Falconera has closed permanently La Falconera specialises in traditional tapas and hearty, nose-to-tail stews despite its fashionable location in Barcelona’s Eixample.  Bite-sized review: La Falconera restaurant, Eixample, Barcelona Trad is trendy again. Even so, there aren’t many places in the upper reaches of Barcelona’s Eixample that specialise in stews and similar rib-sticking…

  • Rocambolesc (Barcelona)

    Rocambolesc (Barcelona)

    Rocambolesc on Barcelona’s Ramblas serves lollies and ice creams worth licking, based on desserts by superstar chef Jordi Roca. Bite-sized review: Rocambolesc ice-cream shop, Liceu opera house, La Rambla, Barcelona The Ramblas are ground zero of Barcelona’s tourism explosion. The shock-waves of undiscriminating diners that roll down the boulevard have scorched clean all traces of its gastronomic…

  • La Panxa del Bisbe

    La Panxa del Bisbe

    La Panxa del Bisbe restaurant in Gràcia, Barcelona is a little treasure, serving Mediterranean cuisine with successful creative twists. La Panxa del Bisbe restaurant, Gràcia, Barcelona When La Panxa was at its previous location, a block away on Carrer Rabassa, I used to go fairly regularly. It was tiny, cramped and always full, but the…

  • El Ninot Cuina

    El Ninot Cuina

    Modern market cooking in Barcelona’s recently renovated Mercat del Ninot Review: El Ninot Cuina restaurant, l’esquerra de l’Eixample, Barcelona Take a walk around the newly renovated Mercat del Ninot, near Hospital Clinic, and you can get a literal taste of the future of Barcelona’s markets. The old atmosphere of haphazard hustle and bustle has been replaced by…

  • Salt Restaurant and Beach Club

    Salt Restaurant and Beach Club

    Burgers and cocktails beside the beach at Barcelona’s W Hotel.  Bite-Sized Review: Salt Restaurant and Beach Club There’s no shortage of good places to eat in and around the 5* W Hotel. Bravo 24 offers outstanding tapas and traditional Catalan cuisine, while the beachfront Pez Vela serves rice and seafood in a laid-back, beachfront setting. Salt…

  • Entrepanes Díaz

    Entrepanes Díaz

    Bags of character, sterling service and super sandwiches, but be careful with the bill at this baps-and-tapas bar. Entrepanes Díaz (Bite-Sized Review) Despite its vintage appearance, Entrepanes Díaz hasn’t been around long. It has, however, already earned a regular spot on my mental map of places to pop into if I’m goin on a tapeo …

  • The Tatami Room

    The Tatami Room

    Superior sushi, sashimi and more at The Tatami Room in Barcelona’s Poble Sec district. Bite-Sized Review: The Tatami Room Japanese restaurant, Barcelona I had dinner last month at The Tatami Room with its owner, Hugo. I know what you’re thinking, and you’re correct: Hugo is not a very Japanese name. Hugo the owner is, however,…

  • Cal Boter

    Cal Boter

    A traditional Catalan restaurant in Gracia that offers great value – if you don’t mind queuing. The first time I tried to eat at Cal Boter (C/ Tordera 62, 08012, Barcelona, (+34) 934 58 84 62, closed Sun. and Mon nights), the queue was out the door. I tried again another day, earlier, only to find…

  • Surya

    Surya

    ‘Mumbai street food’ in Barcelona: a modern Indian restaurant for relaxed snacking. Surya (C/ Pau Claris 92, +34 936 678 760 Barcelona isn’t the typical flock-wallpapered Barcelona Indian restaurant that transports you to the bad old days of 1980s Britain. The first thing that you’ll notice, apart from the bright murals, is that there’s a bus parked…

  • Bite-Sized Review: Ca L’Estevet

    Bite-Sized Review: Ca L’Estevet

    Some things should never change, and Ca l’Estevet (C/ Valldonzella 46, +34  93 302 4186) in the Raval is one of them. Unmoved by the tides of gastronomic fashion, it has been turning out old-school Catalan cuisine to devoted regulars since long before I first ate there over 15 years ago. It may be just around the…

  • Piras Brasería

    Piras Brasería

    I was in Gracia, hungry and in a hurry, when I stumbled across Piras Brasería (C/ Montseny 10, +34 93 218 26 05, closed Tuesdays). I’d just visited Barcelona’s best (and only) English-language second-hand bookshop, Hibernian Books just a few doors away on the same street and I was lured inside Piras by the smell of…

  • Bite-sized reviews: Café de L’Academia

    Bite-sized reviews: Café de L’Academia

    For a straightforward, fresh, top-value lunch in Barcelona’s Barri Gòtic, close to Plaça Sant Jaume, it’s hard to beat Café d’L’Academia (C/ Lledó  1, (+34) 93 319 8253, reservations required). This old favourite has seen dining trends come and go and ignored them all, staying packed every day with tourists and loyal locals in search…

  • Bite-sized Reviews: Mam i Teca

    Bite-sized Reviews: Mam i Teca

    Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Dayna Kurtz who was in town ahead of her concert appearance with soul & gospel legend Mavis Staples at the Sala Apolo. Dayna is, in my opinion, one of the best unsung (pardon the pun…) jazz/alt-country/Americana talents in the world – go and buy some of her music then…

  • Bite-sized Barcelona: La Taverna del Clínic

    Bite-sized Barcelona: La Taverna del Clínic

    The first in my new category of bite-sized Barcelona restaurant reviews is, appropriately enough, a tapas restaurant. Well, almost. La Taverna del Clínica, (C/ Rossello 155, +34 93 410 4221) is so-called because it looks out onto the Hospital del Clinic in the left Eixample area of Barcelona. I’ve been back to La Taverna many times over…