The best restaurants Catalonia

It is one of the three restaurants in the Món Sant Benet cultural complex. The menu of the day gives pride of place to Catalan specialities with its delicious seasonal products. On the menu: beef with parrilla, entrecote and organic vegetables from Sant Benet, tuna with vegetables, soya and honey, cod with garlic...

This traditional table is part of the Fogons del Bages gastronomic association. The family's son has taken over the reins of the establishment on the carretera for decades. Between stone walls and tiled tablecloths, there is a typical and seasonal cuisine specialising in charcoal cooked meats. A la carte: pork feet, bacallà, offal, Catalan cream, Montserrat mató... The address is popular from breakfast time, salty and hearty!

The restaurant of the Pensió Lleida, Lo Mam, has a good reputation in the region. The owners of the place are very attached to the good products of the land and are also passionate about gastronomy, not hesitating to mix styles and inspirations, especially during the gastro workshops, always using local, seasonal, fresh and high quality food as raw material. Particular attention is paid to the side dishes - handpicked wines, artisanal bread, oils produced nearby - as well as to the service, which is very professional. We love it!

The passion for cooking is a family affair with the Morells! And it has now been passed on for 5 generations. Lluís Morell Torra and his wife currently run Can Patoi, a Mediterranean cuisine restaurant that combines traditions and innovations that honour the regional terroir and ancient recipes. A la carte: pork feet, paella, cod with orange, beef with stewed beef... Impeccable service.

Cal Miliu offers a market cuisine declined in a wide variety of dishes typical of the region, as well as a wide range of homemade desserts. One of the most popular restaurants in the region.

The restaurant of the Hotel Guilleumes prepares a typical Catalan mountain cuisine, with a few Montserrat specialities on the menu, which will be perfect to regain your strength after the hike.

A small brasserie with a timeless yet neat setting overlooking the square. The chef simmers hearty regional specialities (snails, mato channels, vines in béchamel sauce, rabbit cooked with Montserrat herbs, meat and fish cooked on charcoal...), simple and delicious. Ideal for a typical stopover on the road to Montserrat.

In a small alley in the centre, this good table, which is worth a visit, offers creative cuisine unrolled on a short card. On the menu: grilled salmon in the Japanese style, risotto of vines, cod confit with tomato.... All served in a charming setting dressed in antique furniture.

A beautiful 19th century farmhouse that composes its menus according to seasonal produce. The restaurant's specialities include caramelized liver salad with parmesan cheese and Iberian ham, fresh gambas carpaccio or goat's shoulder with pears. A green garden, terrace and swimming pool make up the setting.

A traditional Catalan restaurant served in an ordinary setting, renowned for its monkfish with almond and shellfish sauce. Good value for money and friendly service.

Traditional cuisine without pretensions that honours Catalan gastronomy. A la carte: onion cream, sautéed spinach with walnuts, duck, scrambled eggs with mushrooms... Playground for children and private room to organize events.

Typical restaurant of the region, we taste here specialities of the Bages: caragols (snails), senglar (wild boar), emmascarades potatoes (mashed potatoes) and the famous calçots ! Typical and nourishing.

Built in 1910, this restaurant, more than a hundred years old, was once a small popular café called Café del Cale. Today, we can enjoy homemade Catalan cuisine, with grilled meat and forquilla esmorzars as specialities.

Cal Magre's imposing 18th century farmhouse houses a restaurant of character, inspired by the Catalan gastronomic tradition, while remaining deeply rooted in the present. The owners have chosen to favour local, ecological (Castelltallat lamb is a delight) and seasonal products.

Regional cuisine served in an old bodega. For example, you can taste rabbit marinated in rosemary and white wine from the Bages or rostit canelons with béchamel sauce from vines and morels.

Local Catalan cuisine, made from mostly ecological and local products. Hearty breakfasts and solid meals are on the menu. A café on the village square, just in front of the restaurant, will conclude the celebrations with a wonderful panorama.

To[+] is a modern and inventive restaurant where the Catalan gastronomic tradition is revisited by the young chef David Garcia. In a bright and luminous setting, you can share appetizers (ham croquettes, andalusian squid, steak tartare) with main dishes: watering, meat or fish preparation. Excellent! Excellent!

Good table set in one of the oldest residences in central Catalonia, in a setting of stone walls and exposed beams. Excellent seasonal cuisine, with a creative touch, which stands out for the quality of its products and its desire to sublimate the regional terroir.

The Mas de la Sala restaurant is a pleasant surprise with its successful and inventive market cuisine, friendly service and pleasant atmosphere. The owners, involved in the promotion of the Bages region, make it a point of honour to work with excellent regional products, from olive oil to wine, from organic goat cheese to artisanal emblems with a special mention for botifarra... Farandole of flavours and excellent value for money.

El Xaloc restaurant houses 8 independent and intimate service rooms, some for four people, others that can accommodate around twenty guests, under old stone vaults or behind large bay windows overlooking the garden (ideal for groups or weddings). Here you can taste Catalan cuisine of very good quality, seasonal and skillfully prepared, with the famous calçots as a seasonal speciality. Very good wines à la carte, professional service, in a rustic-chic setting.

On a small square in the city centre, this café is also a typical reinvented restaurant with a wide choice of charcoal cooked meats and specialities such as lamb chops, grilled chicken or cod with raisins on the menu.

The village's former café, theatre and cinema, housed in a restored building in the Burés colony, has become a pleasant bistro covered with film posters. Its simple, good and copious cuisine is a delight for cyclists and climbers who come to eat between two performances. An address to visit at any time of the day, in front of the Vell de Castellbell bridge.

Founded in 1962, this restaurant occupies a ^17th century house that has been completely renovated but whose original architecture has been preserved, such as in the dining rooms, which still have stone walls and arches in the ceiling. If it was a pub when it was created, it has now become a traditional restaurant offering typical dishes of the region, only elaborated with local and seasonal products: snails, meats, salads... To taste them, you can also settle down on the terrace, in an interior patio. Service to order and to take away.

Founded in 1920, the restaurant of the hotel of the "hunters" of Ribes is an institution in town. Here you can enjoy some good Catalan specialities, products of assured quality: carn a la brasa, game, fish of the day... You won't be disappointed by the desserts either: Catalan cream with cinnamon ice cream or fresh white cheese with honey and dried fruit. The establishment claims to be part of the slow food philosophy. Atyou can enjoy it in an elegant atmosphere without being stilted. Excellent wine list.

In one of the streets parallel to the sea paseo, this small family restaurant offers traditional Catalan cuisine according to the seasons, sometimes with themes that invite you to table such as fungi or urchins. In general there will be a lot of fish (wolf, turbo, Catalan cod, lotte to gambas…), seafood and even a guaranteed Valencian paella for amateurs. At the disposal to savor the whole, two small dining rooms with a slightly outdated but charming look with fishing nets on the wall and terrace on the street, from the beautiful days.

Taken over in 2011 by the French, this establishment with a modern decoration, decorated with beautiful vaults, offers a range of nice and original dishes. The menu is changed every three months, one per season. But you will be able to taste for example hamburgers of foie gras, tartars of red tuna with coriander, a salad with goat cheese and duck or a creamy risotto of lobsters with saffron. Its setting, its inventive cuisine and the freshness of its products have made it one of the most popular restaurants in L'Escala, where many regulars flock.

A location of choice overlooking the sea and a market kitchen, makes it an indispensable place to taste fish and seafood from the region. A large variety of salads such as salmon and goat cheese, accompanied by mustard vinegar or tomatoes and brie (a wink to its clientele….) to the soya sprouts in the same way of the marinières or steam molds. In the second dish, you will be offered, for example, sépias to the plancha or paella to fish, but without any ostracism to meat, as they feed in particular beautiful roasted veal fillets. The Catalan cream can come punctuates the pleasures. Everything to enjoy in a large bright space with large windows overlooking the harbour or on the terrace. In the evening, the restaurant also organizes barbecues.

On the seafront promenade of Castelldefels, a large Mediterranean cuisine restaurant with sublime views of the beach. On the menu: lobster, mango and avocado salad; creamy arròs (rice) with octopus and sea urchins; or Bluefin tuna with eggplant. Quality products, carefully prepared to offer refreshing and inspired dishes! The lounge area of the restaurant is an ideal spot at sunset: chill out atmosphere, DJ sets, and tasty cocktails facing the sea... for a 100% Mediterranean moment!

Trained in the kitchens of El Bulli (considered the best restaurant in the world until its closure in 2011), Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch and Mateu Casañas opened in 2012 Compartir. An eloquent name that means to share and that perfectly illustrates their philosophy. In concrete terms, you share the dishes at the table you are sitting at. Complex flavours and popular cuisine are the essence of the menu, which has also incorporated rice, langoustine marinades or cuttlefish and prawns from Cap de Creus. Reservation more than recommended.

Located inside the ramparts in the pedestrian area, the location of this restaurant will be its first asset: a charming and spacious terrace, sheltered by a typically Mediterranean Virginia creeper. And the view that goes with it, towards the sea and overlooking the rooftops of the citadel of Tossa. On the menu, you will have the opportunity to discover Catalan fish and seafood specialities. For example, choose spaghetti with black garlic and parmesan cheese or homemade paella. With an appreciable service, it is a good value for money.

Typical cuisine of the region to be tasted on the terrace facing the Ebro or in the rustic wooded room of this restaurant, which is certainly touristy but in a rather pleasant location. In fact, the Casa Nuri is a gastronomic institution of the Delta opened since 1973! You can taste very good specialties based on eel - we recommend the smoked eel, very tasty -, copious paellas mariscada (i.e. with seafood) and delicious grilled fish, all at very reasonable prices. The desserts are defensible but are not the strong point of the casa.

This is the new table of Artur Martínez, a Michelin-starred chef with his former Capritx restaurant, which he has swapped for this tavern with an informal atmosphere! Lunch menu, tapas and platters in the evening, all concocted with seasonal products. An extensive wine list of local wines, found less than 20 kilometres away, to accompany your meal. Traditional dessert prepared every morning, everything is ultra-fresh. The service is impeccable and friendly. And the prices are very attractive to top it all off!

The Parc de la Fàbrica restaurant, which takes its name from the presence of an old textile factory in this beautiful park, is a perfect place to recharge your batteries in a natural and charming setting. The building itself is original - with its wagon-like appearance made of wood and bricks - and the cuisine is excellent, made with fresh market produce. The Fabricate tu menu option allows you to compose your own meal by combining inventive and rather nourishing tapas, to share or not! Very friendly service, terrace and chill-out area.

The owner of this small restaurant welcomes his guests warmly before handing them the menu and offering them the suggestions of the day. Here you can enjoy all kinds of marine delicacies, with stars like very good paellas and other arroces, but also some tapas, salads and meat dishes. If the weather is good (which is often the case in Cambrils), try to arrive early to ensure a place on the small terrace, although the service room, with its white tablecloths, is not lacking in charm either.

A family restaurant open since 1977, as we like them, where you are welcomed with a smile even with a restless tribe (bottle warmer, high chairs available, children's menu). The view of the harbor and the good value for money of the fish and seafood cuisine, accompanied by fillings made from local and seasonal products, will satisfy even the most demanding customers. Traditional seaside recipes, with simple presentation and straightforward flavors. A fine selection of wines to accompany them all.

Who said that a pizza couldn't stand alongside the preparations of the greatest chefs? Fabián, several times world champion pizza chef, demonstrates here that the transalpine patty can be elevated to the rank of a gastronomic speciality in its own right! In an elegant and unpretentious service room, you can be guided by the friendly pizza master, who also makes some very good pasta and salad dishes as well as famous tartars. His creations are called "pizza de fleurs", "pizza de foie" or "pizza d'or". We won't go into the desserts chapter here, leaving it to you. Buen appetito!