Les meilleurs restaurants catalans Catalonia

Located at the northern tip of the main bay of Salou, the terrace of this small tapas restaurant is very suitable to admire the sunset. As for the dishes, we are entitled to some copious plates of seafood of all kinds, but also to salads rather well done (the one with goat cheese defends itself well). Compared to the other shops of this part of the seafront, Les Barques makes the difference: fresh products, a professional and fast service, very reasonable prices. An address that stands out.

It is a nice restaurant located outside Campllong, around a pleasant park. Spacious and welcoming, it offers a cuisine based on local recipes and products. Snails, duck duck and liver are the great specialities of the house. Succulent meats and a varied assortment of fish complete the menu. Without forgetting the rice paella of Pals and fideuàs. The terrace in summer is perfect for a quiet meal. Private lounges are available if required. You will also enjoy the children's playground.

Behind the stoves of this small restaurant, a cuisine that is both traditional and creative is meticulously prepared. The menu changes according to the season's products: game meat, mushrooms, figs and cherries, all served in the dining room in winter and autumn or on the terrace when the weather is fine. Where you can also sip cocktails, mojitosand other gin and tonics. A bio-ecological and vegetarian menu is also available. Located near the Muga River, the restaurant has 4 pleasant rooms on the ^1st floor.

It has been in existence since 1949 and was then just a small bar serving simple dishes and vermuth. Little by little, the Fonda became an inn, then a hotel-restaurant. Today it offers a classic and elegant setting, as do the dishes offered by the chef, who is part of the La Garrotxa volcanic cuisine group. In addition to the succulent meat dishes you can enjoy there, some typical and old-style dishes are still on the menu, such as stuffed potatoes and duck with pears. Beautiful wine cellar and impeccable service.

Taking its name from the altitude of Das above sea level, 1,219 metres, this table in the town centre offers preparations based on local and seasonal produce, with eight to ten seasonal suggestions off the menu each week. Some of the surprising ingredients used here are dandelion, Barbary duck and partridge... Depending on the season, you can taste red partridge pâté, accompanied by toast. The wine cellar is well stocked with local and international labels. Nice discovery.

Opened by two young cooks trained in the best restaurants in Spain, Trumfes has quickly seduced the inhabitants of Llívia as well as visiting gourmets. Pau and Alex have turned Catalan cuisine into an art form: the dishes are formidably well executed and divinely good. The wine list is very eclectic and full of beautiful nuggets that made us fall in love. These two chefs are young, talented and full of ideas. We like their simplicity, the warm welcome and the care taken with the decoration. It's fine and elegant and the price is very reasonable.

Run by a couple as friendly as they are inspired, this small establishment has the air of a mountain chalet and offers a cuisine made from typical regional products, with an added touch of originality. In fact, the plates are small but copious and are combined in the manner of tapas, allowing you to taste many of the excellent preparations of Madame, who is in the kitchen. As for Monsieur, he provides the service, in French. The menu changes quite often so that new flavours can be discovered. Very good and surprising little restaurant.

It was in 1920 that the Guixera opened its doors to become the region's first plaster factory, taking advantage of the dense quarries of Beuda. Not far from 100 years later, young and enthusiastic restaurateurs wishing to get closer to the countryside decide to reset the old factory: it was done in 2013, the restaurant of La Guixeria was born! Local and quality products form the basis of preparations: Xai ecològic (écologique), stones (seabream), graellada of carn (with grilled meat), potatoes al caliu amb allioli (potatoes at aioli). The wine menu does not blot with the menu, and desserts are real jewels. Booking recommended.

The red and white tablecloth tables are set up in a large and luminous service room with a fireplace and typical regional decoration. Since 1980, traditional Catalan dishes have been served here, well executed and prepared using only local products. In addition to the hearty peasant breakfasts, on Thursday and Friday you can enjoy the "arròs" (rice with a variety of products), as well as a wide variety of stews, grilled meats and other seasonal dishes. An authentic and nourishing establishment.

It is in the old centre of Santa Coloma that the Wind of Aram has elected. The service space in the purple and gold tones, with its leather armchairs and its ancient mosaics floor, has a chic lounge bar. Here you can eat meat, fish, and other well-arranged snack plates, prepared from fresh products, for perfectly honest prices. Guests will appreciate the warm welcome reserved for guests, as well as the terrace overlooking the quiet pedestrian street parallel to the entrance. The house also specialises in chocolate drinks, teas and teas. Perfect for a restorative break, in the morning or in the afternoon.

With its handsome interior, marble tables and modernist façade, the Canaules Café restaurant offers traditional Catalan cuisine based on market produce. You'll enjoy sophisticated, tasty and well-presented dishes, as well as must-tries like botifarra with beans. Frequented as much by gourmet locals at lunchtime or coffee hour as by visitors, the atmosphere is quite pleasant. Note, however, that in high season, service may take a little longer.

Opened since 1924, «Friends of Ripoll» is a small institution of the historical centre frequented mainly by the locals. Tradtionelle cuisine and typical dishes are set in a rustic Catalan atmosphere, where you can feel quickly at home. Special mention for rich country breakfasts.

The Bar Centre, which as its name leaves it, is located right in the heart of Sant Joan de les Abadesses, is a popular area mainly frequented by locals, where one comes at any time of the day, for a coffee, a bistro meal or some tapas at the time of the aperitif. We eat it well and happily quenches it. With its neighbour the Nervis bar, it is also here that the surrounding parties come to celebrate the weekend.

In a service room at the crossing of the cross-country interior (wood stove and hunting trophies) and the trendy bar, the panoramic view of the valley is appreciated as well as the small and sophisticated dishes, as well as the garden: very inventive and traditional at a time. After an entrance of emboldening tapas of flower petals, we find on the map original proposals such as the excellent foot carpaccio and brave potatoes, and more classical things like the tuna tartar. Very good desserts. An original place to discover.

Set in a Romanesque cloister - itself framed by fierce vegetation - this restaurant in Palera is a real curiosity. After driving along a concrete road through a forest, you come upon this ancient building whose terrace is dotted with tables. There's no menu here, just what the chef prepares according to what's available: xai amb samfaina (lamb and ratatouille), Arròs mar i muntanya, cannelloni... Wines and desserts are up to scratch, all for a very honest bill. A unique experience.

Located in the magnificent natural setting of the Volcanic Natural Park, the restaurant La Font del Grèvol is at the entrance to the village of Sant Joan les Fonts, on the road to Castellfollit de la Roca. Here you can enjoy traditional Catalan cuisine, with the house specialities being grilled meats and game dishes in season. We will appreciate the very large dining room with ochre walls, with a predilection for the windows side to enjoy the landscape.

If this small restaurant of marine specialities does not pay a mine, the dishes are worth a small, restorative stopover. We do not come here for the professionalism of the service, but for the well-stocked plates of good regional products: in addition to the classic arròs, you can sample some of the corner's embotits and very good home-made desserts. Copious breakfast. Good value for money.

It's been more than 20 years since the Can Joan restaurant of traditional Catalan cuisine reopened its doors. It follows in the footsteps of the owner's grandmother, Maria Duran, who wore an apron in the kitchen from 1919 to 1960, patiently preparing rostits and other typical dishes such as conill a la rabiosa (spicy rabbit). Today, the menu is more extensive, offering fish, meat (including game) and salads... The result is palpable expertise and generous portions. A sure bet.

In a superb natural setting, with a terrace and swimming pool reserved for the restaurant's guests, Can Perot is a traditional Catalan establishment offering dishes made with local seasonal produce, most of which comes from the masià's vegetable garden. Meat and fish are also hand-picked, and the wine and spirits cellar is quite well stocked. We appreciate the very professional service and the enchanting setting.

Located on the road in a small green house, Hostal dels Ossos is a traditional table with a good reputation. In a relaxed atmosphere, you can taste very good typical preparations of the Garrotxa and its fertile soil, served in generous quantities. Among the home specials are the Santa Pau amb botifarra esparracada i bolets (scrambled eggs at Santa Pau beans and its mushroom sausage), el platillo dels Ossos (bone bone), ànec amb peres (pears with pears), hose of amb naps (turnip foam) or the very good dessert of iogurt iogurt. The volcanic menu will make it possible to make a good idea of the variety and quality of the products of this comarch.

Although the former owner Lluís is now retired, the new owners have maintained the charm and atmosphere of this small establishment that can only serve a dozen people at most inside. But it now has a beautiful outdoor terrace. You will always appreciate the varied gastronomic proposals which are declined on a beautiful card privileging the fresh products and of proximity, dishes to be shared with the pizzas while passing by the tapas. In winter, we will test the onion soup.

To enjoy this traditional table of the city, you will choose to settle in a charming room with old protruding stones or on the terrace surrounded by a large garden. On the menu you will be able to taste stews, game preparations, pig's trotters, hare royal and many other specialities such as fresh pasta with mushrooms and duck foie gras or fillet of beef with Meranges sheep's cheese. Very nice regional wine list and professional service. Typical.

It is a restaurant housed in an old building and offers market and regional dishes, revisited with a modern twist. The service room with its arches and orange ochre walls is elegant and the service is meticulous. On the plate side, we are dealing with mountain cuisine to which the chef imprints his creative know-how. Let's mention the semi-cooked foie gras of duck, the mitjana de bou al formatge blau amb bolets (fillet of beef with blue cheese and mushrooms) or the espatlla de xai de la Cerdanya al forn (shoulder of lamb from Cerdanya in the oven). Delicious.

Can is a traditional peasant table opened since 1966 offering breakfast, day and weekend menus. Founded by Esteve Ambassador, a road driver deploring the absence of a place to collate on the road to Girona while easily parking, it's his wife who comes to the fourneaux of the small xiringuito. Little by little, the place becomes unavoidable and grows to become the right table that it is today. On the menu, varied tapas, meat and fish with brasa, and desserts of qualities. Good products, good wines. On Thursdays and Sundays it is arròs.

After 20 years of practice, Chef Robert decided to open a second restaurant in Sant Martí Vell. Simple, quality and beautifully presented dishes are on the menu, a cross between land and sea products, with a refreshing creative touch. Several menus are available, including the surprising gin and tonic menu. Original, for a very good quality-price ratio, ideal for a vermouth with friends. And if you're around in the summer, you can also take advantage of a seasonal terrace where you can indulge in the pleasure of tapas, accompanied by a drink.

The hotel restaurant La Plaça is a small corner of paradise that will delight both the taste buds and the eyes. In an enchanting setting, on the terrace or in the very beautiful service room with old stones, you can taste fresh and well-prepared local specialities, where the products from the interior of the country are represented equally and those coming from the Mediterranean. The service is pro, wine is good, the place is beautiful. A bold stop.

It was in 2003 that the restoration work of the impressive masia of Can Did, located on a small hill allowing to see the Montseny on one side and the Pyrenees on the other, ended. Since then, the hotel attracts gourmets, lovers of Mediterranean cuisine - review and corrected to modern sauce - and tranquility. You will choose the beautiful service room and its famous old stones or the beautiful garden planted before taking a look at the rich map. The service is attentive and the art of detail seems to be among the priorities of the house, both in the presentation of plates and in the choice of products. Add to this a beautiful wine cellar, spirits and cigars, and the account is good. An elegant table.

With its large mountain canteen atmosphere - massive beams, sturdy wooden chairs, subdued lighting - the atmosphere at El Bodegon is childlike and the meals are really hearty. With beautiful pieces of meat (including the famous Kobe beef), Catalan sausages, and mountain dishes... If the prices are a little higher than elsewhere, the quality is there. It will be a pleasant and perfect stop to get back on the slopes before setting off again. Courteous and professional service.

Surrounded by giant fir trees, this restaurant of regional specialities focuses on quality seasonal produce and game. The tablecloths are white and the tables are well laid. For example, as a starter you can try a liver escalope with apple jam with cinnamon, before opting for a Llebre a la Royal (hare in the royal way) or Vieires estofades al chardonnay (scallops braised with chardonnay) to finish with a raspberry millefeuille... Superb wine list to go with it all.

The Mountain Farm will delight amateurs of Alpine specialities. Take a seat in the vast wooden and stone chalet formed to make its choice: Savoyard or Burgundian, raclette, Tartiflette and then local meat dishes. The servings are beautiful and the rates are soft. What to give a man in shape!

Casinet is a contemporary-looking beachfront restaurant that offers mainly very good arròs de marisc. but also some good salads (the mango salad is a treat, as is the Casinet: red shrimp emulsion, truffles and smoked sardines) and excellently prepared meat dishes. The open kitchen, the patio on the other side of the restaurant and the well-mastered musical atmosphere are all assets that can be attributed to Casinet. Desserts at the top. A recommended address!

Open only on weekends (Friday, Saturday and Sunday), La Barca is a pizzeria located in the port area of Hospitalet de l'Infant that offers very good Italian pizzas, but also pasta dishes, salads, hearty burgers and some fish, seafood or meat dishes for a modest fee. For those who wish to share more Spanish and marine tapas, there is also what you need. Family atmosphere and unpretentious decoration. An address which falls at the right moment for the cravings of weekend.

Once past the front door, you feel like you're entering the vast hold of an elegant ship. Chef Ramon Guash is at the helm of the restaurant, offering creative seafood dishes, always with an eye for detail: monkfish a la brasa, arròs with prawns, cod carpaccio and a few local dishes such as the excellent entrecote or the chicken-mushroom cannelloni are on the menu. If the restaurant's prices are not to your liking, try the next door, where the chef serves gastro and inventive tapas.

In a beautiful pastel pink building in the old city center is a very good Catalan cuisine restaurant run by a very professional service team. Here we can mention the Carns de primera del país (peasant meat) and the Peix fresc de la llotja de Torredembarra (fish from the market) cooked according to the recipe of the day, without forgetting the superb desserts such as the dark chocolate coulant and vanilla ball. Classic and tasty. The restaurant also offers children's menus, menus for groups and for people with gluten allergies.

In a most marine decor, the service area of this beachfront restaurant oscillates between luminous shades of blue and white. On the menu of Arrosseria, typical seaside dishes ranging from mariscos to braised fish, but also some very good gourmet burgers. The presentation is minimalist and contemporary and the background music of lounge music only accentuates this feeling of Mediterranean disorientation. Just across the street, on the sand, sits a small bar of the same name serving drafts and cocktails.

Located more than 2,000 meters above sea level, this small bar offers a wonderful panoramic view of the Tosa and Coma Pregona. We simply eat: A variety of sandwiches and salads, but you can also find the grilled botifarra (Catalan sausage). The sun is shining and Wifi is free. Friendly staff.

In the dining room or in the heart of the sumptuous garden with tropical accents, you can taste at the table of the hotel La Masieta copious Catalan specialties of land and sea and, all in all, quite inexpensive: Andalusian calamari, rice with squid ink and paellas, but also some good meats and fish preparations. Courteous service, and in French please! There is something for every taste and for every type of diet (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, etc.). A little corner of the tropics in the heart of the city.

Cal Nap is a small traditional table in the old town, where you can enjoy some good Catalan cuisine for very honest rates. The great classics of the region are on the menu, the wine list well balanced, and some desserts are worth the detour, like the maison house! The service team is very pleasant.

It is in the enchanting surroundings of La Roca that this small typical Catalan establishment is found. There is a lot of fun and a lot of fun, such as the senglar der castanyes (boar aux) or the fillet of the bou (beef filet).

The restaurant of the historic building has been renovated and has a wooded and warm garden. On the menu, traditional dishes, grilled meat and grilled fish, delicious homemade desserts and a small local wine chilled. Good value for money.

In a beautiful vaulted ceiling with old stones, this small tapas restaurant in the city centre is worth a visit. The dishes are simple, fresh, seasonal, but very rich and very good for the price displayed, such as smoked salmon and its guacamole or maison-house. Presentation prepared and warm service. Very good value for money, which does not close the streets in Banyoles. 

In a contemporary bistro, the Mams offers plates to share and inventive, fresh and absolutely delicious dishes. Whether it's to spend a moment between friends or family by sharing copious tapas plates, or couple, accompanied by the tasting menu at noon, the Mams is up to the height. We will obtain, for example, a fondue of gambes toulon el seu suquet (fondue to shrimp stew), a pig costella cruixent amb soybean i mel (crisp pig porkchops in soy and honey) or a parmentier of pop toulon suggestive of pebre vermell of Vera (parmentier octopus à la crème de paprika de la Vera); to get gently to the dessert map, which includes a superb coco plate, pinya, rom i pa of espècies (coconut, pineapple, rum and gingerbread). A varied wine list and a pleasant service.

Le Racó d'en Serrallonga is a small restaurant specialising in artisanale and seasonal mushrooms. You can enjoy some of the traditional tapas plates in a charming village atmosphere: embotit artesà (homemade sausages), pernil dolç (sweet ham) or; (salted), and famous Maison house in dessert with sugar, honey or quince. The location is also a point of Hire for Burricleta, electric assisted bikes equipped with GPS perfectly indicated to discover rural sites, without too much tired!

Intimate and comfortable, this traditional kitchen restaurant housed in an ancient farmhouse a little away from the city has 30 seats and is almost always a full room. Various preparations are tasted, mixing mainly vegetables and game with brasa. The rooms are generous and the service is very nice. A beautiful address in a place as rustic as it is unique, at soft prices for the quality of the products.

This is a perfect solution for discovering typical Plats dishes without getting ruined: In the spacious dining room at the Roca hotel, we eat daily, well prepared and good quality dishes. Friendly service and warm mountain atmosphere.

A Cal Joan, one waxing from the casolana kitchen (house) since 1932, that is to say! In a relaxing rural setting, very good meat will be obtained with brasa and an authentic trinxat. Beautiful dessert card. Perfect for a réparatrice, only two, or a group.

Restaurant of Catalan cuisine where a particular care is given to each plate (the chef David Garriga Solé is an aesthete), but also to the service, courteous and attentive. You can eat here, 200 meters from the beach, in the rustic decorated room or in the small shady courtyard, very typical dishes as well as some more modern and inspired preparations. Victim of its success, the restaurant tends to be crowded and noisy on weekends. From a quality-price point of view, the lunch menu is hard to beat in town.

Restaurant opened in 2008 offering well-made Mediterranean specialties. But it is above all the location and the hype of the place, with its contemporary and minimalist decoration, that will push you to cross the threshold: installed in front of the sea, the Òxid offers 4 distinct spaces (terrace, indoor lounge, floor with a view and indoor patio) in which you will enjoy sipping some good cocktails until the night falls. The lunch menu is as delicious as it is unbeatable in terms of quality, quantity and price.

Cal Coco is located in a street parallel to the beach. In a small and intimate room made of stones and heavy wooden beams, you can taste mainly thick and tasty Argentine meat dishes served by warm and expert Argentinians, but you can also be tempted by very good typical Catalan preparations, perfectly executed, such as arroces and other classic tapas. Simple and tasty. A place where you can eat as copiously as you are warmly welcomed. Cal Coco is 20 years old in 2022!

With its exterior appearance of an old-fashioned tavern, Chef Alvaro's table doesn't let you see anything... And yet, once you enter this old place and are served by the friendly comarero (who speaks French), you're in the bag! In a setting with the simplest decoration, you can taste dishes of cocina casera (home cooking) authentic and mastered. Breathtaking cold cuts and well-made wine. Family atmosphere far from the numerous tourist attractions of the sea front. A different address, to discover.