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Are you one of those people who chooses your holiday in order to try new cuisines? Pencil it in: next gastronomic getaway, Catalonia! In the Catalan cultural panorama, there are restaurants that take risks and serve creative and innovative dishes and those that preserve the traditional culinary heritage, both of which are based on the Mediterranean diet.
Michelin Star Restaurants
Having a Michelin star is the finest form of advertising, but in Catalonia, there are restaurants that accumulate two and even three stars, such as the Sant Pau, with chef Carme Ruscalleda, or the Celler de Can Roca. This is, in fact, one of the best restaurants in the world according to the Restaurant magazine.
‘Made in' Catalunya cuisine
Do you what cannellonis are? What about butifarra with beans or Cerdanya ‘trinxat’? These are some traditional Catalan dishes. The ‘Catalan Cuisine’ award recognises restaurants whose menus are 40% typical Catalan dishes. To receive this recognition, the recipes must be prepared with local and seasonal products.
Cuisine Associations
The Cuisine Associations are groups of chefs or restaurants and also farmers who base their culinary offerings on local, quality cuisine. They are a reflection of the diverse Catalan gastronomy. They base their advertising on the product, the kitchen and the territory, and they advocate for local products and traditional Catalan cuisine through their recommendations and activities. There are more than twenty in Catalonia.
Rest and fine dining in gastronomic hotels
If you want to combine accommodation and gastronomy, opt for the Catalan Gastronomic Hotels. They are establishments with up to sixty rooms, with facilities in which every detail is designed to guarantee your comfort. Aside from the food, the attentive treatment you will get is another of their secrets. During your stay in Catalonia, you will not need to look for restaurants, since you will have guaranteed feasts without even leaving the accommodation. You will be able to try the Catalan cuisine, made with local produce and ingredients which have Protected Designations of Origin or Protected Geographical Indications.
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Good, healthy and fair as maxims. Catalan restaurants that follow the slow food philosophy combine the pleasure of dining with responsibility, sustainability and in harmony with one's surroundings.
Try Catalan cuisine with our chefs.
Michelin Star Restaurants
Having a Michelin star is the finest form of advertising, but in Catalonia, there are restaurants that accumulate two and even three stars, such as the Sant Pau, with chef Carme Ruscalleda, or the Celler de Can Roca. This is, in fact, one of the best restaurants in the world according to the Restaurant magazine.
‘Made in' Catalunya cuisine
Do you what cannellonis are? What about butifarra with beans or Cerdanya ‘trinxat’? These are some traditional Catalan dishes. The ‘Catalan Cuisine’ award recognises restaurants whose menus are 40% typical Catalan dishes. To receive this recognition, the recipes must be prepared with local and seasonal products.
Cuisine Associations
The Cuisine Associations are groups of chefs or restaurants and also farmers who base their culinary offerings on local, quality cuisine. They are a reflection of the diverse Catalan gastronomy. They base their advertising on the product, the kitchen and the territory, and they advocate for local products and traditional Catalan cuisine through their recommendations and activities. There are more than twenty in Catalonia.
Rest and fine dining in gastronomic hotels
If you want to combine accommodation and gastronomy, opt for the Catalan Gastronomic Hotels. They are establishments with up to sixty rooms, with facilities in which every detail is designed to guarantee your comfort. Aside from the food, the attentive treatment you will get is another of their secrets. During your stay in Catalonia, you will not need to look for restaurants, since you will have guaranteed feasts without even leaving the accommodation. You will be able to try the Catalan cuisine, made with local produce and ingredients which have Protected Designations of Origin or Protected Geographical Indications.
Km 0-Slow Food Restaurants
Good, healthy and fair as maxims. Catalan restaurants that follow the slow food philosophy combine the pleasure of dining with responsibility, sustainability and in harmony with one's surroundings.
Try Catalan cuisine with our chefs.
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Michelin Star Restaurants
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El Celler de Can Roca
Fortunately for all gourmets, the Roca brothers followed the family tradition and opened El Cellar de Can Roca, a restaurant that must be visited and which has taken them to the very highest levels. Three Michelin stars endorse a cuisine that covers all areas. The wine list is one of the most highly awarded in Spain, for both its selection and for its presentation.
ABaC Restaurant
Located in the Sant Gervasi neighbourhood in Barcelona, ABaC Restaurant has been awarded two Michelin stars. In a restaurant with sophisticated lines, whose cuisine was designed by Joaquim Casademont, the gastronomy is based on creativity and innovation and is prepared by a team of young professionals led by chef Jordi Cruz.
Can Bosch
From a small fisherman's tavern to a benchmark restaurant with a Michelin star. This is the route that Joan Bosch has taken since he took control of the establishment about 30 years ago, specialising in seafood cuisine that is constantly being reinvented but without renouncing traditional recipes, in a well maintained and thoughtfully designed setting.
Les Moles
This former industrial area is the restaurant where chef Jeroni Castell creates his art. To honour the past, it was baptised as Les Moles in 1992. Quarrying has always been an important economic activity in the area, especially grindstones: the name by which the stones for building traditional mills are known.
Les Cols
Les Cols is a 13th century farmhouse with minimalist decoration and futuristic touches, a project awarded for its design and architecture, where Fina Puigdevall's cooking has won two Michelin stars. She achieved this with cutting-edge Catalan cuisine, based on the seasons and the Garrotxa countryside.
Gastronomic Hotels
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The Gastronomic Hotels offer menus borrowed heavily from the traditional Catalan cookbook, made with quality local produce.
Can Boix de Peramola
Can Boix hotel is in an eighteenth century property in the Segre Valley. It features a rustic restaurant, a large swimming pool and pleasant simplicity.
Hotel Muntanya & Spa
The Muntanya Hotel&Spa in Prullans offers panoramic views of the Cadí-Moixeró Nature Reserve.
Gran Claustre
This luxury hotel, one of the most singular and exclusive near Tarragona, is housed in a building that has been declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest.
El Far de Sant Sebastià
Hotel El Far de Sant Sebastià presides over a 170-metre-high cliff in a rugged corner of the Costa Brava in which the sea is the true protagonist, featuring fabulous views from its terrace vantage point.
Diego Hotel-Restaurant
This establishment is the first gastronomic hotel in Terres de l'Ebre. It offers traditional Catalonian cuisine matched with the finest wines and has 21 comfortable rooms.
Can Cuch Hotel****s
The Hotel Can Cuch occupies a pre-10th century Catalan country house with eleven rooms full of luxury, magic and charm among forests of holly oak.
Slow Food Restaurants
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Lasal del Varador
Lasal del Varador is a seafront restaurant which serves dishes prepared using organic, seasonal, local produce in a premises which aims to be a sustainable environment.
Ca l’Ignasi
Whoever makes it to Ca l'Ignasi can savour a la carte dishes like cream of mushroom and Reixagó cheese pasta; wood-fired oven baked cake, Pals rice with the first artichokes and ceps; or barbecued chunks of sirloin with tombet of organic vegetables. All of these dishes can also be paired through a menu of wines from small cellars that are waiting to be discovered.
Sergi de Meià
Sergi, without losing his origins or identity, is committed to Catalan gastronomy, prepared using locally-sourced, high-quality ingredients.
Els Garrofers
Located in the centre of Alella is a restaurant which serves contemporary Catalan cuisine with local ingredients and handmade products, which seeks the key flavour of the ingredients above everything else and thanks to the organic produce which it sources from local suppliers. They offer different types of menu and have a select wine menu. Their bread and desserts are made on the premises.
Cuisine Associations
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More than twenty groups work towards preserving the roots of Catalan cuisine and promote local products and the land where they are created. Here you have a few.
Col·lectiu de Cuina La Ràpita - Delta de l'Ebre
The Col·lectiu de Cuina la Ràpita - Delta de l'Ebre has the objective of giving tourism and gastronomy the value they deserve as ways of conveying the area's history and culture.
Cuina de l'Empordanet
Under the name of Cuina de l'Empordanet, in 1995 some restaurants from the districts of El Baix and El Alt Empordà got together to promote cuisine of El Empordà in Catalonia and throughout the world by organising different gastronomic events.
Cuina Volcànica
The Cuina Volcànica Association came into being with the aim of bringing together a series of establishments who based gastronomy on regional recipes and local produce characterised by being mountain cuisine.
Osona Cuina
Osona Cuina is a group that includes a dozen restaurants from the district of Osona, located in towns such as Vic, Tona, Manlleu or Cantonigròs.
Cuisines of the Camprodon Valley
Up to 25 restaurants form part of the Associació Cultural i Gastronòmica Cuines de la Vall de Camprodon. According to those in charge this association was founded to preserve and promote cultural heritage in the Camprodon area in the region of El Ripollès, in the Pyrenees of Girona.
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Adagio
Barcelona / Barcelona
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Gourmet hotel located in the Gothic quarter of Barcelona. It occupies a fully refurbished, five-storey modernist building to offer a high standard of service and equipment.
Allotjament Antiga
Calafell / Costa Daurada
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Located in the 18th-century colonial home of Cal Manganyes in Calafell, the hotel is completely renovated and features a rustic décor within a charming ensemble.
Ca L'Amagat
Bagà / Pyrenees
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The great-grandparents of the current owners of Ca l'Amagat launched the family's hospitality business by serving meals and drinks in the early 20th century.
Casamar
Palafrugell / Costa Brava
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Small family hotel near the sea in Llafranc on the Costa Brava, which also has a restaurant with local cuisine that has been awarded a Michelin star.
Cava Hotel Mas Tinell
Vilafranca del Penedès / Costa Barcelona
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A spectacular building in the Modernist style located in the heart of the Penedès, with shapes representing champagne bottles.
Diego Hotel-Restaurant
Santa Bàrbara / Terres de l'Ebre
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This establishment is the first gastronomic hotel in Terres de l'Ebre. It offers traditional Catalonian cuisine matched with the finest wines and has 21 comfortable rooms.
El Far de Sant Sebastià
Palafrugell / Costa Brava
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Hotel El Far de Sant Sebastià presides over a 170-metre-high cliff in a rugged corner of the Costa Brava in which the sea is the true protagonist, featuring fabulous views from its terrace vantage point.
El Prado
Puigcerdà / Pyrenees
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El Prado offers a range of comfortable and cosy accommodation in 53 spacious and fully equipped rooms. It has a fantastic garden and a spa with sauna, hot tub and swimming pool.
Empordà Hotel Restaurant
Figueres / Costa Brava
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This Figueres hotel offers fully equipped accommodation in 39 rooms and three suites. Its restaurant, El Motel, serves creative regional dishes that strive for a balance between tradition and modernity.
Gran Claustre
Altafulla / Costa Daurada
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This luxury hotel, one of the most singular and exclusive near Tarragona, is housed in a building that has been declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest.
Hostal Estrella
Rupit i Pruit / Paisatges Barcelona
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Hostel founded in 1946 in the centre of Rupit, occupying a typical mountain house, completely made of stone, with a welcoming atmosphere that is ideal for a restful stay.
Hostal Gastronòmic La Creu
Móra d'Ebre / Terres de l'Ebre
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Gastronomic hostel located in an avant-garde building that has fifteen air-conditioned rooms with WiFi, TV and stylish bathrooms. The restaurant serves creative local cuisine and traditional cuisine.
Hostal de la Plaça
Cabrils / Costa Barcelona
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This elegant 17th-century farmhouse converted into a guesthouse has 14 sophisticated exterior rooms. The facilities combine the past and present in a harmonious fashion.
Hotel Els Caçadors
Maçanet de Cabrenys / Costa Brava
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Els Caçadors de Maçanet de Cabrenys occupies an old farmhouse that has been completely renovated and features 20 comfortable and functional rooms. It is the ideal place to enjoy nature in the county of Alt Empordà.
Hotel Mas La Boella
Canonja, la / Costa Daurada
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A hotel complex set on a large estate surrounded by olive trees, dominated by a 12th-century farmhouse. It boasts luxury suites, a restaurant serving haute cuisine and the chance to visit a winery and oil mill.
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Wine and oil from Les Garrigues
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La agencia de viajes Tu i Lleida oferta, todo el año, una escapada gastronómica con el aceite y el vino de Las Garrigues como protagonistas. Dos productos que recogen las señales de identidad de la tierra.
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7 Portes
Barcelona / Barcelona
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7 Portes is one of the most charismatic restaurants in Barcelona. With a history that goes back to 1836, the air has a charming and special flavour, where rice dishes and paellas are continuously coming out of the kitchen, two specialities of a restaurant that cooks non-stop, where you can have a bite to eat from 1pm to 1am.
Adagio
Barcelona / Barcelona
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Gourmet hotel located in the Gothic quarter of Barcelona. It occupies a fully refurbished, five-storey modernist building to offer a high standard of service and equipment.
Agüelo013
Barcelona / Barcelona
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Agüelo013 restaurant is found in the Gòtic district of Barcelona. Inside, there are different spaces which house the restaurant, cocktail bar and gastronomic workshop.
Aigüestortes Càmping Resort
Esterri d'Àneu / Pyrenees
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In Aigüestortes Camping Resort, there’s a restaurant which offers a wide range of food, including traditional dishes from the area.
Albamar
Lloret de Mar / Costa Brava
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Albamar is the restaurant serving the apartments of the same name located at Santa Cristina beach. There is no interior dining: instead, a large covered terrace open from early June to mid-September with magnificent views of the beach. They offer Mediterranean cuisine and the specialities are rice, fish and tapas. There is also a children's menu and wine list available.
Aleia
Barcelona / Barcelona
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El restaurante Aleia ofrece una experiencia única por los paladares más exigentes, fusionando alta gastronomía creativa y arquitectura, de la mano de los chefs Paulo Airaudo y Rafa de Bedoya.
Allotjament Antiga
Calafell / Costa Daurada
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Located in the 18th-century colonial home of Cal Manganyes in Calafell, the hotel is completely renovated and features a rustic décor within a charming ensemble.
Arena Restaurant
Salou / Costa Daurada
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It is bright and easy going establishment with fantastic views across the terrace. On the seasonal menu you can find first course such as mild goat cheese pie with cherry tomatoes and basil, venison carpaccio and foie with Granada vinaigrette, monkfish slices with pineapple and ham vinaigrette and dried fruit, cod tartare with avocado cream and olives, amongst others.
Atempo
Sant Julià de Ramis / Costa Brava
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El restaurante Atempo, dirigido por Jordi Cruz y ABaC Group, presenta una cocina innovadora con productos de proximidad en un entorno íntimo y acogedor. Actualmente se encuentra en Barcelona.
Bar Restaurant La Creu
Castellar del Riu / Pyrenees
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La Creu is the bar-restaurant at the ski resort Els Rasos de Peguera. It has a menu with baguette sandwiches and drinks as well as a daily set menu.
Bimba's
Barcelona / Barcelona
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Bimba’s is an elegant and inviting restaurant with a large, private terrace, and is to be found on Avinguda Diagonal on the same spot where Telirium was previously located. They prepare contemporary Italian cuisine which can be ordered a la carte or on different menus. The most recent move by this eatery has been to incorporate a sushi menu. After dinner is served in this restaurant, it becomes the ideal place to have a late-night drink.
Bosseria
Vimbodí i Poblet / Costa Daurada
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Bosseria restaurant lies within the Poblet Monastery complex and offers traditional Catalan and Mediterranean cuisine prepared using fresh, seasonal, locally-sourced products.
Ca L'Amagat
Bagà / Pyrenees
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The great-grandparents of the current owners of Ca l'Amagat launched the family's hospitality business by serving meals and drinks in the early 20th century.
Caelis
Barcelona / Barcelona
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Chef Romain Farnell is the soul of the transformation of the Salon Diana, the historic dining room of the old Ritz Hotel, now Palace Hotel, in the Caelis restaurant. Farnell offers an elaborate cuisine which draws inspiration from Catalan tradition, without ever forgetting the solid heritage of French haute cuisine or the new creative trends. The result was awarded with a Michelin star.
Cafetería El Cau
Vall de Boí, la / Pyrenees
This café serves the nursery slopes of the Boí Taüll ski resort. It offers informal meals and the chance to have a hot drink or snack and a rest in between descents.