Top 10 best restaurants in Barcelona

Tribu Woki continues its conquest of well-being through organic food with the opening this time of a new restaurant: Céleri.

We have already mentioned its organic supermarkets in Barcelona - there are now 5 - by presenting Woki Organic Market -. With Céleri the idea is to show what is becoming seasonal vegetables in the hands of a great Chef. Xavier Pellicer (El Raco de Can Fabes, Abac..) therefore created an open and chic place for a green cuisine, natural and gastronomic! 

The heart of its menu is a variation of dishes around eight seasonal vegetables such as cauliflower, asparagus, spinach.. Variations where vegetarians are mainly featured but where meat and fish lovers are not forgotten! 
Innovative and grandiose.

In the brand new and beautiful Mandarin Oriental Hotel, the table on everyone’s lips is with no doubt: Moments.
The Chef Carme Ruscalleda and her son Raül Balam are revisiting Catalan recipes and even inventing the first anti-aging menu of Barcelona..
On the Catalan side of the menu you will discover totally renewed classical dishes like Arroz caldoso de gamba con picada de pescador (rice dish with broth) -  Fricandó (veal stew) and suquet (fish stew) - Shrimp Tartar- Seabass with fig chutney and hibiscus salt - Veal Cheeks with turnip vegetable ravioli and red fruits..

A delight and lot of imagination!!
But even more visionary and trendy: a “anti-aging” menu where the food chosen by Carme Ruscalleda and Dr. Manuel Sanchez - head of the Anti-aging Unit Clinic Planas- , specialist in the anti-age treatments, conceal only the most miraculous properties to preserve an “iron constitution”.
In this menu, mini pizza pies with artichokes and the Joselito ham, or macaroni with buckwheat accompanied by scallops and vegetables… a great idea!

A very chic venue already awarded by 2 Michelin Stars in 2013.. 

Can Pineda exists since 1904. If you want to discover the Catalan traditional cuisine in all its perfection, it will be necessary to leave a little the downtown area. But this will quickly be forgotten! 

Attended by regulars and by the finest gourmets of the city, Can Pineda has only one rule: to offer best products of the season, if possible from proximity with however few exemptions which you will understand easily: the foie gras comes from France, the white truffle from Alba, the pata negra from Jabugo…
Once this said, what's left  is a festival of typical receipts to feel giddy: "huevos poché con foie y trufa, arroz con sepia, setas y bogavante, anchoas de Getaria, albóndigas con sepia, gambas, chuletón o entrecot de buey, estofado de rabo de buey con cigalas…". 

An extraordinary high level restaurant which proposes also a tasting menu at 35€ (without the wine).. 
It is expensive but the pleasure inevitably up to the mark!

For foody in love with textures, colors and flavors, 4amb5 Mujades is the new restaurant to discover in Barcelona.

If we have not understood the meaning of the name of this restaurant - 4amb5 - that would be a reference to a unit of measurement of agricultural land. We have however immediately understood the spirit of the place: a tribute to the world of plants and vegetables, where animal protein if not forgotten is only a condiment. Known concept but wonderfully expressed by the young chefs Toni Romero and Quim Coll. Like at Céleri, vegetables are the stars of the dishes and each dish is a journey thru the forgotten tastes or the one to rediscover. The expertise there is amazing of dexterity and invention at the image of this dish: Eggplant Yakitori grilled with sesame seeds, sesame oil, soy reduction, onion rings and cilantro flowers (11 €).
We can only advise you, the gastronomic menu to go around 9 or 11 vegetable dishes, classified by group: roots, flowers, leaves and fruits. A menu which changes - like the seasons - 4 times a year. This is totally organic and is not overly expensive for such an experience: count thirty euros.

One leaves delighted after an incredible experience for both eyes - beautiful decoration of the room, made of genuine planting vegetables and herbs - and the palate.

In the building where was born Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, only a gourmet restaurant could find its place. Today Arume would certainly be the canteen of the great writer if he was still alive..

The place is small but exudes good mood, youth and creativity. Arume means flavor in Galician. The galician chef Manuel Núñez (who won the -Tapa del Año 2014) knows what he is talking about when he cleverly mixes ingredients and textures. Its cuisine mades the junction between Galicia and Catalonia but also between tradition and new gastronomy: wakame, grass mousse or green mousse accompany octopus, carpaccio, meat and great paellas...
Remarkable!

Book by email it is full every night ..

Can Vallès - Barcelona

As you are walking down Aragó street, next to Rocafort, suddenly you find a restaurant called Can Vallès.

One might think that he has bumped into another Barcelona's bar, and here comes the big mistake. This restaurant with, at first gland, simple appearance, has a lot to show us.

The quality, detail and care of the dishes is equivalent to the outstanding restaurants in the city. Recipes made with the best products on the market.

Some dishes: chickpeas with lobster, pork feet cannelloni, fresh seafood, meat served on a hot stone, fresh salads and some very nice tapas!

The desserts...? Try the cheesecake or chocolate cake with cinnamon ice cream.

And.. the best wines selection!

Do not forget to book in advance as this is a small but very popular place .

Dos Palillos - Barcelona

Dos Palillos or when traditional spanish tapas get inspired by delicate savors of Asia…

Albert Raurich has been working at El Bulli from 1997 to 2007 where he was head chief for the last 6 years of his journey with Ferran Adrià … That is to say that he knows quite well about cuisine inspiration and innovation…

At Dos Palillos the chef decided to get his inspiration from the far east cuisine, that is mostly from Japan, China, Thailand and Vietnam. And what an inspiration!!

Imagine Asian savors married with Spanish traditional tapas and products like seafoods, fish, fresh vegetables of the market, prown, tuna, meat…

Imagine now tempura, raw dishes, woked dishes, steamed dishes, grilled dishes..

Albert Raurich’s tapas are pure creativity and grace.. 

We loved fresh seaweed sunomono with molluscs, Japanese burger, meat Gyoza,Cantonese style Iberian pork, prawn steamed dumpling..

Two degustation menus at 55 and 75€ but they prefer to say one hour and half menu or two hours menu.. 

Lunchtime menu at 20€
In november 2012 Dos Palillos recieved its first Michelin star.

Tickets - Barcelona

A new eatery in Barcelona by most prestigious Chef Ferran Adrià.
This time it’s a tapas bar but of course not a traditional one. At Tickets tapas are innovative and creative like all avant-garde culinary ideas of Adrià.
The chef will not be cooking at Tickets but just around the corner to validate every new tapa..

Get ready to taste:
Jamón de toro: Home-salting tuna belly painted with Iberian cured ham fat (12,50€), Spiced tomato tartare with crunchy bread (8,50€)
Steamed razor clams with ginger, Cayenne pepper and lemon air (11,20€), Liquid ravioli with Payoyo cheese (3,40€) / piece, Half roast bonito with garlic-sauce jelly (3,80€ /piece) and more..

Beware: Booking online is the rule to get a table.. No other way..

Catalan and Mediterranean cuisine brought up to date. It is at Vivant and this is one of our favorite places.

In the district of Sant Joan, everyday more welcoming: Libertine, Granja Petitbo, El Viti Taberna, Chicha Limonà.. Vivant is the local reference that is worth to cross the city.
Beautiful decor, sober and Nordic fashion 50s style, where Chef Rafa Gispert take fun revisiting a Spanish and Catalan cuisine with flair. Twice a year a new carte, always with tapas to share, entrees and dishes to satisfy everyone at every hour. Unmissable are the Patatas Braves (€ 4.5) we immediately place in a top 5 in Barcelona for the two sauces that accompany them. Also remarkable the Calamari & Boutifarra (9.5 €), the Ortiguilles de mar - sea anemones - (€ 8.75), the tataki of tuna(€ 11.2), the Bacallà Confitat (9.5 €). Each receipes enhanced by a sauce or a perfect combination of flavors.

You understood the prices are very reasonable given the quality of products and the modernity of the cuisine.
Lunch menu 10.5 €.. Hard to beat! 

El Racó del Mariner - Barcelona

El Racó del Mariner is certainly the fish restaurant the most “time capsule” of Barcelona, understand by this the most authentic.

As soon as unloaded from fishermen's boats, fish and seafood find themselves in the kitchen of El Racó del Mariner also located in the port. Difficult to find fresher! At the menu: fish of the day, fried fish, squids and shrimps, lobsters or a remarkable paella de marisco (seafood paella).

In short it's absolut pleasure in a restaurant / bar out of time, open from 5 in the morning to 5 in the evening, where you'll cross party animals finishing there night, fishermen and good local families. One of the pearls of the Barceloneta.

One finds the entrance by the Calle l'Escau.