“Tapas” route in Barcelona

Tapas are always welcome. Sharing dishes attracts all of us. Perhaps it is a way to eliminate the individualism. I don’t know, but what is true is that tapas make meal different.

If you link on the map, you will see the location of every restaurant:

If I have to start with one, I will do it with the emblematic “Café Turó” in the upper area. Led by the inexhaustible and versatile Romain Fornell. It offers very creative high quality tapas with impeccably treated product. The ones I always repeat are the sirloin tacos with entrecotte sauce and the cheese cake. Two essential dishes.​

I follow the route entering the Mercat del Ninot. There is the “Perelló” place where they treat cod since 1898. The business has always been familiar. The new generation have opened the tasting bar. Try fried cod skin and ceviche. You will suck your fingers!​

I leave Sant Gervasi and Eixample to discover the tapas of Gracia! The “Viblioteca“, a must in the neighborhood , where nobody can leave without trying the truffled bikini and the zucchini carpaccio. Two dishes that create addiction. The first is very tasty and the second is so refine. It is worth to eat both of them.

Going down towards Ciutat Vella, you have to enter the Boqueria marquet to find the “Quim” and, once there, ask (without hesitation) the fried eggs with squid and the oxtail rissoto. For me, its star dishes.​

Very close to the Rambles, in the middle of the Barcelonés call and next to Plaça Sant Jaume, is the oldest winery in Barcelona. “La Vinateria del Call” is a classic in the city to eat tapas with good products. It is a very cozy informal place. If you go, ask for the “tigres”, the ham croquettes, the ham plate (which is cut instantly) and the chocolate miracles. Ah! Try to talk to Miguel for two minutes! I love him!

Nearby, on Via Layetana and on the ground floor of the “Ohla” hotel, is “La Plassohla“. It’s hard to mention just a couple of tapas; but I prefer the oysters in tempura with oyster leaf, lime and Japanese mayonnaise and the sea and mountain rice with squid, crunchy ham, mussels and sobrasada. Amazing!

My weakness in Born is “Llamber“. It is a place that gains in elegance as one enters. Gastronomic tavern where they give maximum importance to the quality of the product and where they want to promote the concept of “tapas”. The rock fish cake, tartar sauce and pickles, the anchovies with sweet spelled bread and La Peral cheese, the salmon carpaccio with citrus, dill yogurt and ginger ice cream and the creamy white chocolate and yogurt, orange and mint are the star dishes.

In Poblenou there is a very small restaurant with a discreet entrance that has stolen my heart. Nobody can leave without trying the “Alambre” (beef cubes with vegetables and cheese), the “Eight crunchy legs” (delicious octopus with very fine puree), “Our prey with its 25 ingredients” (really good carpaccio), the chocolate bombs and the cream millefeuille. If you’ve been, you know I’m talking about “Tres Porquets“. I love it!