Looking for something uniquely "Barcelona"
We'll be in Barcelona from 20-28 March. We already have plans for some of the high profile joints mentioned here and elsewhere but are looking for a few opportunities for a very "neighborhood" experience in establishments serving fare or preparations that are unique to Barcelona.
Grandma's recipe kind of places, not fancy, but honest and local in all respects.
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erica
Mar 16, 2011 03:45 AM
Ii don't think you can get more Barcelona than Can Marti; I wrote about this place in the hills above the city in my recent report.
You may be there just in time to sample the last calcots of the season and I would highly recommend. You can get there by about a 15 minute ride on the FGC train and then funicular to take you up the hill:
http://canmarti.info/index.php?option...
It is really less fancy than it looks on their site; I think it is attached to the rear of the owner's house, on a residential street. You can get there is about a half an hour from Placa Catalunya if you remember to take the funicular, which we did not. Very straight forward and highly recommended. Meats cooked a la brasa; seasonal veg including calcots and artichokes; low prices.
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PBSF
Mar 15, 2011 10:51 PM
The "high profile joints" that you are referring are uniquely "Barcelona"; they are modern take on Catalan cooking which one will not find else where in Spain. There are a few good moderate places that still cook traditional Catalan food such as suquet, canelones, escudella, quail stuffed in a red pepper, duck with figs/pear; for this, I like Can Jordi, El Convent, Ca L'Estevet, Chicoa.
If you want neighborhood down home everyday cooking with plenty of olive oil to soak up bread: Foxos, Sant Joan, Goliard; down in Barcelonetta are Can Mano (there are actually 3 grandmas in the small kitchen), Can Mao, La Cova Fumada; Anima in El Raval; hit the tapas bar in Sarria such as Bar Mandri and El Tomas; in the lower Barri Gotic are Bar Celta and El Tropezon for Galician seafood tapas and not Catalan but they've been a fixture in Barcelona since who knows when (their decor can testify to that); relatively inexpensive seafood at El Barkito and La Paradetta. A little more upscale, mingle with the local families on Sunday afternoon and eat arroz and fideus at one of the places in Barcelonetta; I like Cherif.
Many of the traditional places will have a menu del dia for around 10 to 12E. Some offer it only on weekday midday.›7 Replies
