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Les Quinze Nits
Placa Reial, 6 - Just off the Rambla (93 / 317 30 75)
If you’d like to try some typical Catalonian food, we would recommend Les Quinze nits. This reasonably priced Barcelona restaurant offers superb entrees and mains in a relaxed atmosphere. For those who like salads, Les Quinze Nits will hit the spot.
Garduna
Jerusalem 18 Metro stop: Liceu
Garduna is the most famous restaurant in Barcelona’s covered food market, La Boqueria. It was originally built to be a hotel, but since the 1970’s has been operating just as a restaurant. In spite of its small and rundown appearance, its reputation still attracts fashionable actors, sculptors, writers, and painters who appreciate a blue-collar atmosphere that might have been designated as bohemian in an earlier era.
Its location towards the back of the market means that you'll pass endless rows of fresh produce, cheeses, and meats before you reach it, giving you a good appetite. You can dine downstairs, near a crowded bar, or a bit more formally upstairs. The freshest local produce is used (the chefs certainly don't have to travel far for the ingredients) and might include "hors d'oeuvres of the sea," cannelloni Rossini, grilled hake with herbs, monkfish marinara, paella, brochettes of veal, seafood rice, or a zarzuela (stew) of fresh fish with spices.
Can Culleretes
C/Quintana 5 (93 317 30 22). Metro stop: Liceu.
This Barcelona restaurant has been on the go since 1786 and has built up a great reputation and quite a following. Its 6 rambling dining rooms are usually all occupied so it might be wise to reserve a table. Reasonable priced traditional dishes such as suckling pig and goose leg with apples and fresh fish are served up by attentive waiters.
Biblioteca
Junta de Comerc 28, Barcelona
Tel: (93) 412 62 21
A relaxed but intimate spot, the menu is based on pureness and fresh ingredients. No complicated presentations but plain and simple delightful dishes. As the name of the restaurant suggests, you can also buy and read cooking books in Spanish, French or English.
Chez Pierre
C. Doctor Fleming 21, Barcelona
Tel: (93) 41 40 475
Chez Pierre, with its transparent glass and wood panelling, is a bright, warming place to relax and enjoy traditional dishes from beyond the Pyrenees, and also Mediterranean classics. Choose between the quick option (two courses and a glass of wine) or a la carte dishes.
El Convent
Carrer Jerusalem 3, Barcelona
Tel: (93) 31 7 1052
El Convent is a beautifully decorated restaurant, based in four storeys of an 18th-century house in a small street behind La Boqueria market. An extensive menu combines Catalana and international cuisine. Inexpensive group menus start at under €12 per head and include homemade puddings, such as creme caramel-like ‘flan’.
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