Restaurant
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Martín Berasategui's three-Michelin-star restaurant in the Monument Hotel, where head chef Paolo Casagrande cooks precise, seasonal tasting menus.
Three-Michelin-star restaurant in the Eixample run by former elBulli chefs Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch and Mateu Casañas, serving long, playful tasting menus.
Good to know
Disfrutar was founded by three chefs who met in the kitchen at elBulli, and that heritage shows in the inventiveness of the cooking. The restaurant holds three Michelin stars and was named number one in The World's 50 Best Restaurants list in 2024, so it is firmly a special-occasion destination.
Dinner is a tasting menu built from many small, surprising courses, where technique is used to create textures and illusions rather than for show alone, and Mediterranean flavours stay at the centre. Reservations are taken online and released well in advance; demand is intense, so plan months ahead and be flexible on dates. Allow several hours for the meal.
Reviewed by Lifestylemetro · Details checked October 23, 2026
Yes. Reservations are made online through the restaurant's booking system, and tables go far in advance.
Yes, it holds three Michelin stars.
Hotel
A Ritz-Carlton tower hotel on the Port Olímpic seafront, with two outdoor pools, a fourth-floor spa and the two-Michelin-star Enoteca Paco Pérez.
Thing to do
Barcelona's best-known food market, entered from La Rambla under a wrought-iron arch, packed with produce stalls, fishmongers and busy counter bars.
Café
The original coffee bar of Nømad, the Barcelona speciality roaster founded by Jordi Mestre, tucked into a quiet passage near the Palau de la Música.
Bar
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