Tast

Tast

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City: Castelldefels (Barcelona)
Address: Major 16
Phone: 93 636 79 59 

This is a compact restaurant with expansive food. It's stylish and offers the best value.The service is excellent and we had  one of the best meals we have ever had. My friend said the last carpaccio he had eaten was in Paris and this one  was much better. I can say the same thing about salad with anchovies and the paella, the best I have had in Castelldefels. An outstanding restaurant, it is so popular it might be worthwile booking or going early. The menu costs 11.50 € including desserts.

Sangria and Cava (One glass included in the menu with a little snack)

Ensalada de cogollos i anchoas ( salad with anchovies)

Carpaccio de Ternera (Beef Carpaccio)

Paella

Fideuà

Olave Plaza

Olave Plaza

Restaurant map location

City: Castelldefels (Barcelona)
Address: Onze de Septembre 1
Phone: 93 664 54 07

If you like fish and seafood this is your place because it is the best restaurant in the centre of town. Service is very fast and good, always a busy place. The only drawback is that chairs outside are not very comfortable so you would be better inside. We had el menu Pica pica which is based on a number of tapas you can share. The minimum for this menu is two people and the price is 41 € (20.50 € each) including drinks, desserts and coffee.

Pà amb tomàquet (Catalan bread)

First  peel the garlic glove and rub it in the bread, the more you rub, the stronger the taste. Then you rub the tomato and finally add oil to the bread.

 Try it!

Tallarinas (Clams)

Cigalas (crayfish)

Calamares a la romana (Calamari in batter)

Gambas al ajillo con gulas (Prawns with garlic and elvers)

Huevos con chorizo y patatas (Eggs with Spanish sausage and chips)

Mejillones a la marinera (Mussels in tomato sauce)

Flora Parc

 Flora Parc

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City: Castelldefels (Barcelona)
Address: Avinguda Constitució 44
Phone: 93 636 19 90

This restaurant is located in the outskirts of Castelldefels and belongs to the hotel with the same name. The menu with coffee costs 13.20 €, good quality and good and frendly service, very large and old fashion feel to it. This is the menu del dia we had today for two people, the dessert was the same for the two of us.

Wine, water and Casera (Catalan lemonade) included in the menu

 

Escudella (Catalan stew) 

 

Habas a la Catalana (Broadbeans, bacon and a soup like sauce with hint of mint)

Pollo a la Catalana ( roast chicken with chips, apricots and prunes)

Butifarra con patatas y pimiento (Butterfly sausage with pepper and chips)

Naranja con Moscatell (Orange in Moscatell wine)

Para Vós

Para Vós

Restaurant map location

City: Gavà (Barcelona)
Address: Passeig Marítim 3
Phone: 93 665 86 11

This Uruguayan restaurant is located in front of the sea, in the city of Gavà and  offers you a menu del dia (daily menu) from Monday to Friday for 10.90 €. The quality of the food is good, but one draw back is they only offer a glass of wine not half a bottle or a bottle like others restaurants. The service is very slow, so be ready to wait.The menu is not  translated well so you will have to use your imagination to understand it ! For example, arroz a la Cubana was translated as "rice to Cuba" instead of rice done in a Cuban way.The following meal is based on a menu del dia for two people with coffee that cost us 24.60 €.

Wine for two (only one glass each)

 Huevos estrellados (Eggs, bacon and chips)

Arroz a la Cubana (rice, tomato and egg)

Churrasco (skirt steak)

Fideuà 

Melon

View of the sea from the restaurant

El punt de Casa Paco

El Punt de Casa Paco

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City: Castelldefels (Barcelona)
Address: Carrer Major 23
Phone: 683 555 362

This Bar is located in the centre of Castelldefels town near the Correos (Post Office) and offers you a variety of Entrepans (baguettes with cold meat, burgers, pork loin, bacon etc...) and also Tapas. We come here for Tapas and specially the ones with the bucket of beers, you have different options: a bucket of five beers with a Tapa of Bravas (chips with spicy sauce) costs only 5 euros, a bucket of five beers with a Tapa of Pinchos (marinated spiced pork meat) and Pà amb tomàquet (Catalan bread) costs 8 euros these two are my recommendations. They also have jamon (Spanish ham), calamares (calamari) and huevos revueltos con patatas y jamon (eggs, chips and Spanish ham).
The cost of this meal for two people  was 12,05 euros including coffee.
Incredible value!

Bucket of 5 beers San Miguel

Patatas Bravas (left) and Pinchos (right)

Cortado and cortado con hielo and free sweet cakes

El Celler de Can Roca

El Celler de Can Roca

Restaurant map location 

City: Girona                  
Address: Carrer Can Sunyer 48                    
Phone: 972 22 21 57

This restaurant located in the city of Girona is the best in the world and if you can afford it I do really recommend a visit. I was with three friends. The service was exceptional, it was as if the waiters were dancing while serving you, impressive! If you want to book a table do it in plenty of time because there is a wating list of a year - more or less. At the end of the meal one of the Roca's brothers, Josep, came to all the tables and said hello, and ask us what  the meal was like. " Words can't describe it ! " I said. At a table behind us people from the U.S.A  shouted," Visca Catalunya!" (Hoorray for Catalonia !) That says it all!

We had the following Menú Festival :

Menjar el món: Mèxic, Perú, Tailàndia, Marroc i Japó
Eat the World: Mexico, Peru, Thailand, Morroco & Japan

Olives caramel·litzades 

Caramelised olives

Bombó de tòfona

Chocolate truffles

Calamars a la romana

Calamari

Bombó de Campari i aranja

Bonbon Campari and grapefruit

Musclos amb escabetx

Marinated Mussels

Brioix de tòfona

Brioche truffle

Ostra amb la perla negra, embolcallada del seu suc

The black pearl oyster,  in its own juice

Blat verd amb sardina fumada, raïm, gelat de pà torrat amb oli i escuma de llevat 

Smoked sardines with green wheat, grapes, ice cream toasted bread with olive oil and yeast foam

"Olivada" Gaspatxo d'olives negres

"Olive paste"  black olives Gazpacho

Comtesa d'esparrecs blancs i tòfona

Contessa white asparagus and truffle

Tota la gamba

Whole prawn

Besuc de la piga, yuzu i tàperes

Bream, yuzu and capers

Bacallà en brandada

Cod brandade

Blanqueta de garri ibèric al riesling
Iberian suckling pig in Riesling

Roger cuit a baixa temperatura

Roger (Rock fish) cooked at low temperature

Fetge de colomí amb ceba

Pigeon liver with onions

Albercoc caramel·litzat

caramelized apricots

Maduixes amb nata

Strawberries and cream

Milfulls de moca

Millefeuille mocha

Vins ( Wine list )

Albert i Noya Cava El Celler Brut D.O. Cava

Expression de Granite Domaine de l'Ecu 10 A.O.C. Muscadet Sevre et Maine

Gramona Celler Batlle 00 D.O. Cava

Manzanilla Pasada 30 D.O. Jerez

Vallegarcía 09 Vino de la Tierra de Castilla

QX Mas Candi 11 D.O. Penedès

Taleia 08 D.O. costers del segre 

Llària 2007 Ví de Taula (Massís del Montseny)

Von Bassermann-Jordan Kirchenstück 07 V.D.P. Pfalz

La Pascole Bruno Duchêne 11 A.O.C. Collioure

An 2007 Vi de la Terra de Mallorca

Vall Llach 06 D.O.Qa. Priorat

Peter Jacob Khünn Lenchen 07 Spätlese Riesling Rheingau

Advent Sumoll 09 D.O. Penedès

Henriques and Henriques Malvasia 20 Madeira