Dinner inside a Domènech i Montaner masterpiece: the modernista dining rooms of the Hotel España — mermaid murals, carved fireplace, coffered ceilings — now serve refined Catalan cooking under Martín Berasategui's direction. It is the rare room where the architecture and the kitchen hold the same standard, two steps off the lower Rambla and a century away from it.
Location
Carrer de Sant Pau 9-11
El Raval, Barcelona
El Raval, Barcelona
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Insider Intel
Must Try
The traditional Catalan dishes done in high definition — the canelons if they are on — with the tasting menu for full immersion.
Best Time
Lunch for the menu's best value and the murals in daylight; dinner for the full modernista glow.
Know Before You Go
A Berasategui-directed Catalan kitchen inside Domènech i Montaner's 1903 hotel dining rooms. Book ahead; ask for the Sala de les Sirenes.