Here I come with 4 different restaurants that I discovered recently.
The elegant Parker Café, the cool Koko Restaurant, the famous
Cecconi's and a different Italian, Due Spaghi.
- Parker Café is in the Eixample; its interior is elegant and
inviting. I went for lunch and had the lunch menu for 12 €. A great lunch,
tasty dishes, beautifully served in the pretty café; it offers Mediterranean
fusion cuisine. It’s open everyday from 8 am onwards, offers breakfast, lunch
& dinner. It has live music on weekend nights and offers brunch on the
weekends.Perfect for a lunch with friends, a cozy dinner or for
brunch. It has a great vegetarian variety.(around 20-25 €pp, offers group menus)
PARKER CAFÉ
Tel: 932 52 73 76
On Calle Arribau 3
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Inviting ambiance! |
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Sauté veggies in a red curry paste. |
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Dried tomatoes risotto |
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The special details: a roman tomb turned into a sink! |
- Koko Restaurant is more casual with a very simple deco. It offers a fresh
gastronomic cuisine inspired in the coolest surf spots around the globe. Exotic
fusion cuisine with extensive vegetarian options. Kool Food for Kool People!
Closed On Sundays.
On Calle Provença 224
Tel: 931 70 47 39
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The room downstairs! |
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Gyozas! |
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Humus & Pita! |
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Quinoa salad with avocados, |
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Curry & brown rice! |
- Cecconi’s just opened in Barcelona. Part of Soho House, it
is open to the public unlike the Soho House club where you can only access if
you are a member. Cecconi’s originated in Venice and serves hand-made pasta,
seafood, and dishes from Northern Italy using the best ingredients. In addition
to the flagship restaurant in Mayfair, London, Cecconi’s has outposts in West
Hollywood, Miami Beach, Berlin and Istanbul; and now in Barcelona.It is nice, we went
during the soft opening, the staff is friendly and helpful but the vegetarian
options are limited.It is an Italian
restaurant with a well known back ground but we shouldn’t forget that Barcelona
has an excellent offer of Italian food, so they have lots to compete with.Open everyday,
they have an all day menu as well as a special brunch on Sundays.
Tel: +34 932 204 640
On: Passeig
de Colom, 20
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Crudité with a chick peas guacamole- Burrata with pistachios. |
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Orecchiette with stracciatella |
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Truffle with flower zucchini pizzeta |
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OMG loved the pistachio ice-cream profiteroles with dark chocolate.
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- And here is Due Spaghi, opened a couple of years back, I discovered it a couple of month back. It offers North Italian cuisine with some Catalan touches. It isn't the typical Italian food you are used to. It is more mountain food and offers slow food- which means the ingredients are from the area. The starters are good and their main are a bit limited in the vegetarian aspect. The interior is simple and direct.They offer a lunch menu for 15€. (A la carte 30/40€)
DUE SPAGHI
Tel: +34 935031930
On Calle Sepulveda 151
Closed on Sundays & Mondays.
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Polenta croquettes. |
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Flower salad - no la llames ensalada: very refreshing made with the ingredients of the season. ! The "huevos felices" & the croquettes. |
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Black rice risotto. |
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Black rice risotto. |
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Tiramisu! |