Alkimia
Contemporary Catalan Fine Dining · Sant Antoni, Barcelona · €€€€
Awards: ★ Michelin · 3 Soles Repsol
Open since 2002
Alkimia is Jordi Vilà's Michelin-starred reimagining of Catalan cuisine, with one star and three Repsol Soles earned by treating escudella, suquet, and canelons as living material rather than heritage to preserve.
The Delekta Review
Chef Jordi Vilà — established figure in Barcelona's contemporary Catalan scene Six tables, eighteen seats — the room is small by design; Vilà has framed the size as the only way to give each guest full attention
Tasting menu with fish often the protagonist; à la carte alongside Catalan classics rebuilt rather than recreated — escudella, suquet, canelons treated as living material
Pa amb tomàquet deconstructed — clarified tomato juice with olive oil, breadcrumbs, and cured llonganissa sausage. Sarsuela — fresh fish broth poured tableside over fish and sea cucumber, with spicy picada. Leek tart with wild porcini, Pyrenean cream, and 25-year-old balsamic vinegar. Celeriac ribbon ravioli with large prawn. Ibérico suckling pork à la royale — braised meat quenelle with blood sauce and stuffed aubergine. Salt cod brandade with green beans and wasabi — a classic Catalan pairing with Japanese heat.
Open kitchen, futurist dining room — small, warm, deliberate Ronda de Sant Antoni at the western edge of the Eixample, near Mercat de Sant Antoni
What the critics say
- Alkimia – Barcelona - a MICHELIN Guide Restaurant
- Alkimia Barcelona restaurant review
- kevinEats: Alkimia (Barcelona, Spain)
- Alkimia – Macarfi
- Alkimia – Bon Viveur
- Manda huevos, no solo buenas tortillas
- Alkimia – Mana75 Barcelona Guide
- L'Alkimista: la cuina viatjada al centre de Reus d'un xef que busca ser feliç
- Estos son los mejores restaurantes de Barcelona según la prestigiosa guía Macarfi
- Barcelona, el segundo mejor destino gastronómico del mundo según una agencia británica
Visit
- Address
- Rda. de Sant Antoni, 41, Eixample, 08011 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 932 07 61 15
- Website
- alkimia.cat
- Reservations
- Book a table
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