Bisavis
Catalan / Tasting Menu · Eixample, Barcelona · €€€
Awards: Repsol Solete
Open since 2018
The Delekta Review
Eduard Ros was a labor lawyer in Madrid until he was thirty-three. He did a stage at La Tasquita de Enfrente, came back to Barcelona, and opened a counter-only room called Bisavis at Tavern 11 bis in 2018 — twelve seats, he cooked everything, he poured every wine. In late 2024 he moved the project to a larger room at Bruc 85 with burgundy walls, around nine counter seats and a five-top: same model, more space. The cellar runs to roughly seven hundred references; Ros pulls the corks. The cooking is producto-first Catalan with the technique brought back from Madrid — brandada de bacalao with no potato or dairy, butifarra del perol with raw scallop, cocotxes al pil pil, panna cotta with oscietra caviar — and the lunch tasting at around sixty euros with drinks reads as honestly fair value. Repsol Solete in autumn 2021; ARA's Trinitat Gilbert and Vadegust's Albert Amigó both went out for the new room and came back impressed.
What works
A chef-as-host counter format that's rare in Barcelona at this price point — closer to the Albé or Berbena tier than to a typical Eixample bistro. Producto-first cooking with restraint: brandada without potato or dairy, cocotxes al pil pil, panna cotta with caviar — no plating theatre, no avant-garde gestures. The 700-reference cellar and the by-the-glass generosity are the second draw, and Ros pulls the corks himself. €60 lunch tasting with drinks reads as honestly fair value. Repsol Solete in 2021 was earned at the old Tavern room; ARA and Vadegust both returned to confirm the new Bruc room is the same project, more space.
Before you go
Personality-dependent service — Ros is the show, he cooks, pours and narrates in one move; reviewers either love it or find the table-side talk tiring. There's no middle gear. Dinner runs noticeably higher than the lunch advertise — closer to a hundred euros per person with a couple of glasses, and portion sizes are described as small even by tasting-menu standards. Caviar is a recurring leitmotif across the menu; read it as a stylistic choice, not a flaw. Stale aggregator listings still point at the closed Tavern 11 bis address — verify the Bruc 85 location before going. Closed Saturday and Sunday.
What the critics say
- Bisavis — Solete Repsol
- Bisavis — Macarfi
- Bisavis — World of Mouth
- El abogado laboralista que dejó el trabajo en Madrid para ser cocinero
- Bisavis: el somni d'un advocat que va decidir cuinar
- Bisavis — Excelencias Gourmet
- Bisavis — OAD Top Restaurants #184
- Bisavis — Time Out Barcelona
- 5 barras gastronómicas para comer en Barcelona
Visit
- Address
- Carrer del Bruc, 85, La Dreta de l'Eixample, 08009 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 676 17 50 70
- Website
- instagram.com/bisavisbruc
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