Blanc
Catalan · Eixample, Barcelona · €€€
Carme Ruscalleda's all-day kitchen inside the Mandarin Oriental on Passeig de Gràcia — Catalan tradition driven by technique, served in an all-white room with an open fire-lit kitchen as its centerpiece.
The Delekta Review
Blanc is the accessible counterpart to Moments — Carme Ruscalleda's two-Michelin-star room in the same hotel — and the kitchen carries the same precision without the tasting-menu apparatus. The tomato velouté with beetroot and fresh cheese sets the visual register early: composed, local, unshowy. The Fricandó beef ragout with wild mushrooms is the anchor — slow, deep, unapologetically Catalan. Roasted Iberian pork lands sweet and smoky with apple and piquillo. The Crema Catalana keeps a citrus edge that drags it out of obligation territory. Lunch at €36, dinner at €59 — for a Mandarin Oriental dining room driven by a chef with seven Michelin stars to her career, that is essentially a public-service price.
What the critics say
- Blanc by Carme Ruscalleda – Barcelona Food Experience
- Review: Blanc restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental Barcelona hotel – FoodBarcelona
- Blanc – Barcelona Metropolitan
- Restaurante Blanc, el menú de Carme Ruscalleda para todos los públicos – Loulou Lopez
Visit
- Address
- Pg. de Gràcia, 38-40, Eixample, 08007 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 931 51 87 83
- Website
- mandarinoriental.com/en/barcelona/passeig-de-gracia/dine/blanc
- Reservations
- Book a table
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