Bodega Bonay

Mediterranean / Natural Wine Bistro · Eixample, Barcelona · €€

Awards: Repsol Solete

Open since 2019

The Delekta Review

Giacomo Hassan grew up in Milan, came through DiverXO, Disfrutar and Rafa Peña's Gresca. Then took over the ground-floor kitchen of Casa Bonay in November 2019 — an 1869 neoclassical building on Gran Via. The format is sharing plates from an open kitchen with a small Japanese robata grill at the centre: pork jowl glazed on the bars, lacquered eel with cabbage, artichoke tatin laid on filo with labneh (his Tunisian grandmother's recipe), Italian pasta worked by hand. Sommelier David Amat keeps about two hundred and fifty wine references behind the bar, around seventy percent of them natural, with Coravin pours on almost any bottle. Repsol awarded a Solete in autumn 2021; Time Out gave it five stars in 2023; Philippe Regol came back in April 2026 after nine years and called the chocolate tart the best in Barcelona. Street entrance is independent — no hotel lobby needed.

What works

An ex-DiverXO and ex-Disfrutar chef cooking sharing plates rather than tasting menus is a rare value proposition. Hassan's pork jowl and lacquered eel are five-year house signatures; the pasta program is Italian-honest, not a Catalan approximation; the artichoke tatin is the family recipe it advertises. David Amat's natural-wine cellar carries real weight (250 references, 70% natural, Coravin by-the-glass). Repsol Solete in 2021; Time Out 5/5 in 2023; Philippe Regol returned in April 2026 and called the chocolate tart the best in the city. Independent street entrance keeps the room from feeling like hotel dining.

Before you go

Wine prices skew high — TheFork users specifically flag the markups; the deep natural list is part of the value but the floor of the bottle range is not cheap. Noise level moderate-high; this is a lively bistro, not a quiet room. The kitchen also handles a rooftop, breakfasts and hotel-event service, so bandwidth is split; dinner is the press-tested service. Despite the 'Bodega' name, this is firmly a food-led restaurant — set expectations accordingly. Don't confuse with Casa Bonay (the hotel) or with Satan's Coffee Corner or Libertine, the other venues in the same building.

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Address
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 700, La Dreta de l'Eixample, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
Phone
+34 682 50 63 40
Website
casabonay.com/dining-drinks/bodega-bonay
Reservations
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