Ca l'Isidre
Classic Catalan · El Raval, Barcelona · €€€
Awards: 1 Sol Repsol
The Gironès family's Raval institution since 1970. Classic Catalan market cuisine in an art-filled dining room where Miró and Dalí were regulars. Now led by daughter Núria. 1 Sol Repsol.
The Delekta Review
Ca l'Isidre is the kind of restaurant where Woody Allen celebrates when he's in town, where Miró and Dalí left paintings on the walls, and where the King of Spain once marked a wedding anniversary — and none of that matters half as much as the fact that the fried salt cod with white beans is impeccable. Isidre Gironès opened this discreet Raval dining room in 1970 and spent forty-five years buying produce personally from La Boqueria every morning. His daughter Núria now leads the kitchen with the same ingredient-first philosophy. The cooking is classic Catalan without apology — wild mushrooms with botifarra, baby squid with garlic, tripe in tomato and onion — executed with the quiet precision of a house that has been doing this for over half a century. The dining room is elegant without being stiff, the art on the walls is real, and the midweek lunch menu at forty euros is one of Barcelona's great underpriced secrets.
What the critics say
- Ca l'Isidre – Guía Repsol (1 Sol)
- Ca l'Isidre – FoodBarcelona
- Ca l'Isidre – Barcelona Food Experience
- Ca l'Isidre – Frommer's
Visit
- Address
- De, Carrer de les Flors, 12, Ciutat Vella, 08001 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 934 41 11 39
- Website
- calisidre.com/en
- Reservations
- Book a table
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