Circolo Popolare Barcelona
Italian · Eixample, Barcelona · €€
Big Mamma's second Barcelona address — the old Citrus space on Passeig de Gràcia, dark for thirty years, rebuilt by Studio Kiki as a 1960s Sicily fever dream with 10,000 coloured bottles, 250 seats, and an open kitchen working ingredients flown weekly from Italy.
The Delekta Review
Big Mamma does not do subtle, and Circolo Popolare's Barcelona outpost is no exception. The old Citrus space, dark for three decades, has been gutted and rebuilt by Studio Kiki: 10,000 coloured bottles climb the walls, 40 metres of windows turn Passeig de Gràcia into a stage backdrop, 250 seats run loud. The pitch is two dishes — pizza al metro served in 80 cm sections, and spaghetti carbonara finished tableside inside a cheese wheel — surrounded by Sardinian and Roman plates with a deliberate seafood lean shaped for Barcelona. At €25–30 a head it stays in line with the group's pricing across Madrid, Paris, and London. Intimacy is not on offer. That is the deal.
What the critics say
- Llega a Barcelona Circolo Popolare, el restaurante del grupo Big Mamma que triunfa en Madrid – Metrópoli Abierta
- Así es Circolo Popolare: el restaurante de las 10.000 botellas con vistas panorámicas a paseo de Gràcia – Metrópoli Abierta
- Circolo Popolare se instala en el Citrus del paseo de Gràcia – Tot Barcelona
- Big Mamma amplía su imperio gastronómico en Barcelona – The New Barcelona Post
- Big Mamma replica Circolo Popolare en Barcelona – Restauración News
Visit
- Address
- Pg. de Gràcia, 44, Eixample, 08007 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 930 47 85 40
- Website
- circolopopolare.com/es/restaurantes/circolopopolare-barcelona
- Reservations
- Book a table
Nearby restaurants in Eixample
- Batea — Seafood, €€€
- Besta — Seasonal Seafood Bistro, €€€
- Mordisco — Modern Mediterranean, €€€
- Embat — Bistronomic Mediterranean, €€
- Topik — Japanese-Catalan Fusion Tapas, €€€
More Italian in Barcelona
- Bacaro — Venetian Italian, Sant Antoni, €€
- Bar El Pepino — Italian-Catalan Wine Bar, Gràcia, €€
- Tercero Primera — Catalan-Italian, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, €€€
- Benzina — Italian Pasta, Sant Antoni, €€
- De Angelis — Calabrian Italian, Les Corts, €€