Cruix
Creative Mediterranean Tasting · Eixample, Barcelona · €€€
Awards: Bib Gourmand 2026 · 1 Sol Repsol
Open since 2017
Miquel Pardo's Bib Gourmand kitchen near Plaça d'Espanya — two tasting menus, eleven and thirteen courses, with rice as the spine of both. Exposed brick and an unfussed room for cooking more technical than the price suggests.
The Delekta Review
One of only five Barcelona restaurants in the Bib Gourmand category for 2026
Chef Miquel Pardo is from Onda (Castellón) — came up through the kitchens of Jordi Cruz, Rafa Peña, and Albert Adrià before opening here
Two menus: Classic Cruix runs eleven courses; Grand Cruix runs thirteen — both rice-driven creative Mediterranean
Cold start: fuet nigiri (a fuet take on the Japanese bite) and oversized Gilda-style oysters Warm starters: Peking-duck croquetas with mint; a fish taco run through black-garlic mole The rice course is the headline — paella with the precise socarrat that defines whether a rice kitchen is serious The dessert reviewers come back to: "Día triste en la playa" — a nostalgia-and-surprise plate that earns its share of the menu
Small, intimate room with exposed brick — the look is informal, the precision on the plate is not
What the critics say
- Cruix – Barcelona - MICHELIN Guide
- Cruix - Michelin Bib Gourmand Gem — Barcelona Food Experience
- Este es el mejor restaurante de Barcelona según la guía ‘asequible’ de Michelin: arroces con un punto perfecto de "socarrat"
- Time Out Barcelona — Cruix
- Gastronomistas — Cruix
- Macarfi — Cruix
- Gastronomistas (chef interview) — Cruix
- A Highly Specific Guide to Barcelona's Best Tasting Menus
- Melós, abrazo al territorio y la memoria
- Adiós a un año repleto de aperturas y también con cierres y traslados
Visit
- Address
- Carrer d'Entença, 57, Eixample, 08015 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 935 25 23 18
- Website
- cruixrestaurant.com
- 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, €€€
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