Denassus
Wine Bar & Creative Plates · Poble Sec, Barcelona · €€€
Open since 2019
Sergi and Alejo Mailan spent ten years at Bar del Pla before opening on Carrer de Blai — Catalan tapas with a serious natural-wine programme (~90% small producers). Duck bombas, jamón ibérico with cecina, bravas red-and-avocado.
The Delekta Review
Reinterpreted Catalan tapas — small plates designed to share, weekly rotation around what the kitchen sourced fresh Wine programme leans natural and low-intervention — many bottles poured nowhere else in the city; staff explain as they pour
Catalan tapas room on Carrer de Blai — the city's pintxos street, but Denassus plays a fuller plate and a deeper wine list.
Sergi and Alejo Mailan: a decade as floor and wine team at Bar del Pla before opening their own room Took over the Carrer de Blai address from the previous restaurant Malamén in 2020 — the name Denassus is from Catalan de nassos, meaning 'of the highest order' Matt Damon dropped in unannounced in 2025 and left a handwritten napkin note for co-owner Alejo Mailan, who had stepped out early that evening
Duck bombas (€2.50 each) with house-made hoisin; patatas bravas, red sauce and avocado (€4); jamón ibérico de bellota with cecina (€16) Beans with pork fat, baby squid and vinegar; ceviche with melon-balled sweet potato; ibérico cheeks with chestnut-celeriac purée
Carrer de Blai is the Poble Sec pintxo-crawl strip — Denassus runs deliberately apart from that energy
What the critics say
- Denassus - Review - The Infatuation
- Denassus, a Temple of Tapas and Natural Wine - Culinary Backstreets
- Denassus, Tapas & Wine, Poble Sec - Foodie in Barcelona
- Denassus – Macarfi
- El restaurante de Barcelona donde Matt Damon cenó y dejó una curiosa nota: "Que te den, Alejo. ¡Tienes que trabajar más!"
- Denassus
Visit
- Address
- Carrer de Blai, 53, Sants-Montjuïc, 08004 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 933 87 76 45
- Website
- denassus.com
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- Martínez — Seafood & Paella, €€€
- Quimet i Quimet — Montaditos & Conservas, €€
- Taberna Noroeste — Galician Tapas, €€€
- Alapar — Mediterranean-Japanese Fusion, €€€
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