Direkte
Catalan-Asian Fusion / Omakase · Eixample, Barcelona · €€€
Awards: Michelin Selection · Slow Food Guide 2026
Chef Arnau Munio's 14-seat counter where deep-rooted Catalan cooking meets Asian technique. Relocated from La Boqueria, now with Michelin Selection and Slow Food recognition.
The Delekta Review
Direkte began as a nine-seat sliver inside La Boqueria, and when Arnau Munio left in 2025, he took everything that mattered: the obsessive Catalan sourcing, the surgical precision, the audacity of fusing romesco and esqueixada with Korean and Japanese technique. The new 14-seat bar on Carrer de Paris gives him and co-chef Shu Zhang room to breathe. Surprise tasting menus at 72-98 euros deliver miso scallops with pickled mushrooms, king crab in pork broth with Korean mustard, shrimp with smoked green tea kombucha — each rooted in Catalan territory but wrapped in a traveler's sensibility. One critic has suggested a star is overdue, and it is hard to disagree.
What the critics say
- Direkte – Barcelona Food Experience
- Direkte abril 2025 – Observacion Gastronomica
- Direkte – Michelin Guide (Selection)
- ElNacional.cat – Direkte leaves La Boqueria
- Ara.cat – Arnau Munio on leaving La Boqueria
- BCN Slow Food Guide 2026 – Beteve
Visit
- Address
- Carrer de París, 200, Eixample, 08008 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 934 50 87 89
- Website
- direkte.cat
- 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, €€€