Disfrutar
Techno-Emotional Fine Dining · Eixample, Barcelona · €€€€
Awards: ★★★ Michelin · 50Best #1 World · Macarfi #1 Barcelona · 3 Soles Repsol
Open since 2014
Opened in 2014 by El Bulli alumni Eduard Xatruch, Oriol Castro, and Mateu Casañas, Disfrutar holds three Michelin stars, three Repsol Soles, and claimed the 50 Best World's #1 in 2024 — a ranking that climbed from #19 in 2018. The cooking is avant-garde Catalan: technically rigorous, often theatrical, and consistently original.
The Delekta Review
World's #1, 50 Best Restaurants 2024 50 Best trajectory: #19 (2018) → #1 (2024)
Chefs Eduard Xatruch, Oriol Castro, Mateu Casañas — met at El Bulli, worked there until its 2011 closure Opened Disfrutar in 2014
Avant-garde Catalan — technical and often theatrical Notable course: Fear: The Prawn — diners reach blindly into dry-ice vapor to retrieve their own perfectly cooked langoustine
Designed by El Equipo Creativo — the entrance reads like a neighbourhood bar, then opens into a tall, luminous sala with lattice brickwork and a ceiling painted with clouds. A terrace draped in vertical gardens sits at the back, used for post-meal coffee rather than dining.
Olive spheres — two edible olives made via spherification: one black olive, one blood orange; a direct elBulli inheritance present since opening. Pesto caterpillar — spheres of pesto shaped into a caterpillar, served with smoked eel, pancetta, Parmesan sauce, and pistachios. Carbonara pasta — Iberian ham consommé set into gelatine penne tubes, with ham cubes, Parmesan foam, and black pepper. Hen of the golden eggs — fried egg white topped with a spherized prawn consommé yolk, with a ginger-and-nut sauce. Calcots with miso romesco — freeze-dried calcots with a dashi from the stems and a miso-based romesco, served in a cognac glass.
What the critics say
- REVIEW: Disfrutar, Barcelona - Wanderlust Chloe
- My review of Disfrutar in Barcelona, Spain
- Disfrutar Barcelona Review: The Best Restaurant in Barcelona? (2026)
- Disfrutar – Barcelona - a MICHELIN Guide Restaurant
- Disfrutar – Macarfi
- Michelin 2026 Barcelona – National Geographic España
- Disfrutar – Bon Viveur
- Disfrutar – Cenando con Pablo
- Disfrutar – Tapas Magazine
- Disfrutar – Infobae España
Visit
- Address
- Carrer de Villarroel, 163, Eixample, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 933 48 68 96
- Website
- disfrutarbarcelona.com
- Reservations
- Book a table
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