El Nacional
Multi-Space Spanish Dining Hall · Eixample, Barcelona · €€€
Open since 2014
Lázaro Rosa-Violán's multi-space dining hall on Passeig de Gràcia 24 Bis — four restaurants and four bars under one Modernista roof. The architecture is the headline; the cooking is uneven by design across the eight rooms.
The Delekta Review
Multi-space dining hall: four full restaurants — La Braseria (charcoal grill), La Llotja (fish), La Taperia (tapas), La Parada (all-day quick bites) Four specialised bars: cocktails, oysters, beer-and-conservas, wine-and-cured-meats El Magatzem — private group space (up to 42 people)
La Parada: desalted cod salad with Xató sauce; coca fina with veal carpaccio, Parmesan, and rocket; noodles with Iberian sauce. La Llotja: Galician oysters; whole fish and seafood priced by weight at the fish counter. Wine and charcuterie bar: Ibérico ham; pan con tomate.
Interior by Lázaro Rosa-Violán — the conversion of a former Eixample garage that helped seed a wave of Spanish multi-space dining halls
Late-19th-century industrial structure preserved under the redesign — columns, vaulted ceilings, skylights Open daily 12:00–01:00; the room peaks at vermut hour and again post-sightseeing — locals know to come pre-9pm before the tourist tide
Average around €30 per person; La Braseria and La Llotja can run toward €100
Quoted in
“The impossibly chic space not only houses four restaurant concepts… but four individually specialized bars, too.” — Kiira Leess · Fathom
What the critics say
- El Nacional Barcelona: A Gastronomic Experience - The Dining Traveler
- El Nacional - Review - Barcelona - The Infatuation
- The One Restaurant in Barcelona That You'll Want to Visit at Least Twice - Fathom
- El Nacional - A Garage Turned Food Temple - Barcelona Food Experience
- Time Out Barcelona - El Nacional
- El Nacional – Macarfi
- El Nacional Barcelona
Visit
- Address
- Pg. de Gràcia, 24 Bis, Eixample, 08007 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 935 18 50 53
- Website
- elnacionalbcn.com
- Reservations
- Book a table
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- Batea — Seafood, €€€
- Besta — Seasonal Seafood Bistro, €€€
- Mordisco — Modern Mediterranean, €€€
- Embat — Bistronomic Mediterranean, €€
- Topik — Japanese-Catalan Fusion Tapas, €€€
More Hall in Barcelona
- Time Out Market Barcelona — Food Hall, Ciutat Vella, €€