Elsa y Fred
Brunch & All-day Café · El Born, Barcelona · €€
The original El Born brunch room — the Argentine sisters who opened it have outlasted most of the imitators. Eggs Benedict before lunch, tapas after, a €14.50 set menu in the middle, and a crowd that's been showing up since before brunch was everywhere.
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Run by Argentine sisters Camila and Sofí, with Catalan chef Ramón in the kitchen Opened as a brunch pioneer in the area — well before the brunch wave reached Barcelona's restaurants generally
Brunch through the afternoon, then a switch to tapas at dinner — the kitchen runs all day Mediterranean and Spanish leaning rather than the Argentine grill the founders' background might suggest
Brunch staples: pancakes and a serious Eggs Benedict Lunch: a €14.50 set menu, a value rare in this part of the city Dinner-tapas: burrata with beet salad, crispy grilled octopus, crab burger, steak tartare, patatas bravas
Sant Pere / El Born borderland on Carrer del Rec Comtal — a quiet residential pocket two blocks from Plaça Sant Agustí Vell, not Raval as some guides still claim Unhurried service and a steady crowd of regulars who treat the dining room as a kind of second living room
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- Address
- Carrer del Rec Comtal, 11, Ciutat Vella, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 935 01 66 11
- Website
- elsayfred.es
- Reservations
- Book a table