Gelida

Traditional Catalan / Bodega · Eixample, Barcelona · €

Open since 1946

Joan Llopart Pujó came to Barcelona from the Penedès town of Gelida in 1946 and opened a wine cellar at Diputació 133 that his wife Ramona cooked out of; eighty years on, their grandson Gerard runs the same room with the same cap i pota, the same numbered wine taps, and the same fork-breakfast clientele from seven in the morning.

The Delekta Review

Working-bar casa de menjars rhythm — esmorzars de forquilla from 07:00, lunch from around 13:00, terrace through the afternoon; chalkboard menu of around forty dishes crossed off line by line as they run out Plates between €4 and €8; the most expensive thing on the chalkboard hovers around €10 — the room serves around six hundred covers a day at these prices Vi a granel from five numbered metal taps and porró service — heritage from the 1946 cellar still in daily use, not a theme-park gesture

Cap i pota — gelatinous veal head and trotter stew, around twenty kilos cooked daily; the house icon and one of Barcelona's reference versions of the dish Fricandó with moixernons — Catalan veal-and-mushroom braise; a fixture of the chalkboard Bacallà a la llauna — salt cod baked with garlic, paprika and white beans, the working-day Friday staple Botifarra amb mongetes seques and galta de porc — the meat and bean half of the chalkboard, alongside fideus a la cassola Cigrons amb ou dur — chickpeas with hard-boiled egg, around €3 — the kind of plate the room has been serving since the cellar still sold wine in bulk Flam de mató — cottage-cheese flan that had its own Facebook fan club; the sweet half of the chalkboard, when it's still on it

Founded 1946 by Joan Llopart Pujó — from the town of Gelida in the Alt Penedès — and his wife Ramona Figueras: he ran the cellar; she cooked Second-generation Albert Llopart Figueras held the room through the 1980s refit; his son Gerard Llopart Prades, an industrial engineer, returned from a posting in Lima in 2016 to take over End of 2024 the family opened Migrat across the chamfer crosswalk at Comte d'Urgell 92 — same kitchen, same prices, weekday daytime only; named after Can Migrat, the family's farmhouse in Gelida

Corner bodega room on a busy Eixample chamfer — marble bar counter, five numbered metal wine taps, original wine barrels on shelves near the ceiling, plastified-paper menus, white tables, no QR codes FC Barcelona memorabilia spanning generations of the club — Cinc Copes era, a Miquel Barceló piece, a Xavi Hernández tribute — alongside stickers backing Catalan-language schooling. Estrella Damm red terrace tables on the chamfer outside

Address: Carrer de la Diputació 133, La Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample — three minutes from L1 Urgell, six from L1/L3/L8 Espanya Service Mon–Fri 07:00–22:00; Sat 08:00–16:00; closed Sunday — no reservations, ever; expect 45-minute queues at peak lunch since the Eater feature, Saturday from one in the afternoon If Gelida is full, Migrat — same family, same kitchen, same prices — sits across the chamfer crosswalk at Comte d'Urgell 92 (weekday daytime only)

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Address
Carrer de la Diputació, 133, La Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample, 08015 Barcelona, Spain
Phone
+34 934 53 79 97

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