La Flauta
Catalan Tapas & Flautas · Eixample, Barcelona · €€
Tapas institution specializing in flautas — crispy baguette sandwiches with creative fillings. Also excellent croquetas and bravas. Two locations.
The Delekta Review
Classic tapes across multiple Barcelona locations, La Flauta takes its name — and its identity — from the flautes, crispy baguette sandwiches with creative fillings that the kitchen has been refining for years. The bread is the key: crunchy outside, tender inside, the kind of structural integrity that elevates a sandwich into something you actually think about afterwards. The bravas are reliable, the croquetes satisfyingly classical, and the flautes themselves carry fillings — cured meats, grilled vegetables, jamón — that reward the format rather than apologise for it. High volume and multiple locations (including the Eixample on Aribau and the Rambla branch) keep it busy, popular, and accessible. Prices are fair, the menu is broad, and the service is efficient without being cold. Same group as Ciutat Comtal, for anyone mapping the city's tapes ecosystem. Not a destination restaurant, but a dependable one — and in a city this full of tapes options, dependability counts more than one might expect.
What the critics say
- La Flauta Barcelona Restaurant Review
- La Flauta Barcelona - Fodor's Travel
- La Flauta Barcelona Tapas - LocalGems
- La Flauta – Macarfi
Visit
- Address
- Carrer d'Aribau, 23, Eixample, 08011 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 933 23 70 38
- Website
- laflauta.com
- Reservations
- Book a table