Lanto

Cocina de Autor / Catalan-Japanese-Nordic · Sant Martí, Barcelona · €€

Awards: Repsol Solete

Open since 2021

Ricardo García Sunet (Guy Savoy Paris, Alchemist Copenhagen, Japan) and his wife Rika Nakahori opened this sixteen-seat room in El Clot in late 2021 — surprise-format menus that come out of whatever arrived at the market that morning, baked-from-three-AM bread, butters made in house. Repsol Solete 2022. Weekday lunch tastings around twenty euros.

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Closed surprise-format tasting only — you pick fish or meat for the main; everything else is the chef's call. Menu changes daily with whatever García brought back from the market that morning Weekday lunch tasting around €20.50 with a drink — five or six courses, unusually generous for the level of work; Sat/Sun lunch €34; evening tasting €42, single seating at 21:00 Technique stack: French classical sauces (Savoy years), Japanese restraint (Nakahori + García's Japan time), Nordic offcut-economy (Alchemist), kamado-fired grilling — a coherent personal voice, not a buffet of references

Confit shiitake with charcoal mayonnaise and pecorino — the house signature, cited across Time Out, the preview piece and recurring blog visits Crumbled Burgos morcilla with grilled tomato purée and kohlrabi salad — a recurring entrée motif Boquerones with apple vinegar, fennel and beet salad — clean, sharp, the kind of plate the room does without showing off Low-temperature chicken breast à la Royale with cauliflower purée — the long-cooking, French-spine main Marinated peach with lemon thyme and hazelnut crumble — seasonal close from the early years; the dessert slot turns over often

Ricardo García Sunet — Catalan, trained at Guy Savoy in Paris, then London kitchens, then Japan, then Alchemist and Alouette in Copenhagen — opened Lanto as his first solo venture in late 2021 Rika Nakahori — Japanese, his wife and partner in the project; co-runs the room, pastry and front-of-house alongside García Mikel López Iturriaga came out for El Comidista in July 2022, less than a year after opening — the first piece that put the room on the wider city radar

Sixteen seats across seven tables, open kitchen — serene, minimalist room blending Japanese and Scandinavian cues, ceramic tableware by Eva Lebrero Corner of Carrer de València and Avinguda Meridiana — workaday El Clot block, no walk-in tourist traffic, the kind of address you arrive at on purpose

Address: Carrer de València 646, El Clot (Sant Martí) — three minutes from L1 Clot, six from L1 Glòries Service Tue–Fri lunch (seatings 13:00 and 14:30); Sat–Sun lunch (13:00 and 14:45); evening tasting Thu–Sat single seating 21:00; closed Monday Reservations via WhatsApp (preferred) to +34 658 94 11 31, the house web form or phone — no walk-ins; sixteen seats fill quickly

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Address
Carrer de València, 646, El Clot, 08026 Barcelona, Spain
Phone
+34 658 94 11 31
Website
lantorestaurant.com
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