Soma
Mediterranean/Spanish Tapas · Eixample, Barcelona · €€
Contemporary restaurant with Catalan tapas featuring Italian and French influences, known for tender veal cheeks and inventive risotto cakes.
The Delekta Review
Soma sits on Carrer de Provença in the Eixample and does the unflashy work of being a genuinely good neighbourhood restaurant — contemporary Catalan tapas inflected with Italian and French technique. The slow-braised veal cheeks are the headline dish, falling apart at the first prod of a fork, glossed in a reduction with real depth. Inventive risotto cakes, seasonal small plates, and a short but considered wine list — mostly Spanish, with a few French and Italian detours — round out a menu that knows its limits and works confidently within them. The room is modern, intimate, well-lit without being stark; the service attentive without hovering. Prices sit comfortably in mid-Eixample territory. Nothing here is designed for Instagram — which is precisely the point. For a weekday dinner where cooking quality matters more than spectacle, Soma is the kind of Eixample booking that pays off quietly.
What the critics say
Visit
- Address
- Carrer de Provença, 179, Eixample, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 605 65 89 56
- Website
- soma-restaurant.com
- Reservations
- Book a table
Nearby restaurants in Eixample
- Batea — Seafood, €€€
- Besta — Seasonal Seafood Bistro, €€€
- Mordisco — Modern Mediterranean, €€€
- Embat — Bistronomic Mediterranean, €€
- Topik — Japanese-Catalan Fusion Tapas, €€€
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- La Cova Fumada — Traditional Catalan Tapas, Barceloneta, €
- Fino Bar — Wine Bar / Tapas, Gràcia, €€
- Bar Tomás — Tapas & Bravas, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, €€
- Bar Mut — Classic Spanish Tapas & Wine, Eixample, €€€
- Bar La Plata — Tapas, Barri Gòtic, €€