Xerta
Mediterranean / Tasting Menu · Eixample, Barcelona · €€€€
Fran López's tasting menu restaurant in the Ohla Eixample hotel, built around the produce of the Terres de l'Ebre — 90% sourced from the Ebro Delta. Held a Michelin star 2016–2024.
The Delekta Review
Xerta's identity is fixed and unapologetic — everything routes back to the Ebro Delta. Galeres, arrossos, and peix de llotja anchor all three tasting menus, and the rice course arrives inside a miniature thatched house with a smoking chimney, spectacle that the produce earns. Blue crab cannelloni with soy-ginger pilpil and galera cream shows a kitchen willing to reach past strict regionalism without abandoning it. The weekday lunch at €55 — snacks, rice, main, dessert, bread, water, and two glasses of wine — is the sharpest entry point and overdelivers at that price. Xerta lost its Michelin star in 2024 after eight consecutive years, reasons undisclosed, but Chef Fran López's Delta-rooted pantry and the kitchen's confidence are unchanged. The drama is real; so is the cooking.
What the critics say
- Xerta - Review - Eixample - Barcelona - The Infatuation
- El restaurant Xerta celebra 10 anys portant la gastronomia del Baix Ebre fins a Barcelona
- El hotel de Barcelona que esconde un restaurante con Estrella Michelín: especializado en cocina del Ebro
- Adiós a la Estrella Michelin: este es el restaurante de Barcelona que ha perdido su reconocimiento
Visit
- Address
- Carrer de Còrsega, 289, Eixample, 08008 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 937 37 90 80
- Website
- xertarestaurant.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, €€€
More Menu in Barcelona
- Caelis — Fine Dining Tasting Menu, Eixample, €€€€
- Slow & Low — Creative Tasting Menu, Sant Antoni, €€€€
- Atempo — Fine Dining / Tasting Menu, Eixample, €€€€