Flash-Flash Tortillería
C/ Granada del Penedès, 25 (Metro Diagonal)
near corner Travesseria de Gracia with Tusset
Open everyday from 1 pm to 1.30 am
Price from 15 euros.
Website : Flash Flash

Opened in the 70’s by a famous catalan photographer Leopoldo Pomés. You can understand why it is called … Flash Flash 

Choice of more than 80 tortillas (spanish omelettes)
Vegetable, fish, potatoes, trufles and cheese tortillas …sweet tortillas too …
Hamburger with french fries, soups, salads, simple dishes cooked with great care. Homemade desert.

Very trendy restaurant and not expensive .

A Flash Flash restaurant opened in 2008 in Madrid.

For your stay in Barcelona, you can hire an apartement downtown Barcelona with Cocoonbarcelona.

Hofmann Cooking school
Carrer Granada del Penedes 14 – 16
08003 Barcelone
Ph 93 218 71 65
WEB Hofmann

Sweets shops
C/ Flassaders, 44  08003 Barcelona
Tel. 93 268 82 21

Cooking workshops in Barcelona on different themes … in the famous Chefs School Hofman.
New creation from the Hofmann chefs, Patisseries, the lever , from market to kitchen , salads and sweets for coktails …

They also have a restaurant where you can eat their cooking.

They also opened a shop in the Born area, delicious chocolate, pastry, croissants….

You can book an apartment in the quiet Born area for your stay in Barcelona with Cocoonbarcelona

Restaurant L’Ou d’Or
carrer sant Llatzer 16
17600 Figueras
Ph : 972 50 37 65
Open from Monday to Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. and from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Close on Sundays
Web L’Ou d’Or 

From Barcelona, it is very easy to go to Figueras by train from San Station.

Dali Museum
Figueras centre
Web Dali Foundation

You can visit the famous Dalis theatre museum constructed by Dali himself. It is a very nice and interesting museum. A funny museum too, nice to visit with children ! There is also a small jewelry museum on side of the big one. You can admire beautiful jewels created by Dali.

If you want to eat in a typical restaurant in the centre of Figueras, go and eat at “LOU d’OR” . This family run restaurant has a lunch menu at 10 euros ! and it is worth it … delicious kitchen. You can choose among 4 different starters and 4 plates. For desert you can choose in the desert buffet.
There is even a big terrace on the back side of the restaurant.

Cinc Centist
Adress :  carrer Arabau 58
Phone : +34 93 323 94 90

“Cinc Centist” which means the “Five Senses” offers contemporary and creative Catalan cuisine in a modern and sophisticated atmosphere.  

Select any appetiser, main course and dessert from the menu for a fixed price.
Lunch time from Monday to Friday.

The Chef’s 8 course tasting Menu  

The best of the best—their most creative dishes—notable both for the quality of the ingredients used and the elaboration of each course. Includes many of the restaurant’s signature specialties.

A wine flight featuring six half-glasses chosen by the Sommelier to complement the food is also offered.

Or the 6 course Tasting Menu

Located in carrer Arabau 58 in middle of the Eixample area
Ph : +34 93 323 94 90

GAIG
Address : carrer Aragau 214 (Arabau corner)
Phone 934 291 017  

The Gaig restaurant was founded in 1869. Carles Gaig is the fourth generation in a family of restaurateurs devoted to tavern cuisine. This popular cuisine has been the base for a high level cuisine and the starting point of his author cuisine.
His wife, Fina Navarro takes care of the dining room.

Open from Monday to Saturday from 1.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. and from 9 p.m. to 11.30 p.m.

Adress : carrer Aragau 214 (Arabau corner) in the Eixample area
Phone 934 291 017

COMERC 24
Address : comerç 24 (Born area)
Phone 93 319 21 02

TAPAS C 24    from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Carrer Diputacio 269
08007 Barcelona
Phone 934 880 977

Carles Abellan started his studies with Adrià Ferran from the famous restaurant “El Bulli”.

In 2001, he opened his own restaurant in the Born area. Comerç 24 has the challenge of alternating tradition and creation. The cuisine is changing day by day depending on the products to be found on the market. It is a “Glocal” cuisine, very curious and open minded, constantly paying attention to other cuisines, wherever they are from, to incorporate the best of them.

Comerç 24 is located in the street comerç 24 in the Born area (metro Arc de Triomf) 08003 Ciutat Vella

Near the Born market and the Born Rambla.

Have a nice stay in Barcelona, hire a holiday apartment in the trendy Born area

Adress :  Carrer San Elies 22 (Via Agusta, Eixample area)
Phone : 93 209 75 59

Ramon Freixa has been named Chef of the year by the prestigious Gourmetour Guide in 2001 and 2007.

Since he is a child , he has been passionated by cooking. His parents have founded the restaurant
“El Raco d’en Freixa”

Technique, products and feelings are the three pillars of his cooking. He is very creative and inovating …

Open from Tuesday to Satuday from 1 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. and from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Carrer San Elies 22 (near via Augusta, Eixample area)
Ph : 93 209 75 59

EL BULLI

The restaurant will get closed for 2 years 2012 – 2013

Adress: cala (bay) Montjoy - Open from April to October
Rosas (Costa Brava)
Phone   : 00 34 972 15 04 57

This famous restaurant “El Bulli“ is not in Barcelona but on the Costa Brava in Rosas : cala (bay)  Montjoy. It is about 2 hours drive from Barcelona.

It is only open from April to October. Adrià Ferran lives in Barcelona and has his laboratory in the city. During the winter, he spends times trying new recipes or chemical experiences for his molecular gastronomy cuisine.

You have to book a table with a year in advance. It is the Number 1 restaurant in the world, the Michelin guide has given it 3 stars, the Campsa guide has given it 3 suns and the english “Restaurant Magazine” put it again in first place in awards for the World’s Best restaurants for the third time (2006, 2007, 2008). Awarded by : The Restaurant Magazine.
A cuisine that do not follow the rules, it is a laboratory of the new cuisine. Some friends that have been there can not stop talking about the restaurant and the food.. Try your luck!
It could be your best culinary memory.

Gastronomic menu is about 300 €  per head without wine. You cannot book a table until mid-January.

Phone for booking : 00 34 972 15 04 57 or send an email at bulli@elbulli.com

Read the experience of an english gastronome who ate in the Bulli .

You can hire a car to get there from Barcelona.
You can hire a luxury apartments on the beach in Barcelona during your stay, name of this apartment “Luxury Beach” with 4 bedrooms, a terrace and outside jacuzzy. Parking.

ALKIMIA
Adress :  Carrer Indústria 79
Tel: + 34 93 207 6115

This restaurant “Alkimia” (alchemy in English) located in the area of the Sagrada familia is owned by a young, very talented chef : Jordi Vilà . He has gained the attention of the critics from the Food and Wine magazine and the New Yorks Times restaurant section.

Alkimia C/ Indústria 79
Tel: 93 207 6115
Open: 1.30pm-3.30pm Mon-Sat, 9pm-11pm Mon-Fri, Closed Saturday lunchtime, Sundays and public holidays
Cost: Approx 150 € for a tasting menu for two and one bottle of wine.

BESTIAL
Port Olympic 
Ph 93 22 40 407

Bestial  what a strange name for a restaurant !

Nice place to eat on the terrace with view on the beach…in the barceloneta area. Port Olympic.

The menu is tasty fresh mediterranean and international cuisine. Near the Arts hotel

Enjoy your stay in Barcelona, hire an apartment in the beach area