Etapes

Address: Carrer d' Enric Granados, 10. 
Between Pl. Letamendi and Consell de Cent. 
Area: Eixample Esquerre.                       MAP IT 
Tel. Reservations: 933 300 303

Price: From 20-30 Euros. (Precio medio 40 €)

Open: Monday to Saturday from 13:30-15:30hr and from 20:30-23:30hr. Closed: Sunday.             Web site 

TripAdvisor : 4.5/5       rank 35 / 4194       269 reviews 
El Tenedor : 8.6/10 32 reviews     Yelp : 5/5 2 reviews

 Bcn Restaurantes
Small in size but very big in essence, Etapes is one of those restaurants that are really worth knowing. The secret of its success: high level cuisine at moderate prices. The kitchen team works with the best products to offer excellent cuisine based on the Mediterranean tradition.

Restalo.uk  8.6/10  19 reviews 
Etapes restaurant is located near the Plaza Universidad of Barcelona, in the district of Eixample Esquerra. This is one of the gastronomic discoveries in the neighborhood as it combines an excellent menu of fresh, high quality dishes with an affordable price, all topped by a friendly and welcoming customer service.
Chef recommends as a starter the hut salad with blue cheese, muscat jelly, 'garrapinyats' Riesling vinaigrette. Then, the tuna steak with honey, soy and sesame served with salad exotic. To give the final touch of 'fancy', you can enjoy a delicious tiramisu 'stage' of coffee from Peru.
The Etapes gives special attention to quality and environmentally friendly produce. This is also reflected in the atmosphere.

Barceló Raval - Lunch Sunday Oct. 6

address : Rambla del Raval 17-21; 08001
Area : Raval (map)
Metro : Liceu [L3] Parallel [L2] 
Telephone +34 93 320 1490 

Website 
 
Price EUR 25 prix fixe

Hours Sundays 12-16

60 x 80

With such great brunch places in Barcelona like Federal Café or Brunch & Cake, it may seem like a cop-out to opt for a hotel restaurant. But the Sunday deal at the Barceló Raval might make you change your mind.

A two-staged affair, the first involves B Lounge, the hotel’s lobby level restaurant, where you can dig into the buffet. It’s a respectable spread, with all the fruit, baked goods, cheeses and cold cuts that you could reasonably expect, as well as some beautifully presented finger foods, a variety of delicious salads, and made-to-order poached eggs with spinach or jamón.

It’s the second leg, however, that makes it worth an outing: After paying up downstairs, head up to the 11th floor 360º roof terrace and enjoy an open (i.e., free) bar of mimosas, bloody marys and cava with the wristband that you’re given upon arrival.
Plunk down into a sun lounger, cocktail in hand, and enjoy the views. Then have some more drinks. And then some more. Weather permitting, take advantage of the splash pool, too (bring swimwear). The deal is good until 16:00, so arrive early to make the most of it.

Abrassame

Address: Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 375-385. Top floor of Las Arenas shopping centre. Area: Eixample
Esquerre.      (map)
Booking : on-line
Price: From 20-30 Euros. (Precio medio 30 €)
Open: Monday to Sunday from 10-1hr. 
Closed: Never.
Web site          Youtube

TripAdvisor : 4.5/5  rank 206 / 4196  52 reviews        El Tenedor : 8.5/10  74 reviews        Yelp : 2/5  1 review

Restalo : 8.4/10  11 reviews 
Inside the dome of the shopping center of Plaza Las Arenas Spain, in the heart of the city of Barcelona, is the restaurant Abrassame. It is a restaurant specializing in fish dishes and seafood, with fresh and with a touch Mediterranean.
The restaurant offers an extensive menu and several daily menus composed of dishes made with seafood flown in daily from the fish market. A selection of meats (Galician, Asturian or Nebraska), with the common characteristic quality product at a good price, cooked grilled, baked or grilled. It also has a variety of dishes and Share Chopping and several types of the best meat for hamburger.
Located in a very privileged with spectacular views across Barcelona, the restaurant has a wide Abrassame heated terrace and private dining rooms, ideal for business lunches or events for up to 26 people. The dishes are cooked on view in the heart of the local bar surrounding the show cooking in which we find an account of the fresh seafood of the day.

Bnc Restaurantes : 
Located at the top of Las Arenas, Abrassame is without doubt one of the most interesting gastronomic options in the shopping centre that occupies what was once the old bullring. Specialized in seafood, which arrives daily from the fish market and is cooked on the grill or baked, the restaurant’s philosophy is to offer quality products at reasonable prices. The menu also includes a large selection of tapas and plates to share, as well as select meats from Galicia, Asturias and Nebraska. With the open kitchen in the middle of the space, it welcomes us with a modern and warm décor and has a few private rooms ideal for intimate celebrations and a wonderful terrace with spectacular views over the city.

Passadis del Pep

Address: Pla de Palau, 2.
Area: Born- La Ribera.                                    MAP IT
Booking tel.: 933 101 021
Price: More 45 Euros. (Precio medio 80 €)
Open: Monday to Saturday from 13:30-15:30hr and from 21-23:30hr. Closed: Sunday. Bank holidays. 2 weeks in August.
Web site

TripAdvisor : 4/5 rank 370 / 4338  174 reviews 
Yelp : 5/5  10 reviews  Qype : 5/5  4 reviews
VipGourmet : 7.7/10   3 reviews

Bcn Restaurantes
More than 30 years ago, Joan Manubens opened, encouraged by his brother Pep, a simple restaurant at the end of a narrow corridor of a building in Pla de Palau. The restaurant's name was his way to say thanks for the help, and this is how Passadís de Pep was born. Today the place is one of the most emblematic restaurants in the city that has maintained its reputation over the decades due to the quality of the products it serves and the service it offers.
With a relaxed and pleasant atmospehre, the restaurant welcomes us between stone walls covered with paintings by recognized painters and has several spaces, so that is ideal for quiet couple dinners but also for groups and celebrations. Passadís del Pep has no menu but daily suggestions made daily with the freshest products. It is advisable to let them decide your menu (70-90€), it will definitely be a great success.

Barcelona.com
No menu at Passadís del Pep but everyday a new selection of beautifully presented dishes, mostly seafood, certainly the best ones in Barcelona!! Whatever is most fresh that day is what you get. 
Last time we were there, we had something like 7 or 8 dishes: clams, few kind of prawns, gambas, sea snail, squid, fried and crispy anchovies.. That is before to have to choose the mean dish: “carne o pescado”?? Take a fish this is the place for. We forgot to tell you that usually you will drink Cava (the local Champagne).. A lot of Cava.. 
The place is known to be really hard to find – down a tiny passageway (a passadis) – but it’s part of the pleasure to finally find a great “table”.. Hope you’ll find it! Reservations required.

Zagat : Food 27/30 Decor 21/30 Service 25/30  Cost VE  73 reviews

“You never see a menu and never have to make a decision” at this “cozy” unmarked Born-Rivera “gem” where the staff “keeps bringing more and more” “simply sublime”, “authentic” Mediterranean seafood by chef-owner Joan Manubens; sure, it’s a costly outing, but since a bottle of cava comes with every meal, it’s easy to “walk out just wrecked, and loving every minute of it.” 

Nile Guide
Housed within the Pla de Palau, Passadis del Pep flaunts artistic interiors—paintings by Spanish artistes adorn the walls, and the tables are neatly decorated with fine cutlery, flowers and white linen. Moreover, the restaurant proudly maintains a "no menu card" status—waiters will verbally guide you through the day's specialties and recommend top favorites. So if you don't want to go through the boring ordeal of scanning a card before making up your mind, Passadis offers a better option.

El Gran Café

Address: Carrer d' Avinyó, 9. Area: El Gòtic.  MAP IT
Tel. : 933 300 303 
Price:  30-45 Euros. (Precio medio 32 €)

Open: Sunday to Thursday 13-24hr. Friday and Saturday 13-24:30hr. Closed: Christmas Eve.

Web site

TripAdvisor : 3.5/5  rank 911 / 4212  181 reviews          El Tenedor : 7.7/10  15 reviews   
Yelp :                3/5  5 reviews                                         Qype :             3/5       4 reviews

Bcn Restaurantes
Founded in 1920 and still with the original modernist decor from the beginning of last century, El Gran Café is probably the most impressive and attractive café in Barcelona.
Located in the Gothic Quarter, the setting attracts mostly tourists that, in this perfect scenario, seize the opportunity to try the most typical Catalan food -which by the way is not as good as the whole setting but still far more than acceptable. In the menu we will find dishes such as the beef entrecôte, the Segovia style lamb, the tuna tataki, the duck confit and some rice dishes.
The set lunch menú is, with no doubt, a good option. The cellar includes a hundred national wines. The restaurant counts, as well, with different private rooms for group dinners. The most quiet and intimate tables are those on the top floor. There's live piano music at night.

Barcelona.com
El Gran Café is located near the Mayor House, this old-fashioned restaurant decorated in the style "Belle Epoque", serves typical Catalan and international dishes.
If you are looking for standards choose eyes closed: steak tartare, roast beef, duck magret and osso buco. We prefer Catalan recipe like los taquitos de rape con muselina y miniverduras... Or try the daily menu for 11,25€, with many dishes to choose and just perfect. Live piano at night!

Dining City : 8.1/10
El Gran Café is probably the most impressive and attractive restaurant in Barcelona with original modernist decor, located right in the historical center, in the Gothic district; it emphasizes by his comfortable and relaxed atmosphere, with live piano at night as well as by its gastronomical supply integrated by one right selection of the traditional recipe book of the Catalan & Spanish kitchen. A long time favourite of Barcelonans, from the 1920s 

Salero

Address: Carrer del Rec, 60. In front of Estació de França.
Area: Born- La Ribera.        MAP IT
Tel. Reservations: 933 300 303

Price: From 20-30 Euros. (Precio medio 30 €)

Open: Monday to Sunday from 13:30-16hr and from 21-24hr (Friday and Saturday until 2:30hr). Closed: Bank holidays. Sunday night (January and February).

Web site

TripAdvisor : 4/5  rank 617 / 4338  51 reviews                      Yelp : 4/5  5 reviews
VipGourmet : 7.2/10  7 reviews             El Tenedor : 8.1/10  96 reviews            Qype : 4/5  1 review

Bcn Restaurantes
With over 15 years of history in the most cosmopolitan district of Barcelona, Salero is now a classic in El Born and one of the best options for dining out and having the first drink of the night in the best atmosphere.
This is a charming restaurant decorated by renowned interior designer Pilar Líbano with the help of Elsa Serra -owner of the restaurant- that welcomes us with a cozy bar area ideal for a coffee, a drink or any of the delicious homemade desserts. The dining room, flooded with natural light during the day, becomes more intimate in the evening.
The menu features excellent Mediterranean and international cuisine which makes great concessions to oriental cuisines. Its attractive dishes are made with organic seasonal produce.

Barcelona.com
Salero is one of the first restaurants to start in this district. Located in an old factory of fish salting. International and innovating Menus. Menus and breakfasts inspired. Inspired in New York style, young ambiance. Ideal for eating international cuisine and to have some drings at night!

Restalo.uk
Salero was born in 1996 in the Born to lead to the heart of Barcelona's best culinary reference local cuisines from around the world, taking care to detail the composition of its food and the combination of the best fresh, natural and organic origin.
The selection of culinary becomes the fundamental value of an experienced team of chefs, allowing diners to bring to its exotic and balanced diets for their care. A tribute to the world every day of the week.
With good taste, music and joy, Salero becomes a place to enjoy a fresh menu and multicultural.

Nile Guide
This restaurant is one of the many popular places in El Born. It used to be a salt storehouse, but was later converted into a welcoming bar-restaurant. White is the predominant color. The furniture is amazing and the bar is enormous. It is always full of trendy, modern young people. The menu changes with the seasons and offers delightful salads, steamed vegetables, warm pears, teriyaki chicken, etc. Their desserts are homemade, the music is well-chosen and the wine list is splendid.

Time Out
What a delight to find a menu with imagination, not only for the complexity of the dishes, but also the originality of the basic idea! On their many journeys around the world, Elsa and Elena learned a thing or two about cooking, which they are now putting into practice at this great bar, commonly frequented by people with discerning tastes and palates. You won’t regret it. You can choose from dishes with Cambodian touches, or snacks straight out of the Arabian Nights. Small outdoor terrace that is lovely in summer. The service is excellent.

Cette photo de Restaurante Salero est fournie gracieusement par TripAdvisor

Can Ravell

Address: Carrer d' Aragó, 313. Between Bruc and Girona.
Area: Eixample Dret.   MAP IT
Booking tel.: 934 575 114
Price: More 45 Euros.
(Precio medio 60 €)
Open: Monday to Saturday from 10-21hr. Sunday from 10-15hr. Closed: Monday. Nights.
Web site

TripAdvisor : 4/5  rank 1025 / 4217  23 reviews       Yelp : 4.5/5  3 reviews
Qype : 3/5  1 review                                                   VipGourmet   : 7.5/10  2 reviews

Bcn Restaurantes
Can Ravell is a restaurant that, from the very beginning until today, has been in constant evolution and has managed to adapt to the new times and its clientele's needs.
It first opened as Mantequería Ravell more than seventy years ago and it soldl only select products. Today, besides selling them, it also has a delivery service, a space fully dedicated to tasting and an exclusive, private and light restaurant.
There must be a reason why gourmets and experts gather in this exquisite and sober place. Here they only deal with select products that have been carefully selected in order to create sublime season cuisine. In the enviable menu of this recommendable place we find dishes such as fried eggs with foie or hake with garlic and lightly fried artichokes.
The chef Jesús Benavente decided not to open at night, unless a group wants to rent the whole restaurant.

Barcelona.com
Can Ravell, founded in 1929 by Ignasi Ravell this dairy, delicatessen – one of the best of Barcelona for Jabugo and spanish hams - and restaurant is one of the reference marks of the authentic inhabitants of Barcelona.
They appreciate there to do some shopping, then to eat some tapas while waiting for their tables and… To have lunch or dinner of course, knowing that chef Jesús Benavente never never miss imagination . We enjoyed: Arroz del día (the rice of the day) at 18€, Tripa amb xoriço picant (tripe with the hot chorizo) at 9€, Peix del dia (the fish of the day) at 18€, Pluma amb bolets i patata al gratén (poultry with boletus and potatoes gratin)at 18€. Marvellous desserts. Very beautiful wine chart!

Zagat : Food 24/30 Decor 21/30 Service 23/30 Cost E

“You literally go through the kitchen” to the dining room at this “magnificent gourmet shop” in the Eixample offering “a great introduction to the tastes of España” with its “delicious” Catalan-Med fare; though “not fancy”, it’s still “worth” a visit.

NewYorkTimes
Blocks from La Sagrada Família, and a few doors down from a mercado of decidedly quotidian businesses, one tiny epicurean paradise has upheld a lofty gastronomic ideal for 80 years. Can Ravell (“Can” means “Casa” in Catalan) is perhaps the most glorious of delicatessens in a city that knows exactly how it likes its ham and high-end foodstuffs.
Founded in 1929, the shop managed to withstand the brutal vicissitudes of Spanish mid-20th-century politics on the assumption that there would always be a population that wanted the best of everything. Run today by Joseph Ravell, son of the deli’s founder, Ignasi Ravell, Can Ravell continues to enchant, not only with the hams the chef hand-selects in Jabugo and Guijuelo and the vast wine cellar boasting the finest domestic and international vintage, but with its upstairs secret. 
Discerning diners push through the crowded anteroom, chock-full of jams and mustards and French cheeses, past counters where jamón serrano is thinly sliced and picnic-ready meals are prepared, and head to a spiral staircase in the back. Above the bustle of the grocery, they find themselves in a bourgeois fantasy: a large room of long marble tables for diners to share; floor-to-ceiling French doors; business people chatting in twos and threes. Shelves are stocked with a full complement of whiskeys.

The second-floor restaurant, which can be rented for private parties at night, is unexpectedly luminous and airy, a relief from the crowded shop below. None of the diners seems in a hurry; a meal encompasses a full two hours. Though Can Ravell’s Web site lists dozens of dishes on an ever-changing menu, waiters offer only four choices per course — the chef chooses the plates each day. 
This is high-end Spanish and Catalan comfort food. Salmorejo — a heartier cousin of gazpacho — is served with a choice of jamón ibérico or lobster topped with a poached egg (12 or 15 euros, $16.75 or $21 at $1.42 to the euro). Seasonal ingredients are celebrated accordingly. Summer brings fresh beans, with sausage or lobster, and tomatoes, in a salad with hunks of tuna and onion. Peas, mushrooms or asparagus take over at other times, each plate abandoned when the vegetable is no longer freshest. Foie is plentiful; pork dominates but is not alone: rich plates of duck breast, above, make an appearance, as do freshly caught fish and other seafood. 
Light this meal is not. Lunch for two is about 120 euros, depending on wine. In a city known for dining, it’s often hard to impress. Can Ravell might just be the perfect answer for the weary foodie. 

Michelin
This unusual restaurant has a charcuterie at the entrance and a small kitchen which guests have to walk through to get to the dining room and private rooms. Traditional cuisine. A particularly interesting wine list 

Fodors
Arguably Barcelona's best all-around fine-food and wine emporium, Can Ravell is a cult favorite with a superb selection of everything you ever wanted to savor, from the finest anchovies from La Scala to the best cheese from Idiazabal. Through the kitchen and up the tiny spiral staircase, the dining room offers one of Barcelona's best lunch menus. The tasting table downstairs operates on a first-come, first-served basis and brings together foodies from all over the world to swap tasting tales. It's closed Monday.

Frommer's
There's a good reason why Barcelona gourmets have tried -- in vain -- to keep this gem to themselves. Founded in 1929 by Ignasy Ravell and discreetly tucked away on the second floor of a deli, the restaurant is only accessible via a kitchen and spiral staircase. Chef Jesus Benavente, who's renowned for his divine creations, adjusts his menu according to season, so you never know quite what you're going to get until you arrive. A wonderful dish is espalda de cerdo a horno con foie gras y guisantes (braised pork shoulder with foie gras and young peas). The restaurant has a cellar of over 10,000 bottles, including cavas and champagnes.

Time Out
This venerable shop, which opened as a grocery in 1929, is now a delicatessen and a small restaurant specialising in expertise and excellence. Partridge in vinegar, rabbit with artichokes, escudella with carn d'olla throughout the year and superb juicy burgers are just a few examples of their skills. You can order half-portions of any dish you like. 

Back : Quadrat d'Or Tour - East Part
 

Casa Calvet

Address: Carrer de Casp, 48.
Between Roger de Llúria and Bruc.
Area: Eixample Dret.                 MAP IT
Tel. Reservations:  934 124 012
Price: More 45 Euros. (Precio medio 65 €)
Open: Monday to Saturday 13-15:30hr & 20:30-23hr.
Closed: Sunday. Bank holidays. 2 weeks in August.
Web site

TripAdvisor : 4.5/5    rank 151 / 4217   199 reviews
Yelp : 4/5    9 reviews           Qype : 5/5    3 reviews
VipGourmet : 8.5/10  2 opinions

Bcn Restaurantes
Casa Calvet boasts a priceless situation, since it is settled in a privileged modernist building by the famous Catalan architect Gaudí. It first opened to the public in 1994, and it still keeps the original décor from the end of the 19th century, which makes it really elegant, quiet and cosy.
The rooms of the restaurant are the perfect scenario for romantic dinners to become very special evenings.
The chef Miguel Alija offers his personal Mediterranean cuisine with his own creative touch, essentially elaborated with top quality products. In the menu we will find dishes like fresh duck liver with bitter orange, rice with lobster, vegetables with goat cheese or partridge with chestnuts.
Casa Calvet is the perfect place for a special occasion in which we will enjoy a quiet dinner in a unique setting.

Barcelona.com
For the ones in love with Gaudí, the unique experience of having lunch or dinner in a building of the Master: La Casa Calvet A feeling of exclusiveness thanks to the place and decoration as well as for the meal.
The chief Miquel Alija excels in an adventurous Mediterranean kitchen. One appreciates Fresh duck liver with sour oranges, rice with lobster, vegetables with goat’s cheese, partridge with chestnuts or rosemary ice-cream. But do not miss its seasonal dishes with for example its Duck liver with cumin and chickpea purée (28 €), its grilled sole with pistachio sauce and sauted aubergine (30€), its Stewed cod, scallop and razor clam, with peas and potatoes (28 €). For the entries count some 20 Euros and 10 for the deserts.

Zagat : Food 25/30 Decor 27/30 Service 26/30 Cost E

“Sitting inside a work of art” designed by Antonio Gaudí with his signature “playful” touches makes the meal “special” at this “beautiful” Eixample house where the “cutting-edge”, “somewhat-high-end” Catalan-Med cuisine is also “quintessential Barcelona”; service is conducted with great “attention to detail”, so it’s the rare place that’s “got it all.”

Fodors
It's hard to pass up the opportunity to break bread in a Gaudí-designed house. Completed in 1900, the Art Nouveau Casa Calvet includes a graceful dining room decorated in Moderniste ornamentation from looping parabolic door handles to polychrome stained glass, etched glass, and wood carved in floral and organic motifs. The Catalan and Mediterranean fare is light and contemporary, seasonal and market-based.

Frommer's  
Probably the most intimate Gaudían experience you can have in Barcelona is eating in this sumptuous dining room. The Casa Calvet was one of the architect's first commissions, built for textile magnate Pere Calvet. Now private apartments, the building is off-limits to the public, but a restaurant occupies Calvet's former ground-floor offices. Replete with velvet drapery, florid stained glass, attractive tiles, Gaudí-designed furniture, and other memorabilia, the only thing that jolts you back to the 21st century is the contemporary twist on Miguel Alija's excellent Catalan cuisine, such as giant prawns with rosemary-infused oil or duck liver with oranges. And although the setting ensures a fair share of tourists, Casa Calvet is also popular with locals.

Restalo.uk 
Casa Calvet Restaurant is a restaurant with signature cuisine, that since its opening in 1994, chef Miquel Alija has elaborated his own cuisine, full of nuances and original, reconciling state of the art creation with longstanding Mediterranean tradition. Their cooking combines the vanguardism of other great creators of our national cuisine with a certain influence from Asian cuisine. 

Barcelona Guide
Casa Calvet is situated in one of Gaudí’s buildings and has an incredible glorious interior full of elegant details. It is spacious and comfortable and the food is simply excelent, with creative and personal combinations such as smoked foie gras with mango sauce or shrimp raviolis with mushroom sauce or the pine nut tart with foamed crema catalana. Mediterranean dishes created by the chef Miguel Alija, a menu that changes each season.

Time Out
Since this restaurant opened in 1994, chef Miquel Alija has created a cuisine of his own, incorporating the latest trends into the timeless Mediterranean tradition. With a menu that changes each season and an excellent wine cellar, Casa Calvet is a great reason to come to Plaça  Urquinaona.


Back : Casa Calvet

Cette photo de Casa Calvet est fournie gracieusement par TripAdvisor

Cala Blanca

Address : Dr. Trueta, 211
Zip code : 08005 
Area : Pueblo Nuevo. MAP IT 
Phone : 93 221 07 79 
Prices : Menu from 11,25 / 35  €
Opening hours : From 1pm to 4pm and on thursday, friday and saturday from 8pm to 11pm 
Metro: Poble Nou (L4) / Bus: 6, 26, 36 
Web site 

TripAdvisor : 2.5/5  rank 2954 / 4217   2 reviews     Yelp : 5/5   1 review     El Tenedor : 7.8/10   7 reviews

Barcelona.com
Cala Blanca near the Rambla of Poblenou is the perfect daily restaurant we are looking for in Barcelona. The idea is to find a full menu under 12 euros for lunch. At Cala Blanca menu is around 11,25€ with wine, like many others but the surprise is coming from the quality of the meal... 
It's just perfect: a typical Catalan cooking with a wide range of dishes made from market products of the day. 

But that would not be enough for us to recommend this place to you. Here the chef is just perfectly inspired, there is always a detail telling you that this guy likes to cook and likes to please the clients. 
It's surprisingly simple, fresh, tasty for the price...Such a delight that Barcelona.com's team is going there almost everyday: happy to have found a canteen.. We are not the only one, at 1pm it's full of working but epicurean locals. Ask for the terrace if you book. 
Not a place for the evening as it is oftenly quite empty and a bit sad.. For dinner pricing is different: you'll find two degustation menus: one at 23 and the other one at 25€. 

Time Out
After 20 years of running the Casino de l'Aliança, Blanca Dordal has opened her own place in Poble Nou. The result is Cala Blanca, a reliable restaurant serving Catalan cuisine and seafood, and which, though it 'only' opened in 2004, seems to have been there forever. Its 24€ menu, which has everything you could wish for, is well worth trying.

Bilbao

Address: Carrer del Perill, 33.
Area: Gràcia.                   MAP IT
Booking tel.: 934 589 624

Price: From 30-45 Euros. (Precio medio 43 €)

Open: Monday to Saturday 13-16 hr and 21-23 hr.
Closed: Sunday and bank holidays. August.

TripAdvisor : 4/5    rank 332 / 4217    63 reviews
Yelp : 4.5/5    3 reviews        Qype : 5/5    1 review
VipGourmet : 7/10  2 opinions

Bcn Restaurantes
Located in Gracia for some fifty years, Bilbao is a landmark in the city of Barcelona. All those who think of eating as an art know this unpretentious restaurant that aims for us to enjoy with their food.
 In Bilbao we won't be in a romantic, modern or elegant place, for it still keeps the atmosphere and air of the old days. The point is that we don't need anything else to enjoy the real popular high quality food from Barcelona, with classic and traditional homemade recipes elaborated with excellent products.
 It is not a cheap restaurant, but is very good value for money, if we take into consideration that there is fresh fish every day and that portions are very generous. The whole thing is the reason why a lot of famous people, businessmen, couples and groups of all sorts of people find in Bilbao the perfect place to have a perfect lunch or dinner.

Financial Times
The rain was so torrential that we arrived half an hour before their 2pm opening for Saturday lunch as the waiters were having their staff meal. But they happily waved us in. Jordi Olivet, the chef here for two decades, took us through to our table and we dried ourselves off.
I have never seen a restaurant fill up so quickly. Just before 2pm we four were alone. Five minutes later, every table was taken, the waiters in their blue shirts hurtling around to be joined 15 minutes later by Bilbao’s jolly owner, Pere Valls Isart. Wearing a cardigan that just about hid a considerable girth, he first toured the rooms, kissing his female customers and the children, but quite soon he was hard at work, too (...).
Olivet and his team certainly cook well enough for us to want to invite our friends back. Cannelloni with truffles; diced ham again but this time on top of artichokes; a plate of unadorned, glistening plump girolles, just in season; a delicious rendition of grilled octopus with pimento and sliced potatoes; and a thoughtfully modest serving of oxtail with a cube of membrillo whose sweetness cut the otherwise fatty meat.

Zagat : Food 25/30 Decor 19/30 Service 21/30 Cost E

“You’ll eat extremely well” at this Gràcia longtimer serving “terrific typical Catalan” food and wine in a traditional setting occupying two floors of a 19th-century townhouse; though it may not be “luxurious”, it’s just right for sampling some “unparalleled” specialties without an exorbitant bill.

Minube.co.uk
We went to have lunch and had a set meal for 11€, with more food than you can eat. We started with a plate with different types of ham and a salad and then a butifarra (sausage) served with mashed potatoes, all of this served with wine and then dessert. 
It is one of these old restaurants that does not care about the fact that the neighborhood has become trendy. They still serve the same thing as decades ago, the waiters are all 50 and seem to work there since the place opened. 
In short: it is a traditional place, at noon it is full of locals and workers and at night it is more of an exclusive place, it is more expensive. For example, there is a set meal for 35€ and out of the menu it also costs between 30€ and 50€ each.

Fodors
A cheery bistro near the bottom of Gràcia, this place is always packed with hungry epicureans having a festive time. Unpretentious, straightforward Mediterranean market cuisine is well prepared and sold at reasonable prices here, but the best feature is the generally gleeful din—a good sign. Try the fried egg with black truffles and look for the Montsant red wines, always great values.

Nile Guide
One of the most popular restaurants in the Gràcia district, it serves simple and tasty dishes from a tempting menu that includes specials like Sautéed Artichokes with Cured Ham and an unbeatably tender steak. The desserts are homemade and the wine cellar is stocked with the best labels. Try the lunchtime set menu of the day for great value. It has been in business for around half a decade and boasts of a loyal clientele that includes celebrities and artists.

Time Out
A Barcelona classic, ​​the Bilbao represents one of the finest examples of traditional cuisine in the city. Mouthwatering dishes, with fresh fish every day. It’s not cheap, but it’s good value for money. You’ll often see big names and public figures eating here.

Cette photo de Bilbao est fournie gracieusement par TripAdvisor