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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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