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.
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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
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.
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!
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
