Tel. Reservations: 933 300 303
Price: From 30-45 Euros. (Precio medio 35 €)
Open: Tuesday to Saturday from 13:30-15:30 hr and from 20:45-23 hr. Sunday from 13:30-15:30 h.
Closed: Sunday night. Monday. 3 weeks in August.
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Located in a typical Catalan house in the old village of Sarrià that still keeps the essence of the middle 18th century, and with a charming terrace in front of "l'Ajuntament" (the city council) of this cosy area in Barcelona, El Vell Sarrià is well-known thanks to the rice dishes they serve, some say one of the best in the whole city.
In this cosy restaurant, they offer as well a high quality Catalan ad season cuisine, with typical recipes from the Catalan culinary tradition, carefully prepared and at not excessive prices.
A part from the rice dishes, in the menu we also find dishes such as their cod au gratin with porcini aroma, their wild boar civet with redcurrant, pig's trotters, grilled fish or monkfish with crab and mushrooms.
They fix special menus for groups up to 22 people. The wine cellar is not very large but has good national wines. In short, El Vell de Sarrià is a place where we will feel like home while having an incredible meal.
Beautiful house situated in the quiet upper part of Sarria, divided into two floors and decorated in traditional style with rustic touches. El Vell Sarriá menu: no frills, with a large role for the rice, almost all well treated (cod with vegetables, mushroom mountain, rib and sepia ...). El Vell Sarria Barcelona El Vell Sarria Barcelona Enjoy the rice 'Pelat' with prawns and clams in their quiet summer terrace… To complete the menu, a number of starters that will help us snack while waiting for the rice, highlighting a good plancha (knives, clams, crayfish) and a few tapas typical from El Vell Sarriá, such as the sepietas with onions or the grilled vegetables with anchovies . Alternatively and not negligible, its grilled fish (hake, cod, sea bass). In desserts, our recommendation for a "drunk" sweet pie. Correct wine, but it can be improved with a new references.
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You’ll find El Vell Sarrià situated on the corner of the square in front of the Town Hall in the old part of the very pleasant district of Sarrià. Like Gràcia, Sarrià used to be a town in its own right – and, in many ways, it still is. It has a unique vibe and charm. It’s a district well worth exploring. El Vell Sarrià is one of the few restaurants in the city which still prepares food on a wood-fired stove. You’ll likely scent the woodsmoke when you enter this old building, built in 1745.
It is, without doubt, one of the very best restaurants for Catalan rice dishes in Barcelona. The star dish here is the poetically named “The rice dish which reminds me of the fountain at Can Guitard, with prawns, pork ribs, and cuttlefish.” It’s a hearty mar i muntanya – (sea and mountain) dish combining the fruits of the earth with the fruits of the sea. It’s thick and rich with the colour of very fertile soil. Don’t let this put you off. The combination of artichoke, prawns, crab and cuttlefish creates a real depth of flavour, while the ribs add unforgettable texture. When you dig into this dish you’ll feel like you’re turning over the native soil, or tilth, and tasting Catalunya’s coastline on your tongue at the same time.
At 1.30pm on the Plaça del Consell de la Vila, the sweet smell of wood smoke already fills the air. It comes from the kitchens of El Vell Sarrià, a neighbourhood classic and one of the few restaurants left in Barcelona still cooking their arroces over a wood fire. In the summer it’s possible to sit outside on the terrace in the shade of the plane trees, but there’s something irresistible about the old-fashioned atmosphere within.
The dining room is a comfortable clutter of pretty lanterns sprouting out of antique polished dressers, and painted cornflower blue tiles match the plates and tablecloths. The ground floor room can seat 26 (there’s a fabulous round table in the window if you can get up a party of eight, and private rooms for groups upstairs), and there’s no music, just the unique kitchen orchestra of clattering crockery and cutlery.
The extensive, product-centric menu offers some truly great dishes like ensalada de bacalao con judias blancas, and patatas bravas con pulpo al estilo Gallego, but El Vell Sarrià is all about the rice, and for lunch nothing more is needed. Portions are hefty with recipes straight from the paella heartland: arroz ‘pelat’ con gambas y almejas al estilo de la Albufera (the paddies that surround Valencia, and where the most authentic of paellas can be found), and arroz de cazadores—a gamey rib-sticker best eaten in the dead of winter.
El arroz que me recuerda la fuente de “Can Guitard”, con gambas, costilla, sepia (Mar i muntanya) is the dish that made the joint famous, and looks like mud, wet and minerally with the leaves of artichokes; the rice grains are firm and textured. It is delicious, and a thousand miles from the marigold monstrosities that you see on the Ramblas. As my dining companion and author of a book named La Paella, Jeff Koehler, observed, “Where else in Barcelona would a restaurant dare to serve something that looked like this?”
(July 1, 2009)
The restaurant El Vell Sarria, located in the friendly neighborhood of Sarria in Barcelona, offers a traditional cooking style which include rice and the traditional dishes of Catalan cuisine.
The Vell Sarria is located in a spectacular farmhouse in the middle of the busy street of Major de Sarria. The rest of charms come from the kitchen, where rice, in all its variants, is the star dish
This is the place for those who want to enjoy quality cuisine in a quiet and relaxed enviroment. In addition, the restaurant also boasts a wonderful garden terrace located in the Plaza de la Villa.
Take a few steps back in time before you walk into El Vell Sarrià. The restaurant maintains the historical architecture and the old world charm of the old country house in which it's situated. Two floors and a menu strewn with Catalan delicacies is what El Vell Sarrià has to offer. Try the cod rice with vegetables or the seafood noodles paella with a wine to match. This is the perfect place to take some time off and enjoy the ambiance, as the restaurant likes its guests to relax and savor the dishes. Check the website for exact timings.
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Since it opened in 1975, the Vell Sarrià, which can be found in an 18th-century farmhouse, has been a benchmark in Mediterranean cuisine, situated in a pleasant setting and with a terrace bar overlooking the main square. However, they have not rested on their culinary laurels by any means, and they are now famous for serving some of the best rice dishes in uptown Barcelona. In fact, their fame derives from two specific rice dishes – the prawn, crayfish and mushroom variety and the one with meat. Even so, the favourite dishes of the restaurant’s regular customers are esqueixada, cod au gratin with mushrooms, civet of wild boar with blackcurrants, barbecued fish and monkfish with crab and mushrooms.
