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Price: 48€ (5 courses), 39€ (4 courses), 28€ (3 courses)
Open: Monday to Saturday 13-15:30hr and 20-23hr. Sunday 13-15:30hr. Closed: Sunday night. Bank holidays at night.
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Bcn RestaurantesThe well-known Basque chef Martín Berasategui has already three restaurants in Barcelona: Lasarte, Fonda España and Loidi, that was born with a bistro soul.
Loidi enables -although the great master is not in the kitchen- an approach to his cuisine without having to go to San Sebastian or to the busy neighbouring Lasarte. This takes place at surprising prices if we take into consideration the 4 Michelin star Berasategui can boast about.
The set menu offers, at a fixed price, two starters, a main dish and dessert, drinks not included. Tomás Closa gathers the essence of Berasategui's cuisine and captures it in simple, traditional-rooted elaborations with popular flavours and an inevitable Basque accent. His dishes depend completely on the market, so they change almost every week.
The restaurant accommodates about a hundred diners and presents an attractive modern design and an informal atmosphere that invites us to enjoy relaxed meal with no rush. After dinner, the hotel’s Alaire roof top terrace –that offers stunning views to La Pedrera and Sagrada Familia- is the perfect place to enjoy a cocktail with live music.
To discover the work of Martin Berasategui but at low-cost. Not to hesitate to make a jump at the “popular” restaurant of the great Basque chef : the Loidi...
Every week a new menu at 37€ and a” Martin’smenu ” at 57€ ,which you can discover on their website. Potatoe and black sausage milfeuilles with egg, Tuna belly tartar with grated lime and herbs oil, Tuna with yakisoba and tuna peel, Small cuttlefish beach sautéed with garlic and parsley and reduced ink, Fricandeau… Broadly delicious… a very beautiful summary of the talent of Martin Berasategui.
Lasarte’s little brother allows you to enter Berasategui’s world without making yourself dizzy, thanks to a wonderful sampling menu that will suit many different pockets. At Barcelona’s Hotel Condes.
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Loidi is a restaurant designed as a modern bistro, and could be described as casual and very affordable. Loidi Restaurant offers traditional cuisine, presented with imagination and using the best products from the local market.
In Loidi, Martin Berasategui aims to bring his renowned culinary concept to the general public, a concept which is based upon simplicity, balance and the life experiences of this master chef.
Using the formula "the proposal of Martin Berasategui in Barcelona," Loidi changes its menu weekly, however they maintain the structure four courses (starter, fish, meat and dessert) and an attractive price.
Located in the Hotel Condes de Barcelona and overseen by the great Basque chef Martín Berasategui who boasts three stars for his self-named restaurant just outside of San Sebastian, you would think that Loidi would promise pretty special stuff. Yet since opening a couple of years back, reports have been largely uninspiring.
From the outside it looks like a smartish hotel restaurant. Inside it has the feel of corporate-breakfast-room-in-a-smart-hotel-with-the-lights-dimmed, which is exactly what it is. That said, when I tried to book for a Thursday night it was full, and I had to call a couple of days ahead to get in on a Saturday night, so something is definitely working.
The menu is typical of the bistronomía genre: robust and reasonable, offering Berasategui’s six-course taster option for €47 (€62 with wines) and Loidi’s four-courser for €39. They consist of more or less the same things, so we went for Loidi’s and managed to cover most of the options by choosing different dishes and sharing. We drank a bottle of Predicador from La Rioja, a jubilant red with the nifty ‘top hat’ label made by the enigmatic Benjamín Romeo, which was a treat at €36 but worth it.....( then follows the description of the dinner ).
Loidi then, it’s not a bad deal but it lacks something. Nothing was really warm enough, or thrilling enough to inspire a return, yet nothing was really truly bad either. I suppose it just does what it says on the tin. March 1, 2011
