Barcelona is home to a vibrant culinary scene, boasting several Michelin-starred restaurants that offer exceptional dining experiences. This article explores some of the top Michelin-starred restaurants in the city, highlighting their unique cuisines, standout dishes, and renowned chefs. It serves as a guide for food lovers looking to indulge in Barcelona’s finest gastronomic offerings.
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Lasarte
First on our list is Lasarte. The restaurant is something of a record maker when it comes to Michelin Star restaurants in Barcelona. This is the first restaurant in the city to ever have been awarded three Michelin Stars. In 2017, Chef Martin Berasategui awarded the restaurant all three of its Stars, much to the delight of the locals who all agreed it was well-earned. Italian Chef Paolo Casagrande acts as the eatery’s Head Chef and oversees dishes like roast kingfish with clam pil-pil, Wagyu raviolo with glazed eel and grilled roe deer with black truffle cream.
Lasarte is well known for the elegance and creativity with which its dishes are prepared. Diners can also prepare to feast on desserts like apple millefeuille, which promises to be a sweet, flavourful treat to end a meal off with.
- Price: $$$
- Michelin stars: 3
- Address: Carrer de Mallorca, 259
- Type of food: International
- Must-try: Pickled oyster with hibiscus, warm chocolate cake, lamb shoulder with aubergine miso.
Tickets
When it comes to Michelin Star restaurants in Barcelona, Tickets is without a doubt one of the less formal, more laidback options in the city. At this restaurant, diners can expect to enjoy an informal experience of haute cuisine and tapas. Run by Chefs Fran Agudo and Joan Romans, this one starred eatery was created by Albert Adria, who is the youngest of the famed Adria brothers.
This restaurant is a fun one to dine at and offers both traditional and contemporary tapas. The menu is always evolving and changes according to the availability of produce, which is always seasonal at Tickets. There is no tasting menu at Tickets, but the chefs are more than happy to prepare tailor-made cuisine depending on diners’ personal tastes. The restaurant was awarded its Michelin Star back in 2014, and has managed to maintain it to this day.
- Price: $
- Michelin stars: 1
- Address: Ave. del Paralel, 164, 08015, Barcelona
- Type of food: Spanish tapas
- Must-try: Crunch octopus, orange salad, surf & turf.
Cinc Sentits
With Chef Jordi Artal at its helm, Cinc Sentits has certainly earned its stripes as one of the best Michelin Star restaurants Barcelona can offer. It was awarded its second Michelin Star in 2021 and was one of the first restaurants in the city to establish its own tasting menu. The eatery’s name translates to “five senses” in Catalan.
The cuisine on offer at Cinc Sentits is otherworldly. The menu features Catalan cuisine in its purest form and the chef is self-taught, with the menu changing several times a year so as to keep things exciting and to adapt according to the ingredients available at the time. This means that diners will always have something new and fresh to look forward to. However, space at Cinc Sentits is limited. The restaurant has been divided into three areas: the dining room, which seats up to five guests, the chef’s table, which seats up to eight diners, and the private area, which has capacity for up to 24 diners.
- Price: $$
- Michelin stars: 2
- Address: Entença 60 Barcelona
- Type of food: Spanish tapas
- Must-try: Tasting menu.
Enoteca Paco Perez
Enoteca Paco Perez is another one of the top Barcelona Michelin Star restaurants, with two stars to its name. It overlooks Puerto Olimpico and has the famous Chef Paco Perez as its driving force. Chef Perez is imaginative in the cuisine that he creates, and he combines his imagination with the freshness of the sea, as well as fresh produce grown in local gardens and mountains.
The food served here can be classified as “modern Mediterranean” and each course can be accompanied by fantastic wines, as the restaurant boasts a cellar with over 700 of the world’s finest wines in it. This eatery’s cooking philosophy is based on sourcing top quality raw ingredients, as well as simplicity and elegance. With the balance, impeccable service and creative vision behind Enoteca Paco Perez, diners are guaranteed a memorable meal at this eatery.
- Price: $$
- Michelin stars: 2
- Address: Hotel Arts Barcelona, Marina 19 – 21, 08005, Barcelona
- Type of food: Modern Meditteranean
- Must-try: Tasting menu.
Disfrutar
Since opening its doors in December of 2014, this Michelin Star restaurant in Barcelona came about after Mateu Casanas, Eduard Xatruch and Oriol Castro worked as a team at elBulli. Disfrutar has two Michelin Stars and once reached the 18th position on the list of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants.
This restaurant is located in Eixample, right in front of the Mercat del Ninot, and is inspired by the history and heritage of the Mediterranean. Its main dining room is inspired by small, charming fishing villages and is somewhat reminiscent of their other restaurant, named Campartir. This is located in Cadaques.
At Disfrutar, the restaurant’s main aim is to excite, surprise and please their guests through a unique gastronomical journey. The menu changes seasonally, and guests can choose from one of four of their tasting menu.
- Price: $$
- Michelin stars: 2
- Address: C. de Villarroel, 163, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
- Type of food: Mediterranean
- Must-try: Tasting menu.
Sebastian is a former hedge fund trader who worked only to indulge his true passion – food.
He has dined at over 240 Michelin-starred restaurants around the world, savoring culinary masterpieces and understanding the stories behind them. He now advises restaurants on menu design, decor and holistic diner experience.