El Convent

Located very close to the Boqueria market, this establishment takes up four floors of a building dating from 1713, when the Santa Maria de Jerusalem convent was built. It was the first Civil Guard headquarters in Barcelona and also the home to the city's artillery regiment, known as La Blusa. Its décor features a lot of wood, with antique furniture reminding you of la Belle Époque They offer Catalan market cuisine, simple and proper, with a few imaginative touches. The offer is based on a lunchtime and dinner menu, where you choose from a list of eight dishes at a fixed price, including drinks and desserts. Some of the dishes might be noodles, the xatonada of cod Sitges-style, wild asparagus au gratin with romescu sauce, Catalan-style snails, monkfish with garlic and pepper, carpaccio of smoked fish with aromatic oil, veal sirloin with cava or cod that they cook in seven different ways. Its decent wine list includes fifty products from the country's main denominations of origin. They have plenty of rooms for groups, catering for between ten and fifty people.
Average price
Medium

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