The Diagonal Pineda de Mar restaurant is a long-term family business which offers traditional and seasonal cuisine. This establishment is large and bright and has a pleasant terrace where in summer you can enjoy a tapas menu and cocktails. They have different types of menu and daily specials such as: autumn salad with pomegranate, candied chestnuts and confit of mushroom, scrambled eggs with Jabugo ham and mushrooms or grilled hake with seasonal mushrooms. It also has an extensive takeaway menu.

La Bodega Marfil Alella, or La Vinícola as it is also known, is located on the ground floor of the wine cellar where they make Designation of Origin Marfil Alella wines. This is a large, rustic venue with a huge chimney which makes it all the more inviting. They serve typical Catalan market cuisine and have a daily menu. On the ground floor, where the wine cellar is located, they have a group area which can cater for 120 people. There is also a wine and cava shop and tours of the vineyard and wine cellar can also be arranged. There is free parking 100m from the restaurant.

The Clàssic pizzeria is in Malgrat de Mar, the most eastern town in the Maresme district. They make handmade dishes with fresh quality produce because they believe that eating is a pleasure. Their pizzas are made in a wood-fire oven and they cook their dishes on a rotating natural stone at a temperature of 350° so that their pizzas have an unmistakeable flavour.

The Coure’s menu offers starters like cherry gazpacho with cockles, foie cannelloni with strawberries or onion soup with egg, Comté cheese ravioli and quinoa. Highlights include fish like mullet with summer truffle, monkfish with artichokes, green asparagus and romescu sauce, or sea bass with tomato confit, sweet almond and courgette flower. Among the meats, Iberian pork with baked apple, loin of rabbit with pears in wine, octopus and chocolate or lamb with mashed potato.

Can Matías is a restaurant mid-way between Vallès Oriental and the Maresme, in the town of Vallromanes.

Can Poal is located in the Vallromanes area in the eastern Vallès district on the border with Maresme, 25 km from Barcelona. Some of its star dishes include: courgette stuffed with salt-cod and olive brandade; tepid Ebro Delta mussels with herb mayonnaise; roast chicken and acorn cured ham croquettes; roast chicken cannelloni with white sauce and parmesan crumble. The dish of the day: dry rice with Iberian ham, shiitake mushrooms, piquillo peppers, green beans and butifarra esparracada.

Caldeni restaurant is located in the Sagrada Familia neighbourhood of Barcelona. It is a small venue with simple, minimalist décor. With chef Dani Lechuga’s experience in importing meat, Caldeni offers a selection of these which is of the highest quality and from the most prestigious areas in the world: Kobe beef, Angus Beef from Nebraska and French beef. For those who do not enjoy beef there is salt cod loin with quick ratatouille or crunchy roast suckling pig with tarragon and apple.

One of the specialities of Cal Tallón is rice with mushrooms (usually a mixture of mushrooms, chanterelles, grey knights and mushrooms). The truffle risotto is one of the recommended dishes, as well as chicory salad with langoustines or chickpeas with sea cucumbers and artichoke hearts. Other proposals are mushrooms and spinach cannelloni and suckling pig cooked at low temperature with crispy skin.

A farmhouse dating back to 1620 in the heart of the Montseny Natural Park is home to a culinary offering based on stews, barbecue and fish, as well as having a hotel. The cocas de recapte, which is a pizza base made to order with the topping of your choice, are the cherry on the top of this traditional cuisine, where desserts are also very popular.