Can Culleretes
Price guide: Budget
C/Quintana 5, Barcelona, 08003
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expert-rated restaurants in Barcelona- Recommended for:
- Families with teenagers, Relaxation
Expert review of Can Culleretes
Barcelona’s oldest restaurant, and still hugely traditional.
Now run by the third generation of the same family, Can Culleretes is the oldest restaurant in Barcelona and second oldest in Spain. Vast (and vastly popular), it owes its success to good, solid cooking and eminently reasonable prices.
Food and drink:
Start with pica-pica (plates to be shared) of shellfish and other tapas served with pa amb tomàquet (bread rubbed with tomato), before getting stuck into some wild boar stew, sausage with haricot beans, goose with apple and other delights of rustic Catalan cooking.
Ambience:
The walls upstairs and down heave with yellowing photos of previous diners (most of them Catalan celebs from bygone ages) and handsome old oil paintings of Barcelona scenes.
Service:
Bossy but likeable matrons in pinnies rule the roost, shooting withering glances at groups of drunken tourists (don’t worry, there are various dining rooms and literally dozens of tables, so you need not be seated next to them).
Location:
C/Quintana is a narrow, easily missed alley off C/Ferran (second on the right if you’re walking from La Rambla).
Price advice:
There are set lunches from 12.50 euros to 15.50 euros on weekdays, but eating a la carte shouldn’t set you back too much more. The wine mark-up is especially reasonable.
More information on Can Culleretes:
- Price guide:
- Type:
- Restaurant
- Food:
- Catalan, Spanish
- Address:
- C/Quintana 5, Barcelona, 08003
- Telephone:
- 93 317 30 22
- Website:
- http://www.culleretes.com
- Serves:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Opening times:
- Tue-Sat 1.30-4pm, 9-11pm. Sun 1.30-4pm. Closed Mondays, and mid July to mid August.
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Reservations:
- Suggested
- Free tags / Keywords:
- Cheap eats
