Los Pergaminos

Another great Tapas choice in Barcelona!
27 years family owned business, in their 2^nd generation.
we ordered five Tapas dishes and some beers.
artichoke and octopus are the best!
all are very tasty!
the restaurant decoration is also very unique and traditional.
highly recommend!

Seafood paella was way too salty. Not impressed with tapas dishes. Food came out literally in one minute which I don’t like cause that means it’s been sitting waiting on patrons. No one was in restaurant. Croquet was okay. The garlic shrimp was floating in grease. Overall regret wasting my appetite/​money on this meal.

This place was absolutely delicious! We were in Barcelona for our honeymoon and tried this place for lunch! It was soooo good, everything we ordered was way better than expected and not the usual tourist food! Definitely check this place out if you are in Barcelona!

Hier mag es die zweitbeste Paella Barcelonas zu geben. Der Service ist aber völlig unflexibel und vermittelt den Eindruck das er wichtigste ist und nicht der Kunde. In einem leeren Restaurant sich so unfreundlich zu verhalten, machte es uns unmöglich dort weiter zu verweilen. Wer 6 Personen an einen 4er Tisch, mit Beistelltisch im Gang zu platzieren, geht garnicht.
NICHT EMPFEHLENSWERT

Seafood Paella was great, but ask for less salt!!! And I usually like my food on the saltier side. We were so thirsty afterwards. Tower of foie gras and goat cheese and caramel apple was umami flavor party in your mouth.
Service was excellent, our waiter was adorable and even helped us figure out our evening plans.
Sangria was so tasty. A little light on the wine, but it was refreshing.

Great seafood paella that’s worth the money (note; they do have the option of making it for one person with a 2 euro surcharge). Also tried their potato with three sauce tapa, which tasted so awesome I even ate all the potato skins. Beautiful décor and ambience. Top notch service. Very glad I was able to eat here for my last dinner in Barcelona.

Great service.
Very friendly and knowledgeable.
Best paellas I’ve ever had. Well it was my first. And it set a very high bar. I’ve had paellas 2 other times and they just tasted like disappointment after this place.

Oh Man. It was paella night in Barcelona. So we had to have the best. Too bad the starters were so good. And I mean good. The goat cheek ravioli was to die for. Really. By time the paella came out we were almost full. We finished about half. Really good stuff.

Wow, paella of all kinds-​amazing! Warm, friendly family atmosphere. Highly recommend this wonderful alley-​located charming, delicious restaurant. Good sangrias too. Enjoy!”

Service was just ok. Paella, it was salty, maybe I’m just not someone that likes paella, my husband enjoyed it.
Sangria was not served by litre so it got expensive.

I loved everything I ate here. It’s a quiet little restaurant off the beaten path.
We ordered the foie gras stuffed figs, a goat cheese/​apple/​foie gras dish, prawns in garlic oil, and seafood paella.
The figs were absolutely amazing. They sprinkle a thick and sweet balsamic on top. The flavors and textures were perfect!
The goat cheese, apple, fois gras dish was amazing. It comes with sweet cracker biscuits that perfectly complemented the spread. Perfect combination of sweet and savoury.
The paella was probably the best paella I’ve ever had. It was packed with seafood! They warn you that it takes about 30 minutes to make, but it was well worth the wait.
My favorite dish was the shrimp in garlic oil. If you come here, you HAVE to order this. The prawns were large, tender, and bathed in a garlic oil that was out of this world. I would come back to Barcelona for this dish alone!

We kept hearing good things about the paella here. Paella seems like a topic that inspires passionate debate among the Spanish, whether what you are eating is technically paella, or where are the acceptable places to eat paella. I like the passion.
The paella here was alright, but not my favorite. I would have to say that the best paella that I’ve ever had is still stateside. We ordered the mixed paella, which had chicken and seafood in it. Given another chance, I would have ordered the seafood only paella (I was hoping the mix had sausage in it). The dish was a little salty for my taste, but other than that, it had plenty of seafood in it.
We also tried the honey eggplant dish. Sticks of eggplant lightly fried and drizzled with honey. The honey was was the real star of this dish, you could still taste the flowers in the honey, it had a complex flavor. The eggplant itself was, again, too salty for my taste.

I’m torn about Los Pergaminos and have conflicting thoughts.
If you want a good Spanish cuisine/​tapas experience, this place probably deserves four stars. They had a good selection of tapas (we enjoyed the foie gras stuffed figs, the honey eggplant, the patatas bravas, and the morcilla) and the paella as definitely tasty and authentic.
However, I give it three stars because some of the dishes seemed a just a little too oily and our server kind of pressured us into ordering more than we initially had wanted (she said we wouldn’t be full enough after four tapas and a paella… quite wrong. I felt like I had to be rolled home). The figs were an experience but I felt that they could have been seasoned a little more interestingly, and the eggplant, though delicious for a few bites, were the overly-​oily culprit.
So, good for Spanish cuisine. Order less if you don’t want to be in a food coma for several hours after.

We got a great server, who was very patient with all our questions and gave us great advice. Ordered the seafood and meat paella to share between three, the aubergine with honey as a tapas choice as well as jambon croquettes. Finished off with the Crème Catalana to share for dessert. We shared a bottle of Sauvignon white wine — the Jane Ventura label– as a compromise, since I like sweet and the guys I was with liked dry.
We arrived right at 7pm, and considering how busy it got super quickly, I would totally recommend doing the same. It does really take a minimum of 30minutes for the paella to cook, so we got x2 tapas to share — the aubergine with honey and the jambon croquettes. Of these two, I really would absolutely recommend getting the aubergine with honey. These were creamy and salty and sweet and tempura-​like, when I first bit I thought we had ordered hot potato fries by mistake, but a very classy variety, before being corrected by my dining companions. I also like the jambon croquettes, as the potato hash was just perfect, but the aubergine won my palate over.
We loved our tapas, but the paella outdid anything we have ever eaten before. Each bite was a medley of rich and comforting flavours and there was a lightness to the food, which made for a smoothness, almost as if drinking from your favorite whisky. The serving size was generous as was the portion of seafood — I finished off my last bite, feeling both content and satisfied.
We took a breather for 10minutes and then ordered the Crème Catalana dessert to share. I have had this before (for the first time, in Venice) and loved it there, but there was a mellow sweetness with crunchy almonds and the cold meeting the burnt sugar, that we all agreed this was infinitely better.
One final word — the service was superb here! Felt like had come to a friends place and our waiter was just excellent. We ended the night with a herb after-​dinner drink, a perfect end to a perfect meal.

Our last meal in Barcelona. The shrimp cones were very good! We shared the Paella which also was very flavorful and had a lot of meat! The service was slow but we were not in a hurry! Nice atmosphere!

If you are into seafood paella then you gotta go here. It was out of this world good! The service was really friendly (we didn’t speak Catalan but the waiter spoke decent English) and gave us a great recommendation on red wine that wasn’t on the menu. Great location in the El Born/​Gothic neighborhood. I would highly recommend trying this place out if you are in the neighborhood or in Barcelona in general.

I don’t want to repeat myself, but a reservation is muy importante :) The place isn’t big, but quite nice. I would have given 5* but the waitress just wasn’t very friendly. Maybe she had a bad day, maybe she wasn’t too nice at all, but honestly… I don’t care. If I want unfriendly staff, I stay in Vienna.
The rest was very good. The wine (bottle red wine), the paella (seafood version) and the price would have been 5*, but for the waitress it’s a –1. Nevertheless, a paella recommendation!

Great seafood paella! The wait time for the paella is 30 minutes according to the menu. It took closer to 45 minutes but it was worth the wait! We shared a delicious bottle of red wine but got attitude from the waitress for choosing red wine with seafood. She was in general not very friendly and the only negative aspect of this place.
Still worth a visit!

Pretty nice place to dine with excellent service …
The paella is good with fresh seafood, but the choice of tapas is really limited. Also, the shangria is average…

Paella is their specialty & that’s exactly what we were looking for! They offer several varieties and we chose the seafood option. Our server told us the dish takes ½ hour to prepare and the price on the menu is per person for 2 diners to share.
We were brought the tomato bread and olives plus a good red wine to get us through our wait.
In slightly less than 30 minutes we were delivered an iron skillet of a most delightful paella loaded with mussels, prawns, shrimp and a few clams (these were amazing & left us wanting more). The rice had a creamy risotto quality to it in the best possible way with fabulous little crispy bits around the edges.
Service was attentive and efficient throughout our visit. The location is on one of the windy pedestrian streets in the Gothic section of Barcelona and that added even more to the experience.
Beautiful place for a lovely dinner — 4.5 Stars!

Barcelona’s Barri Gotic made me feel like an explorer, a kid at heart again. The narrow, cobble-​stoned streets and alleys that blend into one another and eventually into plazas teeming with life, make you want to throw away the map and revel in being lost. Well, that is easy to do if you are a crazy American, who fails to bring a cell phone that has ex-​US coverage or have limited minutes on your unlocked iPhone with pre-​paid SIM card…
Alas, my travel buddy, Rosa, and I found our winding and bewildered way to Los Pergaminos thanks to
. We had tried going there on a Monday night after much walking. We were exhausted and disappointed with our unsuccessful first attempt. Yet, Rosa would not be thwarted. She had read the rave Unilocal reviews, saw that it was family owned and operated with a warm and cozy ambiance and she was focused.
We returned a few days later and to our surprise, they were open. Our experience there, thanks to CLAUDIA, was the most amazing. She suggested a very solid red-​wine pairing the first night and dishes that made our stomachs happy. (please see the photos). Claudia actually spoke to us in ENGLISH (thank you) with occasional small discussions in Spanish (thanks to all of my Spanish college professors and high school teachers!!! Spanish has become my go-​to language)
I would highly recommend this place and my favorite was the dessert: Crema Catalan. DELICIOUS!
You have to try the jamon iberico and pan con tomate. The paella…(we had the chicken and non-​seafood one b/​c of shellfish allergies) was delicious and I’m sure that the seafood one would be equally so. To die for was the foie gras layered with goat cheese and topped with apple and caramelized sugar (yummmmers)
We were so pleased that we returned again another evening. The price is moderate, but tapa, family style sharing keeps prices rather reasonable. I think that we ended up spending about $ 60 with wine for 2 people the first night and a little more the 2^nd visit. Barcelona is definitely a city for all senses… so enjoy!!!

Questo posto meriterebbe 6 stelle. Una serata abbastanza vuota, solo pochi tavoli occupati e non saprei dire se è necessaria una prenotazione.
Locale carino ed atmosfera soft ottima per una cena romantica ma anche per serata tra amici.
Tapas da pauraaaaa.
Veramente degli abbinamenti fantastici.
Cominciamo con i fichi con foie gras, sicuramente da provare una porzione e’ ok per un assaggio per una persona sola. Da non dividere altrimenti non si apprezza.
Camembert con marmellata di mirtilli da paura. Se amate la buona cucina penso che questo abbinamento sia uno dei migliori mai provati.
In questo caso la porzione e’ di 4 pezzi per cui si può dividere in due tranquillamente se volete assaggiare un po’ tutto.
Gamberi con aglio e olio buoni ed abbastanza magari da ordinare alla fine per non alterare il gusto degli altri piatti. Attenzione a non ordinari assieme al resto altrimenti si raffredderanno. Porzione che si può dividere in due.
Melanzane fritte con miele anche questo abbinamento e’ molto buono. Un piatto si può tranquillamente dividere in due o tre.
Il consiglio e’ appunto di ordinare un po’ di tutto e dividere le singole porzioni. Ad eccezione dei fichi tutto il resto che ho qui elencato si può dividere.