Montiel

Best meal in Barcelona. I would push to do wine pairings.
Heading back for more in June.

It was a good meal, but the focus on creativity outweighed the taste of the food.

BEST MEAL EVER! (this review is solely based on a New Years Day tasting menu experience – see menu below)
Seasonal snacks– interesting texture, but very tasty.
Greater amberjack ceviche – to. die. for. wasn’t/still not sure what «tiger milk» is but the ice cream complimented the ceviche perfectly.
Pigeon confited– this was probably the «worst» thing on the menu, but because I mentally couldn’t eat the second half of the pigeon. First bite was REALLY good, then I got psyched out about eating pigeon (there are seriously so many fat pigeons in Barcelona that we had pointed out earlier in the day)
Green peas – the combination of peas and squid was unique and mouthwatering. I’m not sure if the peas were soaking in some sort of fat/​grease beforehand, but they were amazing.
Rice with lobster– I don’t remember this dish very much, but I also don’t remember complaining about it, so it must have been good :)
Duck’s and pear ravioli– THIS IS THE GREATEST THING EVERY CREATED ON THE PLANET. I still dream of this dish, it is just fatty and mouthwatering and all the feels you could ever have in one bite.
Suckling pig– reminded me of carnitas, but a little juicier. great none the less.
Citrus diversity– yummy palette cleansers at the end of the meal
The origins of truffle– one word, CHOCOLATE.
The petite four– yummy little chocolate (white and milk) bites to end your perfect meal
**WINE PAIRING WITH MEAL (see menu)– all the wines were perfectly paired with their dish, and the pours were quite generous.
If you’re in Barcelona you HAVE to get a reservation here and GO. hands down, best meal I had in all of Spain… worth every euro spent.

This is our first day in Barcelona, and what a way to start our trip. The food is amazing and so is the service. Our waiter, Gabbi, gave us background on every dish and wine pairing which was very helpful. We loved the experience and would definitely come back.

Exceptional food from the very first bite. Staff catered the menu for me, since I don’t eat fish. The service was perfect, best I found in Europe. Marcos, the owner, worked just as hard as his staff and conversed with every guest. The dining room is small (no more than 10 tables) which allows for a quiet and intimate environment to enjoy the ambiance and food. HIGHLY recommend this place! EXCELLENT!

Tried the sumptuous tasting Lunch menu. Great food, entertaining service. Loved it especially the foei gras ravioli.

I found Montiel on Unilocal,and hadn’t planned to go until I walked past it, and saw the people inside making «omg I love this food» faces.
Prepare to spend 3 – 4 hours enjoying your meal, but let me say it was completely worth it. The gastronomic tasting menu introduced me to flavors and textures I’ve never experienced with food.
Highly recommend going with the wine pairing. Gabbi, the Sommelier, introduced each bottle with a passionate story and love for the process and flavor in each wine. Each wine was a perfect compliment to the course.
Highlights:
–Prawn Tar Tar wrapped in Avocado
–Quail Salad accompanied by Olive Oil Sorbet, Oranges, and Mushrooms. Incredible pairing.
— Seared Red Tuna with Iceberg Luttuce Sorbet. Such and interesting pair, and the tuna was perfect and fresh.
–White fish with mint and lime sorbet.
–Duck and Pear Ravioli in a Foie sauce. One of THE dishes of my life. I could have ordered 20 of these. Or made a trip from out of town just to have this again
–The only disappointing part was the wagyu beef. It had an amazing flavor, but the cut of meat had a lot of chewy parts that I couldn’t eat. The accompanying potato and veal mix was incredible though. I would go with the suckling pig option if you go. Everyone was raving about it.
–I honestly can’t tell you what I ate for dessert, but it was a symphony of flavors!

Not food — An experience! One of the best experiences I have had in 35 years! I visited Montiel in 2012 and waited 3 years to come back as it was so amazing. So when I arrived today, the expectations were high… Surpassed! This will be the highlight of my holiday!
The food was amazing, especially the Duck Ravioli and Suckling Pig. The servers were the same as they were 3 years ago… the only thing more incredible than the food… the service! Thank you so much Montiel for the experience!

Plan on going to Montiel for a full food and wine experience! They offer two tasting menus — We went for the Gastronomic tasting with wine pairing. The service was fantastic with Gabriel has our waiter. He made sure to describe each course and wine pairing down to where the ingredients were from and how the wine was barreled. Everything was an explosion of flavor. For this menu, you have the option of Suckling Pig or Wagyu — Mainly reviewers rave about the Suckling Pig, but my husband and I ordered both and found the Wagyu to be of higher quality and an overall better dish. Montiel is our number one recommendation for Barcelona travelers.

You have to go here for every reason. The food, the atmosphere, the staff and party continues right outside the door once you’re finished.

Fabulous experince. They only do a tasting menu. You have 2 options plus can choose to pair wine with the meal. It will be one of those defining moment meals for me. Everything was perfect. The service was wonderful.
Could eat her again and again

As far as gastronomic meals go, this was probably less fussy and showy than most. But you’re still stuck with a set menu, one that in our case included such stomach-​turning cruelties as foie gras and suckling pig. I ate them; so I am basically just venting my guilt. Also, the service was almost too enthusiastic. It felt like they were really selling each dish. Everything we ate was good, and some of the items were truly great, like the lettuce ice cream, and like the raw scallop dish.

Outstanding Experience! We ordered the Gastronomic Menu which was superb! All the food was interesting, creative and absolutely delicious. Gabriel was our waiter, a very sweet, charming and professional young man, who explained each dish and yet left some to our senses to figure out. Each dish was not only for taste, but was for smell, touch (texture) and really had your mind inquisitive. The courses build on each other, a really fantastic, unique experience. Do make a stop here!
We did not do the wine pairing but ordered Shays white wine, at the recommendation of the manager. It went well with everything except the last dessert. Total dishes that came out was 10.
I also would like to thank the manager as we had made a reservation but appears it never went through and maybe I did not finalize the process. I showed him the screen shot I had of the pre-​booking (which I thought was the booking) from a week earlier and he worked with us. Just make sure call/​email ahead to confirm reservation.
Other notes: the whole experience was over 2 hours and location is near Picasso Museum.

Montiel is a must go-​to restaurant if you are in Barcelona. The Gastronomic tasting menu with the wine pairing is fantastic. The owner, Marcos, is extremely knowledgeable and spent lots of time with us explaining the dishes and pairing. We had an extraordinary meal and a fantastic time. By far my favorite restaurant in Barcelona.

Wow! Awesome place. We took gastronomic tasting menu with matching wines. Had very good tasting menus all over world but this was definetly in top 3 of all.
Very good. 5 stars. This is a must when visit Barcelona.

One of the just amazing meals I’ve ever had. Marcos is amazing. He knows everything about wine and is so kind. Each dish was perfectly balanced. All the food is organic, farm to table and locally sourced, some from their own garden. My favorite dishes were the gazpacho (toasted almonds, honey and sea salt) and the seared salmon with honey, dill and yogurt. Incredible.

Ridiculously good! On a three-​stop gastronomic journey through Paris, Barcelona, and Florence, this was my 2^nd favorite meal – and a close 2^nd, at that. If you’re going to Barcelona and love food, get a reservation as soon as you can! It’s also not the easiest restaurant to find, so give yourself plenty of time to get there.
I don’t know how often the menu changes, but we enjoyed the Gastronomic Menu for 65 Euros, with a wine pairing at 30 Euros. So much good food and drink! Honestly, everything was absurdly good, with wonderful ingredients and outstanding preparation. A few standouts were the «Ox of Wagyu from Burgos,» the «Foie Micuit Salad,» and the «Origin of the Truffle.» The Origin of the Truffle was mind boggling! The chef used actual truffles in the dessert! The flavor combination was amazing.
The atmosphere in the restaurant was great, with interesting looking art on the walls, but a simple table set up so there was no pretension. The servers were kind, helpful, and funny! We were one of the last tables left in the place, and our server was incredibly chatty (in a good way, not that he wouldn’t leave us alone!) about the food, the wine, the city, etc. The chef even came out and signed a menu for me =)
If you’ve read my reviews, you know that I’ve been lucky enough to go to some amazing restaurants in my life. This one certainly makes it into a top 10 list; it might even make it into top 5, but I need more time to think about that =) Just go! You can thank me later!

No question this was the best meal we had in Barcelona and rivaled our top meals in Paris from our last trip.
I’m not sure if it the tasting menu is the same price but when we went it was such a value at 65 euro/​pp. The dishes felt like they would never end and we were so stuffed but we kept wanting more. The menu changes seasonal but two standouts were the Duck Foie Gras Ravioli (still missing Foie in California, please come back). The other being one of the desserts that was Truffle Chocolate with a hint of real truffle taste. You have to try it, just amazing.
Don’t miss out and make sure to get reservations well in advance.

We booked this restaurant for our second night in Barcelona. This has to be one of my favorite restaurant. Similar to many of other restaurants, they were small but this one actually had a second floor. We had waited all day around the area and were getting tired. We didn’t want to go back to our hotel only to take the metro all the way back so we lingered in the area. We even got seated early too. Even though we were a bit tired from the long day, we loved our nearly 3 hours here. I tend to eat everything fast but I savored every piece that came my way.
First Course: Iberian ham with tomato toast
Second Course: Oyster
Third Course: Melon soup with extra virgin olive oil ice cream
Fourth Course: Prawn Tartare with guacamole and lime’s air
Fifth Course: Albacore on thin toasted bread with romesco and capers with edible flowers
6^th Course: Lobster’s Rice
7^th Course: Ceviche (complementary dish)
8^th Course: Duck and pears raviolis with foie poele and wild mushroom in Oporto’s sauce
9^th Course: Suckling pork with pumpkin purée (was not on the menu but we were lucky they had it for an upcoming party)
10^th Course: Alcohol free beer (palate cleanser)
11^th Course: Peaches, yogurt, and celery ice cream
12^th Course: Figs, Baileys, Tonka Bean
13^th Course: Complementary Truffles
We also got the wine pairing that came with this. I highly recommend this as it made every dish seem more enjoyable and it complements it very well. As a result, I now think highly of Spanish wine. A great way to experience Spanish wine.
Everything was great. My favorites were the Prawn Tartare, Ceviche, and Suckling Pork.
I would definitely come back! Loved it.
The service was amazing as well. Both the host and waiters were knowledgeable and very nice! They were all beautifully prepared.

This is one of those places where the food is not only exceptional, but the incredible service and staff just put the entire dining experience over the top!
But when I say 5-​star incredible service, I’m not talking about the well-​rehearsed and precision makings of a place like Per Se or Alinea. I’m talking about the kind of place where the front of house takes the time to sit down at your table and passionately explain the nuances of jamon to a table of foreigners; where the waiter effuses with joy about what is happening in the kitchen serves every dish with pure excitement; and just the overall warmth and welcoming that wiped away any sense of pretense that one might expect with seemingly simple, but surprisingly complex flavours served at your fingertips.
But let’s not forget about the food. Unfortunately (for you), our meal was a special «New Year’s» menu that they threw together that day based on what was fresh, and actually morphed throughout the evening based on the chef’s whims and inspirations (now how great is THAT?). But hopefully some of the dishes they served that night will make a reappearance on future nights, because they were just outstanding.
Even with the simplest plate of olives and jamon to start, every morsel was of exquisite freshness and overwhelming with depth and flavour. A definite favourite of ours was the wild salmon tartare, dressed with a seafood caramel and salmon roe. The acid and lusciousness of the salmon played so well off each other amidst the smoky notes of toasted pine nuts and sesame seeds, and we felt spoiled to have eaten so well so early on.
Foie lovers need not be disappointed, as we had foie that was marinated in bourbon and prepared sous vide, and then served alongside a marvelous quince jelly and candied pistachios; then another piece seared brilliantly alongside a piece of filet mignon and showered in black truffle shavings.
But does the truffle madness end there? Certainly not. A deceptively simple dish of wild mushrooms, egg, and black truffle just oozed decadence and could not be any more delicious, with each component shining as it should.
The chocolate desserts may not have been as visually arresting as you might come to expect at places of similar calibre, but the flavours and textures of chocolate mousse, iced raspberries, and chocolate foam were playful and definitely satisfying.
Amidst all of this great food and brilliant service, I think it is also worth giving them a plug and highlighting the fact that the folks at Montiel pull off what they do by committing themselves to local produce, including a commitment to sourcing 80% of their wines from Catalan, and have been awarded recognition as a «Slow Food Movement» restaurant. Not that they needed these extra kudos to convince anyone to come eat there, but I figure they worked hard for these accolades, so someone should brag about them!

Es ist ein sehr kleines Restaurant mit einem schönen Ambiente. Die Kellner sind sehr zuvorkommend und nehmen sich Zeit für die Gäste zu erklären was reserviert wird. Sie sprechen sehr gut Englisch, Französisch und natürlich Spanisch/​Katalanisch.
Das Restaurant hat eine kleine Karte die jedoch sehr sehr feine Gerichte drauf hat.
Gruss aus der Küche:
Katalanisches Olivenöl, Oliven, Muscheln, süsse Pfefferschoten
Vorspeisen:
Wildes Lachstartar
Dünnes Toastbrot mit Thunfisch, Morzarella, Tomaten und Pesto
Hauptspeisen:
Hummer mit Ries und Pilzen
Feines Stück Fleisch mit Grillgemüse
Desserts: (leider keine Fotos mehr, da wir uns auf den Dessert gestürzt haben)
Schokoladenmousse (weisse und braune Schokolade)
warmes Schokoladenküchlein mit Erbeereis
Man hat in diesem Restaurant eine gute Auswahl an Weinen von günstigen bis zu etwas teureren aus diversen Ländern.
Für eine Vorspeise, Hauptgang, Dessert, Wein und Kaffee muss man mit ca. EUR 60 – 70 rechnen. Es lohnt sich jedoch das Restaurant zu besuchen. Man wird nicht enttäuscht.
Das Restaurant bietet auch ein Tastingmenu an, welches aus zwei Vorspeisen, zwei Hauptgängen und einem Dessert besteht in einer etwas kleineren Ausführung ohne Wein, Kostenpunkt EUR 50.- pro Person.
Wenn man in diesem Restaurant essen gehen möchte, sollte man umbedingt reservieren, auch unter der Woche. Es kann gut sein, dass es sonst keine Plätze mehr frei hat.
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Turbot amb canyailles a la sal sobre llit de rúcula i cítrics
Corball a la donostiarra
Cassoleta de llamàntol
Garrí de Segòvia
Filet de Bou
Galta de Vedella
Colomí lacat en el seu suc i arròs de ceps… y los postres…
No es un poema, es la carta del Montiel, restaurante de Ferran Bofarull, chef joven que apuesta por la cocina de mercado con base mediterránea.
Tienen menú degustación según temporada.
El local es de justa medida, los grupos, si son pequeños mejor, pero ideal para una cena íntima.

Restaurante situado en Barcelona.
Conocido por su buena cocina es muy visitado por lo que es muy difícil encontrar una mesa libre.
Un gram ambiente, alegre, tranquilo y muy acogedor donde disfrutar de buenos platos.
Tienen un menú muy completo y de mucha calidad, las raciones son abundantes (nosotras quedamos muy contentas).
Gran variedad de vinos.
El servicio inmejorable, nos sirvieron de categoria, en todo momento estuvieron pendientes de nosotras para que no nos faltara de nada.
El precio es bastante asequible. Para repetir