“Mala Hierba” in Gràcia, “5 Hermanos” in Nou Barris and “Bendita Helena” in Les Corts pick up the Barcelona Restaurant Trade awards

The restaurants “Mala Hierba” (Gràcia), “5 Hermanos” (Nou Barris) and “Bendita Helena” (Les Corts) are the winners of the Barcelona Restaurant Trade Awards. The panel gave them the food quality, neighbourhood integration and famous or innovative premises awards, respectively. 

Some thirty restaurants reached the final, establishments from the city’s 10 districts that stood out in 2017 for their strong neighbourhood links and values of integration, quality of life, innovation and adaptability to new times. The awards ceremony was held at the old Damm factory.

This was the first edition of an award created to highlight and recognise the work being done by many restaurateurs in the city, as well as acknowledge an activity that contributes to its growth, as the Councillor for Tourism, Commerce and Markets, Agustí Colom, pointed out. An activity involving quality food and the preparation of a healthy diet at affordable prices.

Prizes were also awarded for the efforts made in innovation and modernisation, in “reinventing themselves” as Agustí Colom pointed out, allowing the city to benefit from establishments that are developing and means “the city is also reinventing itself”. The restaurant sector in Barcelona boasts over 9,300 establishments and an annual turnover of €2.7 billion..

To ensure there was a representative selection of the diverse range of gastronomic offerings found throughout the city, each of the ten districts proposed three candidates, one for each of the awards, after consulting the local traders’ associations. 


The panel members were Màxim López, general manager of the Barcelona Municipal Institute of Markets; Eva Ballarín, president of the Barcelona Restaurant Trade Guild; Nuria Pedro, secretary and spokesperson for the Mercat Vall d’Hebron Stallholders Committee; and Isabel Roig, general manager of the Barcelona Design Centre.

Candidate restaurants

The 30 prize candidates were a representative sample of the variety of Barcelona’s restaurants and of the diversity of the city’s 73 neighbourhoods. They included the following: 

 

DISTRICT	FOOD QUALITY	NEIGHBOURHOOD INTEGRATION	INNOVATION
CIUTAT VELLA	SAGARDI	BIDASOA	NORAI
EIXAMPLE	LA FOGA	MIAN	ROSIE'S GOOD THINGS
SANTS-MONTJUÏC	BAR BODEGA BARTOLÍ	L'ANXOVETA DE SANTS	BODEGA MONUMENTAL
LES CORTS	RESTAURANT ATENEA	LA RIERA	BENDITA HELENA
SARRIÀ-SANT GERVASI	LA XARXA	CASA JOANA	BAMBAROL
GRÀCIA	MALA HIERBA	RESTAURANT SPORTING	LA TORRETA DE L’ESCORIAL
HORTA-GUINARDÓ	LA CUINA DEL GUINARDÓ	RESTAURANT GINESTA	RESTAURANT DESTAPA'T
NOU BARRIS	LA ESQUINICA	5 HERMANOS	TXAPELDUN EGARRI
SANT ANDREU	LA CUINETA DE L'ANGELINA	CERVECERIA SANTANA	CAN ROCA
SANT MARTÍ	SANT MARTÍ AL PONT DEL TREBALL	JUNCÀ RESTAURANT	ELS TRES PORQUETS

 

FOOD QUALITY

Ciutat Vella District 1 CIUTAT VELLA
SAGARDI
Address: Argenteria, 62
Restaurant belonging to the Sagardi Group offering high-quality, varied Basque food, now a benchmark in the restaurant trade.

District 2 EIXAMPLE

Eixample

LA FOGA

Address: Pg. de Sant Joan, 32
Quality homemade tapas prepared with fresh, seasonal Mediterranean food products.

Sants-Monjuïc

BAR BODEGA BARTOLÍ

Address: Vallespir, 91
Classic wine bar, a benchmark in the neighbourhood with excellent, quality food. Meals to satisfy the most demanding palates. Home cooking of the highest quality, with fresh and local produce.

Les Corts

RESTAURANT ATENEA

Address: Joan Güell, 207
Excellent, high-quality food, with a very attract and varied menu; dishes diligently prepared to the last detail. Signature Mediterranean cuisine.

Sarrià - Sant Gervasi

LA XARXA

Address: Via Augusta, 115 esq. Brusi
La Xarxa is based on quality and seasonal produce. A very full and excellent range of culinary offerings, specialising in fish and seafood.

Gràcia

MALA HIERBA

Address: Funoses-Llusà, 2
Fresh, simple and market cuisine. Local products from the land and sea and its own cultivation with a high qualitative value.

Horta-Guinardó

LA CUINA DEL GUINARDÓ

Address: Varsòvia, 148
La Cuina el Guinardó is a shop-restaurant with a large assortment of cooked dishes and a dining room with eight tables that offers traditional cuisine with a modern touch. Top-quality market produce along with a variety of representative soups and casseroles.

Nou Barris

LA ESQUINICA

Address: Passeig de Fabra i Puig, 296
Tapas bar-restaurant with a long history and tradition behind it in the neighbourhood and a great level of top-quality products. Know as the “Mecca of tapas bars”.

Sant Andreu

LA CUINETA DE L'ANGELINA

Address: Lima, 14
Angelina is the actual chef who prepares the top-quality homemade dishes every day that have made her very famous in the neighbourhood and among the industrial estate's workers and business people who go and eat there daily.

Sant Martí

SANT MARTÍ AL PONT DEL TREBALL

Address: Carrer del Pont del Treball Digne, 11
Home-prepared Mediterranean food where products are the star attraction. Good assortment of high-quality tapas.

 

NEIGHBOURHOOD INTEGRATION

Ciutat Vella

BIDASOA

Address: Carrer d’en Serra, 21
Basque-food restaurant with rooted in the neighbourhood and a benchmark for local residents.

Eixample

MIAN

Address: Girona, 49
Restaurant rooted in the neighbourhood with traditional Chinese cuisine prepared with quality products.

Sants-Montjuïc

L'ANXOVETA DE SANTS

Address: Galileu, 71
It may have only opened a little over a year ago but it has managed to fully integrate itself into the neighbourhood. People

go to enjoy its specialities, anchovies, although it also acts as a gathering point for local residents. A cohesive neighbourhood meeting place.

Les Corts

LA RIERA

Address: Regent Mendieta, 15
A family vegetarian restaurant that has been running since 1988. Healthy, natural home cooking.

Always fresh, the food varies with the season and the market's daily offering. A reference point for the locals.

Sarrià-Sant Gervasi

CASA JOANA

Carrer Major de Sarrià, 59
An inn-style neighbourhood restaurant and a Sarrià classic. Its reputation rests on its

simple yet delicious home cooking and its friendly, personal touch. Popular among the locals and a weekend gathering point for family lunches.

Gràcia

RESTAURANT SPORTING

Maspons, 16
Family restaurant with decades of tradition behind it and well-known in the Gràcia neighbourhood. It is

seen by locals as a real social hub, promoting sociability among Gràcia’s cultural associations.

Horta-Guinardó

RESTAURANT GINESTA

Carrer de l’Harmonia, 2
Bar-restaurant with a lot of history, recognised for its quality food and for being a meeting place for the locals.

Nou Barris

CINCO HERMANOS

Federico Garcia Lorca, 21
Bar-restaurant with a long tradition that offers a good product, gives the neighbourhood cohesion and attracts local residents.

Sant Andreu

RESTAURANT SANTANA

Peñíscola, 27
Popularly known as “El Santana” in the Trinitat Vella neighbourhood, this restaurant is fully involved with the local voluntary associations, championing their cultural values and promoting the development of the area through activities carried out by some of those associations. It gives them a helping hand, acts as a sponsor and is represented in several sports teams.

Sant Martí

JUNCÀ RESTAURANT

Passeig de la Verneda, 123-125

Restaurant specialising in home cooking, integrated into the neighbourhood and a benchmark for local residents.

 

FAMOUS OR INNOVATIVE PREMISES

Ciutat Vella

NORAI

Adreça: Av. de les Drassanes, 1
Located in the Museu Marítim de Barcelona, this restaurant is managed by an organisation that helps young people back into society and work.

Eixample

ROSIE’S GOOD THINGS

Address: Diputació, 309
A unique Live, Laugh & Learn cafeteria-restaurant concept. Reading and games areas. Holds creative workshops. A highly original space.

Sants-Montjuic

BODEGA MONUMENTAL

Address: Creu Coberta, 87
Restaurant in the Hostafrancs neighbourhood located in a historical wine cellar dating back to 1937 that stays true to the original spirit of those places, boasting attractive aesthetics that are both modern and old. Run by a family with a long career in the restaurant business, who have been involved from the beginning in the neighbourhood's social and cultural activities. High culinary quality.

Les Corts

BENDITA HELENA

Carrer de Galileu, 261
A different, simple option done with lots of love. Its Comfort Food formula aims to revive the cooking of our grandparents’ day. They have a menu that will amaze you with its appeal and combinations. It is a charming place that also holds workshops.

Sarrià-Sant Gervasi

BAMBAROL

Address: Santaló, 21
Bambarol combines Mediterranean cooking with other recipes, products and culinary techniques from around the world. This is an innovative restaurant noted for conserving the organoleptic qualities of its products to the full. Its cuisine is a delight for the senses and a uniquely enjoyable experience.

Gràcia

LA TORRETA DE GRÀCIA

Address: Escorial, 158
Also known as Torreta de l’Escorial, this is a restaurant located in a hundred-year old detached house that offers Catalan cuisine. For the originality of the establishment and its history.

Horta-Guinardó

RESTAURANT DES TAPA’T

Address: Chapí, 56
Restaurant owned by a neighbourhood resident with a fine culinary offering located in small but welcoming premises where you can listen to quality music: soul, blues and R&B.

Nou Barris

TXAPELDUN EGARRI

Address: Passeig de Fabra i Puig, 159
This is a Basque bar-restaurant with plenty of local involvement and one of the organisers of the tapas route. Its distinguishing features is innovation and entrepreneurship, with a high standards in the way it treats its products.

Sant Andreu

CAN ROCA

Address: Gran de Sant Andreu, 209
It was just a couple of years ago that a young couple of restaurateurs’ children inherited these premises of the legendary Taverna Can Roca. A small restaurant with over six decades of history behind it in the Sant Andreu neighbourhood, where it attracts people from all over the place with its cooked breakfasts. It stands out for its restored antique wooden fridge (still in use), its wooden reception desk, its restored tables and chairs and its floor tiles.

Sant Martí

ELS TRES PORQUETS

Address: Rambla de Poblenou, 165 Famous wine bar that pays tribute to the endearing children's tale that shares its name (Catalan for the “Three Little Pigs”). Its interior inspires a sense of comfort thanks to its relaxed and casual ambience. It offers classic Catalan food adapted to the tapas format.