Croquettes, like bravas, are the hallmark of a bar. You can see them coming. Some may say that making croquettes or bravas is easy, but how many bad ones have you eaten? Exactly, many.
To taste the croquettes of a bar is to take the pulse of its cuisine. We don’t want to sound intense but the croquette is the part for the whole. A croquette tells you about the rest of the product that is served there, about the love of the cooks, about the desire of the team. Good croquettes are the prelude to a good experience.
Rooster&Bubbles
At Rooster&Bubbles, a corner of Borne where they have mixed two winners:pollo a l’ast and cava. And they’ve been doing it since 1962. Here the croquette, obviously, is chicken a l’ast, and it is a jewel. If you accompany it with their bravas with soft aioli, you’ve won.
📍 Pla de Palau, 12, Ciutat Vella
💸8€ (4 units)
Pepa Tomato
Pepa Tomate has become a classic in Barcelona, known for its popular cuisine and somewhat creative tapas at affordable prices. At its two locations in Gràcia and Sant Antoni, the Iberian ham croquette takes the spotlight with its mellow filling and intense flavor.
📍Carrer de Blai, 28, 08004 Barcelona
💸2,75€
Bar Pimentel
In the Borne was born a year ago the Pimentel, a good, nice, cheap bar that is what is asked of a neighborhood bar and that is, sadly, an exception in the Borne. A bar where they cook with enthusiasm, as they did when they cooked for neighbors and not for tourists and that, in a kitchen with young chefs, means a menu where almost everything sounds like the usual, but we want it as if it were new.
Their “croqueta de la abuela” (grandmother’s croquette) with flavors of Iberian acorn-fed ham, chicken a l’ast or shrimp is a masterpiece that respects true culinary traditions.
📍 Carrer dels Carders, 11, 08003 Barcelona
💸2,5€
Barra Alta
At Barra Alta, located in Sant Gervasi, the croqueta de cocido y foie is another level. And Barra Alta, as the name says, too. A very serious restaurant of which too little is said and which is one of the great examples of Catalan cuisine in the city. In addition to its croquettes, the oyster bar and other dishes are equally impressive and worth trying.
📍Carrer del Penedès, 25, 08012 Barcelona
💸2,9€
Pacomeralgo
Pacomeralgo defines itself as “Alta Taberna”, and so it is. Don’t let the name fool you, this place is serious business and many chefs come here to eat when they get tired of feeding. Barcelona . Their cuttlefish croquettes, known as Obamay and the chicken and ham croquettes are like everything they serve: simplicity executed with perfection. The aioli base that accompanies them enhances the tapa and accompanies the product festival that we will enjoy.
📍 Carrer d’Aribau, 152, 08036 Barcelona
💸3,05€
El Suculent
El Suculent is the consolidated project of chef Toni Romero: pure Catalan cuisine linked to the land. Few places cook game and meats like here. That’s why here you can enjoy a roast duck croquette that defies traditional expectations in the heart of Rambla del Raval.
.📍Rambla del Raval, 43, 08001 Barcelona
💸3€
Casa Gaig
Casa Gaig is synonymous with traditional Catalan cuisine. Restaurant and THE take-away food house in the upper area. In both you will find their roast chicken croquettes, a concentrate of tradition.
📍 Carrer de la Nau Santa Maria, 5-7, 08017 Barcelona
💸3,40
Polleria Fontana
Pay no attention to the name: Polleria Fontana is neither a chicken shop (although it was) nor is it in Fontana, it is now a restaurant offering homemade dishes with a Catalan touch near Joanic. Their chicken croquettes are generous and soft to the palate, filled with roast chicken that will make you feel at home.
📍 Carrer Gran de Gràcia, 81, 08012 Barcelona
Maitea
At Maitea you will find exceptional croquettes with a firm batter that hides an interior more Basque or Madrilenian than Catalan, that is, a croquette with more bechamel than protein. We love them, so we encourage you to try the Iberian ham and oxtail varieties and, of course, the idiazábal or txistorra varieties.
📍Carrer Casanova, 155, 08036 Barcelona
💸2,65
Coure
Coure is the place where Albert Ventura shows his culinary mastery without the need for Michelin stars. One of the great (and first) gastrotabernas of the city, with a creative and elegant cuisine.. Its croquettes are large and imposing with exquisite fillings that stand out for their quality.
📍 Passatge Marimon, 20, 08021 Barcelona
💸3
Bodega de’n Rafel
In this cellar of Sant Antoni everything is what it has to be: the human, human, the wine, good and the food, homemade. If you ask for a croquette, they give you a croquette is not something that happens every day (and even less such a spectacular one), unless you already have your elbow done to the marble of the best tables in Manso street”.
📍Carrer de Manso, 52, L’Eixample, 08015 Barcelona
Casa Güell
Located in front of the Beckett, Casa Güell has quickly become a meeting point for the neighbors of the neighborhood, who discovered in less than a week its croquette of idiazábal and Iberian veil, which is already one of our favorites in the city. The chef Jordi, with a wide international experience, bets for powerful and forceful flavors. His predilection for adding eggs or truffles to dishes to increase their unctuousness is a sign of his style.
📍Carrer de Castella, 1, Sant Martí, 08018 Barcelona
Potstot, vegan croquettes
As a starter, “sabrosada”, a relative of sobrasada made from sweet potato served with teff bread, a delicious Ethiopian cereal that allows a very credible gluten-free bread. Behind, spinach croquettes Catalan style, with pine nuts and a pea panko, richer than many of the ones we have tasted lately loaded with milk and bread.
📍Carrer de València, 204, L’Eixample, 08011 Barcelona
Candela
Candela says it mixes Mediterranean and Peruvian gastronomies, and although it is more of the latter, there are nods to the former, such as a croquette that is not of aji de gallina, like almost all Spanish-Peruvian croquettes we know, but of chupe de bacalao, a traditional Peruvian soup that here is made with a very Spanish fish like cod and croquettes.
📍Pl. de Sant Pere, 12, Ciutat Vella, 08003 Barcelona
💸3,50
La Medusa 73
Located in the Ninot Market, this market cuisine stall has been the most named among our readers for its croquettes. That’s why it occupies the first place on the list. At La Medusa 73, specialists in seafood, they make them with hake, cuttlefish in its own ink, shrimp. etc.
📍Mercat del Ninot ( C/ de Mallorca, 133)
Catacroquet
Another one of the most referenced by our readers. They have two places. One in Poblenou, which they define as “hip-hop, croquettes, tapas, sun, laughter“, and another in the Born, to which they apply the concepts “fish market, croquettes, oysters, bubbles, jazz, love”. Two very different atmospheres where croquettes are never missing.
📍C/Almogàvers, 211 | C/Pescateria, 6
Senyor Vermut
We already told you about Senyor Vermut in our route for the best bravas in Barcelona, ranking elaborated by @BravasBarcelona in which, by the way, it held the first place. But we have also been recommended their croquettes and we have to admit that they are phenomenal. Who illustrates the photo, by the way, is its owner. An artist.
📍Carrer de Provença, 85, L’Eixample,
Bodegueta Sant Andreu
Another one of those taverns with a lot of good vibes. A place of all life that incorporates the traditional tapas with the good things to come. And away from the center, that Barcelona is not only the Born.
📍 Rambla de Fabra i Puig, 30
Bar Romita
Bar Romita, little brother of Bar Roma, has opened very close with an offer based on crazy sandwiches and a similar aesthetic to the older brother, between the bar of all life and the Barcelona hipster, with food but napkins of the past, the kind that cut your lips when you wipe them.
There they respect the croquette, with recipes that make you stop time: the Parmesan, crunchy and melts in your mouth, and the rostit, with the classic taste of the Castilian croquette. A delightful place worth returning to for more.
📍Carrer de Calàbria, 181, L’Eixample, 08015 Barcelona