
The menu of the day is a concept so deeply rooted in the country’s popular culture that no one can say they have ever ordered one. A starter, main course and dessert at a good price is all that a worker of any condition needs to fill up the gas tank and continue with his day from Monday to Friday.
And what is its origin? Nothing more and nothing less than a measure that sought to promote tourism in Spain during the 1960s. The Minister of Tourism at that time, Manuel Fraga, made its implementation mandatory in all restaurants and the administration itself also set the price.
Fixing the price was never a good idea, it was unsustainable for restaurateurs, so prices were soon liberalized and things improved. The menu of the day was still a cheaper option than eating à la carte, and at the same time very complete, as it included regional specialties and a selection of the most popular dishes.
After telling you all this, it is worth noting that the menú del día is no longer just for tourists: it belongs to all of us, and booking at least one day during the week to enjoy the best menus of the day in Barcelona should be a must .
So if you want to discover the best specialties of some of these restaurants in your lunch break, do not miss this updated compilation of the best menus in the city:
Claris 118, a hybrid between modern and classic.
Claris 118, located in the former premises of Mirym Restaurant, was rebuilt and modernized before the pandemic by its new owners Ever Cubilla (former chef of Espai Kru) and Laura Monedero. With a menu to choose between eight starters, eight mains and eight desserts, it is clear that you will be able to make as many combinations as there are weeks in the year, so we can say that this menu of the day should be among your priorities to try in the coming weeks.
The place is practically a typical restaurant, with Catalan food, but Ever wanted to give it a more modern touch. Among its starters, more original than classic salads such as endive, red pesto, bacon and seeds, and among the options for the main courses we can find very good local product such as cod ‘skrei’ a la ‘llauna’ or beef tenderloin cured for 20 days.
💸 13€
📍 Claris street, 18
Garvin, an authentic Italian restaurant
Located in one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods of Barcelona, the Borne, the Ristorante Gravin was born with the intention of bringing authentic Italian cuisine to Barcelona.
Its dishes are 100% handmade, especially the homemade pasta, of which you can taste from pappardelle to linguini, accompanied by traditional Italian sauces.
The daily menu changes seasonally, but you will never miss spaghetti, rigatoni or a good risotto among the main courses.
💸 12,90€
📍Carrer Rera Palau, 3
Balthazar, a gourmet menu for less than 20 euros.
The Balthazar restaurant, which belongs to the Andilana gastronomic family, has designed a modern and avant-garde space with an industrial aesthetic. Its cuisine is European and based on fresh local products.
They have several daily menus: a premium menu for 19,60€, a gourmet menu for 36,50€ and a deluxe menu for 46,5€. All their menus are recommended for sharing, as the starters are designed for two. All the menus include the most classic starters: croquettes, scrambled eggs, ham or bravas, but what makes the difference between each menu are the main courses to choose from. In the gourmet menu, for example, you can choose between rice with seafood or risotto, and entrecote or tuna tataki.
The deluxe menu offers more starters, with calamari a la romana and eggs with ham. For main courses, salmon and sea bass, and the dessert selection of each menu has a common element with very good reviews: the warm cheescake.
💸 19,60€ / 36,50€ / 46,5€
📍 Carrer del Rosselló, 189
Lúcuma & Camote, 100% Peruvian and handmade food
Lucuma is a fruit grown in the Andean valleys, in the area of Peru, and the protagonist of many of the desserts of this restaurant. Lúcuma & Camote’s daily menu includes 100% Peruvian food made with quality produce.
Although the ceviche can be included with the menu for a supplement, it is worth trying it and accompanying it with some lomo saltado or some of the more unknown Peruvian stews, such as seco de res. For dessert they have very interesting proposals such as roasted pear, passion fruit chessecake and lucuma ice cream.
💸 12,90€
📍 Av. d’Icària, 132
3 Focs, authentic Catalan homemade flavors
3 Focs offers meals with an authentic Catalan farmhouseflavor in the heart of the city. Its name, which means “three fires” in Catalan, suggests a connection with the preparation of its grilled food , while it stands out for its creativity and originality in the preparation of dishes, combining traditional techniques with innovative presentations, while having a professional and attentive service and a cozy and elegant atmosphere.
💸 28 € / 72 €
📍 Carrer Valencia, 207
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Bronzo, an authentic Venetian restaurant in the Born district
An Italian trattoria inspired by a tavern like the Venetian bacari, a type of inn where you can eat standing up and sitting down.
That’s Bronzo, a restaurant with a humble atmosphere in a cozy locale, where they prepare the recipes of Venetian grandmothers that transports you to the city of bridges and canals.
All their menus are to share, and depending on whether you add a starter or main course they vary the price per person. They have the Bacaro Menu where you choose two starters to share, for 29€. They also have the Spuntini Menu, which includes five starters and a main course of gnocchi ‘burro e salvia’ and rabiola cheesecake for dessert for 32€.
The last option, for 35€, consists of starters to share with olives, sardines, pizzeta and for the main course a seasonal risotto.
💸 29€ /32€ / 35€
📍 Carrer del Rec, 60
Menu inside a submarine at Verne
Enjoy a delicious shared menu at Verne, where you’ll feel like you’re aboard Captain Nemo’s submarine. With healthy and gluten-free options available, you can indulge in dishes like the ECO Burger on a plate with chimichurri sauce and fig jam. The menu for one person includes welcome drink and appetizer, three starters in the middle, a main course, dessert, drink, coffee and shot.
💸 25€
📍 Carrer d’Aribau, 150, Local B
🎟️ Book here
Ceviche 103, from Peru to Barcelona through the tiger’s milk.
If you are passionate about ceviche, we are almost sure you already know this place. And its fish dish marinated in tiger’s milk is one of the best known in the city. Ceviche 103 offers a very complete menu of the week, and without paying extra for a good ceviche .
For the main course, there is always a choice of chicken, fish and vegan dish, with dessert and drink included. For only 16,90€, you can find one of the most complete and affordable menus in L’Esquerra de L’Eixample. In addition, if you are curious, they usually have specials off the menu and for a limited time of the most interesting.
💸 16,90€
📍 Carrer de Londres, 103
L’Actiu, by BCN Activa
Actiu has a modern, well cared for and good quality menu, which, for less than 15 euros, exceeds anyone’s expectations. The best thing is that every day the menu varies depending on the seasonal market products and always has vegan and vegetarian options.
The restaurant is within Barcelona Activa, an institution whose objective is to promote employment and the creation of job opportunities through courses, talks and an agenda of activities.
💸 14,90€
📍 Carrer de la Llacuna, 162
Fismuler, the most famous escalope of the city
We have already told you about this place, as it must be one of the most popular restaurants in the city. The fault lies in its escalope, famous everywhere, its cheesecake, same category and, in general, a cuisine that, based on classic and recognizable recipes, prepares a fairly high gastronomy at a reasonable price.
For finer palates, for more special occasions, for the days when you most deserve it. Fismuler’s Canalla Menu is another roll, as it takes the typical dishes of the coast to another level, the ideal option to take it easy -never better said- and to share it with the best company.
💸 25 €
📍 Carrer del Rec Comtal, 17
Maur, classic Eixample esquerra restaurant
Brasserie restaurant offering traditional Catalan cuisine with fresh, top-quality ingredients.
Its menu is known for having as many options as the menu of any restaurant, but especially for its wood-fired pizzas, which can be chosen as a second course.
💸 13,50 €
📍 Carrer del Comte d’Urgell, 9 / Carrer de Muntaner, 121
Vía Granados, pure Mediterranean cuisine
Enjoy an exquisite menu of Mediterranean cuisine in a charming restaurant to surprise in Barcelona. With two menu options to choose from, Via Granados will delight you with spectacular dishes thanks to local ingredients and delicious recipes. Don’t miss the opportunity to try their starters to nibble on, such as patatas bravas, padrón peppers and homemade ham and mushroom croquettes.
💸 28 € / 36 €
📍 Carrer Enric Granados, 67
🎟️ Book here
La Raposa, vegan and cooperative
La Raposa is both a vegan bar and a feminist bookstore in Poble Sec, a cooperative that also carries out a lot of cultural and leisure activities, both inside and outside the premises.
It has an open entrance, a pleasant bar with a quiet light that passes through the bookstore and ends in a lounge and a small patio where we have danced, laughed and generated the best memories. A place where we can also eat a homemade menu, 100% vegan, rich and at an unbeatable price.
💸 8,50 €
📍 Tapioles, 47
La Pubilla, from Gracia to the moon
This, above all, is a familiar place, one of those to which you always come back. As it could not be less, the decoration of this place in Gracia knows how to integrate the austerity of the traditional tasca with modern furniture and colors.
The same goes for the dishes, which maintain the traditional and plate it in the most original hybridizations. Here the finos get fine and, for the quality of the food, the price is great.
💸 14 €
📍 Plaça de la Llibertat, 23
Cal Boter, el bon menjar
Cal Boter is already a quasi-temple house in the most authentic neighborhood of Gracia. A family business that is already in its second generation and that transmits honesty and good vibes as soon as you walk in the door. People eat calmly and without haste, because they go there to eat.
Its menu of the day is one of the most recommended in Barcelona and its escalivada is not only unique, but the best.
💸 13 €
📍 Tordera, 62
La Granja, the one of a lifetime
It has been 35 years since this cozy cafe opened as ‘Granja la Catalana’. Today it is already in its second generation and, if the customers who go there do it regularly, it is because Martí offers them a first-class personal treatment. Well, and because, in addition to the food, the coffee is spectacular: every two weeks they bring a different one and always from the hands of small farmers.
The good thing about eating here at noon is that their menu is a good plate, which you can combine as you wish. And their Friday fajitas are already a classic.
💸 8 €
📍 Gran Via, 450
La Balmesina, finally the menu with pizzas.
Pizza menu? Yass. La Balmesina, one of the best pizzerias in town, also makes them with sourdough and organic flour. A pizza is not a salad, but much better if it doesn’t weigh on your stomach. Neapolitan style star dish, one of the best in town.
💸 11,90 €
📍 Balmes, 193
Jardinet d’Aribau, magical menu of Baos Locos
Considered one of the most charming restaurants in Barcelona, in the vibrant neighborhood of L’Eixample, Jardinet d’ Aribau offers a delicious menu in its charming garden terrace and relaxed atmosphere, giving you a refuge in the middle of the city.
With options such as ratatouille, mushroom risotto, chef’s fish, veal burger eco or Catalan octopus confit, this menu will surprise you with the most exquisite dishes. And, every Tuesday, Baos Locos menu.
💸 25 €
📍 Carrer d’Aribau, 133
🎟️ Book here
Bar Muy Buenas, the house of menjars del Raval
In addition to food, wines and liquors also Catalan in a modernist local. Beautiful. That place where you have to take those who come to visit Barcelona to surprise them and make the day round. A homemade menu of these of the plate up to the top, as it should be.
💸 13.50 €
📍 Carrer del Carme, 63
Mi Tierra, silver, lead or menu
If you like Colombian food and you were looking for where to eat a good sancocho, this is it. If you’ve never tried it, you’re already taking your time.
Mi Tierra is called “Mi Tierra” because when you step through its door you slip into Colombia, where the most important thing is Colombian people, and that’s what you’ll find here. There is no better guarantee (and they deliver).
💸 9 €
📍 Comte d’Urgel, 76
Casa Masala, a trip to India
Indian food has its fair handful of parishioners who will be happy to see their favorite dish in the form of a neighborhood menu. Masala’s midday Thali Menu, has one of the most recommended curry menus and, in addition, contemplates a milder option for the little ones.
If you have doubts about the quality of the place, we recommend you to read what we wrote about them when they opened: Casa Masala is one of the best Indian restaurants you will find in the city.
💸 15 €
📍 Calle Muntaner, 152
Sifó
Argentine fusion restaurant that, as such, offers a menu of meats, pizzas, pastas and, above all, the best milanesas in Barcelona. Well, that’s what many people who already know them well say.
So, for lovers of abundance and the pleasures of this land, we recommend this glory in the form of a menu at a price of a thousand wonders.
💸 11,90 €
📍 Espalter, 4
Biocenter, the vegetarian option
Here’s the vegetarian option! And beware that it is not just any option, but one of the best.
Vegetarianism here is not just a reluctance to eat animal meat, but a commitment and a taste for doing things well. Not only the food but also the juices, the wines, the beers are almost 100% organic and zero kilometer. This is, strictly speaking, eating well. But it does not stop here: the place is pre-cio-so.
💸 15 €
📍 Pintor Fortuny, 25
La nova Farga, a Catalan emblem in Sants
This really is a neighborhood, popular prices and food made and served with love in the neighborhood of Sants. An authentic tavern where you go many times or not at all. What more to say about an option that is ideal: good, nice and cheap.
💸 10 €
📍 Almeria, 31
Tino, a top culinary plan to enjoy at home.
Can you imagine eating a perfect mix of pizza, empanada and burrito in the same recipe? Two French friends wanted to solve a basic problem when it comes to “pizza delivery”: that the pizza arrives cold. Something that is no longer a problem, if you change the shape of the dough!
Now you can try and enjoy a feast at home with Tino’s eight-coursemenu that includes the Cabracadabra, Mexigan or Stiive jobs.
💸 34,90 €
📍 Delivery available in Barcelona city
Can Boneta, the farmhouse at home
Before you continue reading this paragraph, pick up the phone and call Can Boneta to reserve a table.
You will save precious time, as the midday table at this restaurant is well priced, since what it serves is worth much more than what you pay, and there are barely less than ten tables. Supply and demand. And if the demand translates into full tables, these are explained by the offer: 14 euros for a first, second, dessert and drink high-flying, usually with some initial bite to calm the hunger with which you arrive.
Catalan cuisine of high level at a price of bar de poble, with a quality that makes look over his shoulder to many menus of the same price in the city. Have you already called?
💸 14 €
📍 Carrer de Balmes, 139
L’Artesana, the greatness of simplicity
L’Artesana is one of those menu restaurants that any neighborhood envies. A place where the menu of the day maintains the fine balance between traditional food, the renewed elaborations and the adjusted price. A real luxury where for less than 15 euros you can have a menu that includes fresh fish of the day or cap i pota stews.
Now, if you are looking for a festival at a good price, for 20 euros you can order a tasting menu of several dishes that are that day on the menu, and enjoy them on a terrace, by the way, where you can breathe that fresh and calm air typical of spring evenings in Poblenou.
💸 Menu of the day 13,90 €.
📍 Carrer de Sant Joan de Malta, 148
Casa Cabo, beach rice at menu price
Finding a good rice in Barcelona is already difficult. And although we already recommend some, sometimes you feel like eating a rice but perhaps scratching something less pocket or, simply, having the time a little more just at noon. Casa Cabo has arrived to cover that need .
On its terrace on Marina Street, four corners from the sea, you can breathe the smell of salt and its lunch menu meets the expectations generated by its location.
For only 13 euros, a menu with simple but delicious starters that serve as a prelude to the king of the menu: the rice of the day. Rice cooked in clay pots that fly every noon and that turn this place into something more than a bar.
As they define it: an urban beach bar. They are doing so well that they already have four locations (wine cellar, Japanese fusion…), so there is room to try.
💸 13 €
📍 Carrer de Ramon Turró, 19
Granja Mabel, eternal leader
Granja Mabel has long appeared on any list of daily menus in Barcelona. It is a fixed, an immovable. It does not fail.
Its 12,95€ menu is like the way of the samurai of menus, like that sushi master’s apprentice who spends ten years perfecting the technique of cutting fish.
At Granja Mabel they have spent years studying the art of the menu so that it does not fail. To say that their menu is haute cuisine is a cliché, but it is true that in their 13 euros the cuisine travels to another level, in a meeting between sophistication and simplicity difficult to find in the city.
On his instagram are hung the weekly menus with military firmness, and take a look at it is to start salivating and understand why the Mabel is among the best menus in the city.
💸 12,95 €
📍 Carrer de la Marina, 114
Bar Joan, the good market menu
We’ve already told you about Cal Joan for its good and cheap bravas, but its menu of the day is not far behind. For 14 euros one tries authentic market cuisine, that made from stews and fresh produce passed through the grill.
Their tripe does what it is supposed to do (shine on the plate and leave your lips sticky after eating it) and their fish and meats without garnish have the simple forcefulness of a dish with quality product. It is not the only market bar with good menus, but it is the one we recommend. We encourage you to approach yours, whoever cooks between meals, has little chance of failure.
💸 12,95 €
📍 Carrer de la Marina, 114
La Sosenga
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