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Barcelona Restaurants

Los Caracoles

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  • Address
    • Carrer dels Escudellers 14
  • Transport
    • Drassanes
  • Website
  • Phone
    • 93 302 31 85
  • Price
    • meals €30-35
  • Hours
    • daily

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Lonely Planet review for Los Caracoles

Run by the fifth generation of the Bofarull family, ‘The Snails’ started life as a tavern in 1835 and is one of Barcelona’s best-known, if somewhat touristy, restaurants. Several interlocking rooms (consider asking for the small medieval-looking banquet room), with centuries of history seemingly greased into the tables and garlic-clad walls, may well distract you from the rotisserie chickens and snails that are the house specialities. Locals still dine here and the ambience alone makes it worth dropping by, if only for a drink or two at the bar.

 

Traveller reviews for Los Caracoles (1)

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    sagarra does not recommend this,

    I'm of Catalonian family and thus grew up in contact with the culture and especially the good food of the region.
    Although the restaurant looks authentic, it's designed for tourists only: it's far from the real thing and it's totally overpriced for what you get. Indeed, I saw not a single local there (which is a critical sign in Spain).
    The place is just too big to be good. We tried the snails, pa amb tomaquet (bread with tomato), a paella and a suquet (see food stew). Every thing looked ok, but in fact nothing was good. The bread was wrong, the see food was overcooked, the paella was of low quality and the snails had no taste.
    Reminded me of a restaurant when I was a child, that was so bad that, at the end, my father asked if the cook was on holidays (in fact he was).

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