The basis of good cuisine is quality product, but the reality is that without gastronomic knowledge and without technique, this would not shine. After buying a fresh Galician lobster of 124 euros per kilo, would you leave it without worry in the hands of anyone? Likewise, the hand and esteem of the cook is essential. When there is affection in a relationship, including that created between a chef and his cooks, the results are authentically positive. And this is demonstrated by La Gormanda.
In this restaurant you will find products classified according to their cook, Carlota Clave, as “products with soul” cooked under a mantle of gastronomic and technical knowledge. Giving place to a regal gastronomic experience.
The restaurant is run by a couple who decided to open the establishment 2 years ago. For both, the most important thing is to take care of and pamper the client through their kitchen, as well as through their attentive service in the room. They have a wide and varied menu that is changing in parallel to the seasons, among which you can taste dishes such as crispy cannelloni with grated truffle mushrooms , or its octopus and black garlic. Their gyozas de carn d’olla do not leave you indifferent, they may even be able to excite the particularly romantic foodie. Like the eggplant candied with miso and katsuobushi or the sea bass and grilled dewlap with tear peas.
There are times when it is not necessary to know for sure that whoever is in the kitchen has gastronomic studies or accumulated years and years of practice, you simply note it in each dish tasted. The technique in the kitchen is not only to know how to make a spherification or to cook with liquid nitrogen, this consists of executing to perfection even the most basic elaborations. And it should be said that it was a simple mousse that fascinated us. Without a doubt the dessert – hazelnut streussel – shone by itself with assiduous perfection.
The setting is fun and elegant, and the service is very well planned. For example, the cutlery is changed to chopsticks before gyozas are served . In the same way, it is necessary to emphasize its original tableware, as well as the overflowing passion of its cook Carlota. The Gormanda is, without a doubt, a marvelous gastronomic experience.
Carrer d’Aribau, 160, 08036. Barcelona
Hours: From Tuesday to Saturday from 13:00 to 16:00 and from 20:00 a 23:00 / Sunday from 13:00 to 16:00
Medium Price: Menu of the day: 21/ Menú degustación: 50/ A la cart 30-35 euros
Telephone: 931 27 60 49
Photographer: Ruth López
Text: Estefanía Garcés