Suculent

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This restaurant is found among the chaos of La Rambla, and its house specialties will you have you mopping your plate clean with bread to get every last drop of flavour.

The place used to be an old cellar of Raval, a peculiar tavern frequented by all types of scoundrels of the last century. Feeling a kind of responsibility, they decided not to change too much in order to maintain the spirit of the space.

“The history and story is important to us, and so we have reused some furniture, restored all the elements we could, and anything new we’ve added fits with the essence of the old cellar. Its spirit can even be found in our cooking.”

Antonio Romero, the chef with the supervision of renowned Carles Abellán, tells us that rather than innovate, they prefer to renovate: “In Suculent you’ll find Mediterranean and Spanish dishes, prepared with the latest ideas and techniques that allow us to improve on what was already great before. The menu is varied and always changing because our cooking is based on the quality of the products we find every day at the market.”

To start try the ceviche, grilled oysters with Iberian bacon, cow’s tail croquettes, or if you’re feeling particularly brave go for the beef’s tongue.

The menu offers all kinds of entrees including stews (the ox tongue with mushrooms is memorable), seafood (try the bluefin tuna) and meat (a highlight includes the pork cooked in its juices with ginger, melon and pine nuts). If you can’t choose just one category, there are surf and turf combinations (like squid with grilled foie). Everything is surprising, and everything is delicious.

If you want to try a tasting menu you can choose from three different sizes, depending on how hungry you are and which dishes you want to taste. Don’t be afraid to order anything you like – we promise that all the dishes are a 10 here.