Fashion or trend? With summer looming, many focus on maintaining a healthy diet driven by a modern and vigorous cuisine based with organic seasonal produce. A lifestyle that honors good eating and a balanced diet without excess or unnecessary vices.
Vegetarian, vegan, healthy, balanced … with or without meat. There are many ways to interpret this cuisine while still maintaining a rich and healthy diet. We searched for dishes suitable for all types of people, and for something more than an ephemeral trend; a cuisine driven by a greater knowledge of the product.
In Barcelona we can find multiple restaurants on this wave of healthy eating, and among those we have chosen our favorite restaurants dedicated to healthy food.
Seven years, three partners and one concept. The perfect summary of a place that has been feeding the most demanding gastronomic critics based on vegetarian dishes daring and tasty. An imaginative vegetarian menu with influences from three partners from disparate origins (Catalan, Argentinean and Italian), they offer vegan and gluten-free options.
Lunch menu and a complete menu for dinner in a new place in Poblenou where they moved only five months ago. Among its different options we choose your daily formula that includes a homemade humus dish to start, a first and a second course from a wide selection of dishes that vary daily. We opted for a timbal of black rice, varied vegetables, tofu and sesame. And to finish, pump your millet and mushrooms with Mungo soy sauce for the mint with vegetables, a vegetarian option and gluten free.
A small vegetarian hideaway where you can enjoy extraordinary culinary skills.
Who said that healthy should only be vegetarian? In this renovated gastronomic space, located very close to the Fòrum beach, you can enjoy a balanced and healthy menu with gourmet products and a wide selection of natural wines.
A restaurant where the raw materials are the products for sale at the establishment. A ” Comfort food ” proposal that refers to the nostalgic value of processed foods in a simple preparation process.
We let ourselves be surprised by an appetizer of beet gazpacho with some crumbled feta cheese and a couple of grapes to give it a special acidic touch. And second, we choose a bowl of a whole wheat spaghetti base with carrot and red tuna loin, accompanied with banana, avocado, almonds and sesame seeds; All seasoned with soy sauce, apple cider vinegar and a touch of soy sauce.
A unique space where you can enjoy a healthy and balanced menu.
If there is something that is really fashionable in Barcelona, it would be the best modern cafes in the city where you can enjoy a selection of healthy and balanced dishes. This is the case of Black Remedy, the fashionable Deli Café in Barcelona. It is a result of the passion for coffee and a first-rate gastronomic bet, this is how this hybrid is born between the Coffee Store and gourmet cafeteria .
A renewed menu facing the hot summer that we have ahead with fresh and seasonal products, whose main axis are still smoked. Adrián Lobato, chef and culinary artist, prepares a homemade Andalusian gazpacho with a touch of pepper and, secondly, a fresh and light salad. A Sweet Mango salad with arugula, parmesan, walnuts, avocado and fresh mango; Bathed in a homemade balsamic cream . All this accompanied by two natural juices brand of the house. A Mango Vitamin based on mango and carrot; And a Sweet Energy with orange, pear and grenadine. What could be healthier?
Black Remedy, a modern venue where they combine influences from different countries in their own casual and modern style. If you still do not know it, stop by and discover this little gastronomic temple.
Two Venezuelan girls and a new concept of ” Comfort Food” , based on a healthy cuisine with quality products and appetizing elaborations. That being said, it seems like the perfect place to enjoy a lunch away from home without worrying about the diet; And the truth is that it is. Bendita Helena is the ideal place to enjoy a good lunch menu that changes daily or a limited menu full of dishes made with love for the most delicate palates.
Ana, cook and artist of this small place prepares a totally healthy menu based on fresh and seasonal products. First we get aBangabol , a Hindu dish made from chopped rice, along with a variety of vegetables, cashew nuts, smoked tofu and with a little curry that brings that characteristic spicy touch.
For the second dish we get a Chapati with chermoula, a chimichurri of coriander, spice and chile; Creme fraiche and ghi, clarified butter which is very good for digestion. And for dessert a surprising ice cream with smoked flavor and with activated charcoal, with healing and digestive gifts; Hazelnut crumble with activated charcoal and presented with blueberry jam. A gastronomic wonder
A concept of daily vegetarian food both to take away and to taste right there in its diaphanous local place with a flirty and cared decoration. Their dishes are made with fresh products that change daily, always maintaining a balanced offer for all tastes.
The Sopa concept is expanding its premises and there are two here in Barcelona, one in Poblenou and another in the Eixample; Both following the vegetarian and take-away philosophy . We passed the one in Roc Boronat, a wide space of wide tables where you can sit down to eat in a relaxed and casual atmosphere. Between its different options we choose a cold soup of tomato and beet, always accompanied with a base of rice, very appetizing these hot days. And, secondly, we opted for the millet with sauteed vegetables and vinaigrette of turmeric and honey, really delicious.
Sopa, a place that adds to the healthy lifestyle of the moment where they reward the quality products and a balanced diet.
This small trendy place in the neighborhood of Barcelona is run by three Venezuelan friends that offer the dish of the moment in the United States, which is being integrated into the gastronomy of Barcelona.
With a modern and carefree style, the three friends offer salads based on fresh fish and gourmet products , or as Poke, a traditional dish of Hawaiian cuisine, are known.
Among all the different varieties we choose to make our custom Poke Bowl with salmon, tuna, edamame, Shitake mushrooms, Japanese chives, sesame seeds and with a white rice base. And all this, marinated with a citric soybean that brings a special acid touch.
Hip Fish joins the Poke Bowl fashion and does it with its own style.
Texto: Alejandro Moneva
Fotos: Anel González
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