Dinner at Disfrutar Barcelona is a restaurant experience like no other. Time to tell you all about the delicious set menu in my Disfrutar Barcelona review.
*Since my visit, Disfrutar Barcelona has been awarded two Michelin stars. I re-visited the restaurant more recently which you can read about here.*
Two “olives” are placed in front of me. One black, one green. They are glossy with olive oil and a sprinkling of salt. However, nothing is as it seems at Barcelona’s hottest new restaurant Disfrutar.
Launched in late 2014 by Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch and Mateu Casañas, three head chefs at Ferran Adria’s former-best-restaurant-in-the-world elBulli, this restaurant looks set to place Barcelona as one of the culinary capitals of the world. What does Disfrutar mean? To enjoy – something we were ready for with several courses ahead!
There are two tasting menus – the Festival Menu being a 25-course extravaganza. To describe and dissect every course would take a long time (and make you very hungry) but I wanted to share highlights of what was a truly theatrical, delicious and very memorable evening.
The meal began with a melon caipirinha, which was made in front of us by the waitress who poured liquid from a teapot into a cup of crackling ice. It frothed up into a cocktail creating a fragrant melon scent. On the saucer lay an intensely flavoured cube of fresh melon, covered in mint, lime and salt. A refreshing, light, and rather boozy start to the meal!
