Cal Pep

Cal Pep
Restaurant Cuisine: Seafood, Mediterranean
Placa de les Olles 8
Barcelona 08003
#3
of 2505 restaurants in Barcelona
TripZen Score
8.0 / 10 Overall
241% Recommend
8.5Overall7.5Food
8.5Food
Activities: Health club, Hot tub, Pool (outdoors)
Check-in / Check-out time: 11am / 3pm
Description:
A breakfast nook.
Cal Pep Map

Traveler Reviews

TripZen Score
8.0 / 10 Overall
241% Recommend
8.5Overall7.5Food
8.5Food
Overall
  • Cal Pep in La Ribera is one of the best-known tapas restaurants in Barcelona.
  • The best place to experience the real spanish 'tapas' in the uber-trendy area of Barcelona's Born
  • Quirky place!
  • pricy buy well-worth it for an excellent dining experience.
  • It is a place for Tapas, among the best you will find anywhere.
  • The best Tapas restaurant in the world, this is a must visit for anybody who goes near spain.
  • The place is small and intimate, the staff are friendly
  • grate place for tapas
  • A great little spot to sample the local seafood.
  • it was named as one of the top 50 restaurants of 2005 by many magazines.
  • my favorite eatery
  • With so many great places to eat in Barcelona, you never see this.
Food
  • Food is divine, but not that cheap.
  • while I only tried two in the city, I can't imagine a better tapas experience than the one we enjoyed at Cal Pep.
  • Taste is just average.
  • By far the most wonderful fresh food in Barcelona.
  • A Fantastic Food Experience
  • they fix it and it is always great.
  • Best paella in the city
  • Cal Pep reigns supreme as the best tapas bar in the city.
  • REmarkable and inventive food served graciously
  • Recommendations include crispy prawns, calamari, clams in garlic sauce, fried mild green chilli’s, local sausage with beans, cris
  • divine seafood
  • Everyone who goes to Barcelona ends up here, not the best tapas in Spain but the best in Barcelona
  • Lunch at Cal Pep was one of the most exquisite meals of my life.
  • Zesty food, great fun, just do what your waiter says.
  • Good tapas bar in a good location
  • Gorgeous razor clams/seafood, anything fried, artichokes, whatever they have you'll love.
  • Exceptionally fresh ingredients wonderfully prepared before your eyes.
  • pricy buy well-worth it for an excellent dining experience.
  • Cal Pep, located in a lovely neighborhood of the old city, accomodates twenty persons in the bar and another twenty in a small agreable room.
  • Wonderful customized meals consumed at the bar.
  • The best Tapas restaurant in the world, this is a must visit for anybody who goes near spain.
  • fresh food, fun crowd, great people-watching
  • The best tapas in town
  • The best tapas in Barcelona
  • Yes, the seafood is VERY fresh, the ambiance is a fishing theme and the staff is efficient, but not too friendly.
  • Pago de Carraovejas is a very good wine choice.
  • fun, the ambiance was perfect and the food was amazing....we kept eating, the desserts were so good we ate 2 each!
  • the best food in barcelona!
  • The food was phenomenal!
  • grate place for tapas
  • The seafood is brought in fresh that morning and your menu is the glass case of fresh fish, squiggly octopus and crawling lobster.
  • For those of you who've never experienced "cal Pep" disregard any critics who say it is "overrated", for they truly do not understand good food.
  • while we started with the traditional toast rubbed with grilled tomato and garlic.
  • Origin's menu has pictures as well.
  • if you like good food, tapas and some "couleur locale", this is the place to be !
  • The food at Cal Pep is simply delicious.
  • eating out most lunchtimes and evenings Cal Pep stood firmly above the rest in terms of traditional tapas .
  • We had a lot of little tapas.
  • Excellent Tapas
  • Yummy is the word to describe the delicious, fresh, made-to-order seafood dishes served at Cal Pep....We ate divine calamari with white beans, clams in garlic sauce, and an order of delectable garbanzo beans and spinach.
Service
  • Pep Manubens, the owner, is a great host going around making sure
  • The place is small and intimate, the staff are friendly
  • Workers are not friendly.
Ambience
  • Good tapas bar in a good location
  • Cal Pep, located in a lovely neighborhood of the old city, accomodates twenty persons in the bar and another twenty in a small agreable room.
  • Yes, the seafood is VERY fresh, the ambiance is a fishing theme and the staff is efficient, but not too friendly.
  • fun, the ambiance was perfect and the food was amazing.
  • The decor and atmostphere was lovely.
Value
  • Excellent quality, paid a dear price
  • all was good , resonable prices as well.

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