Barcelona, 10th of June 2020. After three long months in which all restaurants in Barcelona were forced to close due to the Covid19 pandemic, La Xarxa is back!

The Varela Group (owner of Casa Varela, L’Estupendu, Bodega La Puntual restaurants) had big plans in mind for the return of this restaurant that now opens in a location, more spacious and with terrace, very close to the previous one. The restaurant is run under the orders of Carlos Allué, the young Catalan chef with a special palate and a lot of talent who returned the magic to the previous La Xarxa restaurant and who will soon be on everyone’s lips on the Barcelona gastronomic scene with this new opening.

“We return with the same desire and enthusiasm to offer the best quality and the best product in Barcelona”

The success of this small restaurant before the closure due to the confinement was its gastronomic offer based on top quality seasonal products and its warm one to one service with clients. That is why regular customers will be delighted to know that the food in the new location of La Xarxa is still as good as we remember it, always based on good product, dishes full of flavor and now in a new and more comfortable space.

“We wanted a relaxed, happy, comfortable space that makes to the client and the product shine”

Since the reopening of Tuesday, June 9, we can once again enjoy the Chef’s “Patatas bravas”, oysters from El Ebro Delta, fresh cockles, anchovies, the tomato salad, the ugly omelette over coca bread with tomato, tasty seafood rice, the Galician sirloin with butter in the Café de Paris style, its famous “dishes to share” where the prawn tacos with pico de gallo and chili mayonnaise and the chicken taco stand out… AND a lot of products coming from the sea. For the chef, the challenge of this new stage of La Xarxa is to gradually improve the menu offer, touching more and more quality products and making the experience in his restaurant always a celebration:

“I want people to come to La Xarxa as if they always have something to celebrate”

Questions to Carlos Allué:

As chef of the Varela group, how do you face this new stage in La Xarxa? What are you standing for?

C.A. – I face it with enthusiasm and passion, this restaurant is my baby. “I want people to come to La Xarxa as if they always have something to celebrate”

What is different and what remains the same as the previous La Xarxa? Location, service, menu.

C.A. – We have respected the wood, the refrigerators, the distribution of the previous space and we have put our essence: casual air, happy lighting and making the client and the food to stand out. As for the service we are now five people, three of them are in the kitchen and six more people are distributed between the lunchroom and the terrace. And as for the menu, we will start with what we know everyone liked at the previous La Xarxa ”Rice, prawns, clams, little fried fish like sonsos… Beach product”

For those clients who have already been at La Xarxa or the new ones to come… What are the 3 dishes that we cannot forget to order from the menu?

C.A – The prawn tacos with pico de gallo and ají mayonnaise, the bull tail with mashed potato and the cheesecake.

And to finish a good meal, nothing better than a good dessert. Without sort of a doubt the bread with chocolate, extra virgin olive oil and Maldon salt, the homemade cheesecake and the cheese selection are the number ones. Bon Appetite! Lunches and dinners from Monday to Saturday. Sunday closed. Reservations: 932 00 13 48 Address: Plaza Molina 2 / Text: Clara De Nadal Trias