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The best oyster bars in Barcelona
It is said that the best months to eat oysters are those that carry an "r", that is, that the season goes from September to April. Here some oyster-bars and restaurants in Barcelona where to take these sea bites.
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Huîtres Amélie. The Amélie are oysters Fine de Claire and Spéciale Fine de Claire, the only ones in the world with Protected Designation of Origin (Marennes-Oléron), tuned in the claires, clear or exclusive clay ponds of this French region. In their market stall at La Boqueria market (La Rambla, 91) they prepare them to eat there and to take away. And in its Pop-up bar at El Corte Inglés in Plaça Catalunya, they served naturally and also steamed with premium liquors, with gelée de champagne and smoked in a glass bell at the Amélie Sensations tasting.
Amélie is also the oysters of Palosanto restaurant and Café San Telmo. In this last one and afterwork they have pairings of 1, 2, 4 or 8 oysters with glasses or bottle of cava or champagne.
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Huîtres Amélie @ La Boqueria market
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Améie pop-up bar El Corte Inglés (Plaça Catalunya)
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Amélie oysters served naturally with a glass of champagne
Bob Oyster BCN. Paris, 190 (Eixample). BOB, an acronym for Barcelona Oyster Bar, has just opened in the Eixample Esquerre, an initiative of Thierry Guillemet, one of the founders of Gouthier. His oysters are oysters Utah of Normandy of Pléiade Poget, Médaille D'Or in the Concours Général Agricole of Paris 2017, of different calibers, which are extracted from a fishing ground created in 1970 by this producer in the company of Gillardeau, Papin and Sorlut. Extras: smoked food, preserves and artisan cheeses.
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The Oyster Bar at El Nacional. Passeig de Gràcia, 24 bis (Eixample). Oysters from the Atlantic (Spéciale de Claire Gillardeau nº 2, super giant of Galicia Fariña, Krystale from Normandie special) and from the Mediterranean (the special one from Bouzigues nº 2), accompanied by cava, champagne or vodka. Tributes that we all deserve to give us from time to time, in the oval bar of this gastronomic multispace.
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Gouthier. Mañé i Flaquer, 8 (Sarrià). Pioneers in the culture of the oyster in our city, in this oyster bar they ship eight French varieties, one Irish and the oyster of the Ebro Delta, and each one decides with what to season them. Four sauces available: mojito sauce, cold almond soup, gin-tonic or cebiche like. Available take away, catering and buffet service.
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vertical tasting of oysters in Gouthier
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Oysters served at the Café San Telmo
Joël's Oyster Bar. Plaça Sant Josep, 13 (La Boqueria market). Joël Dupuch - the second generation of a family of oyster producers in Arcachon, on the French Atlantic coast - is the most famous oyster farmer in the French country. Last year he opened this oyster bar in La Boqueria together with chefs Romain Fornell and Òscar Manresa. They are served naturally, in pickled sauce, with ponzu sauce and trout roe, and with cucumber and green apple. The proposal includes wine glass or cava formulas plus 3 or 6 oysters, as well as the possibility of ordering them at home.
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oyter bar of Joël's Oyster Bar
Patrón. Travessera de Gràcia, 44 (Sant Gervasi). In its raw bar Galician oysters and Gillardeau share the spotlight with tartares, carpaccios and ceviches, and can be accompanied by classic cocktails "as the patrón (boss) likes", cocktails d'auteur and "for sailors".
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oysters and raw bar, Patrón
Fishhh! @L'illa. Av. Diagonal, 557, local 57 (Les Corts). Oysters of the Marennes-Oléron region of the Louis brand are dispensed in its oystercar. From 5pm to 8pm, 24 oysters for 12€ (valid only to eat there). And it also serves Oysters au gratin à la cava, and Traveling Oysters (tribute to elBulli) with wasabi (Japan), with salmon, ginger oil and soya (Norway), with lime and cilantro (Peru) and with Bloody Mary with green tabasco (USA).
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Boca Grande. Passatge de la Concepció, 12 (Eixample). The seafood bar presides over this restaurant that holds French oysters from the Mediterranean and Normandy and other seafood in a sophisticated frame with the signature of interior designer Lázaro Rosa-Violán.
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The Fish & Chips Shop. Rocafort, 70 (Eixample / Sant Antoni), C. de Balmes, 240 (Gràcia). In addition to the British specialty that gives it its name, although changing the traditional cod for longline hake and the typical batter for a thin tempura slightly smoked and flavored with rosemary, the Alam brothers this season have oysters served naturally and fried with chipotle pesto and trout roe.
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Fish & Chips Shop in Balmes street
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La Vermuterie. Muntaner, 212 (Eixample). In the menu of this gastronomic vermouth-bar, along with some Kataifi prawns with eel sauce, grilled shells or an octopus leg cooked at low temperature in the Josper oven, the oysters could not be missed. They are from the French Brittany, a couple of them accompanied by a glass of champagne, for 9€.
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La Vermuterie refined interior design
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La Vermuterie oysters from the French Brittany