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Rilke
Instant classic
Named after the surname of the Czech poet Rainer Maria Rilke from the beginning of the 20th Century this new restaurant and cocktail bar, the first collaboarion between the Grupo Kafka (Café Kafka, Bananas y The Corner) and the Grup Confiteria (owners of the Confiteria, Paradiso and Dr. Stravinsky) occupies the old Beltxenea, and is currently considered the place to be.
Located a few meters from Passeig de Gràcia, in an imposing first floor apartment on C/ Mallorca, the interior maintains the bourgeois ambience of its predecessor (as well as part of the furniture and serving dishes), but updated, with an added mise-en-scène by the interior designer Yolanda Vilalta. It includes several rooms for dining, a privee, an interior garden overlooked by a Venus de Milo, a spectacular bar and a secret area kept under lock and key for the really wild ocassions.
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The cocktail bar is located at the entrance of this spectacular first floor apartment
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Dining room with view to the courtyard
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Rilke's back courtyard, characteristic of the beautiful architecture of the Eixample area
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The sumptuous interior design of the private dining room
In terms of the gastronomy, Rilke is directed by chefs Rafa Peña (Gresca) and Jaime Tejedor (Saüc). The culinary approach here is to take the Catalan recipe book as its foundation, transforming it into a something more persoanlised, without being too complicated, but always surprising and refined, with dishes such as Pheasant cannelloni, Parmentière with veal sweetbreads, oysters and onions, the Mackerel with eggplant and crême fraîche and the Baba with burnt rum, muscovado and lime. The menu is seasonal and with prices are somewhere between 35 and 50 Eur per person.
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Pheasant cannelloni
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"Torrija" of "escalivada", sardines and "sofrito"
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Mackerel with eggplant and crême fraîche
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Rum cremat Baba, Muscovado and lime -
Vista Alegre
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Sostres
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La Belle
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Night view of Rilke's spectacular back courtyard
- Rilke
- C. de Mallorca, 275
- 08008 Barcelona
- T. +34 93 764 89 52