The restaurant that leaves the sevillanas behind to ask you to speak in Catalan: Tapas 24
The fish and seafood dishes, the bikinis, the tomato salads and the bread with chocolate desserts continue to be the great attraction
BarcelonaThe restaurant Tapas 24 (c. Diputació, 269) has turned twenty, and in all this time it has experienced all sorts of things. It was opened by chef Carles Abellan, with a career that has passed through the restaurant El Bulli and has been awarded Michelin stars in different restaurants, and is currently run by the employees. Since its beginnings, Tapas 24 has been a successful formula. Due to its location, its dishes, its product, and because it attracted a tourist who was precisely looking for dishes to share, which they were told was common in Barcelona.
The initial aesthetic could be described as very kitschy, with sevillanas and bulls drawn from the entrance door to many of the walls, but today it is no longer so. Sevillanas are maintained, but now on the plates and also on the napkins there is another premise: In Catalan, please. It is even written on the coasters, and it aligns with the feeling that the chef Carles Abellan confesses to always have for our language. The menu and the blackboards are also written in Catalan. And inside the dishes, the usual recipes, of high quality, especially the salads, the fish and the seafood. Order the fried anchovies, the prawns and the mullets, which are three dishes of seasonal fish.
The classics are not missing. The bikinis are maintained, and they probably won't be able to remove them from the menu. The same goes for desserts, with the three scoops of chocolate with bread and extra virgin olive oil. It is true that these desserts are everywhere, that many examples of places that make them come to mind, but Tapas 24 has kept them for twenty years. So, for many more years, Tapas 24, and in Catalan, please, always!