Last year There wasn't even room for a needle in La Paloma to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Macarfi GuideThis year, in its eleventh edition, the Barcelona-based guide has managed to cover the entire Iberian Peninsula and presented its results at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, in the presence of more than 200 chefs. What began as a group of friends recommending restaurants to each other now has a robust network of ambassadors (more than 2,000) with a keen eye for identifying places worth visiting. Thus, while they do compile a list of the best restaurants in each autonomous community, they also create a... rookies, of which there are signs of promise. And this is where there may be more surprises and discoveries. Let's begin, then, with the new developments that the guide has detected in Catalan territory.

At a gala where the La Paloma room was packed to the rafters, the Macarfi guide presented its list of recommendations to more than 600 people, which includes 4,000 restaurants from all over Spain and the ranking by autonomous communities. As it was the tenth anniversary, the city to host the event "could not be other than Barcelona," said the creator of the guide, Manuel Carreras Fisas.