We are practically on the sea. This is one of the most impressive features of the four restaurants located at the top of the Gastronomic Balcony of the renovated Olympic Port of Barcelona. All of them, with a clear, glass structure and a balcony with tables. The closest to the sand It is the Kresala, from the Sagardi group, then comes Tribut, whose restaurant we will tell you about today, next to it there is Eldelmar, by the Torres brothersAnd finally, at the end of the pier, the legendary El Cangrejo Loco (The Crazy Crab).

"Kresala has a name linked to the Basque culture. Translated it would be saltpeter, but from a more mystical perspective, it also signifies the fusion between man and the sea. It speaks of the people who struggle every day at sea to earn a living and that white cloud of protection that covers them. Because the Cantabrian Sea is a wild sea. Basque culture has always been focused on the sea. They arrived in the Americas before Columbus. They were whalers. And cod. The salty foam of kresala It would be like a pagan god." This is explained by Iñaki López de Viñaspre, chef and founder of Sagardi Group, in the restaurant they have opened on the Gastronomic Balcony of Port Olímpic and which is named after the protector made of saltpeter: Kresala.