An authentic Italian restaurant and the best croissant in the State: what you cannot miss this week

The week ahead, with Maria Labró Vila

Some of the things we hope not to miss in the next seven days

I will wait impatiently for the new episodes of La travessa to be published on the 3Cat platform, which after three seasons with anonymous contestants has incorporated familiar faces. I confess that I am enjoying it very much watching them suffer while facing impossible challenges through the Tramuntana mountain range, and that I cannot get the song that the Tyets and Miki Núñez have written for the journalist Raquel Sans out of my head.

I will visit the Bon Pastor cheap houses museum, which aims to raise awareness of the history of housing in Barcelona during the 20th century, through the rehabilitation of the block of houses between Barnola, Tàrrega, Bellmunt, and Claramunt streets. Four of the houses have preserved the original structure and recreate how people lived; others have been converted into exhibition halls and others have been transformed into multipurpose rooms and services for the neighborhood.

I will book a table at the Ostaia restaurant, a true gem in the Poblenou neighborhood. The place is very quiet and they have a menu with dishes from the Genoese tradition accompanied by a good Italian wine. According to their website, they offer the best Genoese pesto in Barcelona, made with PDO basil imported directly from Genoese farmers. A mandatory place to visit for when your body asks you to eat a good plate of pasta.

I will go to the theater to see La truita, which can be seen until next Sunday at the Teatre Poliorama in Barcelona. Directed by Ferran Utzet, the core of the story is a family consisting of a married couple played by Emma Vilarasau and Jordi Boixaderes, who organize a meal with their daughters and their respective partners. The storm breaks when the middle daughter, who has become a lacto-pesco-vegetarian, refuses to eat the fricandó that her mother has prepared and asks her to cook her a river trout that she bought on the way at a fish farm. The conflict is served.

The week in review, with Thaïs Gutiérrez Vinyets

Notes on what we have seen, felt, tasted and, in short, lived in the last seven days

I have bought the new novel by Roberto Saviano, My love does not die, dedicated to Rosella Casini, a young university student who in the 70s began a relationship with a boy linked to the Calabrian mafia. Casini dared to challenge the Mafia's rules of silence and secrecy and one day disappeared without a trace. Saviano now attempts, 50 years later, to reconstruct the motives for her murder and pay tribute to the courage of a young girl with her own ideas.

I have celebrated the 10th anniversary of the album Day breaks, by Norah Jones, a milestone in the world of jazz and pop in which the artist returned to the piano to compose most of the songs. The album, furthermore, featured the participation of some jazz legends, such as saxophonist Wayne Shorter, and included some covers of songs by artists such as Neil Young and Duke Ellington.

I have thoroughly enjoyed withThe Black Ball. Despite being a few weeks late, I have joined the collective passion that the latest film by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi has sparked. I found it to be an aesthetically beautiful exercise, with three poignant stories that intertwine to speak about love, repressed desire, and violence against everything we perceive as different. Although it may be a bit long, it is well worth it. 

I have tried the butter croissants from the Morreig bakery, on Verdi street, which have just won the award for the best croissant in the entire country. This establishment, which opened three years ago, is under the baton of pastry chef Matthieu Atzenhoffer, who also makes cocas, flans, ice creams, panettones, and pains au chocolat.

More plan and activity proposals:

• What you can do this weekend
• Plans to do with children
• Series premiering this month
• Video games being released this month
• What you can do in the Girona regions
• New restaurants to discover
• The human tower agenda