Restaurant El Cafe D'en Victor
Tapineria 12
Barcelona
Spain
Phone 93 310 2872
Overview
One particularly fine and warm evening in Barcelona Eva and I decided to dine alfresco, and descended upon El Cafe D'en Victor.
El Cafe D'en Victor is a restaurant with outside terrace, near the old town.
El Cafe D'en Victor serves a mixture of traditional Spanish dishes and Tapas, using local ingredients.
Ambience
El Cafe D'en Victor is a pleasant lively restaurant near the old town. The outside area, where we sat, was busy but we were able to find a table that afforded us a decent view without being "plonked" in the middle of the passing tourists or wandering musicians.
Menu
The menu provided a good selection of Spanish dishes ranging from Tapas to main courses of meat, fish and paella.
Service
The service was very friendly, good humoured, efficient and courteous.
Food
I started with the Gazpacho soup. This was a most excellent dish, chilled to perfection, it was generous in portion and in body. The taste of tomatoes was stimulating but not overbearing.
Eva started with a tortilla potatas (potato omelet), which was firm and well stuffed with potato. The taste and texture was just right.
We accompanied our starters with bread rubbed with tomatoes, garlic and drizzled in olive oil.
We both chose paella for our main courses. I had the chicken paella and Eva the fish.
My paella was absolutely first class, a very generous portion served in an iron paella pan. There was a more than ample portion of tender chicken pieces in the rice, which itself was cooked in chicken stock and was unctuous and delightfully claggy.
I was thoroughly delighted with my choice.
Eva's seafood paella was equally good, again served in an iron paella pan. The rice had been cooked in a seafood stock that was flavoursome, but not overpowering. The paella itself contained a variety of fish; prawns, squid, mussels etc.
An excellent meal!
The meal, which included a bottle of local wine, came to 68Euros.
Overall Opinion
A very pleasant meal and restaurant, it is ideal for lunch or dinner alfresco.
1 comment:
Well, things have changed since 2007. We were unfortunate enough to go into this cafe last week during a trip to Barcelona. The food was tasteless, luke warm, mean portions and over priced. The service was off-hand and rude. The position of the place may be good but nothing else is. Steer clear. RL and DT
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