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Nou Euskal Etxea
Placeta Montcada 1 & 3,
Barcelona
Cataluña
93 310 21 85
Type: Traditional
Price Range: €€€
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Barcelona
Cataluña
93 310 21 85
Type: Traditional
Price Range: €€€
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Barcelona didn’t always have País Vasco pintxo (Basque tapas) bars and restaurants on every corner. It all began with Euskal Etxea on Carrer Montcada in El Born, an upscale restaurant run by chefs from the País Vasco, Spain’s land of culinary intrigue. When it became clear that Euskal Etxea was doing a great business, others began to take notice, bars and restaurants with that tell-tale ‘tx’ in their name became as commonplace as geladerías.
And somewhere along the way, the two chefs who started the first of these restaurants, both long-time friends, had a falling out. Shouts during their final dispute were said to have been heard four floors up and two blocks away. The partners split on bad terms and one moved two doors down where he opened his own restaurant and, to spite his old friend, named it Nou Euskal Etxea.
Both are fine restaurants with ironically similar ambiance and offerings (though the latter is slightly more upscale), such as spring veggies, red peppers stuffed with cod, baked monkfish or turbot in garlic vinaigrette, seared tuna with tomato compote, roast suckling lamb, fruit soup with lemon and mint sorbet. Moreover, prices are comparable at 15-25i a main course and both serve a delicious selection of País Vasco tapas, called pinchos.
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