Los Caracoles ★★

Los Caracoles restaurant, Barcelona
The bar at Los Caracoles restaurant. (Photo courtesy of the restaurant)

A classic Catalan restaurant in the old center of Barcelona

Rotisserie chickens at Los Caracoles, BarcelonaThis colorful Barcelona institution of good, solid cooking was founded in 1835 near the port and has patronized by everyone from Salvador Dalí to John Wayne.

After four generations in the Bofaruli family, it still kind of looks exactly like you think a Spanish restaurant should: hamhocks and iron chandeliers hanging from wood-beamed ceilings, colorful ceramic tiles on the walls, chunky wooden furniture, a huge open kitchen, polite and smartly-attired waiters, and meat grilling over open fires.

You can try the snails (the restaurant's namesake), a dozen seafood paelas, suckling pig, roasted lamb, or half a spit-roasted chicken with potatoes.

Its fame does draw the crowds (and, frankly, your fellow tourists), but the quality remains uncompromised—there is a reason it is famous.

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