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La Balsa is rated 9/10.TheFork users have rated accordingly in the following categories: Quality of food: 9/10 Service: 9/10 Atmosphere: 9.3/10

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La Balsa is identified as offering spanish cuisine.

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Does La Balsa have a terrace?

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La Balsa

Name: La Balsa
Address: Carrer de la Infanta Isabel, 4, Barcelona, 08022, Spain
Price range: €55 (Prices have been provided by the restaurant)
Rating: 9

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Restaurant menu

Menu photo2 photos

Food photo121 photos

Type of cuisineArrocería

Average price€55

Canelones de asado, gratinados con bechamel de setas

€24

Canelón de pasta fresca, relleno de carne de asado, bechamel de foie y gratinado de pecorino trufado

Arroz de marisco

€28

Arroz con gamba roja, sepia y mejillones

Arroz de rabo de toro

€31

Arroz meloso

Reviews

9
of 10

Excellent

2909 reviews

Ambience

9.3

Food

9.0

Service

9.0

Real experiences from real diners
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Guillaume P. • 12 reviews
January 16, 2025
10/10
Just perfect place for our moment

Claus R. • 2 reviews
February 8, 2025
10/10
Wonderful ambience, friendly and attentive service, amazing food. Will come back👍
La Balsa • Owner
We are especially excited to read your comment, Mr. Claus It was a pleasure to welcome you to La Balsa We look forward to seeing you again soon

Anna M. • 84 reviews
January 5, 2025
7/10
Service was really slow and bad. Not expecting this.
La Balsa • Owner
Thank you for your comment, it always helps us improve.

Aina T. • 2 reviews
January 7, 2025
10/10
Incredible food and wine !
La Balsa • Owner
Gràcies Aina! L'Esperem de nou

Andrea E. • 1 review
November 1, 2024
8/10
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La Balsa • Owner
¡Muchas gracias Andrea!

Esmanyul H. • 1 review
May 31, 2024
6/10
Overpriced!!!

JOSEP MARIA V. • 1 review
May 8, 2024
8/10
Car. Caro. Expensive

Aga p. • 31 reviews
April 27, 2024
10/10
We went last night for our date night! It is not the first time we have been there. We love going back to this place, far away from the touristy restaurants, excellent food, extremely good service, Nuria at the reception is lovely and very helpful! Great ambience! We had a steak and it was delicious! 10 out of 10 for this place! It is our favourite spot!
La Balsa • Owner
Hello! We are happy to know that you have had a good experience at La Balsa. Always it's a pleasure to receive you! Best regards

Marco C. • 1 review
March 2, 2023
10/10
Very calm ambiance, what we needed for our dinner to have good conversation. Service very attentive while not too much present. Excellent restaurant.

Nigel F. • 5 reviews
February 21, 2023
5/10
Very odd place. The food was acceptable but unexciting. The staff seemed very disinterested and bored. Great setting that is not fully exploited.

Mariona C. • 1 review
December 27, 2022
4/10
Most surprisingly, overtaken by a strong smell at entry, smells like a pub (we had to move to the terrace to avoid it). Food was very average at high price. Service was nice. The restaurant advertises a midweek menu but it only had “a la carte” menu available on a random Wednesday

Paige P. • 2 reviews
November 12, 2022
5.5/10
The restaurant is beautiful, but a several of the staff members were not very friendly, the service was not what we expected, the menu was limited and did not seem local/featured local cuisine. Ex: the burrata entree, the tuna tartar tasted as though it came from a sushi place. It was not bad but I expected a lot more from a Michele guide

Yennaedo B. • 1 review
November 5, 2022
7.5/10
A couple hiccups in service- I asked the host if there was a place for my coat and was offered an ottoman to place it beside me only to notice a few minutes later there was a coat rack in the dining room she neglected to mention. The croquettes and lamb matin course were stupendous and the staff was very helpful recommending a wonderful wine to match our tastes, but the duck entree felt over tough and uninteresting in terms of flavor, but the desserts made up for it as well and all in all it was a lot of great things and experiences with a couple stumbles.

Stephanie L. • 1 review
September 30, 2022
9.5/10
Beautiful atmosphere perfect for start of our day … the specials suggested were delicious…we had ham was delicious and veggies were cooked to perfection ended meal beef tartare and grilled octopus!!!

Ricardo p. • 10 reviews
September 23, 2022
10/10
This is restaurent built on top of a old water deposit for a local old farm; the architectonical solution figured out by a reputed catalan architect more that 30 years ago used a lght wood roof, is proven enduring and beatiful. This was meant to be a restuarant for the beatiful people of Barcelona. Now customers are more diverse but atmosphere is good and relaxing; seating in la Balsa, surruender by a garden is an expierence. Food is goot to excellent, not high cuisine, no experiments. Service is good and effiicent. Price very reasonable on the set menu, average to high a la carte,

sangeeta b. • 6 reviews
July 28, 2022
9/10
Tasty food. Service slow but polite. Very pretty setting in an exclusive neighborhood of Barcelona a bit removed from the touristy areas so much quieter than most restaurants we visited

Ivan V. • 1 review
July 22, 2022
9.5/10
The duck was good and the sea bass was outstanding - perfectly cooked and very well seasoned. The waiter recommended a local Catalan wine which was absolutely perfect - very fragrant and fruity and well balanced. But the height of the evening was the freshly made cottage cheese drizzled with honey. We ordered one to share but immediately ordered a second. It literally brought tears to our eyes when we realized how pitiful our life is in the US as this kind of food simply does not exist there … :-)

Clara V. • 1 review
June 2, 2022
10/10
Amazing restaurant ! Lovely staff, great deco, amazing food (quality+++) and not expensive. We had a wonderful tine, will definitely go again

Vincenzo D. • 61 reviews
May 20, 2022
8/10
Great atmosphere we loved it! The only issue was that themain dish was not not served all together so 1 person had to wait for a longer time, also the lamb meat was cold. I would go back to this restaurant hoping the waiting time will be better.

Alejandro R. • 17 reviews
April 2, 2022
7/10
Atmosphere was great, the terrace is really nice. Service was really good. Starters were great but main dishes and desert not the best. We recommend other places in Barcelona

Tripadvisor reviews

Tripadvisor

475 reviews

Location

Carrer de la Infanta Isabel, 4, 08022 Barcelona

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About this restaurant

"This emblematic restaurant is located in a privileged place, in the high part of Barcelona, surrounded by vegetation and decorated with a special taste for the details, you can enjoy friendly and wonderful dishes of Mediterranean cuisine. Its fantastic terraces, heated for the winter months, are...