El Gallinero — Restaurant in Barcelona

We had Lunch next door and saw this place as we walked by. We saw that from Monday to Thrusday they have a Flamenco live performance at 9pm. So we came to dinner.

Food was good, but not amazing. We had the patatas bravas, which their version is French fries with the sauce. They weren't bad, but I feel the sauce needs a bit more of a kick. We also had the truffle croquetes. The crocquetes were amazing. We had the Bomba starter which was also good. But I had to ask for salt to place on the patatas and bomba.

For main Iwe had the gal. Steak on the stone. Was good as well but also had to add salt.

For drinks my wife and a sweet and sour (non alcoholic cocktail) and I had 2 Fresa mojitos (these were really good).

If it wasn't for the flamenco show, I honestly wouldn't recoment. It is/was extremely hot in there. When we first arrived there was barely any tables in there, so the fans were turned to our direction, this was keeping us cooled down. Once a few tables arrived one of the tables turned the van towards them only and I was literally sweating as if I had just ran a 30mile marathon. Super uncomfortable due to how hot it was. The only thing that made this place stand out was the live performance right next to us.

If you can deal with the heat, I highly recomend stopping by to have a drink or two and...

Honestly disappointing. The fish dishes we ordered were very nice but they are terrible at cooking steak. I asked for it medium, and the first time it came out it was well done. It wasn’t a thick piece of meat so could be easily done. So I asked for a new one, but cooked less… and this time the chef went the other direction and the steak was almost raw. Now in my opinion we have a look of cooking levels between well done and raw. I ate it raw because I didn’t want to complain a second time but wasn’t overly impressed to say the least. For the prices I was expecting a lot more.

Carpaccio was in my opinion full of too many strong flavours (100 ish capers, a little too much grainy mustard) somewhat overpowered the carpaccio but it was quite nice nevertheless.

Other than that, the patatas bravas were also very good and the restaurant looks very nice inside and has a nice outdoor terrace. Fish dishes as I mentioned were also good and saved the review from being a...

this place is hard to get in without a reservation but we waited for about 15 mins and we’re offered a table by the door. the ambience was good, well decorated clean place but service was lacking, more like unless you wave your hand nobody would even come up to you to take your order. our waiter didn’t speak english so asking for recommendations was useless. we took a chance and ordered lamb with potatoes and grilled octopus with tiny bit of mashed potatoes, probably like a tablespoonful. on reviews the lamb was shown as rack of lamb but they served a leg of lamb, very small amount of meat on it but well prepared, tasty. the menu didn’t specify what cut of lamb they mean for 26€. The grilled octopus was a single piece of octopus but very salty, which was hardly enough for a meal. i’ve never been to a restaurant where there are no napkins given to their guests, unless you ask for it. let’s just say it’s not an impressive restaurant, not sure why it’s...