La Medusa 73 — Restaurant in Barcelona

Been traveling to Barcelona for over 29 years and I have to say, La Medusa 73 is one of the best seafood restaurants I always like to go to when I visit. They have great atmosphere in the Ninot Market, where I can enjoy a wonderful meal and also shop at the other vendors in the market for excellent ingredients to enjoy cooking and eating back at home.

Came in today and was delighted by the wonderful staff. Very friendly and helpful and attentive to detail. They have a fish market alongside their food restaurant, so you can either buy it and take it home to cook (best to come in the morning for this part) or you save yourself the work and lets their professional chef and cooks do the hard work for you.

They have beer on tap, and good wine as well to keep your thirst quenched and their work is not only delicious, it is beautiful.

They can cook you a whole fresh fish in a couple different ways, they have tapas and the seafood here is never fishy.

You must try their specials and seasonal fish offerings.

When you are visiting the market for food supplies and get hungry or just in the mood for a great seafood meal, La Medusa 73 will never disappoint.

They even make a great paella or a fideua if you want a nice pan of traditional cuisine for 2 or even 3.

Have a wonderful time living in or traveling to Barcelona And 100% make a stop here for a great meal.

Yum diddly Yum YUM! :-)

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Amazing seafood we loved all the dishes we had! This place is located in a less known market and not so touristy and we only saw locals dining around here. We wanted to have sea urchin but found out it is only available in February which means the restaurant maintains a high standard of their seafood as I did see some other tourist spots were selling sea urchin even though they didn’t look fresh. Friendly service and menu has multiple languages too. Tuna was done to perfection and paella was full of flavour not salty but you can taste the prawn and seafood! Unexpectedly beautiful presentation of the food just like in a proper restaurant. Would definitely come back if I visit Barcelona again. Missing the...

I have been living in Barcelona since 2020 and this is simply my favourite place when I want to have lunch out and when I have guests staying over. This is a fishmonger's in the Ninot market that also provides table service serving amazing dishes of fresh seafood (pescados y mariscos) - and their paella is by far the best I have tried around in Barcelona. Just bear in mind that being in a market, it is only open for lunch and not for dinner. If you want a table over the week end, make sure you get there before 1pm (people start to arrive at 1:30ish, and by 2pm it is very difficult to find a table). Definitely recommended, I will come back there again for sure...