Restaurant Escairon — Restaurant in Barcelona

I want to give this place a higher rating but cannot.

Most of the food was excellent including the seafood and and gazpacho.

The problem is that the two dishes that came off of the plancha had a strange and off-putting aroma.

As soon as the chicken, and then the mushrooms hit the table we all were wrinkling our noses.

I don't know if the oil was old or maybe there was burned garlic residue but something was off.

We even noticed the aroma from the table next to us had the same aroma from grilled pork.

I will be back to give this a place a second chance as the other dishes...

Pésimo. Me dejé caer por allí por casualidad, engañado por el nombre del pueblo gallego de Escairón y con la idea de descubrir otro sitio de comidas en la zona de Poble Sec, Sant Antoni, Raval con buena relación calidad/precio, lo cual es ciertamente complicado en esta área de Barcelona en particular y en todo el centro de la ciudad en general. Como en tantos otros antros barceloneses de ínfima calidad, mantienen el antiguo nombre de resonancias galaicas para atraer clientela. En este caso, no son chinos ni paquistaníes los que lo llevan, sino locales, pero en cualquier caso, el trato es bastante despectivo y suspicaz, y lo que es peor, la calidad de lo que probé, especialmente del churrasco, infumable, aparte de pésimamente cocinado. Menú de fin de semana con bebida por 16 euros que dejé prácticamente intacto. Hasta la crema catalana tenía su caramelo con un aroma chamuscado. Una pena que se utilicen con tanta alegría por Barcelona los reclamos gallegos para luego denigrar el nombre de una cocina tan rica y económica como la de allá con platos repugnantes que no se servirían ni en la peor fonda de Vigo o Coruña.

The typical Barcelonian tourist trap. Fake Galician restaurant with products brought from who knows where. I suppose that all the positive reviews here come from the owner's friends and tourists with very low expectations. Pity to find so many places like this one, which use some Galician words, products, and dishes to attract costumers. Sadly, that's quite common in the old city nowadays.

Un cibo...

People started coming in as soon as they opened. The Galician soup is just cabbage and really salty; the asparagus in the salad was extremely overcooked to the point of mush, but the cabrito (which is goat in Spanish but described as lamb in the English menu) was fantastic. I've never had it deep fried, coated in crunchy layer like this before and is easily the best dish (my last dinner in fact) before leaving Spain tomorrow. Next time I'm in Barcelona I'll have to hunt for this...