Restaurant La Canasta — Restaurant in Castelldefels

Careful they screw you with the prices. We went several times to this place last year because the paella was good. We came back this weekend for the first time since 2020 and I don't know what happened to them but the quality price became very very bad. The paella was less good than before and they totally screw us up with the prices. They offered us a small house salad (that is not written on the menu so you don't know the price beforehand) with 3 leaves of salad, one tomato and a bit of tuna and small pieces of parmesan and they charged us 22€ for this salad! You will see "it's incredible" told us the waiter. What was incredible was the price! Same with the glass of wine, the prices are not written on the menu and surprise they charge you 5€ per glass of wine, pretty small glasses of wine moreover. We ended up with a bill of 88€ for 2 people for just one small house salad (22€) that we shared, 2 paellas (45€), bread (3€) and 3 small glasses of wine (15€) and a bottle of water (3€). I will never come back! There are better places with better paellas for...

Absurd prices.

We have been wanting to try this restaurant for a while. We went since they had an Easter menu that was quite good for the price (27 euros).

It started to look weird when we opened the menu and the vast majority of dishes, entries included where priced 25€+ . This means an entry was the same price of our entire menu.

We order the menu and an entry a la carte. Scrambled eggs with shrimps and mushrooms. The entry was no more than 6 eggs, 4 shrimps and some mushrooms. The menu was ok, small portions, the food was not bad but not memorable.

This menu was seasonal which means that outside of this season you'll have to order s la carte or from other menus (all priced 45€+).

The carte itself had no sense. You'll have a dourada for 25 euros and then any entry you choose will be 20-25 euros as well. Just extremely expensive for the quality and quantity of the food.

The service was good and...

We give a try to Paella Valenciana, and we loved it. It took 25 minutes to get served, but it is the right amount you need to wait if you want freshly made, unheated Paella. The restaurant itself looks great and is run by an old man that loves what he does. Except for language difficulties (no one is able to speak english ... ), at least they have a menu in different languages. I highly recommend you to give a try also to desserts, but to try them all you need to go there more than once. The restaurant is not cheap, but it what I am willing to pay to get such...