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  • Restaurants

Girona is home to one of the world's best restaurants, in the shape of El Celler de Can Roca, but it's also got an even longer history of gourmet specialities, recipes and products that combine the best of the sea and the land. Here's our Top 10 of the local gastronomy that you must sample when in the area. 

  • Things to do

The Cap de Creus (Creus Cape) is one of the most amazing places on the Costa Brava. A paradise with sea and mountain landscapes that will stun you. And the best part is that even though it can seem as though it's right at the end of the world, you can get to it with a short car journey. For that reason (and basically because we're some of the biggest fans ever of the Cap de Creus), we've put together this short guide with outings, beaches and restaurants that you should try if you're heading to the area. As well, of course, as exploring the natural park. 

  • Attractions
  • Beaches
  • La Selva

If you're looking for a typical Costa Brava beach, then this is one of the most accessible. But we're not just mentioning it in case of emergency, but because Treumal is a true marvel that extends 400 metres along the foot of a protected area, Pinya de Rosa, where there's a surprising botanical garden full of cacti. In the summer, the beach has a newspaper stand, secure car parking and sunbed hire; for the rest of the year it's a peaceful spot where you can hear the birds who inhabit the botanical garden, and yoga meetings take place. And all without being on the other side of the world: it's just five minutes in car from the centre of Blanes and although there are houses nearby, they're luxury builds and the majority are quite pleasant to look at. 

  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • Restaurants
  • Catalan
  • Centre
  • price 1 of 4

Le Bistrot is a Girona classic that has managed to keep its iconic status since it opened back in the late '70s. The restaurant, which is located on the stairs leading up to the Barri Vell campus of Girona University, is infused with a French ambience that will remind you of authentic Parisian brasseries. It was one of the first places to introduce crêpes to the city, and they still make a range of different pancakes, some of which have a local touch, such as the one of 'brandada de bacallà' (cod brandade). The rustic pizzas ('pizzas de pagès') are the other house speciality. They're made using a slice of 'pa de pagès' (a traditional round Catalan loaf), toasted on one side and au gratin on the other, and given a variety of original toppings, such as goats cheese with oyster mushrooms, chicken with pear, and the most overwhelming, pork with wild mushroom sauce. At lunchtime there is a set menu with lots of home-cooked dishes - you might get to try pork cheeks ('galtes'), pig's trotters ('peus de porc') or traditional Catalan stews. And take note that Thursday is the day that they serve black rice ('arros negre', a rice dish blackened with squid ink). 

El Celler de Can Roca
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Restaurants
  • Haute cuisine
  • Oest
  • price 4 of 4

Girona has one of the best restaurants in the world. It may be an easy phrase to say, but it's a fact that's been difficult to achieve. Just ask the three Roca brothers who, since 1986, have been working non-stop to create a restaurant that is so exceptional and excellent that trying to find a really appropriate adjective runs the risk of falling far short. If you're one of those people for who good food and the sensations that you can enjoy while eating at a restaurant table create complete happiness, then Joan in the kichen, Josep in the dining-room and wine cellar, and Jordi in charge of desserts, are your fairy godfathers who can bring you maximum happiness. Their daily objective is to excite their customers, enabling them to live a magical experience from the moment they arrive to the moment they leave. To make it possible, around 70 professionals and the best local and international ingredients are at the service of around barely 50 diners. But the equation isn't complete without a third variable that involves culinary tradition, the avant-garde, research and the Rocas' own way of being and thinking. Without ever losing their origins in Catalan cooking, which they learnt from their mother and the family restaurant of Can Roca, located a few metres from El Celler (and where the staff go for lunch each day), the three brothers have conquered the global gastronomy scene. They've even created new cooking techniques that have become trends which other restaurants around the

  • Restaurants
  • Catalan
  • price 2 of 4

If you love snails or go mad for a great entrecote, then El Racó d'en Pep is just the place for you. This family restaurant, which serves home-made, fresh dishes, has been run by Pep and Joana since 1994. At El Racó it's the meat, always grilled and sourced locally, that's the star. Highlights include the boned pork cheek, 'secret' (special pork cut that is not always easy to locate, hence the name) of Iberian pork, and pork tenderloin grilled and gratinated with garlic mayonnaise with 'sobrassada' (spicy spreading sausage from Mallorca) and honey. If you're also a fan of desserts, you shouldn't miss the cream cheese and white chocolate cake with toffee and biscuit, or the chocolate mousse with milk and chocolate cream. They're bound to tempt you! You also shouldn't leave El Racó d'en Pep without trying the snails and, when they're in season, the breaded 'calçots' (Catalan onions). In addition, they have a gluten-free and vegetarian menu. 

Miramar
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Restaurants
  • Haute cuisine
  • Alt Empordà
  • price 4 of 4

The 'tramuntana' wind, the sea, the beach, the fishermen, the abrupt coastal landscape... at Miramara, they say that all these elements have an important influence on their avant-garde gastronomic creations, which have won them two Michelin stars. The restaurant is the work of Paco Pérez and the family of his wife, Montse Serra, which has headed up the restaurant since 1939. Its cuisine is based on local tradition and on the utmost respect for regional ingredients, which feature in every dish. There's a set menu full of surprises where the primary material is the key, whether it comes from the sea or the land. On the à la carte menu you'll encounter classics such as scallops, Parmentier of Iberian ham and Pedro Ximénez sherry, clams, and tartare of oysters and caviar with apple air. 

  • Nightlife
  • Nightlife venues

In Girona people go out, and they go out a lot. While the opportunities for partying used to be limited to a handful of places on designated days like student Thursdays or the obligatory Fridays and Saturdays, the range of venues has expanded enough to offer a host of alternatives to choose from, no matter what the day of the week. So, if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t need any excuse for a celebration, here’s a tour of some of the best bars, pubs and clubs for living it up in Girona. After all, the city has a reputation and we all have to play our part to uphold it.