DIREKTE Boqueria Barcelona

Another visit to one of my favourites in Barcelona. This time I bought out the counter @direkte_restaurant and a fantastic evening was had. Highly recommended 👌🏻
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Michelin Guide -
OAD - 28 (European casual list 2022)
W50B -
Best Chef Awards -
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Matcha green tea smoked cheesecake
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Another visit to @direkte_boqueria . When we visited, the restrictions in place in Barcelona meant that restaurants were only allowed to open from 1300 to 1630, and with reduced capacity dependent on the size of the space. For a tiny 9 seat Japanese style counter you might have thought that would spell disaster. But Arnau has actually managed to increase business by putting tables in the space outside his tiny kitchen in the Boqueria market. So while we were just a socially distanced three inside at the counter, there were I think ten or twelve sitting outside for each of the two sittings that Arnau efficiently bangs out.
This was my fourth visit and I have to say that the food keeps getting better and better.
It’s one of my must visit restaurants in Barcelona now. Highly recommended.
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Michelin Guide - 🍽
OAD - 11 (European casual list)
W50B -
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Smoked cheese cake with green tea

Recently featured in Forbes magazine as one of the 10 coolest places (whatever that means 🤷🏼‍♂️) to eat in 2020, @direkte_boqueria is a tiny 9 seat counter in Barcelona’s Boqueria market. Bag one of these seats and you could be forgiven for thinking you were sitting in an intimate kaiseki restaurant in a Tokyo back street rather than in the bustling Boquería.
An ever changing tasting menu featuring the best of Catalonia’s produce prepared with Japanese technique awaits if you can bag one of these highly prized seats. Top tip: after your first visit, pester chef Arnau Muñío to give you a heads up if a seat becomes available. Then when someone foolishly no-shows and you get a WhatsApp from Arnau at 1.30 in the afternoon, do as I did and drop what ever you are doing and whomever you are doing it with and sprint across town to put your bum on that seat. You won’t regret it. .

Michelin Guide - 🍽
OAD - coming soon I’m sure
W50Best - .

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Recently featured in Forbes magazine as one of the 10 coolest places (whatever that means 🤷🏼‍♂️) to eat in 2020, Direkte Boqueria is a tiny 9 seat counter in Barcelona’s Boqueria market. Bag one of these seats and you could be forgiven for thinking you were sitting in an intimate kaiseki restaurant in a Tokyo back street rather than in the bustling Boquería.
An ever changing tasting menu featuring the best of Catalonia’s produce prepared with Japanese technique awaits if you can bag one of these highly prized seats. Top tip: after your first visit, pester chef Arnau Muñío to give you a heads up if a seat becomes available. Then when someone foolishly no-shows and you get a WhatsApp from Arnau at 1.30 in the afternoon, do as I did and drop what ever you are doing and whomever you are doing it with and sprint across town to put your bum on that seat. You won’t regret it.
Great company as ever Alejandro Alki and Marc Garcia🙏🏻 Less