Meeting up with friends and having a vermouth with some ‘tapas’ in front of the sea, sitting comfortably on the promenade of a port and enjoying the pleasant Mediterranean climate while watching the fishing boats arrive, asking for a table on the terrace of a golf club and enjoying the wonderful views, sharing a good meal with the family in a good restaurant in El Maresme… There are so many fun plans that can be enjoyed in the Barcelona area.
The gastronomic offer of El Maresme is based on Mediterranean cuisine and local products: vegetables, fish, fruit and top quality wine produced in local wineries.
In El Maresme we can find a great variety of gastronomic offer: from family-run bars where delicious dishes are still prepared with great care every day, signature restaurants where you can taste original dishes of refined cuisine recommended by the Michelin Guide, or beach bars where relax drinking a freshly prepared mojito while watching a beautiful sunset.
The Maresme region has an amazing gastronomy, which can be tasted in each of its charming coastal towns
Atlàntida
Since 1967, they have worked with the customer in mind, updating day by day to offer the best service. It is dedicated to market cuisine and was the pioneer establishment to introduce pizzas in the Maresme around 1975. Today it is a benchmark as a cafeteria and restaurant with uninterrupted kitchen service.
Three generations of the same family have made this restaurant what it is today: a benchmark in the Maresme. Their trajectory guarantees the quality and good service that they offer to their clients. With a capacity for 360 people, to enjoy its specialties (pizzas, pasta, fish and meat) and its suggestions that vary every fortnight.
A local kitchen: strawberries from Maresme, fresh fish that they bring you daily… With a product that has not traveled in a box, has not been in a market to be distributed elsewhere, they take the product directly from the land or the sea and this is essential, the taste and the final result of the cooked dish will depend a lot on this product and its origin.
It has an outdoor terrace and takeaway service.
Av. de Carles III 48-54, 08340 Vilassar de Mar
Phone: (+34) 93 759 46 49
https://vilassar.atlantidarestaurant.com/
El Terral
A wide variety of dishes that combine traditional cuisine with the most modern cuisine. Its specialty is rice, paellas and fideuás, as well as dishes made in a wood-fired oven. They have homemade desserts, all made by themselves.
Every season they cook with special interest with local products.
Daily and weekend menu
Located in the center of town, in a charming pedestrian street, next to the church. The place has two dining rooms, a patio and tables outside in the open air.
Carrer Sant Joan 46, 08340 Vilassar de Mar
Phone: (+34) 93 750 69 15
https://www.elterral.cat/
Botavara
Traditional restaurant that serves homemade meals typical of Mediterranean cuisine. It specializes in rice dishes, paellas and fresh fish from the market, along with many other classic recipes of Catalan gastronomy.
Highlight its seafood paella, rice with lobster, and artichokes and cod.
They also make grilled meats, small plates and tapas, salads, spoon dishes.
Menu, lunch and weekend menu.
Run by a family, the place occupies a traditional house in the center of Vilassar de Mar, with a rustic and very cozy dining room.
Carrer Colom 76, 08340 Vilassar de Mar
Phone: (+34) 677 746 322
La Niña
An authentic Mexican in front of the sea
Fresh dishes, prepared at the moment, with the highest quality ingredients.
Extensive menu of nachos, fajitas, tacos, quesadillas, accompanied by a good tequila, mezcal or a variety of tropical cocktails.
To highlight some of its specialties: the spicy chorizo casserole, calamari tacos and carnitas tacos and an excellent margarita cocktail.
Outdoor outdoor terrace.
Camí Ral 10, 08340 Vilassar de Mar
Phone: (+34) 93 158 60 21
https://www.xn--laniavilassar-lkb.com/
Espinaler
Tapas and vermouth bar, to find the origin of Espinaler, we must go back to 1896, it is a classic known throughout the area
It is the typical tavern, located in a charming place, which still conserves the decoration of its beginnings.
They make their own vermouth and the special “Espinaler” sauce to eat both in some chips and in some magnificent cockles. They have more than 300 gourmet products.
In the 1990s, they already sold all kinds of preserves: olives, anchovies, cockles, razors, clams and later dried fruit or fried potatoes, which have precisely now been chosen as one of the best in the State. At first their products could only be found in specialized or gourmet stores, since they were sold as a select product, currently they can be found in most supermarkets.
It has an outdoor terrace.
Avenida del Progrés, 47 (Pol. Ind. Els Garrofers), 08340 Vilassar de Mar
Phone: (+34) 93 750 25 21
https://tienda.espinaler.com/
Verdaguer
To enjoy the delicious culinary creations of its expert chefs.
Specialized in Catalan gastronomy, of quality and proximity, with famous pasta dishes and fresh fish. Homemade desserts and cakes prepared with care. From breakfast, brunch, lunch or a romantic dinner.
Quiet restaurant with indoor and outdoor terrace.
Located in the heart of Vilassar de Mar, in a modernist house.
Carrer Josep Anselm Clavé 14, 08340 Vilassar de Mar
Phone: (+34) 93 797 52 98
https://verdaguervilassar.cat/es/
Granada
Located in a quiet area of Vilassar de Mar.
Extensive menu, tapas and traditional dishes.
They stand out for their effort when it comes to choosing top quality products to prepare their dishes, respecting traditional cuisine and thus bringing to the customer those flavors of yesteryear that bring back so many memories.
Daily menu with a variety of dishes to choose from.
It has two dining rooms and a large open terrace.
Carrer Manel Roca i Guardia 217, 08340 Vilassar Mar
Phone: (+34) 93 759 42 67
https://www.restaurantegranada.net/