Xerta - Review - Eixample - Barcelona - The Infatuation
"If Xerta looks fancy, that’s because it is. Gentlemen in sharp suits and ladies with purses that look like they cost more than college tuition come to this cream-colored restaurant surrounded by a terrarium-like garden inside of the Ohla Eixample hotel for the over-the-top, seafood-forward tasting menus. The food, made with ingredients from the Delta del Ebro region south of Barcelona, is worthy of Willy Wonka’s factory: rice dishes emerge from a miniature thatched house with a smoking chimney and caviar-topped tuna sashimi is served on a bed of dry ice. You can sample the highlights of the 8- and 11-course dinner (€105-€135) in a more down-to-earth format during weekday lunch, €55. It includes a selection of fresh-as-it-gets fishy snacks—like mussels, eel, or tuna, depending on the availability in the Delta del Ebro market, followed by a rice option, a meat or fish dish, and dessert. It also includes bread, water, and two glasses of wine per person—because, Spain." - Isabelle Kliger
