El Terrat Restaurant

Excellent restaurant with cutting edge cuisine. The frozen olives with anchovy stuffing exploded with flavor. The hors d'oeuvres were truly inspirational and the red tuna was spot on. If have the palate to enjoy exceptionally well curated flavors, this is your place. We'll be back next time we're in Tarragona

Fine dining lunch tasting menu, right in the centre of town. Professional from start to finish, efficient approach to service...once you select your menu, the dishes keep coming. Each dish is a sight to behold and a marvel of flavour and texture. Our menu had a great variety of produce, favouring fish, which was delicately marinated or cooked to perfection. Beef was included and was as flavoursome and tender as I've ever had. I'd highly recommend a visit. The value is incredible, so this would be a great spot for a family occasion or a get together with your foodie friends. The sommelier chose the dry white wine...a French one surprisingly (in Spain) and it was perfect for the first half dozen courses. A great choice.

The food here, except for rather insipidly bland raw prawn starter, was exceptional, definitely 1 star Michelin quality. Some dishes, especially 2 sets of amuse bouche, pre-dessert - all 2 star material. What lets down this amazing food is rather dull dining room (it's neither funki modern to explain lack of any details to grab onto, nor cosy in any way, facilities, like toilets with diluted soap (!) that sprays everywhere because it's so diluted, seriously, with people paying minimum €85 per menu you economise on €5 soap?!), that and overstretched service. Service simply doesn't match the food, even though it is kind, the nicest of the servers was Carla. They have to be careful also with the language, double-check twice if needed, but my alternative to lamb was pork, though waitress called it beef. I happened to be OK with it, when instead porc came out (incidentally it was by far THE best pork dish I ever tasted), but imagine if you are Muslim or Jewish, the shock of it. Water without gas was ordered, but sparkling brought, took ages to replace it with server not even apologising and pulling a face when i said to change it/that it was wrong. Wine not offered at all at any time throughout the long lunch, staff are ran off the feet and don't upsell anything- the owner may be better off paying one extra wage instead of very few staff being stressed out and not offering guests any service except bring dishes out and take away the plates. The owner is sure missing out on a lot of revenue because of this. Water was not even offered at all on arrival or at any time, and had to be asked for, as was bread, as was olive oil, and it all took way too long to arrive. No warmth or kindness from staff at all except lovely Carla, but she was ran off her feet. Now to the food - the amuse bouche were exceptional, especially smoked sardine fois gras "sandwich" with mango & sesame crackers. Strawberry pre-dessert is also fabulous. Petit fours very good indeed. Salted chocolate dessert michelin quality, great technique on display. Tuna is too cold, and the whole dish lacking zing. Pork dish, melt in one's mouth, crackling type finish up the top - exceptional. As was artichoke "soup" dish. Oysters hiding under foam with seasonal asparagus is also very good. If they can fix the service, facilties, toilets, and get order and sense in service, with one server throughout dining experience for specific tables, instead of all that mingling of staff, and slightly sharpen the menu, this is one star Michelin in the making. The food is practically already there. Bread was excellent too. I loved the use of stunning ceramics, especially those with antiquity references. Enjoyed the experience, at least the food and the ceramics.

Apart from the wine list, there is little to recommend this restaurant for me. We had the ‘Olivus’ taster menu and we found the food overwhelmingly bland if well presented. For a place with prices like this and a reputation as it does, I was expecting something sensational and was thoroughly disappointed. I would not recommend going here.

Overall a decent experience at El Terrat and I will definitely not return. + Excellent desserts, beautiful presentation on the dishes, affordable prices for such a high level restaurant and nice presentation of the different dishes - Very dark place, the staff wasn't the friendliest although highly knowledgeable about the food options. Finally, the restaurant only offers 4 main dish options besides the degustation menu which makes sense for a Michelin restaurant, however one of them wasn't even available ( the beef tenderloin) on a Saturday Afternoon which is supposed to be a really busy time and day and the ONLY meat options on the menu were pigeon and deer. Therefore, whoever didn't want to eat seafood and wanted to get a meat plate HAD to get deer or pigeon which without a doubt aren't not types of meat that everybody wants to eat.

Very high standing cuisine 😄👍. Unfortunately the service don't understand the great menu and cannot explain. Sad for the great chef that part of his creation gets lost on the way to the table. Never give up!

WOW! Do not pass up this GEM!!! If you are into a very unique dining experience like you may have never had before then please VISIT El Terrat! This cuisine was so elegant, flavorful, unique with a complex pallet that words do not do it justice. Try one of their tasting menus (we had the Olivus Menu pictured here) and get the full experience. I first discovered this recommendation in the Michelin App and again it did not disappoint! Go and do yourself and you tastebuds a huge favor and try this beautiful dining experience! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ So much respect to Chef Moha Quach, Thank you 🙏

Fine cuisine in Tarragona, we loved it. Highly recommended.