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La Balsa in Barcelona - Creatively presented Catalan dishes in a Balinese-inspired building with a large, leafy terrace.

La Balsa

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With its grand ceiling and scented gardens surrounding a main terrace dining area, La Balsa is one of the city’s premier dining addresses, founded in 1979. The seasonally changing menu mixes traditional Catalan flavours and creative expression: suckling pig with apple and cardamom, scallops with cabbage and Iberian pork loin, for example. Lounge over a cocktail at the bar before dinner.


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