Can Culleretes

 

We want to start this brief itinerary around Barcelona’s bars and Restaurants with a historical place in Ciudad Condal; Restaurante Can Culleretes. As Lluis Permanyer says there isn’t a lot of information about its history or about the people who spent their time eating their speciality: mató de monja –a kind of special Catalan dessert. However, it is the oldest restaurant of Barcelona and the second one of Spain. That is the reason why we want to inaugurate this blog with some of curious information about Can Culleretes and its history. Furthermore is one of the few establishments that is still open today.

There are two anecdotes related with the name of the restaurant. One of them tells that Can Culleretes was the first place that used dessert spoon because all its special dishes were eaten with it. Tells the story that there are few spoons in the restaurant and waiters were all the time shouting to the counter asking for more; “Nois, culleretes!” Another version of the origin of the name explains that Can Culleretes has this name because was the first restaurant that used metal spoons instead of wood ones.

Can Culleretes become a restaurant in 1900 when made popular the famous menus sopars de duro and offered, since today, traditional and quality food. It always been a place frequented for famous people like artist –like the painter Muntaner–, politicians, musicians since 1970. The style of the restaurant was popular but with distinguishes costumers that are part of the story of Can Culleretes. If you where to the restaurant to enjoy typical Catalan food you can travel one century ago with the multitude of pictures and painters that still decorate the walls of Restaurant Can Culleretes.     

Today the typical dish is pica-pica de peix i marisc –tapas of fish and shellfish– but maybe it is not a suitable food to be eaten with dessertspoon.

 

Can Culleretes inside