Top Restaurants in Palamos
Top Things to do in Palamos
Palamos Food Guide: 10 Must-Eat Restaurants & Street Food Stalls in Palamos
Discover the best restaurant in Palamos, Spain including La Menta, Celler de la Planassa, Por Babor, Refugi de Pescadors, Hostal Vostra Llar, El Galeo, Restaurant la salinera, La Fabrica del Gel, Can Blau, La Tastaolletes
Things to do in Palamos
1. La Menta
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 439 reviews
Reviewed By 337alliep - Switzerland
This is definitely one of the best restaurants in region. The food, service, and wine list were all excellent. The waiters are quite knowledgeable and speak English and French in addition to the local languages. The prices are also fair; it's not inexpensive, but not overpriced for the type of food and the quality (we paid 145 Euro for two people with a bottle of wine and three courses per person).
It's pretty small, though, so either make a reservation or show-up early.
2. Celler de la Planassa
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 243 reviews
Reviewed By IanPeterborough - Peterborough
This restaurant is near the fishing harbour in Palamos, almost opposite the fishing museum.
We were recommended to go to this restaurant and were not disappointed. We went for lunch on a Saturday at the end of January, which is not a busy time on the Costa Brava. We had a superb meal. We had a selection of tapas and portions for starter, which were very tasty, with muscles, prawns and croquettes. For our main courses the four of us had three different kinds of fish and they were all very good quality and very well cooked. Portions were not large, but adequate as the fish was quite large, with not too much accompaniment but the food was rich. The Deserts were very tasty, including home made ice cream and home made truffles.
We drank local wine with our meal, which was very good and not expensive.
Throughout the meal the service provided by the owner was excellent. Very attentive and very pleasant. Next time ever we are in the area, we will go here again.
3. Por Babor
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 179 reviews
Nuestro Restaurante es ideal para disfrutar de lo mejor de la gastronomia de autor, donde la calidad, buen precio y estupendo servicio, unido con la originalidad de nuestros platos. Todo ello hara las Delicias de los paladares mas exigentes y sorprendera a los mas curiosos. Es en resumen una cocina llena de sabor y sensaciones.La experiencia gastronomica es el mejor viaje sensorial.
Reviewed By Bedazz - Fort Collins, Colorado
We had the recommended six course meal and it was exquisite! Each dish ~ salad, tuna, scallops, paella, and the others were prepared perfectly and the portions were just the right size (there were six of them!!) The dishes were perfectly paired with wine or liqueurs. We had time to thoroughly enjoy each course before the next was presented. The waitress took excellent care of us! The whole experience was wonderful!
4. Refugi de Pescadors
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 408 reviews
Restaurant located in the bay of Palamos-Sant Antoni de Calonge (Costa Brava), where seafood is served tradi tional. It's a family restaurant run today by the sons of the founders. His specialties include seafood pescadors. It has a dining room on two levels and is decorated in a marine style imitating the inside of a ship. From the large Terrace taste our dishes with the sea a few meters. Our signature dish is the "Seabass with fennel" along with other fish dishes, rice, seafood ...
Reviewed By RogerOrgan - Devizes, United Kingdom
Go there! We had a wonderful meal, the staff are really friendly and helpful. However, the lobsters with our paella were over cooked and therefore dry. A great shame as everything else about the restaurant meets previous reviews. It's what happens in a busy restaurant!
5. Hostal Vostra Llar
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 855 reviews
Reviewed By Danielle G
What a find! We were in Palamos for one night and stumbled upon this place for dinner. It had a nice looking ambience inside and the menu fit everyone. We had a beautiful meal with starters for approx. €20/person. The quality of the food was great and portions were huge. I can highly recommend the prawn cocktail and grilled tuna as a main. I had the grilled salmon which was very nice but a bit salty. My brother has the tuna grilled in soya sauce - beautiful! Everyone was happy with their meal and the service.
Highly recommended!
6. El Galeo
Overall Ratings
4 based on 503 reviews
Reviewed By Hugues S - Haguenau, France
Went there because it was well ranked on TripAdvisor and was not disappointed at all. This restaurant serves real Tapas and during one hour you will not see the same Tapas to be presented on your table. We ate quite many of them and with some house white wines had only to pay 33€. I can only recommend.
7. Restaurant la salinera
Overall Ratings
4 based on 184 reviews
Restaurant peix marisc.Obert dinar, sopar. Restaunt pescado marisco.Abierto comidas, cenas.
Reviewed By matoux00 - Paris, France
Very good location in the city center, not far from the harbor. Service agreeable, good wine. Yet my octopus was ok but not as good as those you get as tapas in most Madrid restaurants.
8. La Fabrica del Gel
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 417 reviews
Reviewed By Robert O - Zurich, Switzerland
Great restaurant. A bit more expensive than the average places in Palamos, but worth every single additional euro! Great seafood, but also meat highly recommended. I had a very good wild turbot, and you just choose how you want it cooked and what you get as side dishes. Nice wines and extremely friendly staff. We did not reserve and the nice tables were taken, but they placed us in the back of the restaurant, started serving us and as soon as a better table came available they moved us. Excellent quality of food, nice winelist and you can pick good wines at very reasonable prices. We had a 2004 Rioja riserva for just over 30 euro's, which is a bargain. Highly recommended place. When we came back a second time, the owner gave us a bottle of wine at our departure. We spoke a bit about wine, and she just wanted us to have a special wine tasted at home. Love it!
9. Can Blau
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 175 reviews
Reviewed By dirkdevos
I am gutted...after 30 years of coming to this restaurant, and rating it one of my personal favourite restaurants in the world, I found out last night that owner Jaume has moved on and no longer runs the place.
Whereas by most standards the place should get better scores (it's had a light renovation and a thorough cleaning)...it has lost much of it's authenticity and character. Food is still good, but not the same anymore. Palamos lost a monument.
10. La Tastaolletes
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 425 reviews
Reviewed By Jenny W - Long Itchington, United Kingdom
This place is very different to anything else on offer in the area. The waitress took lots of time to initially explain their concept and then to introduce each dish to use. She chose a lovely wine for me after I told her the taste I liked. At 75 euros for 2 I didn't think this was over the top and although at first I thought we may be left hungry we were certainly not. A couple of the dishes were not particularly to my taste but the majority were nice with some as my defiant favourites. As the place got busier our service got slower but this was not a problem and we enjoyed he atmosphere.
I understand this is their 5th season so hope their success continues.
