Dish · 3 kitchens in 3 cities
Snails
Snails baked in garlic butter, roasted in a tin or stewed in sauce.
Nobody paid to be here. Each kitchen is described from its own menu where it publishes one, unranked, so each note says how that kitchen makes it.
No kitchen in London sends this yet. Here is where we would send you.
In Barcelona
Peus de porc amb cargols
Cal Boter · Gràcia · ~€20 pp
Pork trotters braised slowly with snails, a mountain dish of inland Catalonia. The main we'd come to Gràcia for.
In Madrid
Caracoles
Casa Amadeo Los Caracoles · Rastro · ~€20 pp
Snails stewed in a ham and pork sauce
Caracoles, snails, stewed in their own sauce. The menu says it's a sin to leave the sauce, so bread comes too.
What to order there →See it on Casa Amadeo Los Caracoles's site ↗
In Paris
Escargots Tradition
L'Escargot Montorgueil · Montorgueil · ~€65 pp
Escargots, Burgundy snails baked in the shell with the house garlic-and-parsley butter, bread for the butter. The six we'd start with.