We'd add
Our runner-upCargols a la llauna
Snails roasted a la llauna, in a flat tin, eaten with allioli, the garlic sauce. A tin to share before the trotters.
- Cooked a la llauna
- Traditional Catalan
- House speciality
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Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstPeus de porc amb cargols
- TechniqueBraised
Pork trotters braised slowly with snails, a mountain dish of inland Catalonia. The main we'd come to Gràcia for.
Cal Boter
Catalan · neighbourhood restaurant · Gràcia, Barcelona
Carrer de Tordera 62, 08012 Barcelona
Must-goOne of the few places in this city we'd plan a trip around.
Toni and Encarna opened this Gràcia dining room, and their children Marta and Pau run it now, with meat from the family's own butcher's shop. Catalan home cooking, the way a big family table eats it.
The proof, in the house's own words
Why the trotters and snails
Tradition
A traditional Catalan dish that grew into a house speciality.
“plats tradicionals de cuina catalana”
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