Picada de pescador, rape y sepia

Fideos, thin noodles, cooked with monkfish and cuttlefish and finished with picada, the pounded Catalan paste of nuts and garlic. The dish to book the table for.

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Els Pescadors

Catalan seafood · rice · Poblenou, Barcelona

Plaça de Prim 1, 08005 Barcelona

A seafood house on Plaça de Prim in Poblenou that buys from Catalan fish markets and names every supplier on the card. Fideos, thin noodles, with picada are what we'd come for.

The proof, in the house's own words

Why the picada de pescador

Strong evidence

Technique
Finished with a picada, the pounded sauce that gives the dish its name.
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Tradition
A named fisherman's recipe the house keeps: Martí dels Banys of Sant Pol's.
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Sourcing
Noodles from Pastes Sanmartí, a pasta maker in Caldes de Montbuí.
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We'd add

Our runner-up

Buñuelos de bacalao de Islandia

Salt-cod buñuelos, fritters, six to a plate. To share before the fideos.

Salted to the house's point
Icelandic cod

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