Fish & Chip Shop Barcelona.
The Fish & Chip Shop is celebrating, after his success in the Eixample and Sant Gervasi , the Alam brothers open two new proposals in the city to continue worshiping their fusion cuisine. One in Aribau with Plaza Universidad and another in Raval . We find out the reason for its fame and we tell you.
2015 was the year in which the brothers Mani and Magic opened their first The Fish & Chips Shop in Barcelona, they did it at Calle Rocafort 70. The story is funny to say the least... “It all started after a night out, leaving the Apolo, looking for a fish & chips in the city…we searched but no luck”, tells Traveler, Magic.
Tuna Tapaki.
The thing remained between eyebrows and that was how they ventured to open their first fish & chips, then the one at Calle Balmes 240 arrived, and now two new ones at Calle Peracamps 7, in Raval; and Calle Aribau 18, in Plaza Universidad.
But what makes your food so irresistible? “It is not the British fish and chips, it has more oriental touches, we use skewer hake from the Cantabrian Sea and the batter is lighter. The oil we use is from Jaén, 100% extra olive oil”, he explains.
That's how it is, here you will not find traditional fast food , nor fried foods that destroy your stomach, here you are going to have a good time eating things as unexpected as a cockle ceviche, a tapaki (in homage to its roots in Pakistan ) of tuna with curried aubergine sauce or bravas of octopus battered with panco and an exquisite salmon tartare. And now do you understand why it is a fish & chips for gourmets?
But also you will do it in a modern and hipster place with mostly local company, and with American, Eastern and, of course, European touches; fruit of his travels around the world.
Some squid with mongetes?
Is it a chain? No, because ** in each of its premises you will find something different **, both in the kitchen and in the decoration. It is almost a matter of surprise for the client or to move it around the city, that we have become a bit lazy.
"If you want to eat the squid sandwich they will go to Balmes, which is where we do it”, explains Magic. If they land at the University they will find a more gourmet place with the cocktail bar by Mani and also with a summary of the dishes that have been most successful in the rest; and of course with the star product: a tasty and crunchy fish and chips that will not leave you indifferent (and that you will surely look for again soon) .
Salmon Tartar.
While in the Raval you will find a smaller place, inspired by a classic street food and with an iron its squid with mongetes ; and in Rocafort the battered padrón peppers , an ideal madness for any midday or weekend walk around the city. Shall we go on a fish and chips route?
The fish in their fish and chips comes from the Bay of Biscay.