Anna Matamala is the manager and architect to promote a concept of quality food and natural products in the restaurant near Rambla Catalunya
Imagine a restaurant in the heart of Barcelona you can enjoy dishes from the garden and proximity products.
No need to imagine, but it is a reality in the restaurant Matamala, a high-quality local conceived as a natural food store inside which offers high quality dishes that take advantage of the richness of the garden.
Not only dishes and menus are offered for those who want to enjoy good food, good service and a friendly and quiet lunch or dinner to abstract the noise of the city, but also has a lounge for groups and events organized by companies. And all in the heart of the Catalan capital: in the Rambla de Catalunya.
It is a unique space renovated and driven by Anna Matamala following the family tradition in hotels and restaurants that his father taught him Jordi Matamala.
Anna Matamala, in turn, is manager of tourism and catering group Sensusgrup, which consists of the three-star Hotel Solimar and located in Calafell (Tarragona), and two restaurants located in the heart of Barcelona: Moka and Matamala. The group employs a total of 100 people and has a turnover of 4.5 million per year."We continue to invest in a model kitchen and business that is based on proximity and produce products from the garden and follow the line of the business model" slow food ", which is based on buying meat, vegetables, fruits and promote wines coming. We, for example, we buy products from the farm to a farmer in El Prat and Begues "says Anna Matamala to The Vanguardia.com.
The restaurant Matamala of Rambla de Catalunya in Barcelona is an open space decorated with exquisite taste sensation conveys a clear and pleasant and predominantly white.
In the letter dishes more authentic Catalan cuisine and the bar top quality delicacies. Coca de foie with jam, tomato and watermelon gazpacho, olive oil Arbequina extra virgin, organic bread with roasted vegetables, potato omelette, tapas created, knives grilled or Cantabrian anchovies ... are some of the dishes serve.
Do not forget the extensive wine list and proximity Catalans offered the letter, but have wines from the DO Rioja, Ribera del Duero, Bierzo, Toro, Rias Baixas, Rueda, Alicante and aging cellars of Catalonia. Just understand the philosophy of this fine restaurant with a quote from Manuel Vazquez Montalban who heads the wine list: "A people who do not drink their wine has a serious identity problem."
Following the tradition of restaurateurs Catalan cuisine, offer a menu prepared with seasonal products, selected following the criteria of km. 0, looking for the denomination of origin and recovering Catalan recipes.
The family is committed Matamala Catalan cuisine for over three generations. The commitment Matamala Restaurant kitchen is well made with quality ingredients, seeking the designation of origin, adapted to the seasonal product, selected following the criteria of km. 0, so that the client can enjoy it and take it home.
This restaurant is located for business events in a bright, quiet and cozy 800 square meters, offering Restaurant and Delicatessen products Botiga OJ Catalan and Iberian.
Eating between meals in a bar or sitting at a table, snooping among shelves of gourmet products, make a purchase or attend special culinary tasting a culinary classroom are activities that can be done in the same space. At least in Barcelona, all these plans are possible in Matamala.
Matamala was designed from the outset as a space in which to raise a range of cuisine under the double form of restaurant and gourmet boutique.
The establishment has two floors. The first floor at street level, concentrated store and a restaurant with 180 seats. The basement serves as a classroom monthly tastings of beer, wine, anchovies and oil.
As for the restaurant, Matamala changed its proposal a few months ago to bet on the formula of slow food or kilometer zero, ie, an offer products based on a pantry nearby. Thus, combining typical recipes from Catalan cuina such as cod fritters stuffed with rosemary honey with uncomplicated Mediterranean dishes made with raw materials based, according to the establishment, providers kilometer zero.
Interestingly, their wine by the glass, plus his wine supply store with a wide variety of liquors and cavas of Appellations of Origin Penedès or proximity as Montsiá.
"Slow food" restaurant and kilometer 0
Surprisingly encontar a restaurant in km 0 at the center of Barcelona. It's amazing discover a warehouse with many references to km 0 in a dining room also at the center of a city. But the surprises do not end here in the dining room Matamala ...
From the first week of May, every day, the chef of the dining space has prepared a surprise Matamala including a first, second and dessert chosen from all the fresh produce we receive every day, to surprise the palates of lovers of slow food.
The Slow Food, translated into Castilian as slow food, the term is opposed to fast food or fast food. Is an international movement founded in Italy in 1986 and has spread rapidly over the years throughout the world. This movement is symbolized by the figure of the shell, because the slowness of this animal is the best symbol to combat the speed and haste affecting the modern world.
The objective is to combat the culture of fast food and regain the flavors and traditional customs. It is based on the enjoyment of food, desgustar the pleasures it offers and enjoy good food in the most appropriate.
With the passage of time have been losing many healthy eating habits is important to recover. These include the consumption complete and nutritious meals with vegetables as the main ingredient.
Sensus GrupSensus Grup are a business group in the process of expansion with over thirty years experience in the field of Food and Hospitality. In managing our hotel and restaurant guides us a common goal: to offer a service geared to the welfare of our clients
We believe that eating is a pleasure and leisure treasure. Therefore, our goal is that customers enjoy a gastronomic quality and time spent with us is very satisfying.
Grup Sensus currently consists of the Hotel Solimar 3 * located in Calafell (Tarragona), and two restaurants located in the heart of Barcelona: Moka and Matamala.
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