El Caliu

El Caliu is at the top of Taüll, at the edge of the village on the road that climbs to the Boí Taüll resort, just after the Romanesque ensemble. It is a family house that turns 34 on 6 December 2026: a bright dining room with a wooden ceiling and stained-glass windows letting in the midday sun, chargrill, mountain casseroles and jams and liqueurs they make themselves from forest fruit.

Chargrill, civet and foal from its own herd

The menu is divided between the grill and casserole specialities. From the grill come lamb (€18.44), quail, chicken and rabbit with alioli (€11.02 each), longaniza, black pudding and veal entrecôte (€23.20), always with potatoes a lo pobre and baked vegetables. Among the specialities are wild boar civet and foal stew (€18.56 each), which they rear themselves, foal entrecôte (€26.68), duck magret with cranberry sauce and apple compote (€23.20), rabbit shoulders confit with four peppers, free-range chicken with mushrooms and a duck-leg and bean cassoulet (€17.40).

To start, the vianda, which is what they call escudella here, with pasta, rice, beans, chickpeas, vegetables, hen and butifarra (€11.48); also warm escalivada, salads and toasts with anchovies or tuna belly with escalivada. The dessert shown on their website is the cheese flan with homemade raspberry coulis (€6.67); there is also lemon cream, plums in liqueur and apple compote with cream.

Two menus so you do not have to think

The daily menu costs €24.90 with bread, wine and water: first course to choose from vianda, escalivada, salads or soup, a main course of grilled food (quail, chicken, lamb, rabbit, longaniza), beef stew or trout, and dessert. The Romanesque menu, at €39.90, steps it up: escalivada with tuna belly, carpaccio or vianda, and for the main course entrecôte, lamb, magret, civet or cassoulet, with homemade desserts and a Raimat Clos Abadia red from Costers del Segre. The valley's tourist office puts the spend at between €15 and €30 and notes vegetarian and gluten-free options; for any allergy, the menu asks you to tell the waiter.

Sittings, Tuesdays and 3 December

It is closed on Tuesdays, except public holidays. At midday it has two sittings, at 13:00 and 15:00, and in the evening it opens from 20:00. This winter it is closed for holidays until 3 December 2026. They themselves advise booking ahead: on 973 696 212, on 650 652 256 or by WhatsApp on that same mobile.

It fits with a day on the pistes, because it is on the same road as the resort, and with the return via the Romanesque: Santa Maria de Taüll is in the square, a few minutes' walk away. If you sleep in the village, the Hotel El Rantiner has no restaurant and this is the nearest dinner.