La Volta del Rector

Under the rectory arch

The restaurant takes its name from the volta of the rectory, the arch that people have walked through for centuries beneath the rector's house, which is joined to the Gothic church of Sant Miquel. It stands on Carrer de les Flors, opposite Plaça de la Fira, right in the old town, and has room for around 120 people.

It is run by a Cardona family. The cook, Antonia, started at La Borrasca, a tapas bar in town that became too small; La Volta opened about fifteen years ago, with her son in the kitchen and the rest of the family front of house, according to the newspaper Ara in December 2025.

What to order

Catalan home cooking, with spoon dishes and oven dishes. The menu on its website includes braised beef with forest aromas, oven-roasted pork knuckle, oxtail, baked octopus and salads of goat's cheese or of salmon with avocado. The dish everyone orders, according to Ara, is fried eggs with potatoes, chorizo and sobrasada; it also mentions a shepherd's soup with butifarra sausage and mushrooms, black peas with black butifarra, tripe with capipota, pig's snout with trompettes de la mort and a mutton dish made to a 1714 recipe. For dessert, cheesecake with fig jam or rice pudding.

The cellar is the other half of the house: the wine list is extensive, with wines and champagnes from France and well-known Spanish labels. Ara put the cost at around €40 per person.

When to go and how to book

Neither its website nor the tourist office publishes opening hours. Call 938 691 637 to book and to confirm which days it opens, especially at weekends, when Cardona fills up with visitors to the Salt Mountain and the castle.

Getting there and parking

It is in the old town: leave the car in the free car park at Les Torretes, on Avinguda del Rastrillo, or in the paid one on Plaça de la Fira, and walk.