El Chiringuito de Garraf

A fishing-village beach bar

Open since 1989 on the beach at les Casetes, the one with the white and green bathing huts, with terraces that get the spray when the sea is up. Rice dishes, market fish and seafood, in an informal style: it serves equally well for a long lunch, for tapas after a swim or a quiet dinner.

What to order

The rice dishes are its speciality: caldereta rice with lobster, soupy rice with Dublin Bay prawns, seafood paella, angel-hair fideuà with king prawns and a vegetable fideuà. To start, the xatonada Garraf, its version of the region's xató, or fresh prawns from Vilanova, grilled sardines and northern anchovies. For sharing there is fried fish: Iberian ham croquettes, boquerones, baby squid or calamari. And from the sea side, razor clams from the Delta, clams, scallops, monkfish suquet with butter beans and clams or live lobster on the grill. If someone does not eat fish, there are grilled entrecôte and sirloin.

The menu shows the allergens in each dish and offers gluten-free bread.

When to go and how to book

It opens every day from 11:00 to 24:00, with the kitchen not closing at midday: you can eat at four o'clock without any problem. Book on its website, with immediate confirmation and up to 15 days in advance, or on 936 32 00 16.

Come by train: the Rodalies R2 Sud stops at the Garraf halt, right by the beach, and the beach bar is a few steps away. By car you arrive on the C-32, exit 42, or the C-31, but in summer there is little parking in the village. If you want to walk first, the GR 92 from the halt to La Pleta climbs into the park from the same station.