La Fonda del Montseny

The village inn

The former inn of the village of Montseny, on plaça de la Vila: in the 19th century it was already giving beds to muleteers and traders who worked in the mountains, and since 1992 it has been a restaurant. It has been run by the Rojas-Solé family since 1966, now in the third generation. Traditional Catalan cooking, with grill, stews and produce from the Montseny itself. Since 2015 it has been signed up to the natural park's European Charter for Sustainable Tourism.

What to order

The menu marks with an asterisk what is made in the Montseny: the house salads, the artisan cured meats from Ca la Petita, the Montseny cheeses, the butifarra sausage combination and the lamb, grilled or roasted. From the grill also come the Viladrau chestnut butifarra, the half rabbit and the entrecôte. If you prefer a spoon dish, there is roast chicken with prunes, stewed pig's trotters with mushrooms, stewed veal with mushrooms, cod with samfaina and oven-roasted shoulder of kid. To nibble, stewed snails, ceps or chicken croquettes, ceps sautéed with garlic and parsley, Catalan-style broad beans, the Fonda's cannelloni or coca with escalivada and anchovies.

The Menú del Montseny sums up the house in three steps: salad with Montseny cheeses and chestnut vinaigrette, Viladrau chestnut butifarra with ganxet beans and potatoes, and dessert, with wine, water or Montseny beer. There is also a menu with several first and second courses to choose from.

When to go and how to book

It closes on Mondays and Tuesdays. From Wednesday to Friday it is open from 9:00 to 16:30, and on Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 to 18:00. It does not serve dinner. Book by phone, on 938 47 30 40.

The restaurant is on the square of the village of Montseny. If you are spending the day in the massif, it fits well with a morning at the reservoir and beech forest of Santa Fe; in autumn, at weekends, check first whether the park is regulating access with reception points.