La Cafeteria de Montserrat

La Cafeteria is the place at the Montserrat sanctuary to eat something standing up or at a quick table, with no sitting or buffet tray. It was completely renovated in 2001 and has a short, practical offering: set plates, cold and hot sandwiches, pastries and drinks. What makes it useful is the timetable: it opens at 8:45 every day, earlier than almost everything else in the precinct, and stays open all afternoon.

A hot sandwich at nine

Monday to Friday it opens from 8:45 to 17:30; on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, from 8:45 to 18:30. First thing it is the breakfast of those who go up on the first rack railway, which leaves Monistrol-Vila at 8:35, and of those staying at the sanctuary. The basilica opens at 7:00 and the Virgin's camarín at 8:00, so you can go up to see the Moreneta before the groups and come down afterwards for breakfast. Ask for a hot sandwich or a set plate if you are going to walk the whole morning; a coffee with pastries if it is only a pause.

The sanctuary's website does not publish the menu with prices: look at them at the counter.

The last to close of the quick options

La Cafeteria serves families in a hurry, those who arrive on foot or by train for an excursion and those who do not want to sit down to eat. If you prefer a full meal with views, the Buffet Montserrat opens from 12:15 to 16:00 on the second floor of the Mirador dels Apòstols, and for a meal with a tablecloth there is the restaurant of the Hostal Abat Cisneros, from 13:00 to 15:00. In the Mirador dels Apòstols there is also a bar, open from 9:00 to 17:00. La Cafeteria is the one that closes latest of the three quick options: if you come down from an excursion in mid-afternoon, it is where they still serve you.

Provisions for the mountain

The paths that leave the sanctuary pass no bar. If you are going to do the Path of the Hermitages by Sant Miquel or the climb to Sant Jeroni, take your sandwich and water from here. For the rest of your shopping, the precinct's grocery shop, the Queviures, opens from 9:00 to 17:45 on weekdays and until 18:45 at weekends and public holidays.

For groups or questions, the sanctuary answers on 938 777 701 and at [email protected].