Restaurant La Roca

A family house on Carrer de la Roca

La Roca opened on 4 July 1992 in the ancestral home of the family of its cook and owner, Miquel Torroella, on Carrer de la Roca, inside the medieval centre. The house was restored for the restaurant without losing its old stone walls. It has a rustic-style indoor dining room and a terrace for good-weather days. The cooking is Catalan, seasonal, made with fresh, local produce, in a homely but careful style.

What to order

The 2026 menu is classic Empordà. To start, homemade roast-meat canelloni, stewed snails, prawns gratinated with allioli, grilled green asparagus with calçots sauce, potato and onion omelette, white and black butifarra sausage or Iberian shoulder with tomato bread, and several salads: burrata, duck ham or rocket with brie and quince. For mains, oven-roasted shoulder of lamb with herbs, pig’s trotters with snails, roast Empordà duck with port apple, oven-baked beef cheek, butifarra or grilled veal, grilled sea bass and the La Roca paella, with seafood, for two at minimum.

For groups they prepare personalised menus. If you have any allergy or intolerance, the house asks you to ask the staff about the dishes.

When to go and how to book

The website does not publish the opening hours: call 972 63 41 72 or 606 911 243 to book and confirm whether it is open that day, especially out of season. They also answer at [email protected].

Getting there and parking

The medieval centre is pedestrianised. Park outside, in the Dalt car park, the l’Església one or the Baix one, and walk in; at Easter, from 14 June to 14 September and on the weekend of the Fira Medieval they are paid. On the way you can see the medieval centre as far as Plaça de les Voltes and the moat cut into the rock.