L’Eixida

“Glocal” cooking in a house with a courtyard

L’Eixida is a small house with a courtyard on one of the village’s little lanes, on Carrer del Forn. Its cooking defines itself as “glocal”: local Empordà produce worked with recipes and flavours from other cuisines of the world, above all Asian and South American. The house itself advises coming with an open mind. It has a terrace, an open kitchen and a private room for celebrations, and it appears in the Michelin Guide, the Repsol Guide and Macarfi.

What to order

The menu has lots of starters and a section of signature rice dishes. To start, oysters with different dressings (Peruvian-style, with kimchi or with garum), L’Escala anchovies with date and Vietnamese-style apple relish, corvina ceviche with passion-fruit leche de tigre, mackerel tiradito with corn aguachile or mussels in Thai sauce with coconut milk. There are several vegetable dishes, such as smoked aubergine with burrata or oven-baked pumpkin with blue cheese and white truffle. For fish, a suquet of Roses red gurnard as seen by a Peruvian, or steamed black cod with garlic pil-pil; for meat, Girona lamb rogan josh style or a cochinita pibil canelloni with miso béchamel. The rice dishes are dry or soupy: seasonal Pals rice, duck with dates, Palamós prawn with tripe and a “veggie” rice with km 0 vegetables.

There are two tasting menus: the rice menu and another that bears the name of the village tower.

When to go and how to book

According to the Michelin Guide it opens on Monday at lunchtime and in the evening, closes Tuesday to Thursday, opens Friday and Saturday for lunch and dinner, and on Sunday at lunchtime only. You book from its website, by phone on 972 63 48 06 or by email.

Getting there and parking

The centre is pedestrianised: leave your car in one of the three car parks on the outskirts, paid in high season, and walk to Carrer del Forn. After lunch, the moat cut into the rock and Plaça de les Voltes are a few steps away.