La Trobada · Café 1981 and Botiga Orígens

Breakfast beside the monastery

The La Trobada family opened a restaurant here in 1981, the year that gives the café its name. Today it is the café of the boutique hotel, at passeig Honorat Vilamanyà, 4, over the Ter and a two-minute walk from the monastery of Santa Maria. It serves breakfasts every day, from 8:00 to 11:00, open also to those who are not staying at the hotel.

The breakfasts

There are two formats. The traditional breakfast is a full one, with local and zero-kilometre produce: Ripollès cheeses and cured meats, yoghurt and fruit. The Orígens breakfast is a gourmet, unhurried breakfast, served in three rounds, designed for a special occasion. If you are setting out early on a route, you can order breakfast to take away in picnic format, if you order it in advance. The website does not publish prices: ask at reception.

Lunches and dinners

The website does not advertise a lunchtime service. Dinners are only served to groups of more than six people, with a prior booking; if that is not you, the hotel recommends restaurants in the town. Without a car, near the monastery, there is La Piazzetta, on plaça Nova; with a car, Reccapolis or Solana del Ter, on the edge of town.

La Botiga Orígens

Next to reception is the Botiga Orígens, open to everyone, guests or not, with artisan products from the Ripollès: cured meats, cheeses, honey, biscuits, beer and ratafia. Each purchase goes in a reusable bag, and at reception they advise you on what to take. It is good for putting together a picnic for the Ferro i Carbó greenway or for taking something home. The website does not publish the shop's opening hours.

How to get there

It is in the centre, over the river, about five minutes' walk from the R3 station: you can arrive by train from Barcelona or Vic and have breakfast before seeing the monastery and the ethnographic museum. For questions or group bookings, call 972 702 353 or write to [email protected].