El Raco d’en Freixa
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About El Raco d’en Freixa
A respected restaurant run by the Freixa family has been here for many years, but when son Ramon took over the kitchen, the classic Catalan cuisine was turbo-charged with new inventiveness and a buzz of excitement began about the place that has never ceased. Dark-eyed chef Friexa is now a Spanish celebrity, with telly appearances and popular cookbooks. The decor is quite traditional, perfect for romantic trysts or business meals. The creative menu includes dishes like potato and olive millefeuille with crayfish crumble, fennel ice cream and roman lettuce hearts, main courses of roasted lobster with rabbit ribs a la milanese with home-made pasta and dried fruits, and sweet -- Freixa’s first love -- of an astounding Chocolate 2004.5 The Cardinal Points of four chocolate dream dishes.
Full a la carte
Starter
- Egg with tartuffe truffle, egg white, snails with Iberian ham products, creamy boletus mushroom soup
- Potato and olive millefeuille; crawfish crumble; fennel ice cream; tender roman lettuce hearts
- Tomato and rhubarb tart; raspberries à la fourchette, half-cooked prawns; to drink tomato, rhubarb and raspberries
- Crisp layers of bread with a hint of garlic; grilled cucumbers; Romescu fritters; tarragon hollandaise
- Mushroom suquet (stew) with chickpeas; cannelloni of streaky bacon with tender and crunchy cod tripe
- Aromatic baby squid soup; stuffed baby squid; caramelised aubergine
- Cannelonni with duck liver pate; goat cheese curd; carmelised royal quinoa grain; dry fig ice cream
- Bomba rice with red wine, pigeon, confit of pigeon thigh with crushed green rucola
Main Course
- Baked grouper; wheat prepared like black rice, dehydrated, fried and fresh
- Saint Peter with tuber stew; touch of liquorice stick; poultry soup with white truffle
- Braised cod head, potato spiral with crushed olives; onion cooked with caramelised milk; soup with blood orange sauce
- Supreme of sea bass à la cocotte; lentil salad; chanterelle and fourme d'ambert cheese
- Roasted lobster from brittany; rabbit ribs à la Milanesa; home-made pasta and dried fruits
- Tender beef in a stew; sweet potato trio, red wine sauce
- Ringdove à la crapaudine; turnips with honey; chestnuts with redcurrant cream
- Fried duck liver cube; pineapple burnt with an iron, ginger bread with bitter herbs
- Confit of suckling pig, sauteed Swiss chard and garlic; creamy corn with tartuffe truffle
- Roe deer loin with pepper crust, beetroot and vegetables à la jardinière
Dessert
- Mango soup; basil cream; lavander ice cream; fried tomato with 12 spices; sweet milk bubbles
- Superposed bread and chocolate; chestnut and salty caramel cream, raw chestnut crumbs, golden pastry bread ice cream
- Roast mandarine with lemongrass, ginger and carrot ice cream, crunchy noodles; crackling candy
- White chocolate cake; cocoa sorbet; valilla and coffee extract
Chocolate 2004.5 the cardinal points
- North: chocolate sponge cake zacher style, strawberries and cocoa bean ice cream
- South: chocolate and coffee for drinking and dipping
- East: creamy chocolate sushi, Japanese pearls with coconut and curry
- West: crunchy cube with chocolate cream and fried corn caramel
Additional Information
Address:
Sant Elies 22, 08006
Nearest tube:
Average Price:
Over £45/€64
Opening times:
Mon - Sat 1pm - 3pm, 9pm - 10.30pm
Dress Code:
None
N.B. Bookings can no longer be made for this restaurant through London Online
