Casa Marieta
Girona’s oldest restaurant, established on Plaça de la Independència in 1892, is very different from the fine dining establishments above. There’s no tasting menu here, just enormous portions and rustic presentation. If you have the appetite, it’s a great place to try typical Catalan dishes from a bygone age. Perhaps escudella con pelota to start—soup with pasta shells and a meatball. Then rustido tradicional, a chicken, pork, and butifarra sausage hotpot, or Marieta’s celebrated suquet de pescado, a vast fish stew for two. For dessert, we’d go for the tarte tatin every time, but you could add a plate of fruit and nuts with a glass of moscatel for good measure. It’s a big bustling place with stone walls and stained-glass windows of agricultural scenes, popular with local groups of family and friends nostalgic for simpler times.
Girona’s oldest restaurant, established on Plaça de la Independència in 1892, is very different from the fine dining establishments above. There’s no tasting menu here, just enormous portions and rustic presentation. If you have the appetite, it’s a great place to try typical Catalan dishes from a bygone age. Perhaps escudella con pelota to start—soup with pasta shells and a meatball. Then rustido tradicional, a chicken, pork, and butifarra sausage hotpot, or Marieta’s celebrated suquet de pescado, a vast fish stew for two. For dessert, we’d go for the tarte tatin every time, but you could add a plate of fruit and nuts with a glass of moscatel for good measure. It’s a big bustling place with stone walls and stained-glass windows of agricultural scenes, popular with local groups of family and friends nostalgic for simpler times.
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