Casa Leopoldo

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Casa Leopoldo ( Catalan and Spanish for House Leopold ) is a traditional restaurant in the old town of Barcelona . It is named after its founder Leopoldo Gil, who opened the restaurant together with his wife Elvira Gil during the 1929 World's Fair . It is still in operation today. The Leopoldo is located in the El Raval district at Carrer de Sant Rafael 24 in the immediate vicinity of the Rambla del Raval . The restaurant is dedicated to traditional Catalan cuisine .

The restaurant became famous through the writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán : In his novels about the fictional private detective Pepe Carvalho, Leopoldo is the main character's favorite restaurant. Carvalho's favorite dish is therefore meatballs with sepia (Catalan: mandonguilles amb sípia ) - these are still on the menu today. Montalbán himself was also a regular at the Leopoldo . The restaurant is also mentioned in Carlos Ruiz Zafón's novels The Game of the Angel and The Prisoner of Heaven - in both books the protagonists eat the restaurant's most famous dish, the oxtail (Catalan: cua de bou ).

Due to its literary fame, the bar has developed into a meeting place for the Barcelona's literary scene since the late 1970s, which held regular discussion rounds here (Catalan: tertulias ). However, the popularity also ensured rising prices: If the Leopoldo was originally a local resident eatery in one of the poorest parts of the city, the so-called “ Barri Xino ”, it is now in the upper price category.

The small square directly opposite the restaurant, where the Barceló Raval hotel is located, was named Plaça Vázquez Montalbán in 2009.

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  1. ^ A b Nick Lloyd: Man of the people - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán . In: barcelona-metropolitan.com , March 30, 2012 (English), accessed February 4, 2018.
  2. ↑ Casa Leopoldo. In: guidewriters.com (German), accessed on February 4, 2018.
  3. ↑ Negra y dura. Barcelona dedica una plaza del Raval al recuerdo del escritor Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. In: La Vanguardia, February 4, 2009 (Spanish), accessed February 6, 2018 (PDF).

Coordinates: 41 ° 22 ′ 45.4 "  N , 2 ° 10 ′ 10.3"  E