Lasarte

Lasarte is the Barcelona restaurant of the Basque chef Martín Berasategui, inside the Monument hotel just off the Passeig de Gràcia. It was the first restaurant in the city to win three Michelin stars.

Berasategui opened it in 2006, as his outpost in Catalonia. Paolo Casagrande, who trained in Europe before joining the Berasategui group, has led the kitchen for well over a decade. Under him the restaurant climbed to its third star, which it has held for a decade. In September 2026 it marked 20 years with a dinner cooked by Casagrande together with Eneko Atxa of Azurmendi and Nacho Manzano of Casa Marcial, three kitchens with nine stars between them.

Seasonal produce sets the direction of the menus, which follow the natural cycles of each ingredient. The kitchen combines local and regional products with ingredients and influences gathered on the team's travels, aiming for dishes that are both carefully built and elegant to look at. Casagrande is known for a calm cooking style that aims to move the diner rather than to impress. Xavi Donnay leads pastry and reworks traditional sweets in a modern way. A menu that travels while staying seasonal is the balance the team keeps returning to, and it lets the house change without losing its line.

Joan Carles Ibáñez runs the dining room and the wine service, a central role in a house built on hospitality as much as on cooking. Two decades on, Lasarte remains the link between Berasategui's school and Barcelona, with a team that has stayed together for many years around the same chef.