Best 3-Michelin-Star Restaurants in Barcelona 2025: Disfrutar, Hermanos Torres, Lasarte, ABaC

Barcelona is one of Europe’s most compelling dining cities. In 2025 it counts four restaurants at the summit of the Michelin Guide: ABaC, Disfrutar, Cocina Hermanos Torres and Lasarte. I have followed Barcelona’s restaurant scene for twenty years, with multiple visits across these four three-Michelin-star tables and experience in about 50 different three-star restaurants worldwide to ground my perspective. Lasarte opened the city’s three-star era with the November 2016 announcement, and the El Bulli legacy still shapes how Barcelona thinks about creativity and taste.

What follows is a measured ranking from repeated meals, not one night. Comparing three-Michelin-star restaurants is hard: each is unique and excellent. This order reflects my tastes in flavor, pacing and focus, a practical guide for first bookings.

1. Disfrutar

Chefs: Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch, Mateu Casañas

Disfrutar is the clearest continuation of El Bulli’s spirit, but it feels more focused and more generous. The cooking is technical yet anchored in flavor. During my last visit the tasting unfolded as more than thirty small courses, each with a defined idea. A warm Panchino filled with caviar disappeared in a breath.

Their Gilda with marinated mackerel snapped with clean salinity.

The multispherical pesto with pistachios and eel read playful but tasted poised and green. The pairing leaned Catalan and slipped in sake where texture called for clarity.

How to book

It is very hard to secure a table. A waitlist has worked for me, though confirmation came by phone the same evening around 20:30. If you need a fixed plan, some operators host curated nights at Disfrutar. They are more expensive but reliable. For a related thread of creativity, consider Enigma by Albert Adrià.

2. Hermanos Torres

Chefs: Sergio Torres, Javier Torres

The room at Cocina Hermanos Torres is the most striking of the four. It occupies a renovated industrial space from an old Michelin tyre facility. The kitchen sits in the center and the tables ring the action. The mood is calm. Cooking is organized and quiet.

Across five meals, including two in 2025, a few dishes have stood out. Cured squid with poultry consommé and caviar shows control and depth.

The sequence of 24 naturally grown vegetables with winter broth, truffles and mushrooms speaks softly and precisely.

Maresme green peas with Ibérico ham and migas de pastor hum with sweetness and salt. Ray with piquillo peppers, mangetouts and pickled piparras is lifted by acidity. There is one menu and several plates return over the years. As a regular I would welcome more rotation. For a first visit it is an essential stop.

3. Lasarte

Chef Patron: Martín Berasategui; Chef: Paolo Casagrande

Lasarte is the most formal of the four and the most composed. Berasategui’s broader vision is clear, while Paolo Casagrande runs the day to day with precision.

A recurring classic, foie gras with apple and smoked eel, still carries its quiet power and is worth the trip on its own.

In July I ate a scarlet shrimp soup with tomato, celery and mint that felt concentrated but not heavy.

A warm salad of red prawn and seafood with zucchini and glazed sweetbreads found balance in richness and temperature.

If atmosphere matters, request a table in the front room, which is more elegant than the rear section.

4. ABaC

Chef: Jordi Cruz

I returned to ABaC under chef Jordi Cruz twice in 2025, my fourth visit overall. Compared with a 2021 meal, I sensed a narrowing in scope and a shift toward less luxurious products. The experience remains careful and pleasant, but among Barcelona’s four 3 Michelin star restaurants I would place ABaC fourth.

Why go: One clear advantage is its Monday opening, which makes ABaC the strongest top-tier fine dining option in Barcelona on that day.

For a fuller assessment of dishes, service and value, see my separate ABaC Barcelona 3 Michelin Star review.

Verdict

Four three star restaurants, four clear identities. Disfrutar is my first choice for its curiosity and follow through. Hermanos Torres offers discipline, produce and the best view into a calm kitchen, though regulars may want more change. Lasarte provides elegance and continuity with masterful service. ABaC is still a good meal, especially useful on a Monday. Barcelona’s strength is not only that it has four stars. It is that each one speaks a different language of hospitality and taste.

For more on Spain’s Michelin scene, see my reviews of Skina in Marbella and Aponiente in El Puerto de Santa María, a restaurant I have visited 18 times over the past decade.