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Local restaurants in Girona, Spain

// where locals actually eat — updated September 2026

1 vetted neighbourhood spot in Girona, Spain — Catalan, found through local word of mouth rather than a marketing budget. El Celler de Can Roca currently leads the Girona list at 4.8 (Catalan). Every one of them is below.

1. 1★4.8

   Catalan

   El Celler de Can Roca

   El Celler de Can Roca is the Roca brothers' Catalan restaurant in Girona, one of the most decorated kitchens in Spain and still a family business. Joan cooks, Josep runs the cellar and Jordi makes the desserts, and the restaurant now anchors a wider Roca operation spread across the city. The cooking is Catalan at its root — the region's produce, its sauces, its coastline and its interior — extended by three decades of experiment and served as tasting menus, with a vegetarian version available. The wine list is the other half of the argument, and the reason the sommelier brother is treated as an equal partner. Book months ahead; this is a destination table, not a walk-in.

   Dietary: Vegetarian options are on the menu.

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