Les Petxines

In the Hotel Excelsior Cuisines: European

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The resort's most carefully orchestrated food is served within the ultramodern dining room of the Hotel Excelsior, a 45-room seafront hotel. Thirty diners at a time sit in relative intimacy within a big-windowed dining room. The cuisine varies with the season, the inspiration of the chef, and the availability of ingredients in local markets, but you can always expect superlatively fresh fish and shellfish (petxines in Catalan, hence the restaurant's name). The best examples include several versions of fish soup, some of them with a confit of lemons and shrimp-stuffed ravioli; and an extremely succulent ragout of fish and shellfish. Meat-eaters can occasionally appreciate flavorful versions of pigeon, one of them stuffed with foie gras.