Mint

Verdict: A Michelin-recognised neighbourhood restaurant that earns its price point

Picture a room with clean contemporary lines, a name that tells you exactly what you are getting, a kitchen turning out fresh, rooted Catalan cooking at a price that does not punish you for showing up mid-week. That is Mint in Granollers. If you are passing through the Vallès Oriental or making a deliberate detour from Barcelona, Mint is worth booking.

The Room and the Experience

The name is not decoration; it signals intent. Mint is built around freshness: fresh ingredients, fresh technique applied to Mediterranean and Catalan tradition, a dining room that reflects the same sensibility. The physical space is described as having pleasant contemporary decor, which, in practice, means a room that does not compete with the food for your attention. In a town like Granollers, that kind of considered, unfussy environment is rarer than it should be. The spatial register is calm and focused, suited to a meal where the cooking is the event rather than the backdrop.

For a food-focused traveller, the room's scale and tone matter for a specific reason: Mint feels like a restaurant run by people who care about the meal, not the performance around it. That is a meaningful distinction when you are choosing between a polished room with average food and a quieter room with precise cooking. Mint sits firmly in the second category.

The Cooking and What Michelin's Recognition Actually Means

The Michelin Plate; awarded in both 2024 and 2025, indicates a restaurant that the Guide's inspectors consider worth seeking out for good cooking, without yet reaching the threshold for a full star. For a diner, that is practically useful information: you are getting kitchen-serious food at a €€ price point, not a compromise between ambition and accessibility. The cuisine is contemporary Mediterranean with deep Catalan roots, the set menus are specifically noted as a strength. At the €€ tier, Granollers is not a city where you expect this level of culinary focus, which makes Mint worth understanding on its own terms.

What the Michelin Plate does not tell you is which specific dishes to order or what the menu looks like on a given week, those details are not available here, fabricating them would be doing you a disservice. What it does confirm is that the kitchen operates with enough consistency and technique to earn external validation twice running. That is a meaningful signal.

Service and Whether It Earns the Price

At €€ pricing in a mid-sized Catalan city, the implicit contract is direct: attentive without being formal, knowledgeable without being theatrical. A venue can receive a strong initial rating and watch it erode; 795 ratings averaging 4.5 is a track record, not a lucky month.

The Michelin Plate classification also carries a soft implication about service: the Guide does not typically recommend restaurants where the front-of-house actively undermines the kitchen. The two awards in consecutive years suggest a stable operation. For a solo diner or a couple looking for a genuinely good meal in the Granollers area without the choreography of a tasting-menu-only format, Mint's service model appears to be what earns its price point: direct, reliable, proportionate to the ticket.

This is not a restaurant where service is the centrepiece. But it is one where service is presumably not the problem, which, at this price tier, is exactly what you need it to be.

Booking and Practical Details

Mint is rated as easy to book, which at a Michelin-recognised restaurant is a practical advantage worth noting. You are not competing with a reservation queue months out, you do not need to plan a trip around securing a table. That said, the set menu format and the restaurant's strong local reputation mean weekends may fill faster than weekdays. Booking ahead by a few days is sensible. The restaurant is located at Carrer de Sant Josep, 10 in central Granollers, accessible from Barcelona by train on the R3 line from Passeig de Gràcia in under an hour.

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Ratings at a Glance

• Michelin: Plate 2024, Plate 2025
• Price tier: €€
• Booking difficulty: Easy

Practical Details

If You Are Exploring Catalonia's Wider Dining Scene

Mint sits at a different altitude from Spain's flagship restaurants, but that is the point. If you want to understand the depth of the Spanish dining scene beyond the marquee names, you could pair a Mint visit in Granollers with a meal at Cocina Hermanos Torres in Barcelona or plan a larger Catalonia circuit that includes El Celler de Can Roca in Girona. For further context on Spain's elite creative cooking, Quique Dacosta in Dénia, Arzak in San Sebastián, Azurmendi in Larrabetzu, Martin Berasategui in Lasarte-Oria, Aponiente in El Puerto de Santa María, DiverXO in Madrid, Mugaritz in Errenteria, Ricard Camarena in València, and Atrio in Cáceres all represent the upper end of the Spanish restaurant spectrum. For contemporary cooking in other global contexts, Jungsik in Seoul and César in New York City offer useful comparison points.