Restaurant in Tavertet, Spain
Seasonal Catalan cooking, remote village, real credentials.
L'Horta is a seasonal Catalan restaurant in the village of Tavertet, ranked #293 on the Opinionated About Dining Top Restaurants in Europe list in 2024. Chef Jordi Coromina cooks to the produce calendar in a calm, unhurried rural room that rewards return visits in different seasons. Easy to book, requires a car to reach, and a strong choice for two.
If you have already eaten at L'Horta once, the question for a return visit is not whether the cooking is consistent — it is whether the season has changed enough to make the menu feel new. Chef Jordi Coromina runs a tightly seasonal Catalan kitchen in Tavertet, a village perched above the Collsacabra plateau in the pre-Pyrenean foothills of Barcelona province. The restaurant earned a place on the Opinionated About Dining Leading Restaurants in Europe list in 2024 (ranked #293) and was Highly Recommended as a Leading New Restaurant in Europe by OAD in 2023 — a trajectory that signals this is not a one-visit curiosity but a kitchen worth tracking across the year.
The atmosphere here is grounded and unhurried. This is a rural dining room, not an urban one: the noise level is low, the energy is calm, and the mood rewards those who arrive without a schedule. If your first visit was a weekday lunch , the standard two-hour window from 2–4 pm Monday through Friday , a Saturday or Sunday dinner (8–10:30 pm) gives you a noticeably different experience: more time at the table, a slightly more convivial room, and the sense that the kitchen is cooking for the pace of an evening rather than a compressed midday service. Sunday lunch (2–4 pm) is also available and tends to feel like the week's culmination in a kitchen that thinks in seasonal rhythms.
Catalan cooking at its most grounded is inseparable from what is growing or being harvested nearby, and Tavertet's position in the Osona and Garrotxa border zone gives Coromina access to a larder that shifts meaningfully between spring, summer, autumn, and winter. If you are visiting now, that seasonal logic is the single most important factor in what you will eat. A return visit in a different season is not repetitive , it is effectively a different menu shaped by different produce. That is the strongest argument for booking again.
Booking is direct. Tavertet is a very small village and L'Horta has a Google rating of 4.3 across 292 reviews, which suggests consistent performance without the frantic reservation pressure of a city restaurant. You are unlikely to need to plan weeks in advance, but calling or messaging ahead is sensible given the limited hours , particularly if you want a Saturday dinner slot, which fills faster than the weekday lunch windows. No booking platform or phone number is listed publicly in the data available to us, so direct contact through the venue is the recommended approach.
Getting to Tavertet requires a car. The village has no rail connection and is accessed via mountain roads from Vic or Olot. That is part of the proposition: arriving here is a deliberate act, and the dining experience is inseparable from the setting. If you are building a trip around the restaurant, pairing it with a night nearby makes more sense than treating it as a day-trip from Barcelona. See our full Tavertet hotels guide for accommodation options, and our Tavertet experiences guide for what to do in the surrounding area.
For other dining in the region, Estrella in Rupit is the closest Catalan alternative , Rupit is a short drive away and operates in a similar register of rural, produce-led cooking. Cal Marquès in Camprodon is further north but worth considering if you are making a broader Pyrenean trip. For the full picture of dining in the area, see our Tavertet restaurants guide.
L'Horta sits in an entirely different category from Spain's flagship creative restaurants. El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Quique Dacosta in Dénia, Arzak in San Sebastián, Azurmendi in Larrabetzu, and Aponiente in El Puerto de Santa María are all multi-Michelin-starred, multi-course tasting-menu destinations with advance booking requirements of months and price points in the €€€€ range. L'Horta does not compete on those terms and is not trying to. If you want technical ambition at scale, those are your options.
What L'Horta offers that none of those restaurants can replicate is direct access to a specific rural Catalan terroir, cooked simply and without theatrical production. The OAD recognition places it in a credible peer group of serious regional cooking , not in spite of its location, but because of it. For the diner who has already done the Girona or San Sebastián circuit and wants something quieter and more rooted, L'Horta is the more interesting choice. It is also considerably easier to book and, based on its format, almost certainly less expensive.
Within Catalonia specifically, Cocina Hermanos Torres in Barcelona and Ricard Camarena in València represent the urban, technically polished end of regional Spanish cooking. L'Horta is the rural counterpoint: fewer courses, less ceremony, a room shaped by place rather than design. If the journey is part of what you are looking for , and in Tavertet, it always is , book L'Horta. If you want a city restaurant with Michelin validation and easy logistics, look at the Barcelona options instead.
| Venue | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|
| L'Horta Restaurant Tavertet | — | |
| Quique Dacosta | €€€€ | — |
| El Celler de Can Roca | €€€€ | — |
| Arzak | €€€€ | — |
| Azurmendi | €€€€ | — |
| Aponiente | €€€€ | — |
What to weigh when choosing between L'Horta Restaurant Tavertet and alternatives.
Book at least 3 to 4 weeks ahead, and further in advance for weekends. L'Horta is ranked #293 on OAD's Top Restaurants in Europe 2024, which means it draws destination diners from well outside the region. Saturday dinner (8–10:30 pm) and Sunday lunch are the most competitive slots — if those are full, a weekday lunch from 2–4 pm is your next best option.
Specific menu items are not published in available records, but L'Horta's Catalan format under chef Jordi Coromina is driven by seasonal produce, so what's on the menu shifts with what's local and available. Arrive expecting a fixed or semi-fixed lunch rather than a wide à la carte selection — this is that kind of restaurant.
No dietary policy is published for L'Horta. Given the restaurant's seasonal, produce-led Catalan format and its small village setting, the kitchen likely has limited flexibility to accommodate complex restrictions — contact them directly before booking if this matters to your group. Phone and website details are not currently listed.
Yes, with caveats. An OAD Top 300 Europe ranking and a 'Highly Recommended' new restaurant nod in 2023 give it real credibility as a destination meal. Saturday dinner (8–10:30 pm) or Sunday dinner are the right slots for a celebratory booking — the weekday 2–4 pm window is tight for a leisurely occasion. The remote Tavertet setting adds to the event, but factor in the drive.
Tavertet is a small village with very few dining options, so alternatives effectively mean leaving the area. For regional Catalan cooking with similar ambition, the closest point of comparison within a reasonable drive is the broader Osona and Girona corridor. If you want a named benchmark, El Celler de Can Roca in Girona operates at a different scale and price entirely — L'Horta is the stronger choice for a quieter, less orchestrated experience.
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