Our restaurant in Roses
With more than 50 years’ experience at the stove of our restaurant, we have specialised in traditional local cuisine: simple, accessible and based on top-quality ingredients. Although our cuisine is traditional we incorporate modern touches that reinvent long-established recipes, discovering them anew through our personal perspective.
After some classic appetisers, such as mussels in vinaigrette, prawns from Roses or battered calamari, our starters offer a note of freshness that constitutes the perfect precursor to our richer main courses. We heartily recommend our salads, including esqueixada (Catalan salt cold salad) and empedrat (Catalan bean salad).
It comes as no surprise, given our proximity to the sea, that our main courses embody the maritime character of our restaurant in Roses. We serve fresh catches of the day, such as hake, turbot or squid, but, if you’ll permit a suggestion, the seafood paella and fideuà (vermicelli paella) are two of our star dishes. The secrets of these specialities are our special Santallúcia sofregit (onion, tomato and garlic sauce with seasoning) and top-quality fresh ingredients from the sea.
For those who prefer meat to fish, our menu also features a wide selection of tasty meat dishes. What’s more, we always offers a selection of seasonal dishes: calçots (Catalan green onions), peas with clams, fish soup, cod and meatballs with cuttlefish... all available when in season.
If you’re still hungry, our restaurant in Roses is faithful to the local dessert tradition. Highlights of our menu of home-made desserts include apple compote with cream-flavoured ice cream (recipe by the mother of the Santallúcia family), tarte Tatin and molten chocolate cake. And if they don’t take your fancy, there are plenty of home-made cakes and ice creams to choose from.
We accompany it all with a wine list featuring Designation of Origin Empordà wines: a memorable selection of cavas and white, rosé and red wines. But although we’re always keen to promote flavours from the local area, we also offer wines from other well-known Catalan winemaking regions.
