Can Culleretes, Barcelona

Can Culleretes is a restaurant whose story reaches back to a chocolate shop recorded here in 1847. Its entrance is built into the street doorway as a wooden fixture, leading through a small vestibule to a glazed door. The lintel carries elaborate fruit garlands and an oval medallion bearing the establishment’s name and founding date.

Inside, few original elements remain, but you can find furniture, three large murals showing Barcelona, substantial lamps by Francesc Tey, and ceramic wall panels by Xavier Nogués. An old chicken roaster still serves as decoration in one dining room. In 1902, Tito Regàs commissioned Jaume Llongueres to remodel the business into a restaurant.

During the Civil War, it stayed open even after Regàs left the country with his family. In 1958, Francesc Agut and his wife Sussi Manubens bought it.