New Year New Life. Although in 2024 we will miss some Barcelona restaurants, such as Goxo, Dabiz Muñoz's only establishment in Barcelona, located in the NH Collection Constanza, which a few days ago was in the news for being one of the most unexpected closures of this year's end. .
The Madrid chef has not yet commented on the reason that led him to lower the blinds of this Barcelona food delivery establishment, which was a key project during the pandemic and which after opening in Madrid was replicated in other cities (in addition to Barcelona, also took him to Marbella).
The small and emblematic seafood restaurant Camarote de Tomás has also just disappeared, which before saying goodbye (these last days of the year have not been able to cope with the customers who want to say goodbye) it already had a replacement. Although the details of who kept it have not yet been confirmed, it is known that it is a person from the restaurant sector, who sat down to dinner one night and after dessert showed his interest in purchasing it.
In the middle of last year, Petit Pau, chef Pau Gascó's restaurant in the Sants neighborhood, also left us without debts or conflicts. In an interview on this newspaper's 'Stay to Eat' podcast, Gascó claimed that making the decision freed him from that dose of ego linked to his own insecurities, helping him get out of a routine that ended up making him every week at the Petit Pau out “like groundhog day.”
In addition, some traditional wineries have said goodbye, such as the one in Montserrat Sabadell, the Brusi, famous for its homemade tripe and for having resisted against all odds for years in a neighborhood full of tourists like the Gòtic.
Houses like Cal Bonete, in Les Corts, like Castro, in El Clot, like Bodega Vendrell, in Eixample, or O'Pote in Plaza Letamendi are others that have lowered the blinds this 2023, as they have done others as well-known as Pinotxo de la Boqueria, which has reopened in the Sant Antoni market, or Pla de la Garsa, which will soon reopen in new hands.
These are closures that coincide with those of much shorter-lived establishments such as Tamae, opened by Albert Raurich and Eugeni de Diego, Fat Barbies or Bar Yeti, which had begun a second life in the hands of the Bonanova family in 2022.
