Silence of the Lambs (El Asador de Aranda, Barcelona)
My first meal in Barcelona was in this beautiful restaurant. Jordi and Kate picked me up from my hostel and brought me straight to lamb heaven. The restaurant logo is a baby lamb. So, there's no mistaking that the specialty is the lamb asado.
According to their website, they cook Churra sheep from the Aranda region in a traditional clay oven, which you can see in the restaurant. It comes out so succulently tender that it actually tastes like roasted chicken, and everything falls off the bone. Yummy!
The blood sausage was also terrific. They cook it with rice and the consistency is absolutely amazing.
The restaurant is housed in a beautiful modernist building.
It was so good that I came back the next day with Kris and Theresa. I went to another branch though, this time within spitting distance to my hotel and to Plaza Catalunia.
Website
Branches:
Avda del Tibidabo, 31 (934 170 115)
Pau Claris, 70 (933 425 577)