Bravo24 is the signature restaurant of the W Hotel in Barcelona’s marina and has its own private lift in the reception area. We entered the lift expecting to be whisked up to the 24th floor but alas it merely took us up one level to the sun terrace.
The location (if you are having lunch on the terrace) stops this restaurant from being a “destination restaurant”. This is mainly because of its child friendly nature and the fact you are directly overlooking the sun terrace which provides a stunning view of Frank Gehry’s ‘Peix d’Or’ bronze whale sculpture and the not so stunning views of some of the W’s guests basking in the sun.
The executive chef is Carles Abellan who is also responsible for Comerc 24, our No Expert Best of the Best award winner last year, so as expected the food is off a high standard. However it was a slightly mixed bag with some very good high end dishes, served along side some fairly basic grills. I especially enjoyed the Cod salad which based on the menu description was not quite as expected as it was very refined indeed. For our main course we went for the Veal, it was served with some lovely mash but alas as I’m not a huge fan of eating fat (I know some people like this sort of thing) I wasn’t able to clean my plate.
I would imagine that the atmosphere in the evening is very different, making this a more suitable fine dining experience, than our casual lunch.
However despite this criticism, we would say that Bravo 24 is a good place for lunch, especially if you are in the area and want to check out the W or relax in the foyer bar. However you will need to be aware of the damage it will do to your wallet. Our lunch for example consisted of 3 courses and 3 glasses of wine at approx 70 euros per person.
Marks out of 10
Food 6.2
Service 6
Ambience 6
