
Empordà cuisine with a subtle modern touch, of ‘little traveled’ product, flavors and aromas of a landscape that combines sea and mountain
Open from 13.00-15.30 and 20.00-23.00.
- Kitchen open until 22.30
- Closed Monday and Tuesday
*Es Portal Restaurant & Hotel Boutique is Only Adults, but our restaurant is open to all audiences.
Es Portal specializes in rice varieties grown in Pals by Arròs de l’Estany de Pals, fish from the best markets of the Costa Brava and local meat and other quality products. The updated empordà cuisine by chef Juan Carlos Sánchez, is complemented by a careful selection of wines from DO Empordà and other first-rate wine regions.
In our different menus you will find a careful selection of products and producers with whom we elaborate our best specialties.
The chef, Joan Carles Sánchez and his team base the cuisine offered at Es Portal Restaurant on maximum quality local products from very carefully selected producers. Empordà region market cuisine, which has been updated, based on locally grown products, treated with great delicacy and knowledge, with just the right touch of innovation and creativity.
You can choose from the offer on our à la carte menu or from our selection of menus: the tasting menu or proposals for groups.
Leading our list are the Empordà wines, but you will also find wines from regions like Priorat, Montsant, Penedès, Rueda, Ribera del Duero, Rioja, Toro and Burgundy and Côtes de Provence.
The sommelier and ward staff will advise you on the best food and wine pairings to enjoy all the fullness of its aromas and flavors.
In addition to wine, we have a selection of crafted catalan beers, snacks and a selection of spirits such as whiskey, cognac, armagnac, brandy and rum, not to mention gins, presented in an irresistible menu of gin and tonics.
Es Portal Restaurant is part of the Empordà gastronomic group known as the Cuina de l’Empordanet, the objective of which is to promote the gourmet quality of the territory and to identify the Empordà region as a first-class gastronomic destination.
Our meals are prepared with natural products from local producers, many of them included in the quality list Products from the Earth, such as Pals’ rice or anchovies from L’Escala -or protected by the mark of quality Fish from the Coast, angules (eel-like) from Baix Ter, in season only, or guaranteed Palamos’ Prawns. We also use guaranteed products under the the Protected Denomination Origin – Empordà’s olive oil, Protected Geographical Indication –such as Girona’s apple or Valls ‘calçots’ and quality wines from Empordà DO, DOC Priorat, Penedès, Montsant, among others.