
Es Portal Restaurant offers cuisine from the Empordà with a subtle modern touch, of 'little traveled' product, flavors and aromas of a landscape that combines the sea and the mountains.
You can choose from our offer on our à la carte menu or from our selection of menus: the tasting menu or proposals for groups.
The best choice if you are looking for a restaurant with a tasting menu or a restaurant with signature cuisine around the Costa Brava: Es Portal Restaurant.
Open from Tuesday to Sunday: From 1pm to 3.30pm, and from 8pm to 10.30pm.
- Kitchen open until 10.30pm.
Menus are served for an entire table until 2.30pm and 9.30pm.
*Es Portal Hotel Boutique is only adults, but our restaurant is open to all public.
*To enjoy an excellent gastronomic experience in Es Portal we do not allow smoking in any of our outdoor dining rooms. We have enabled a specific terrace in the garden for smoking.
Es Portal Restaurant specialties include rice, 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 Joan Carles Sànchez 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.
Leading our list at Es Portal Restaurant winery, are all 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.
Our sommelier 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 beer, apéritifs 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 quality of the restaurants of the area and to identify the Empordà region as a first-class gastronomy destination.
Our meals are prepared with natural products from local producers, many of them included in the quality list "Productes de la Terra" (such as Pals’ rice or anchovies from L’Escala), or protected by the quality trademark "Peix de la Costa" (eel 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 DO Empordà, Priorat, Penedès or Montsant, among others.