Restaurants · Ciutat Vella
Els Quatre Gats
Els Quatre Gats is a restaurant on Carrer Montsio in Barcelona's Ciutat Vella, occupying the ground floor of Casa Marti, a neo-Gothic building of 1896 by Josep Puig i Cadafalch. It operated as an artists' tavern from 1897 to 1903.
Why it matters
Included because the room is a fixed point in the city's art history rather than because of its cooking: the young Picasso designed its menu card and held his first exhibition here in 1900.
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Good for
- Architecture & design — A Puig i Cadafalch interior that can be seen by sitting in it, on a street that carries little else of the period.
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Sources & verification
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- Cens de locals en planta baixa amb activitat economica (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
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- coordinates.longitude
- Cens de locals en planta baixa amb activitat economica (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- address.formatted
- Cens de locals en planta baixa amb activitat economica (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- Address as recorded by the authoritative gazetteer that supplied the coordinate.
Not verified: opening hours, admission prices and access rules. These change frequently and we have not checked them, so this page does not state them. Check the official website before travelling.
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