Sitges restaurants

The following restaurants offer consistently good food, service and ambiance.

El Cisne - Sant Pere, 4 - Traditional local restaurant, serving Catalan dishes. The three-course €12 menu (including bread and wine) is one of the best culinary bargains in Sitges: choose from starters such as escalivada (roasted vegetables), xató (salt cod and tuna salad), followed perhaps by grilled bream or the wonderful shoulder of lamb. If you still have space, round off the meal with a particularly good crema catalana (Catalan crème brûlée).

Santa Maria - Passeig de la Ribera, 52 - Hectic seafood restaurant on the seafront, serving a wide range of traditional fresh fish and other seafood dishes. Paella of course, as well as the local variation - fideua - made with pasta noodles instead of rice.

Fragata - Passeig de la Ribera, 10 - For a quieter seafood experience, this location is impossible to beat. Right next to the Church, this sunny spot used to be the place where frigates would dock (before the land was reclaimed!) and you can still see some of the old moorings. Sophisticated seafood, along with a great wine list, make this a place to linger over an extremely long lunch. The set menu is very good value.

Oliver's - Illa de Cuba, 39 - Small, friendly family-run restaurant, serving traditional specialities from the Galicia region of Northern Spain in smart, comfortably surroundings. Very popular, so it is almost always worth booking a table. One of the more expensive restaurants in Sitges, but worth every cent.

Galicia - Angel Vidal, 20 - At the other end of the price range from Oliver's, this unpretentious restaurant serves simple, fresh Galician food. The set menu is a bargain and portions are generous, particularly the fish stews. Contrastingly, this is also one of the more popular restaurants in town for pizza, with the delivery drivers rushing through the restaurant as you eat with their takeaway orders.

Alma - Tacó, 16 - Intimate French restaurant in one of the quieter streets of Sitges. Traditional French cuisine with a Spanish flavour, this is definitely the place for fans of foie gras and duck.

Eguzki Lizarran - Sant Pau, 3 - Traditional and delicious Basque tapas. Ask for a plate and a drink, then help yourself from the huge array of dishes on the counter. At the end, pay according to how many cocktail sticks (pinchos) you have on your plate.