Cal Pep’s history belongs to the history of the latest years of la Ribera, a district where people who pulled their wheelbarrows disappeared when the Born was closed, and saw the fall of tourim with the França’s station closing, and the stockbrokers disappeared –sometimes rich, sometimes poor- when La Llotja closed. But Pep closed the ancient Frankfurt –the walls where about to fall down– where you could take a fish stock, a sandwich or sauted crayfish, and sometimes you could take novel wine or Champagne; and he decided to stay in the same district, he didn’t leave it to go to more fashinable zones in the highest part of the city. The new local was magic and bought a disco called ‘kitch’ in Les Olles square, where after lots of work he changed mixed drinks for shellfish.
More than 25 years later, Pep continues running his restaurant with lots of humor and kindness: he can be sauting some squids, decanting a bottle of wine, saying hello to a politician came from Madrid with an ... ei mariconazo(what’s up…!), he enters the kitchen to finish a ‘xup-xup’,... hola xatos!(hello) to a construction brokers, smiles to a Japanese women which came from the Picasso museum(having a great time in the bar) and doesn’t understand anything, and embraces a paintor, a friend he hasn’t seen for years and now is succeding in New York.

CAL PEP

Cal Pep presents a new way of cooking, really different from the typical format of entreés, dessert... but a more fresh and bright view of understanding cooking, with an easy preparation and a quick manufacture. This proposal grew from the idea of sharing the dishes and their tastes and particularities like ‘tapas’. Faithful at his style, Pep makes us enjoy light, exquisite and really varied dishes.

Cal Pep shows us a Mediterranean cookingnos presenta which characterozes for his preparation with guarantee of origin, and Pep’s personal style, without forgetting which is the typical product each season. So you can enjoy fish, shellfish which give us lots of proteins and minerals, everything flavoured whit the most characteristic and and personal Pep’s contribution.