About Calau

Calle de les Voltes, 2 - 17210, Calella de Palafrugell
+34 972 61 53 01

Calau is the pinchos and tapas bar in front of the Port Bo beach in the centre of Calella de Palafrugell, a few metres from the sea.

Their tapas and pichos are made with fresh market products. You can find from the most traditional pinchos to original and unique pinxos. Try them and you will be surprised!

Opening hours

  • Monday: 12:30–15:00, 19:30–22:00
  • Tuesday: 12:30–15:00, 19:30–22:00
  • Wednesday: 12:30–15:00, 19:30–22:00
  • Thursday: 12:30–15:00, 19:30–22:00
  • Friday: 12:30–15:00, 19:30–22:00
  • Saturday: 12:30–15:00, 19:30–22:00
  • Sunday: 12:30–15:00, 19:30–22:00

Calau: Reviews

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Paco 11/11/2023

Fantastic experience: Excelente en lospinchos, los camareros y el ambiente, volveremos.

ROX 01/06/2022

Fantastic experience: We liked it a lot ! Unbeatable location, attentive service and good quality of food.

Elisabet Gómez 01/06/2022

Fantastic experience: Although we always saw our tails, we had never encouraged each other yet and it was a success. Wide variety of skewers and very efficient service, friendly and with a smile (despite the work). Vi de l'Empordà (of the house) very good and rhythm of rotation of the more than acceptable food. I recognize that I initially struck me (and negative) having to queue just to know if there was availability and being able to sign up for the list, but I recognize that with the volume of people passing there, it is the only way to manage it. We were lucky enough to have dinner at the table against the sea and the experience was wonderful. A different and perfect dinner.

Carole Chaumet 18/05/2022

Fantastic experience: We hesitated to have lunch there because there was no more space on the (small) terrace and finally decided to go: no regrets, it was so good. Varied and delicious hot and cold tapas, pleasant waiters. We had a great time as a family.

Rosaleen M 13/05/2022

Fantastic experience: Amazing tapas, great service and lovely views

Carsten Brennecke 08/05/2022

Fantastic experience: Greatest tapas in Palafrugell area. Very friendly staff and if you're lucky there are great seats by the window.

Santiago Roca 08/05/2022

Fantastic experience: Ideal place to have montaditos. They have a lot of variety and are constantly offering freshly made sandwiches. Ideal for taper. They do not make reservations.

Anaïs Maréchal 08/05/2022

Fantastic experience: Brilliant restaurant, top-of-the-range tapas, the staff is smiling and adorable. There is something for everyone, and the principle of addition is well found. The location is perfect, and decorated with great taste. In short, one of my favorite places!

Melanie Audemar 08/05/2022

Fantastic experience: Top

Titi Roudoudou 06/05/2022

Fantastic experience: An extremely good Tapas meal. The tapas are fresh and varied. Do not rush to those on display, because the waiter comes by regularly to present you with hot ones as the meal progresses. I recommend in addition you will have seen on the callelia de Palafrugell. A moment of pure happiness

Julien Villegas 03/05/2022

Fantastic experience: In Barcelona, in carrer Blai, we have dozens of places doing pintxos. Without a doubt this one is much better: Delicious, great variety, great staff

Phill T 03/05/2022

Fantastic experience: A truly memorable meal. Beautiful views if you can sit outside. Beautiful food and atmosphere if you sit inside.

Karen Flowers 03/05/2022

Fantastic experience: One of my favourite restaurants in Calella. Excellent choice of tapas. The prices are good and so is the food. There is always a queue so get there early as they don't take bookings

Dion Cooper 03/05/2022

Fantastic experience: One of the best pintxo places on the entire costa brava. They have a buffet inside but also walk around with tablets and ask people if they want it. If you are lucky and get a table outside, you will enjoy an amazing view over the little town and the sea. The food is great but it gets very busy and you have to wait for a long time but it is worth it!

Colin Nelson 03/05/2022

Fantastic experience: Great selection of tapas, very easy to eat too much. Best to arrive at opening time to guarantee a table.

AAL “AAL” 03/05/2022

Fantastic experience: Excellent food, friendly service, great location - what is not to like?

Faly AND 03/05/2022

Fantastic experience: The Calau tapas bar in Calella is a real must-see institution in the Costa Brava. One of the best tables in Catalan gastronomy. You have to book, otherwise you have to wait for an hour and a half outside. The waiting list is long. There is nothing to say about the value for money.

Albert Peiret 03/05/2022

Fantastic experience: Best pintxos in Cost Brava! Tip: wait for the warm pintxos to pass by your table. They are sooo delicious!

edgar granados 18/04/2022

Fantastic experience: Tapas restaurant. Very good and recommended. Reservations are not allowed, but you have to show up and sign up. When the table is available, you receive an SMS notifying you that you already have it ready. You can get the tapas yourself at the bar. And they also go through the tables with hot tapas. Each lid has a type of toothpick and each one has a price. At the end, they tell you the toothpicks and so they know the tapas you have ordered.

Dragutin HEGIC 08/03/2022

Fantastic experience: Excellent restaurant conveniently located. The principle is well established and very practical. The dishes or tapas are all delicious: savory and sweet, there is something for everyone. Smiling and attentive service. The addition is more than moderate in view of the quality of the whole. In short, great experience and evening at the top!

Jordi Pascual 06/03/2022

Fantastic experience: Brutal

David Manzanares 06/03/2022

Fantastic experience: Brutal!!

Paul van de Sande 03/03/2022

Fantastic experience: Amazing experience and quite unexpected! There was a delicious cold pintxo buffet and they walked around the restaurant serving hot pintxos. Quality wine was brought to the table fast. Amazing service and quality of food for a good price.

Kimmen Sjolander 03/03/2022

Fantastic experience: Fantastic tapas! Absolutely delicious! And a major social scene, too. A great place to go in beautiful Calella.

ACM 24/02/2022

Positive experience: Spacious, clean and cozy place. Complicated location (pedestrian area) but with beautiful views. The price, perfect. Lots of variety of elaborate and quality pinchos. The waitress pass (table by table) offering more hot varieties of pinchos, very top (a blond and tattooed waitress, really nice). Good concept of service and food, totally recommended. The star missing from this publication is due to the staff, except for the girl already mentioned, the rest, quite “dry” in terms of dealing with the client you refer.
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St 15/02/2022

Fantastic experience: Cozy place with quality pinchos. The service was excellent, they explained to us in detail their hot pinchos and they were delicious. And their white wine from Penedes is great!! We are sure that if we return to make a trip to the area, we would return for sure.
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Jesús Ramirez 08/11/2021

Fantastic experience: How well we have eaten ... the success has been total when choosing this place. Very good and varied pinchos to satisfy any palate, the place is good and the staff is better. Cleaning of ten. Highly recommended.

TJ Goan 03/11/2021

Fantastic experience: Very enjoyable lunch. Tapas meet dim sum. Great service and quality. Compared to other places we've eaten nearby, this seemed a bargain.

W 03/11/2021

Fantastic experience: Really great tapas, very nice concept, friendly service, and the food is made fresh.

James Whisker 03/11/2021

Fantastic experience: Incredible food, an eating experience as quick or slow as you make it, in a beautiful little port. I can't imagine it in high season - it's probably much more difficult to get a table - but in October it was perfect

Gregorio Alonso 16/10/2021

Positive experience: October is the ideal time to enter without queues. To enjoy the dishes, the flavors. When the waiter passes by with new hot proposals and you have not yet overcome the tail of everything with previous ratafía. Festival of flavors for the first time, intense even in desserts. Only surpassed by the surprises of my companions.
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Joan Sánchez 13/09/2021

Fantastic experience: Very good place for pinchos. The price is acceptable. The service and the exquisite attention. They don't book, so you'll have to keep your shift for a considerable amount of time. However, it's worth it.
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Annie Chou 06/07/2021

Fantastic experience: Delicious Tapas with a modern touch

Maria Sweeney 03/07/2021

Fantastic experience: Fantastic restaurant for tapas with a big variety, moderate price, modern deco and right in front of the beach. I would highly recommend it to enjoy with friends or family

Jordi Pi 08/06/2021

Fantastic experience: Extra

Arnau Morgado 06/06/2021

Fantastic experience: 10/10 experience, good price/quality MUST try

Lautrup Kristian 03/06/2021

Fantastic experience: A nice place located close to the beach. The consept is a buffet of a wide selection of tapas like small selections. The price is decent and of course you can pick your own favourite tapas. It is clean and the staff takes the covid-19 restriction seriously.

Louise Grant 03/06/2021

Fantastic experience: Simply not to be avoided when visiting. The food is wonderful. Such a large variety. The location is stunning and the staff are always welcoming. Sadly we couldn't come during summer last year as I was expecting a baby so unable to fly. This year we hope to come but may delay due to Covid -19. We wish the staff well and hope to see you soon!

blindpoetchamonix 08/06/2020

Fantastic experience: Everything was AMAZING

Christiaan Fresen 08/06/2020

Fantastic experience: Good food and service

George Holler 08/06/2020

Fantastic experience: Great place.

John Lindley 08/06/2020

Fantastic experience: Great tapas.

Michelle Staig 08/06/2020

Fantastic experience: Nice for a tapas and a drink

Romen 11 08/06/2020

Fantastic experience: Fantastic!

Giorgio Anconetani 08/06/2020

Fantastic experience: Top

isabel ciurana 08/06/2020

Fantastic experience: Excel·lent,

Peter Gregory 08/06/2020

Fantastic experience: Amazing food and service

Dave Bassford 06/06/2020

Fantastic experience: A perfect place to enjoy a meal.. Opens at 7.00pm ...get there by 7.00pm or join the queue

Julie Velaers 06/06/2020

Fantastic experience: great tapas!

June Blower 06/06/2020

Fantastic experience: Fabulous but o so full the food keeps coming !

Steve McCabe 03/06/2020

Fantastic experience: Wide array of great tapas. Something for everybody. Lots of seafood tapas. Choices of small bite desserts as well. We went twice to Calau.

Alexander W. 03/06/2020

Fantastic experience: Absolutely amazing tapas. We really enjoyed the food and the ambiente.

Susanna Louie 03/06/2020

Fantastic experience: The variety of tapas was heaven. The staff friendly and helpful. Don't fill yourself with just what is being offered at the bar, servers do bring freshly made tapas from the kitchen throughout the day. It reminds me of Chinese dim sum. A great way to enjoy tapas.

David Howat 03/06/2020

Fantastic experience: Busy Tapas restaurant. A real good buzz about the place. Plenty of choice. The service was very good and staff were friendly and helpful. My family and I went twice and would definitely go back.

AlisonE 03/06/2020

Fantastic experience: This tapas bar in Calella was an excellent new discovery and I highly recommend it for vegetarians as well as meat and fish eaters. It serves the best veggie tapas I've ever had. The customer chooses from the array of dishes in the bar area and the offerings include wild mushroom croquettes, mini squares of toast with melted goats cheese and honey, a pea and bean mini salad and staff were quick to offer to adapt dishes with meat into veggie appropriate options as well. With a small outside seating area, and a lovely view of the sea, I can't recommend it highly enough.

Graham Hyde 03/06/2020

Fantastic experience: Great food and ambiance. Queue at the door is the telltale sign. Really enjoyed our visits to Calau.

Gareth Gilleeney 03/06/2020

Fantastic experience: Really amazing food. There is a long queue from 7pm so if you're hungry get there early.

tcv854 03/06/2020

Fantastic experience: Excellent, lovely tapas which we first found in their original premises. Nice to see them grow to where they are now. If we've returned to the area we always try and revisit.

Jaideep Prabhu 03/06/2020

Fantastic experience: Amazing tapas and location with self service making it much easier to get food

Neal Sutton 03/06/2020

Fantastic experience: My wife describes this place as her favourite restaurant in the world. We’ve been 3 times in one holiday.

K K 03/06/2020

Fantastic experience: This buffet restaurant was so much fun. The food were delicious . They had a variety of tapas to choose from!

Kate Dixon 08/06/2019

Fantastic experience: Delicious food

Aapo turkki 08/06/2019

Fantastic experience: Very good food

mo chris 08/06/2019

Fantastic experience: Supper

John Neary 08/06/2019

Fantastic experience: great spot.

Fabienne Pozzetto 08/06/2019

Fantastic experience: Top !

Rita Cool 06/06/2019

Fantastic experience: SUPER.

catherine simmonds 06/06/2019

Fantastic experience: Lovely food and great service

Mark Wickersham 06/06/2019

Fantastic experience: Love this place. Great fun and great service.

Andrew Whelan 03/06/2019

Fantastic experience: Amazing concept and food. Genuine little pieces of tapas, combination of self service and table service. Staff were lovely and the food was divine. Lots of choice including more unusual Indian and English style tapas. Very easy to spend lots of money!! Very worth it.

Helen Bussell 03/06/2019

Fantastic experience: Tapas restaurant offering cold buffet style tapas plus hot tapas being offered by waiter. A lovely place and loved every mouthful of food & wine. Could eat here every day. Very friendly attentive staff. Highly recommend.

Scott Bent 03/06/2019

Fantastic experience: Amazing food and great atmosphere. Much better than most of the other places in the area. A must do!

Derek Johnson 03/06/2019

Fantastic experience: Excellent Tapas style food at your table. Very reasonable prices and excellent choice of dishes.

Matt Songi 03/06/2019

Fantastic experience: Great and interesting pinchos in a beautiful coastal town. The only problem with this place is that the waiters go around with plates of food to pick from and it's all so good that even at a reasonable price I ended up spending more than I meant to.

Sally Veall 03/06/2019

Fantastic experience: Living close by, I never refuse a chance to eat here. Very good tapas, wines & beers. At weekends & in the summer you will probably have to queue to get in unless you arrive at opening time. Open 10 months a year (closed January & February).

Greg Gillespie 03/06/2019

Fantastic experience: Amazingly good at a more than reasonable price! We had a bottle of really good wine, loads of food, an obscene amount of dessert, two more glasses of wine and a coffee for €76!! Will be back!

Ian Bremner 03/06/2019

Fantastic experience: Better every time. We find this place irresistable. Its location is great and a seat on terrace provides a lovely vista of sand and sea. Food and service is faultless.

Marina Font Esteve 08/06/2018

Fantastic experience: Excellent tapas

francesc xavier dominguezhortal 08/06/2018

Fantastic experience: Tapes Vora Mar !!!!

Francesc Lopez Alvarez 08/06/2018

Fantastic experience: It will be great !!!

anna1234 06/06/2018

Fantastic experience: Really good food and service but can become a bit expensive if you aren't keeping track of what you're eating

Eduardo EJL 03/06/2018

Fantastic experience: Nice atmosphere, New restaurant. Best montaditos in town !!!

Marie Barfoed 03/06/2018

Fantastic experience: Fantastic tapas bar! They keep bringing out new delicious tapas you simply can't resist. Enjoy a relaxing atmosphere and a good glass of wine! Highly recommendable! We'll definitely visit twice during the week we are in the area!

Pol Fuentes 03/06/2018

Fantastic experience: I've come here for years and the food is really amazing and really captures Catalan culture on a piece of bread. I really like the place and really recommend it. However there is no reservations and the lines can get long at night, especially in August.

Noelene Hewitson 06/06/2017

Fantastic experience: Fabulous, as always. Fantastic food , great wine, and all v.cheap.

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