About Calau
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
Fantastic experience: Excelente en lospinchos, los camareros y el ambiente, volveremos.
Fantastic experience: We liked it a lot ! Unbeatable location, attentive service and good quality of food.
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.
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.
Fantastic experience: Amazing tapas, great service and lovely views
Fantastic experience: Greatest tapas in Palafrugell area. Very friendly staff and if you're lucky there are great seats by the window.
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.
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!
Fantastic experience: Top
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
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
Fantastic experience: A truly memorable meal. Beautiful views if you can sit outside. Beautiful food and atmosphere if you sit inside.
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
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!
Fantastic experience: Great selection of tapas, very easy to eat too much. Best to arrive at opening time to guarantee a table.
Fantastic experience: Excellent food, friendly service, great location - what is not to like?
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.
Fantastic experience: Best pintxos in Cost Brava! Tip: wait for the warm pintxos to pass by your table. They are sooo delicious!
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.
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!
Fantastic experience: Brutal
Fantastic experience: Brutal!!
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.
Fantastic experience: Fantastic tapas! Absolutely delicious! And a major social scene, too. A great place to go in beautiful Calella.
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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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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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.
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.
Fantastic experience: Really great tapas, very nice concept, friendly service, and the food is made fresh.
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
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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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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Fantastic experience: Delicious Tapas with a modern touch
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
Fantastic experience: Extra
Fantastic experience: 10/10 experience, good price/quality MUST try
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.
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!
Fantastic experience: Everything was AMAZING
Fantastic experience: Good food and service
Fantastic experience: Great place.
Fantastic experience: Great tapas.
Fantastic experience: Nice for a tapas and a drink
Fantastic experience: Fantastic!
Fantastic experience: Top
Fantastic experience: Excel·lent,
Fantastic experience: Amazing food and service
Fantastic experience: A perfect place to enjoy a meal.. Opens at 7.00pm ...get there by 7.00pm or join the queue
Fantastic experience: great tapas!
Fantastic experience: Fabulous but o so full the food keeps coming !
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.
Fantastic experience: Absolutely amazing tapas. We really enjoyed the food and the ambiente.
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.
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.
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.
Fantastic experience: Great food and ambiance. Queue at the door is the telltale sign. Really enjoyed our visits to Calau.
Fantastic experience: Really amazing food. There is a long queue from 7pm so if you're hungry get there early.
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.
Fantastic experience: Amazing tapas and location with self service making it much easier to get food
Fantastic experience: My wife describes this place as her favourite restaurant in the world. We’ve been 3 times in one holiday.
Fantastic experience: This buffet restaurant was so much fun. The food were delicious . They had a variety of tapas to choose from!
Fantastic experience: Delicious food
Fantastic experience: Very good food
Fantastic experience: Supper
Fantastic experience: great spot.
Fantastic experience: Top !
Fantastic experience: SUPER.
Fantastic experience: Lovely food and great service
Fantastic experience: Love this place. Great fun and great service.
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.
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.
Fantastic experience: Amazing food and great atmosphere. Much better than most of the other places in the area. A must do!
Fantastic experience: Excellent Tapas style food at your table. Very reasonable prices and excellent choice of dishes.
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.
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).
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!
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.
Fantastic experience: Excellent tapas
Fantastic experience: Tapes Vora Mar !!!!
Fantastic experience: It will be great !!!
Fantastic experience: Really good food and service but can become a bit expensive if you aren't keeping track of what you're eating
Fantastic experience: Nice atmosphere, New restaurant. Best montaditos in town !!!
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!
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.
Fantastic experience: Fabulous, as always. Fantastic food , great wine, and all v.cheap.