{"id":721,"date":"2009-06-07T17:50:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T17:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=721"},"modified":"2009-06-07T17:50:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T17:50:30","slug":"la-botiga-2-barcelona-restaurant-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2009\/06\/la-botiga-2-barcelona-restaurant-review\/","title":{"rendered":"La Botiga 2 &#8211; Barcelona &#8211; Restaurant Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Botiga is a 3-restaurant chain of mid-priced contemporary Catalan restaurants in Barcelona.  A few colleagues and I had dinner at the one located near Avenida Diagonal last Tuesday night, and we were all quite pleased with the experience.  We had a very pleasant dinner in the outside patio, the food was good and the service attentive and accommodating.<br \/>\nLa Botiga&#8217;s menu offers perhaps half a dozen appetizers, plus some salads, and perhaps a dozen entrees (mostly priced E12 and under).   My colleagues were all happy with their appetizers which included croquettes and fritters, very fresh asparagus with some sort of sauce and, of course, bread with tomato.  They seemed to be pretty pleased with their entrees as well &#8211; and they were surprised that the hamburger surprised plate consisted of a stuffed hamburger patty with no bun.  I thought my steak kebab lacked ummf and didn&#8217;t like the undercooked potatoes it came with, but it was all in all alright. My desert of <i>crema catalana<\/i> was a little lacking BUT after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/int\/catalunya\/crema.html\">having made it<\/a> once and eaten it two or three times, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that crema catalana just can&#8217;t compare with its French cousin creme brulee.<br \/>\nService was professional and quick &#8211; we never lacked for anything, and the waiter happily let me use a credit card to pay part of my bill.<br \/>\nLa Botiga 2<br \/>\nGandesa, 10<br \/>\nBarcelona<br \/>\nSpain<br \/>\n93 410 48 47<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/labotiga.angrup.com\/\">http:\/\/labotiga.angrup.com\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/rest\/other\/\">Marga&#8217;s Restaurant Reviews<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/int\/catalunya\/\">Marga&#8217;s Catalan Menu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Botiga is a 3-restaurant chain of mid-priced contemporary Catalan restaurants in Barcelona. A few colleagues and I had dinner at the one located near Avenida Diagonal last Tuesday night, and we were all quite pleased with the experience. We had a very pleasant dinner in the outside patio, the food was good and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}