Boccatti

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Boccatti: Michelin-Recommended Catalan Seafood in Vic, Spain

Boccatti: A Seafood Haven in Inland Vic

Boccatti is one of those addresses that has been passed by word of mouth. It’s not easy, otherwise, to understand what a restaurant like this is doing in a landlocked city. Its defining vocation is eminently marine, as the subtitle “marisqueria” made clear for years. Locals have known it as such, and that continues to be true—among other things. Fish is its forte, though the philosophy of selecting the highest quality product extends to everything else on the menu.

This is a restaurant with character. Josep Girabent works as the chef and attends to the clientele, while M. Isabel Garcia (Mari to regulars) works alongside him at the stoves, spreading joy. The choice of product sustains the culinary concept that Josep has maintained since the beginning. The restaurant sits next to the market. He does the shopping—the first mushrooms or tender broad beans—and knows the time of year when baby octopus, cuttlefish, or squid appear, which he serves clean and pristine. The fish is wild and, preferentially, from the Catalan coast: rock fish when in season (deboned), langoustines, scorpionfish, and John Dory; and from the Cantabrian Sea: goose barnacles and oysters.

Josep practices a cuisine of the moment, exemplified by the display case where he daily exhibits the day’s purchases—a sea bass, some prawns, or a few golden chanterelles—lush, fresh, and attractive. The professional signature is completed by that classic, impeccable service, where someone still can cleanly and delicately bone fish at the table. In an establishment like this, dishes also become iconic. So it is, immortalized, his beef tartare—with the fat it must have.

The dining room is small, and the treatment is personal. Boccatti is a tailor-made restaurant, a house where the years seem not to pass, faithful to a way of doing things that is their own, personal, and that identifies them, honors them, and confuses no one. This commitment to quality and tradition earned it a Michelin Recommended award for 2026, recognizing its place as a destination for authentic Catalan seafood in the heart of Vic.