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Bar Raval - Wikipedia

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Bar Raval

Restaurant information
Established	February 13, 2015 (2015-02-13)^[1]
Owner(s)	Grant van Gameren
Food type	Spanish
Rating	Bib Gourmand (Michelin Guide)
Street address	505 College Street
City	Toronto, Ontario
Country	Canada
Seating capacity	40^[2]
Website	www.thisisbarraval.com

Bar Raval is a Spanish tapas restaurant and cocktail bar in the Little Italy neighbourhood of Toronto's West End.

The restaurant is owned by Toronto restauranteur Grant Van Gameren,^[3] who is also the owner and former head chef of Toronto Michelin-starred restaurant Quetzal.

Design

Bar Raval is well known for its interior, designed by local Toronto-based architectural firm Partisans.^[1] Van Gameren cited wanting the restaurant to be "as much an art piece as a restaurant."^[2] The bar is built in Spanish Art Nouveau style, with wooden curved accents and South African mahogany woodwork wrapping above, around, and on the entire bar.^[1]^[4]^[3]

The restaurant only offers a limited seating area, encouraging its patrons to instead stand or lean against the bar.^[5] In the evenings, the restaurant is standing-room only.^[2]

Food and drink

Bar Raval seeks to emulate a Barcelona-style tapas bar, offering a small food menu of Spanish bar snacks such as conservas (canned fish and seafood) and pinxtos (food served on toothpicks).^[3]^[5]

The restaurant offers Spanish wines, as well as a large selection of sherry and vermouth.^[6] The signature cocktail at the bar is the Tinto Fino, which consists of dry sherry and lime juice.^[4]

Recognition

The business was named a Bib Gourmand restaurant by the Michelin Guide at Toronto's 2022 Michelin Guide ceremony, and retained this recognition in 2023 and 2024.^[3] A Bib Gourmand recognition is awarded to restaurants who offer "exceptionally good food at moderate prices." Notable dishes Michelin cited in their review include Bar Raval's Boquerones en vinagre and shrimp a la planxa.^[3]

Bar Raval was ranked #1 on Canada's 50 Best Bars inaugural list in 2018, and retained its spot at the top of the list in 2019 and 2020.^[7]^[4] It has remained on the list every year following, most recently ranking at #25 in the 2024 edition.^[8]

It has also received global recognition, ranking #99 on the World's Best Bars list in 2020.^[9]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Bozikovic, Alex (20 February 2015). "Bar Raval: A chef's ambitious new venture, built to last". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c Nuttall-Smith, Chris (3 April 2015). "Bar Raval: Why can't going out for drinks and snacks always be this sublime?". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Bar Raval - Toronto". Michelin Guide. Michelin North America. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "No. 1 - Bar Raval". Canada's 50 Best Bars - 2018. Canada's 100 Best. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Review: Bar Raval, Grant van Gameren's College Street tapas bar, is another standout". Toronto Life. 22 May 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
^ Fernando, AJ. "Bar Raval: A big-time chef's ode to Barcelona". Bon Appetit. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
^ "Bar Raval's Dressed to Suppress". Canada's 100 Best Restaurants. Canada's 100 Best. July 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
^ "No. 25 - Bar Raval". Canada's 50 Best Bars - 2024. Canada's 100 Best. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
^ Doradea, Karen (5 November 2020). "Canadian bar named one of the best in the world". Daily Hive Vancouver. Daily Hive. Retrieved 7 October 2024.

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