ELS TINARS, A TRAJECTORY WITH A PRIZE

In 1978, when he opened Els Tinars restaurant on the road to Sant Feliu and Platja d'Aro - where it is still today - long queues formed there on summer Sundays. Els Tinars - or Can Gascons, as it was popularly known in the area - was already a restaurant that was doing very well back then.

Marc Gascons is now in charge of the kitchen, while his sister, Elena, serves the room with the same professionalism as her parents, who opened the doors of the current restaurant. In fact, it was the grandparents who started in the world of catering, and therefore Marc and Elena are the third generation who live with enthusiasm in the world of gastronomy.

Marc Gascons has been able to find a true tightrope walk balance between the cuisine of tradition and the creativity that prevails in the 21st century kitchen, and has given birth to a cuisine with "the taste of tradition" that convinces supporters of one and another style. With the menu in front of you, you don't know whether to opt for traditional dishes, or for Marc's renewed proposals; any option will be a success!

In the living room, Elena moves with the same welcoming sincerity of interior design. Els Tinars has that fortune in the decoration that makes you feel at ease in a place without knowing why, a harmonious space without shrillness, which is both friendly and select, affable and distinguished.

Today that road has become a fast motorway that takes traffic from Barcelona and Girona towards the central Costa Brava, and the restaurant continues to be a spectator of this ebb and flow, especially at weekends and in the summer months. It goes without saying that, on the way out or back, it's worth stopping at Els Tinars; but it is also worth going there expressly. It is an ideal context for a special moment, for a lunch with the joy of midday or a dinner with the complicity of the night.

More information: http://www.elstinars.com/ca/