Fontané
Café · Girona
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Fontané is the restaurant at the Roca brothers' Esperit Roca hotel, set on the upper floor of the old fort atop Sants Metges hill above Sant Julià de Ramis. The kitchen serves a Catalan tasting menu built as a tribute to Montserrat Fontané, the brothers' mother whose home cooking inspired it. The dining room's windows look out over the Gironès and the Empordà. It opens Thursday to Sunday, by reservation, at the top of the climb up to the fort.
The fort on Sants Metges hill is a military fortification built in the late 19th century, standing beside the site of Kerunta, an Iberian settlement credited with inspiring the Roman founding of Girona two thousand years ago. The Roca brothers built Fontané's tasting menu from historic Catalan cookbooks, among them the 14th-century Llibre de Sent Soví and the 1835 Cuynera Catalana. They describe the project as a search for the roots of Catalan cuisine as much as a tribute to their mother's cooking. It opened on 27 April 2025, Saint Montserrat's feast day, chosen to match the restaurant's namesake. The hotel built around it holds a wine cellar for more than 80,000 bottles and an exhibition on forty years of El Celler de Can Roca.
What you see
The fort's concrete, stone and glass sit on top of Sants Metges hill, visible from the valley roads on the way up.
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