Aleia

Aleia restaurant opened in November 2021 at Hotel Casa Fuster, one of Barcelona's modernist landmarks. Led by Paulo Airaudo and young chef Rafael de Bedoya, Aleia offers a contemporary tasting menu focused on seasonal products, with a special emphasis on fish and seafood. Their cuisine blends classic technique with bold creativity.

Aleia occupies the noble floor of Hotel Casa Fuster on Barcelona's Paseo de Gracia, a modernist palace designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner in the early twentieth century. The dining room is luminous and elegant - defined by grand columns, a soaring window and an undulating ceiling - a space of calm and natural light intended to hold many moods, from intimate dinners to quiet discovery. The restaurant is a collaboration between Paulo Airaudo, who provides its strategic and creative direction, and Rafa de Bedoya, the Jerez-born chef who leads the kitchen day to day. Their cooking is a cuisine that dialogues with its surroundings, weaving De Bedoya's Andalusian heritage together with nearby Mediterranean ingredients through precise technique, seasonality and honest flavour. Guests are received through a single seasonal tasting menu, offered with optional wine pairings. Aleia opened in December 2021, earned its first Michelin star in November 2022 and was awarded a second in 2025, establishing it among Barcelona's most significant contemporary dining rooms.