The essence of the Mediterranean since 1986

In the Santa Eulàlia neighbourhood, where it all began in 1986, Antonio Varela and Matilde opened a small bar serving breakfasts and lunches. She cooked like an angel and, in a room seating just 40, they served more than a hundred people a day. Dish by dish, with hard work and humility, they built something far greater than a restaurant: a home.

From that seed grew the dream of their son Toni. At only 14 he was already imagining what Casa Varela is today. Hard years followed — economic crisis, family troubles, Matilde's illness — but life brought light with the birth of his daughter Abril. That moment changed everything. Toni took the reins and, even though COVID put everything at risk and took good friends with it, he looked at his daughter and decided: “I'm going all in. And I'm going for it all.”

Today, forty years on, we celebrate what we have built together: a house with memory, where the ever-simmering pots of old are still tended with the same love as in 1986, but with our eyes set firmly on the future.

Thank you for being part of this story. Here in L'Hospitalet, you will always have a table and a warm embrace.