The story
A seafood restaurant in the Eixample
since 1990.
Thirty-six years in the same room on Carrer d'Aragó.
Etymology · O'Peregrino in Galician
O'Peregrino
/pe·re·'ɡri·no/·n.·Galician
Pilgrim: someone who travels a long way to get somewhere. Here it's the produce that does the travelling. It leaves Galicia, the Cantabrian coast, the Costa Brava, Columbretes and Cádiz, and ends up on a table in the Eixample.
The restaurant
From neighbourhood seafood restaurant to today
1990
It opens
It opens as a neighbourhood seafood restaurant on Carrer d'Aragó. Eleven tables and Galician produce.
2000
It settles in
The neighbourhood no longer needs anything explained. People come back.
2020
Alejandro arrives
The owner retires. Alejandro and his father, a regular here, buy the restaurant so it stays open.
2026
Today
Five coasts and a menu completed by whatever came in that morning.
Alejandro
He bought it so it wouldn't close
His father had been eating here for years. When the owner announced he was retiring, the two of them bought it so O'Peregrino wouldn't close. Alejandro, who had trained at the Hofmann school, took over the kitchen in 2020.
From the school he brought the technique and a hard eye for whatever comes through the door. The rest is down to the sea: a big piece excites him, so does something you don't see every day, and he comes out to your table to tell you where it's from before he cooks it.
Miguel
Twenty years in the same dining room
Miguel has been working these tables for twenty years. He knows the wine of someone who comes three times a year, tells you what came in today and what you'd want to order.
