{"id":83652,"date":"2024-09-19T09:45:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T16:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=83652"},"modified":"2024-09-19T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:04:02","slug":"teleferic-barcelona-long-beach-paella-tapas-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/teleferic-barcelona-long-beach-paella-tapas-opening","title":{"rendered":"From northern Spain to Long Beach, Telef\u00e8ric Barcelona shows off this family\u2019s paella and tapas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Spanish restaurant specializing in tapas and paella is opening Saturday at 2nd & PCH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-owned by brother and sister duo Xavi and Maria Padrosa, the original Telef\u00e8ric Barcelona<\/a> location was opened by their parents more than 30 years ago in Sant Cugat northwest of Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their mother, originally from Pamplona, was a pioneer in bringing pintxos to the Catalonia region in northeastern Spain, Xavi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telef\u00e8ric Barcelona offers a wide variety of appetizers, also known as tapas or pintxos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highlights include Crab Croquetas ($10) made with Mediterranean crabs topped with tuna sashimi and spicy aioli, along with Pulpo Telef\u00e8ric ($19), a Galician octopus served with truffle oil and piment\u00e9n potato pur\u00e9e.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re looking to order paella, Xavi recommends the Paella Negra ($46). The Long Beach version of the rice dish made with squid ink, gulf shrimp, scallops and clams will include toppings not found elsewhere such as tuna sashimi and octopus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo of paella and tapas courtesy Telef\u00e8ric Barcelona.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Guests wanting a luxury dining experience can order the 40 oz Catalan Tomahawk steak ($120) featuring beef imported from the north of Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s something that grabs people\u2019s attention a lot,\u201d Xavi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Torrija dessert ($9), French toast with Catalan cream and vanilla ice cream, is their mother\u2019s recipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telef\u00e8ric Barcelona\u2019s location facing southwest toward Alamitos Bay also includes a bar with craft cocktails, sangria and beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After moving to Northern California on a tennis scholarship when he was 17 years old, Xavi made it a goal to expand the family restaurant to the U.S., he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telef\u00e8ric’s first United States location opened in Northern California in 2016. Now, the restaurant has three locations in Northern California and opened a location in Brentwood in February last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The siblings take special care to ensure guests have an authentic experience at the new 125-seat restaurant, importing tile and furniture from Spain along with all of the managers and chefs, Xavi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI always like to say it\u2019s a trip to Spain with no passport required,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maria handles the design and architecture for each location, while Xavi runs the day-to-day operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSometimes working with family is not easy, but we respect each other\u2019s space a lot,\u201d Xavi said. \u201cI don\u2019t enter on the design part and she doesn\u2019t enter on the operations side of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xavi said he found the location at 2nd & PCH while biking through the area training for a triathlon. He was immediately drawn to the \u201cMediterranean feel\u201d of the shopping center with views of Alamitos Bay, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Jean Paul Wardy \u2014 founder and CEO of CenterCal Properties which owns 2nd & PCH \u2014 visited one of the Telef\u00e8ric locations in Northern California, Xavi said he knew the expansion was meant to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The restaurant will hold a soft opening starting Saturday. The Long Beach location will only be open for dinner until Oct. 1, then will expand to its usual hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telef\u00e8ric Barcelona adds an 18% service charge to each check to ensure it is able to provide equitable wages to employees, Xavi said. Tips or gratuities on top of that are not expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting Oct. 1, Telef\u00e8ric Barcelona \u2014 6420 Pacific Coast Highway Ste 160 \u2014 will be open 11:30 a.m. to 9:15 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. to 10:15 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 10:15 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. to 9:15 p.m. on Sunday.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The brother-sister duo Xavi and Maria Padrosa expanded their parent’s restaurant business to the U.S. but kept the authentic recipes and atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23521,"featured_media":83641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[168],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[32323],"class_list":["post-83652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-restaurant-openings","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83652"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83661,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83652\/revisions\/83661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83652"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=83652"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=83652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}