RESTAURANT L’ALIANÇA D’ANGLÈS

The history of L’Aliança goes back to 1953, when Lluís and Adela came to run the café-bar of the then Sindicato Alianza Agrícola de Anglés. Until the 1990s, it had been an important meeting point of the town and the surroundings, well known for its sandwiches, Adela’s breaded calamari and the long and quiet afternoons of cards and casino games played on the beautiful marble tables.

Some years later, their sons Josep Maria and Lluís joined the business, incorporating gourmet food and drinks and promoting the rock&roll live nights with long drinks service. As a result of the success of the plates that Lluís started to cook, the two brothers decided to open a small restaurant in an annexed room. Five years later, they decided to close the café-bar business in order to convert that impressive salon into the new space for the restaurant: it was in that moment that the restaurant l’Aliança d’Anglès was born.

As a result of the effort and hard work, L’Aliança began to be recognized by the gastronomic world receiving various distinctions, amongst them it is worth mentioning the Michelin Star won in 2008. Unfortunately, the star stopped shining when Lluís died 5 years later.

After a time of reflection, Cristina and Marina, Lluis’s daughters, together with their uncle Josep Maria, reopen the restaurant with the intention to merge the spirit of the grandparents’ café-bar with Lluis’s cuisine.

In 2019, Álex Carrera, Cristina’s life partner, joins the team to take control of Aliança’s kitchen, trying to recover the spirit of the restaurant that Lluís left.

Álex cuisine’s is recognised with a Michelin Star at the end of 2020 and, at the beginning of 2021, with a Repsol Sun, placing L’Aliança again in the national gastronomic scene.