Anya Von Bremzen

"Paco serves Barcelona’s greatest tomato bread: a flat, split, porous roll grilled to a perfect crunch and slathered with pink, frothy tomato pulp."

Cindy Wang

"Paco Meralgo is a simple place that serves quality tapas, including supposedly Barcelona’s greatest tomato bread."

Joshua Lurie

"Paco Meralgo also serves a definitive version of pan con tomate, with crisp rafts of bread slathered with tomato and olive oil."

David Rosendorf

"The bread was crisp and toasty but still permeated with the juice of sweet ripe tomatoes, enhanced with an assertive but not overwhelming whiff of garlic, and generously drizzled with some really good olive oil."

Vanessa Murphy

"Their pa amb tomàquet (tomato bread) is some of the best in the city with a plate of jamón."

Pim Techamuanvivit

"There was also the Pa amb Tomàquet, the ubiquitous Catalan bread rubbed with tomato, which was particularly good here."

Adam Roberts

"This was the most perfect marriage of bread, oil and tomato: almost like really good garlic bread, except the acid of the tomato works to cut the richness of the oil."

Ann Mah

"Speaking of tomato bread, my favorite was at Paco Meralgo. The tomato bread here had a thick, crunchy crust and chewy crumb and was drizzled with a buttery olive oil."

George Faya

"You can get this everywhere in Spain, but you’d be hard pressed to find it prepared this well."

Ashley Goldsmith

"The classics like pan con tomate were the best versions of each that we had eaten on the trip."