This restaurant features imaginative and delicious Mediterranean cooking based particularly on fresh vegetables and fish. Try the eggplant grilled with herbs—very good sorbets, too. Six private rooms can be booked for parties of four to 40. Daily for lunch and dinner. Reservations required. $$$. MasterCard or Visa preferred. Provenca 242, Eixample, Barcelona. Phone 93-323-2367. http://www.laprovenza.com.