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In 1993, Santi Alegre and I, Ada Parellada, we rent a vast, located in the heart of Barcelona's Eixample, which had been the seat of an old woman who had just dropped the editorial blind . We replace books letters, letters to take with promises of baked sea bass, black pudding galore, lamb and bittersweet chocolate delirium tremens. And we baptized with the name of Semproniana.

The name of Semproniana has generated curiosity left and right, so then we revealed to her. The first track, a Roman vessel, a kind of Michelin guide avant la lettre, lead us to the Via Augusta, the great road that connected Rome and Cadiz through the littoral of our region. Second, an establishment mysterious because it does not match any ancient Roman settlement; his name is Semproniana and placed him in the area of ​​Vallès, geographically where Roman remains found strength but no archaeological remains of this a stop for travelers and service station for horses and tack.

In the mid-twentieth century, the historian Joseph Estrada Granollers outlines a theory which states that the Semproniana would be located in an area near Granollers and all historians of this city trying to reject it, almost, crazy.

Forty years later the first note of the historian Estrada, in 1982, there is a third track, the center of Granollers: the remains of a large Roman villa •, which does change the written history of the city and showed up then.

Choose Semproniana as the name for our brand new space was a tribute to the perseverance of those who believe in his ideas though in practice it are tools that corroborate the eyes of most incredulous.

Today, after hesitating, open every day, pass all the colors and, ultimately, sweat bacon, we can say that the effort was worth it. Consistent with our ideas, perseverance has been the flag that has filled every sense of the dishes we cooked Semproniana a local christened with a name full of meaning.

Continue cooking stoves up bass, chicken, sauces for all tastes and many hopes and energies • and to move forward.