The story of Bornès begins with an anecdote: an Italian, an Argentine, and two Brazilians joined forces to open a Catalan cuisine restaurant without any Catalans on the management team. The partners are Gianluca Bove (Italian from Salerno), Gabriel Buchaillot (Argentine from Córdoba), and the Brazilians Claudia Quintero and Mario Quintero (from Sao Paulo). All of them have lived in Catalunya for many years and are deeply familiar with local gastronomy.

This project is an expansion of their successful business, the restaurant Arcano, which has operated since 2008 and is also rooted in the Born district. The owners chose a location on Carassa street with “charisma and soul,” a space featuring 17th-century stone walls that had previously been a music bar and a dairy farm. The decision to focus on Catalan cuisine was influenced by the neighborhood's atmosphere and the fact that Catalunya was chosen as the World Region of Gastronomy in 2025.

The Bornès menu is divided into two areas: a bar for creative tapas and cocktails, and an inner room for more traditional main courses. At the bar, offerings include liquid cod fritters, the brioche of fricandó and crunchy mushrooms, or the oreo of Maó cheese. In the dining room, highlights include traditional fricandó cooked at low temperature, guinea fowl with Catalan nut sauce, and the red shrimp suquet. The cellar boasts over a hundred Catalan wines.