BARCELONA WINE BAR PLUS

The Lonja de Tapas, across from BossBorn could also work, and it has an outdoor terrace, but I find BossBorn less touristy, more authentic. A really great experience, but not a place, again, where spends several hours, although you could try to reserve one of the few tables in the back dining room, but again, far in advance. Start at Irati, then move to Euskal Etxea, then La Vinya del Senyor and end at BossBorn.Ĭap Pep is a hoot, a really unique experience, with a unique, colorful owner, Pep, and terrific seafood dishes, but if you don't get there to line up before 8 pm to snag 4 spots at the counter, you're out of luck. It belongs to the Sagardi group and is the best of the lot, IMO.Īlso the real McCoy as in authentic is the Basque Cultural House, Euskal Etxea.Īnd La Vinya del Senyor has a great wine list, outdoor terrace but limited tapas menu.

night), has a lively and informal ambience, great buzz that I'm sure you'd love, with great Basque pintxos (tapas) at the bar.

Irati Taberna Basca (which does have tables in its back 'txoko' which must be reserved for Sat. I would stick with your Barri Gotic/El Born selections.īossBorn has everything you need (except outdoor terrace): reasonable prices, great food, good wines, nice decor, table seating. I also adore La Camarga, but it's a restaurant, as is Alba Granados. It has a tiny front area where one can sip wines by the glass, but the focus here is very creative, tiny portions of avant-garde cuisine paired with wines.

BARCELONA WINE BAR PLUS

Vinya-Roel, its sister, has regular table seating plus the bar, but I would call it a wine restaurant, or restaurant with wine shop attached, not really a wine bar.Ĭata 1.81 is also a small plates restaurant, not quite as good or as fun or as reasonable as Paco Meralgo. And since seating is on high tables with chairs with no backs, it's not a place where you'd linger for hours reminiscing with friends. Paco Meralgo is the very best 'small plates' restaurant that I've ever experienced, but it's hugely popular among the locals so you'd need advance reservations for a Sat. Would any of these fit? Are there others? Thanks. Wine and tapas bars- Taller de Tapas, Cal Pep, Bossborn, La Vinya del Senyor, Euskal Etxea, Irati Taberna Basca. Restaurants and or wine restaurants- Cata 1.81, La Camarga, Alba Granados, Paco Meralgo Alta Taberna, Vinya-Roel. From Maribel’s guide, from travel guides, and from posts here, we’ve come up with a short venue list. We’re not sure where their lodging will be, but think a city center establishment would be best. We’ll be staying in the Barri Gotic area.

We’re all non smokers, so that is a factor too. However we don’t want a place that is so lively and noisy that we can’t carry on a conversation around a table. We’re not sure a general restaurant (wine restaurant?) would appreciate our occupying a table for that length of time, so we were considering a tapas bar or wine bar. We’d like to find a place where we could sample lots of Spanish wine (wine bar?) taste an extensive variety of tapas (tapas bar?) and sit and talk for a few hours. So we’d like it to be a very pleasant place (restaurant, wine bar, or tapas bar), not necessarily expensive, but one with distinctive ambiance. We haven’t seen these friends for quite a while, and they’re flying to Barcelona simply because we’ll be in Europe. We’ll be meeting up with friends from Germany for one evening in Barcelona. One Saturday evening, early May, 4 people, wine, food, and conversation.

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