Tapas restaurants in Barcelona
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Cerveseria Catalana
The ‘Catalan Brewery’ is good for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Come in for your morning coffee and croissant, or wait until lunch to enjoy choosing from the abundance of tapas and montaditos (canapés). You can sit at the bar, on the pavement terrace or in the restaurant at the back. The variety of hot tapas, salads and other snacks draws a well-dressed crowd of locals and outsiders. It has expanded the premises to deal with demand.
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Inopia
Albert Adrià, brother of star chef Ferran, has his hands full with this constantly busy gourmet-tapas temple. Select a pintxo de cuixa de pollastre a l’ast (chunk of rotisserie chicken thigh) or the lightly fried, tempura-style vegetables. Wash down with house red or Moritz beer.
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La Panxa del Bisbe
With low lighting and a hip, young feel, the ‘Bishop’s Gut’ is a great place to indulge in some gourmet tapas, washed down with a fine wine, like the Albariño white from Galicia, for a surprisingly modest outlay.
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La Bodegueta Provença
The ‘Little Wine Cellar’ offers classic tapas presented with a touch of class, from calamares a la andaluza (lightly battered calamari rings) to cecina (dried cured veal meat). The house speciality is ous estrellats (literally ‘smashed eggs’) – a mix of scrambled egg white, egg yoke, potato and then ingredients ranging from foie gras to black pudding (morcilla). Wash down with a good Ribera del Duero or caña (little glass) of beer.
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La Pubilla del Taulat
Get inside the eatery in this late-19th-century building quickly, as you’ll find the bar has been stripped of all its tapas delights if you arrive much after 10pm. Tucked away in backstreets still partly lined with low-slung houses of another era, this place is a popular stop. All the classics are present: patatas bomba (spicy meat stuffed potatoes), mejillones al vapor (steamed mussels), chocos (lightly fried cuttlefish slices) and more.
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Bar Velódromo
The reopening of this once-classic tavern in 2009 brings back a fine-looking establishment in which to take breakfast, stop for an aperitif or sit down for a meal. The low, corner building retains much of its original look, with timber omnipresent. Food largely consists of tapas and smallish renderings of fairly typical Catalan and Spanish dishes. More than anything, this place is about its history and atmosphere.
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Inopia
Albert Adrià, brother of Barcelona’s star chef Ferran and something of a kitchen celebrity himself, runs this popular corner tapas temple. If you can’t grab one of the handful of tables, don’t worry, just stand inside or out and select a pintxo de cuixa de pollastre a l’ast (chunk of rotisserie chicken thigh) or the lightly fried, tempura-style vegetables. Wash down with house red or Moritz beer.
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Cal Pep
It’s getting a foot in the door here that’s the problem. If you want one of the five tables out the back, you’ll need to call ahead. Most people are happy elbowing their way to the bar for some of the tastiest gourmet seafood tapas in town. Pep recommends cloïsses amb pernil (clams and ham – seriously!) or the trifàsic (combo of calamari, whitebait and prawns).
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El Roure
This old-time locals’ bar is what Hemingway meant by a ‘clean, well-lighted place’. Sidle up to the bar or pull up a little wooden chair and tuck into a choice of good-value tapas from the bar, washed down by a few cold Estrellas. The bunyols de bacallà are delightful battered balls of cod that demand to be gobbled up. The place is full to bursting most of the time.
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Tapaç 24
Specials in this basement tapas temple include the bikini (toasted ham and cheese sandwich – the ham is cured and the truffle makes all the difference), a thick black arròs negre de sípia (squid ink black rice) and, for dessert, xocolata amb pa, sal i oli (delicious balls of chocolate in olive oil with a touch of salt and wafer).
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Terrabacus
Food exists to accompany wine, or so one could be led to believe here. In this ‘Land of Bacchus’, one of the joys is sampling from the extensive wine list and choosing bites to go down with the nectar. You might try the various cheese platters or select a dish of high-grade Joselito cured ham. More substantial dishes range from risotto to steak tartare.
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Nou Candanchú
The liveliest locale on the square, Nou Candanchú is a long-time favourite for various reasons. Many flock to its sunny terrace just for a few drinks. Accompany the liquid refreshment with one of the giant entrepans (filled rolls) for which this place is famous. Otherwise, it offers a limited range of tapas and reasonable grilled-meat dishes.
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Rosal 34
Exposed brick and stone walls and a sinuous bar, accompanied by wafting lounge sounds, set the scene for a gourmet experience. You can opt for one of two tasting menus (€48/60) or search the menu for such numbers as saltejat de xipironets de platja amb trompeta de la mort i ou escalfat (sautéed small beach cuttlefish with mushrooms and egg).
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Bar Tomàs
Many barcelonins have long claimed that Bar Tomàs is by far the best place in the city for patates braves, prepared here with a special variation on the traditional spicy tomato and mayonnaise sauce. The place is a rough-edged bar, but that doesn’t stop the well-off citizens of Sarrià piling in, particularly for lunch on weekends.
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Bar Central
Hiding out towards the back of Barcelona’s best-known market is this fabulously chaotic lunchtime bar. Marketeers, local workers and the occasional curious tourist jostle for a stool – get there early or be prepared to wait. Order a few generous raciones, and make one of them the grilled fish of the day.
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Cerveseria Brasseria Gallega
This traditional Galician eatery fills with locals surrounded by plates of abundant classics from Galicia. The fresh pulpo a la gallega (spicy octopus chunks with potatoes) as starter confirms this place as a cut above the competition.
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D.O
A bright, perhaps overly lit spot, D.O serves vins i platillos (wine and little dishes). The accent is placed on the opportunity to taste various wines by the glass, accompanied by small dishes of anything from salads to seafood.
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Santa Maria
Swing through the doors of this snazzy place for a smorgasbord of gourmet tapas. Beautifully decked out and always busy, Santa Maria turns out innovative and specialist creations ranging from falafel to fried plantain with mussels.
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Bar Pinotxo
Bar Pinotxo, near the Rambla entrance, is about the most popular tapas bar here. Roll up to the bar and enjoy the people watching as you munch on tapas assembled from the products on sale at the stalls around you.
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Ciudad Condal
This place is good for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Come in for your morning coffee and croissant, or wait until lunch to enjoy choosing from the abundance of tapas and montaditos (canapés). >.
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