Not a meal, not relatively a snack, the tapa has to do with affability, if that has to do with you making an order from a line of little meals with a carafe of wine and an extensive conversation or your key objective is to have a more civilized form of the tavern creep. There are lists of options tempting tapas spots everywhere you go around in the Catalan capital. Selecting the perfect choice for you to have a nice time with your love one’s or friends can be an overwhelming and daunting task, and where else can you pride yourself of tapas with quality and diverse variety apart from Barcelona. Not only tapas, but also dishes with excellent offers. So here are some of the cafés, restaurants, bodegas and tapas bars for you to try out for your best mini-meals in Barcelona. No matter what your reason may be for choosing Barcelona – marriage, honeymoon, vacation or even for fun, Barcelona got you covered.
Cal Pep
Cal Pep is most times regarded as the best location for tapas restaurant in the city of Barcelona. With well-informed tourist and long queues of locals is often seen going in and out. Cal Pep is recommended.
Quimet and Quimet
Quimet and quimet is situated just off the standard tourist track; right in the center of Poble Sec. it offers montaditos and superb tapas to keep you asking for more. Conservas, known as traditional food that is preserved, is an integral part of the menu. The bar is well spacious with a convivial and charming atmosphere to keep you bubbling with pleasure. It’s a perfect place for you to wind time with friends and families.
La Plata
La Plata offers two basic dishes, a tasty tomato salad or a bowl of cooked sardines, but the line rambling out to the street can attest to how perfectly it does it dishes. The bar is perfectly designed with designs on the barrier, brightly colored tiling and marble tables. It’s a spot for you to make a stopover if you are on a trip around the Bar Celta area.
El Raval Bar
This bar is also known as the Carrer de Ramelleres 27. This is an old bar, which was taken over recently and is a good-looking old bar, recently bought and is appearing very neat. It still retains its previous touch of year’s back- chequered floor, low beams and an old-fashioned stilted fridge. The tapas that are sold here run from vermouth and are a cut above, which comprise of fresh anchovies, patatas bravas, Russian salad and cockles and other outré dishes, like coconut milk, coriander, mussels and chilli. Vermouth is those that you could want to eat in the mid-morning with a glass of vermouth.
La Ribera
This spot has some of the familiar tapas and those not familiar. The environment is well built with candles, bumpy stiff tables, friendly attendants and music tracks to make you enjoy your time. The tuna salad is another good dish; it is mixed with onions and tomatoes, the morcilla with grilled red pepper.
El Vaso de Oro Barceloneta
El Vaso de Oro Barceloneta is a skinny and long bar that is rammed at the climax time period with a cheery stein chinking mob pushing to ensure their tapas orders received. The favorite dish for this restaurant is the juicy solomillo.
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