“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” ― Oprah Winfrey
Bar Lobo , located in the Raval, off the Ramblas, is a great
stop while walking around.
You can have breakfast , with their lovely pastries and tea,
enjoy a good lunch with a variety of tapas, salads, pasta -Mediterranean touch with an Asian twist- and
a fun dinner with their cocktails. Their hummus is great but the pita
they serve it with is really fluffy and delicious. It is open everyday from 9am
to 12.30 am on weekdays and till 2.30 am on weekends. You can admire and check for yourself the freshness of the food they serve, as their fridges are part of the decoration.
Don't miss the Granja Viader! It is on calle Xucla, just
beside Bar Lobo. It is one of the oldest
café in town, when you enter you will be transported to other times, 4th
generation owners, you can sit and enjoy their pastries or purchase their fresh
cheese, honey...I recommend you to sit and enjoy their luxurious velvet dark
hot chocolate with some "melindros", flat and soft biscuits, or
eggless churros. You won't regret it.
On November 29, 1899, Joan Gamper and
eleven sportsmen (six Catalans, three Swiss and two Englishmen) answered the
call and FC Barcelona was founded at the Solé Gymnasium , (on the corner of
Pintor Fortuny, and close to the Rambles and Canaletes). You can see the first
headquarters of FCB while there, it has become a parking now.
And if you have had enough of Tapas,
and want to have something else, on the corner of Bar Lobo, on calle Pintor
Fortuny, you have Restaurant Luzia. Luzia and Bar Lobo both belong to the
Tragaluz Group.
Luzia is a fun place to go in a group,
sit, sip and gossip with your girlfriends.
Brasserie, with nice salads, rich
burrata, incredible bhutan poatatoes, wonderful Parmesan croquetas, firewood thin crust pizza, creamy
pastas, a superb raclette sandwich, exquisite chocolate mousse and the list
goes on...
You can admire their clean decoration
and observe how the orders are given to the open kitchen or how the barman mixes
the wonderful cocktails.
Their service is young, and simpatico
but a bit lost. We went in a big group and reached five minutes late, so they
had given our table away but it got solved fast, and at the end what matters is
that we had fun and ate very well; went with vegetarians as well as non
vegetarians, and everyone was happy.
Recommended drinks :
-Virgin San Francisco
- Gin tonic : Bulldog served with a twist of liquorice
-Virgin San Francisco
- Gin tonic : Bulldog served with a twist of liquorice