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Useful tips about restaurants in Barcelona
Seafood paella
Getting to know the national cuisine and drinks is one of the most important components of any trip.
This applies doubly to Barcelona, because the local cuisine is considered one of the best, at least in Europe. But in order to fully enjoy visiting Barcelona’s restaurants, cafes and eateries, you need to know a few important nuances.
Barcelona Secrets list of the best restaurants in Barcelona
1. Schedule
Life in the Mediterranean is relaxed and unhurried, but there is a clear schedule in which each activity has its own time. If you are a resident of a metropolis like Moscow, accustomed to the fact that everything works 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, it will be difficult for you at first. If you skip the hours of eating that have been formed over the centuries, you risk being left without lunch, or you will be forced to snack on a sandwich. To prevent this from happening, study and remember the schedule of Barcelona restaurants:
Line for a good meal
Breakfast (not available everywhere) – from 8:00 to 11:30.
Lunch – from 13:00 to 16:00. Most restaurants won’t serve you after 3:30 pm. We recommend that you sit down to dine around one in the afternoon, because closer to two restaurants are 100% full, queues can form, and the most delicious dishes from the menu tend to end.
At 16:00, most restaurants close until dinner, and a small part remains open, but already in the mode of tapas bars, offering drinks, sandwiches and cold or warm snacks. In the interval between lunch and dinner, all bars, cafes and pastry shops will be open, where you can have some sweets or a hot sandwich, drink coffee or a glass of wine.
Dinner in Barcelona is late, it starts at 20:30 and lasts until about midnight.
2. Atmosphere
Crowded, but not offended: Barcelona-style lunch
Spaniards in general and Barcelona in particular are very sociable people. They like to sit shoulder to shoulder, crowded into a tiny establishment and actively communicate, shouting over each other.
If you see a spacious, half-empty restaurant with large tables covered with white tablecloths, be careful. It will be either a very expensive, pretentious institution, or a tourist catering with all its disadvantages. But a queue or just a crowd with glasses at the entrance to the restaurant is a good sign: it means that the locals appreciate the place.
3. Service
In one of the streets of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, there is a ceramic fresco depicting the Virgin Mary with the inscription: “The Mother of God tells us that time passes slowly.” Barcelona time observes this covenant very strictly, and the townspeople themselves help him in every possible way. Therefore, when you have 40 minutes to carry the menu, and then take the same amount of time to take an order – do not be angry with the waiters. They are not to blame, it’s all the Mother of God. Try to relax and enjoy communicating with each other – just like the people of Barcelona do, whose lunch takes on average about two to two and a half hours.
Barcelona waiter at work
Catalan waiters don’t expect much promptness or helpfulness either. They will drop plates on the table, bring you beer instead of coffee and snails instead of steak, and it would never occur to them to pour wine into your empty glass. Not because they don’t like you – it’s just a different culture and tradition, pathos and glamor are not in fashion, and the creative side of the personality clearly dominates organization and diligence. Treat this as a feature of the local mentality, and everything will be fine.
On the other hand, in Spain and Catalonia there is no obligation to tip . If you take all the change to the last penny at the end of dinner, they will smile at you and say thank you. You have already thanked them with your visit. If you leave some small thing, as most locals do, they will also be grateful. For a tip of 10-15% of the bill, no one, of course, will be offended by you either – you never know what strange habits these foreigners have.
4. Menú del día (set lunch)
A typical lunch menu
Dinner in Spain is customary on the principle of a set lunch. It is called “Menú del día” here, it is offered in the vast majority of restaurants and consists of:
– the first course, which you can choose from several options: salad, soup, pasta, cut sausages, paella, traditional stew, etc. ;
– second course: usually several types of meat or fish, grilled or fried, again a choice of several options;
– desserts;
– bread and drinks (water, beer or table wine) are also usually included in the price of lunch.
Such a lunch in Barcelona costs about 10-12 euros in ordinary establishments, 15-18 in restaurants of a higher level. It is advisable to dine with just such a menu, as it includes dishes prepared from the freshest products and typical for this particular region and this particular institution. A separate story is set meals in rural restaurants in the Catalan province.
It’s just a gastronomic feast! Plenty, very tasty and incredibly cheap.
5. What NOT to do
Never, under any circumstances, sit down to eat and drink in establishments at Las Ramblas . You will be deceived and poisoned, and the next stupid tourists will instantly take your place.
Barcelona-style burger with crab
Try to avoid restaurants with an English-language menu at the entrance (not to mention Russian). Do not be afraid to be misunderstood, it’s better that you order something at random in a good restaurant than everything will be clear to you in a bad one, but it won’t taste any better.
Bon appetit! And do not forget that breakfasts, lunches, dinners in the best restaurants of Barcelona and Catalonia are an indispensable attribute of excursions with the Secrets of Barcelona!
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Poble Sec
If you want to try pintxos in the Catalan capital, head to the Poble Sec area on Calle Blai.
There are a huge number of bars, the windows of which attract with a variety of pintxos for every taste. We recommend the Tasqueta de Blai bar, where pintxos with a regular skewer cost 1 euro apiece, and those with a red tip for 1.80. It is always crowded here, especially in the evenings, so we advise you to come at the most popular time, for example, at the opening, in order to calmly sit at the bar and throw a real pintxos feast.
Gotico (Gothic Quarter)
A good budget option for those who are not looking for a typical Spanish entourage. You can sit at a table or buy takeaway food. Not only Asian, but also typically Spanish dishes are prepared here, including tortilla potato omelettes, seafood paella, padron peppers, spinach with nuts and raisins or artichokes. The menu has a large selection of freshly squeezed juices. A full meal will cost you 7-8 €.
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