Monthly Archives: August 2010
Some popular eating joints in Barcelona |
Barcelona’s cuisine are good in quality, as its being a highly tourist city one can have good food over here on a very reasonable prices in a friendly and courteous environment. The golden rule of thumb says save money and get better food also applies to restaurants in Barcelona. Some of the most popular restaurant in Barcelona is as following:
• Govinda: Situated hardly two minutes away from the Rambla, this restaurant only serves vegetarian food. Here food is mostly of Indian cuisine and even is very delicious and tasty. t
• Veg World: This restaurant situated on the left side of the street only serves vegetarian food and most of them there are vegetarian and Indian dishes. This is the only spot in Barcelona where you can have Masala Dosa.
• Vegetalia: This offers tasty excellent organic vegetarian foods, as a compliment to the restaurant there’s a store carries the full range of Vegetalia products as well as other well-sourced organic foods. All staff to eat here is provided on very reasonable prices.
• La Flauta Carrer Aribau: This is a favorite spot for local business that comes over here to dine during the week. Here ever changing menu Del dia costs around ten eruo and you can have delicious Catalan cuisine over here that is well prepared and well presented. The Crema Catalana is similar to a creme brulee and makes an excellent choice for dessert.
• Orgànic on C/ Junta Comerç: It is a bit expensive restaurant and is worth its cost as it charges from the customers. Whether you’re vegetarian/vegan or not, this kitchen is organic and here food is best and of high quality. Here Not a quick eat, but a nice sit down to good food meal. The service is friendly and down to earth and funny.
• Batik Restaurant: It is an Indonesian, Malaysian and Thai food that is merely a 3 minutes e walk from La Sagrada Familia and therefore it is an ideal place to spare out an afternoon. To reach there from La Sagrada Familia you rather need to go head down “Calle Marina” and turn left onto “Calle Valéncia”. You can even try Batik Restaurant that is on the right hand side of the street.
• Alkimia: It is Barcelona’s most highly regarded restaurants as is run by acclaimed restauranter Jordi Vilà. It has a minimalist white interior that directs the attention to the inventive and indulgent foods that are there on the offer. Alkimia spearheads a new wave of new Catalan cooking that can delights as well as exuberates a dinner at the restaurant.
• Gaig, Aragó: The restaurant has well established reputation for serving the freshest produce around. It focuses on the classical Catalan cuisine but is not as advance and sale products in rather interesting and lighter vein. Its décor is in a contemporary red and black design and there staff is quite friendly and welcoming.
• Cinc Sentits, Aribau: This is one of the latest restaurants that were founded around in 2004 and passed off all the expectations and it is of a few restaurants in Barcelona to offer a wine paring, it features contemporary Catalan cuisines in a present day modern warmer interior.
Some of the most popular Bars in Barcelona
• La Paloma: It is a very popular night club and remains to massively be crowded on nights and mostly by young and beautiful
• London Bar: It primarily is a bar and is in service since 1910 and be regularly visited by the celebrities like Dali, Picasso and Hemingway. The atmosphere there remains to be quite lively and friendly, and is a great spot for just to enjoy things as it is even not that expensive.
• La Concha: Situated close to Carrer Nou de la Rambla on Carrer de Guàrdia, is a bohemian style in the wall hookah bar. It talks of moroccan gay bar feel, but there can be seen a mixed crowd of around 20 and 30 sipping cocktails and smoking shisha. It is for a tourist that is looking for a bit local adventure.
• Razzmatazz: Close to Marina station, this club undoubtedly is the best bar in Barcelona. It is formed of many rooms of which every one plays a different style of music including pop, retro, house and trance. This club is the peak of Barcelona nightlife, loved by both the visitors AND the Catalans.
• Sutton: Situated on Diagonal, this club hosts Studio 54 on Thursdays. In case you love House or Techno music this is a must. It remain open until the metro starts back up, Sutton there has a very huge dance floor with two VIP rooms. It also is a small stage where multiple go-go dancers perform throughout the night.
• Catwalk: It is one of the most popular nightclubs in the city the peak time being around 2AM. They provide 2 different floors with R&B and hip-hop styles mixed with House or Techno.
• Maumau: It is a chilled out lounge bar having groovy tunes which uses its space to host out and adventure short film nights, installations and concerts. At its web page you can view list of entire upcoming events and shows in Barcelona.
For a convenient and enjoyable journey of the city of Barcelona, you can avail facilities of Connect Club Discount Card. The card offers a good number of discounts and special privileges at Barcelona’s best nightclubs, bars, famous restaurants and more.
Learn about the various shopping centers and markets in Barcelona |
In Barcelona, one can roam and move through various shopping areas that are specifically popular for specialties and goods. The most elegant shopping places in the Barcelona are Passeig de Gracia, the Rambla de Catalunya, Avingunda Diagonal and around Turó Park. In the city Santa Eulalia, Jofré, Comella and Bua are best known and are very popular luxury boutiques and antiques shops. Apart from that there are also a good number of shops and market in Barcelona, which are reviewed, quite, systematically.
- La Central del Raval is a famous book store over there that is known for huge selection of books on art, architecture and design.
- El Corte Inglés: This is a famous departmental store in a city that spans around several floors and several buildings in several locations around town as you can get everything at this departmental store, from gastronomy to pneumatics. There Tax return checks are made on a separate floor on the store for whatever purchase and requirement over there.
- Fnac: It is an EI Triangle shopping center in Plaza Catalunya that sells books, music, games and many other interesting items and goods.
- Maremagnum: It is a very popular shopping mall by the coast at the end of The Ramblas. This is the only shopping mall in the city that even opens on Sunday and public holidays. The clothes and other fashion accessories at the mall are from big brand names and there hardly is any independent designers are there who operates out at the scene.
- Kelkom: Situated between the Bruc and Girona Street it is a popular shop of gift and accessories as one can find out there necklaces, earrings, bracelets, shirts, bags, clocks, gifts and many things more, at different price range and styles.
Shops and Market for Food
- La Boqueria: It is a large public market having a good range of products and services at its disposal to be shared and disposed away around. There one can enjoy freshly squeezed organic fruit juices.
- Cacao Sampaka: It is a famous Chocolate factory or chocolate lovers. There exits a Chocolate Museum in Carrer Comerç, 36. There many sculptures made of chocolate on display in the museum.
- Happy Pills: It is a quite interesting candy store situated next to the Cathedral Square and is famous for packing up candy in manner resembling to packaging products and goods in plastic medication bottles or first aid kits.
Souvenirs and Gift Items Shops
- Art Montfalcon: It is considered as to be the largest souvenir shop in Barcelona spread around in an area around 1000 sq. m. This is not an ordinary souvenir-shop rather it provides good choice for creative and artistic souvenirs, watches, plates, jewelry, mugs. There are also provided creative mechanical toys and spiders, etc.
- Another good shop for souvenir goods item is Carrer Bisbe that sells craft that includes miniature versions of the dracs (dragons) and gigants (giants) which features Catalan processions and fiestas. El Ingenio, in Carrer Raurich, sales out the real ones and is worth a visit just to look. More you can buy confetti, jokes, rubber snakes and other amusements items there.
- Wawas Barcelona: It is nearly a true and innovative souvenir shop that features its own line of postcards, magnets, mugs and trays, and most of them happen to be the artistic image of Barcelona. It also offers chocolate bars by Xocoa, and it offers the most renowned chocolatiers in Barcelona that is wrapped in a photo of the city. Wawas do also sells guidebooks, and has a selection of products and gifts.
However, you need to be wary about the souvenir shops spread all around Barri Gotic and all along La Rambla as they happen to be the tourist’s traps and hardly any of those shops sells out Catalan or Spanish products and they happen to be mix of Chinese general souvenirs and they should be avoided.
Clothes, shoes and accessories shopping in Barcelona
- Bolsos Turo: Pilar Guardia Located in the Sant Antoni neighbourhood, at 10 min from Ramblas and Plaza de Universitat you will find this Spanish Leather Bags and Accessories shop. Calle Manso 76 (Cornering Ronda Sant Pau). Metro L2 Sant Antoni or L3 Poble Sec. Bolsos Turo is a shop for affordable and fashionnable leather handbags, suitcases, travel bags, leather belts and more.
- Kelkom Barrio de Gracia: This is a Gift shop and accessories there one can get everything from jewellery, shirts, handbags, watches, gifts and other items different styles and prices.
- Juan-Jo Gallery: It is a Fashion leather, Jaquets, bags, hats and complements designed that is in Barcelona with Spanish leather.
- Camper, multiple locations: This is Standalone store at El Triangle shopping center at Placa de Catalunya and has widest number of choices for buying clothes and accessories.