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Great Looking Bar in the Centre of Barcelona

  • January 13, 2009
  • Rated 4 of 5 by Slug from Huddersfield, United Kingdom
Great Looking Bar in the Centre of Barcelona

I always think that the Spanish Tapas bars look so inviting with their food and drinks on display. One of the nicest looking bars we found during our recent Barcelona trip was Evina Wines and Tapas right in the centre of Barcelona at Via Laietana on the edge of the historic Barrio Gotico area of town. It is certainly worth dropping by for a drink, although the look of the food was less impressive.

From the outside, the Evina bar looks rather modern and "chain" style, with its brash signage and big windows. Inside, things are much better, although it has to be said that Evina is little more than a sanitised version of a traditional Tapas bar rather than the real deal. Still it makes a nice place to sit, and I like the cool jars of stuffed peppers, mushrooms in oil and fresh chillies lined up in long lines behind the bar, although they would never get through them in a month of Sundays in reality.

Prices for beer and wine are fairly standard for a city centre bar – my bottle of Damm lager was 3.50 Euro, but the bonus was that this wasn’t the ordinary fairly harsh Estrella, but a lighter and tastier local brew. The wine likewise is very drinkable.

The Tapas looking inviting from a distance, but I noticed at around 3:00 pm when we visited that some of the dishes looked a little tired and dried up. As the bar was quiet, the waitress decided to do some dusting of the high shelves storing wine behind the bar. While she was dusting, of course the dust was being transferred over the Tapas stored openly on the counter. It put off any lingering thoughts we had for a snack. On the other hand, the washrooms are very clean, tidy and nicely tiled and modern looking.

The staff are very young and bubbly, and although they laughed and chatted amongst themselves, we had no problems being served. As is common with Barcelona bars, we ordered our drinks at the bar and then found a place to sit, where our drinks were then served. It seemed a mix of the British way (where you order at the bar and wait to collect your drinks from there), or many other continental countries, where you sit down and wait staff take your order and serve as you linger.

Although the bar occupies a busy spot, it wasn’t too busy on either of the times we visited. This probably indicates that the Evina bar isn’t the coolest spot in town, but perfect for anyone wanting to rest their tourist legs. Although you probably won’t be so lucky, it was actually a good spot to see a procession of the three kings, a local tradition to commemorate the twelfth night of Christmas, which wandered past with much fanfare and banging of drums.

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