Profil von ellycem

LOTS of slection.

A bit annoyed, because I’m not much of a candy consumer but needed to find peppermint candy canes. I found them here (hurrah) but they didnt taste like peppermint! (disgusting).

This is a higher end sushi establishment
But well worth the price, as the food is fresh as well made and the service polite and on point (even with a language barrier)! It’s well appreciated and dinner seats can be hard to come by so attempt reservation or lunch. I had tajo kimuchi, Kani maki, sake maki, toro tataki nigiri, ikura nigiri, and each was absolutely exceptional. Do be prepared to experiment because they don’t carry all of the staples ( for example, no waksme salad), but you won’t regret it!

A small shop that stocks wines from every major region and a wide variety of veers as well as some whiskies etc. It tends to focus on smaller producers and does weekly tastings. A chat with the proprietor left me with the impression that this is a good place to come ready for suggestions, exploration, and discovery.

I think this is the first one star I’ve given, but this place deserves it.

The first warning sign was when we walked in and the server had to rouse the chef who was napping in the dinning room.

Anyway, the boquerones were clearly the canned salty fillets you can buy at any sainsbury’s, the pate was obviously scooped out of a tin an cut into wedges then served with some mealy iceberg lettuce, and the paella… was unspeakably bad. It had been sitting in a huge batch in the kitchen allowing it to get soggy and over cooking the prawns and mussels. Then it was heaped onto the plate, dinner-lady style. It tasted like cold, cheap pizza.

And the real kicker? I cost JUST as much as the other amazing meals I had in Barcelona.

Hopefully this place will either close, or the chef will take some cooking lessons because it is atrocious to submit customers to this.

Absolutely. Divine.

I would recommend this place to anyone I knew was coming to Barcelona. The service is prompt, polite, and friendly ( even with stuttering Spanish). And much more than that the food is fantastic, well-made, generous portions and cheap prices.

Let me put it this way: my fiancé and i went out on night to place that was so bad we felt obliged to go to MariscCo to get the arroz negro in order to wipe the former paella’s taste from our mouths.

Oh, the interior and restrooms are pretty cool too, but I recommend sitting outside to watch the placa reial if you can.