Month: July 2011
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Komomoto Taberna Japonesa Peruana, Barcelona
Japanese-Peruvian restaurant in Barcelona ? Yes, Komomoto. We stumbled upon it while wandering around El Born. The restaurant shares the same facade with a hotel which we entered by mistake and was greeted with a wall of Fornasetti plates. There is a door which opens into the restaurant. One of the walls is covered by…
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Casa Milà
Casa Mila is one of the two most recognizable landmark in Barcelona, the other being the Temple of La Sagrada Familia, both by Antonio Gaudi. Some might even argue that there are three, the new addition being the Torre Agbar by Jean Nouvel. When there are so many books and other media coverage about about Gaudi’s…
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Tapas at Piscolabis
Our first meal in Barcelona was at Piscolabis which claims to make the tapas dish you ordered fresh from scratch. It has a very tourist friendly menu in multiple languages and numbered pictures – almost as good as the Japanese plastic display sample dishes. Click the photo to get a full screen view and zoom…
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Piscolabis / The Praktik
Piscolabis is the first restaurant we ate at after we rendez-vous with IT. The restaurant is next to her hotel – The Praktik which she raved about – “5-star interiors at a 3-star rate”. I did not see the room but the location of the hotel is definitely 5 star – at Rambla Catalunya no.…