Category: food & drinks

  • Orio, El Gòtic

    Orio in El Gòtic, Barcelona – it is in the middle of a busy street (C. de Ferran 38), the place looked touristy but it was patronized by locals, the happy hour-after work crowd.  Lively ambiance, a perfect place to mingle and meet people. Two couples, one young and one old, shared the other end…

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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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  • 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.…

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  • Dinner by Naviglio Grande

    This is a continuation of the last post about the Grand Canal of Milan. We got to the canal around dinner time and the tables were quickly taken up by tourists and locals.  On one side, the restaurants have tables on the outside, the other side is a street (Ripa di Porta Ticinese) which allows…

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  • Obikà across from Duomo

    Obikà is a chain of restaurant that specializes in mozzarella cheese.  Here is a link to their website. This one is located on the 7th floor of La Rinascente opposite the Duomo, with an eye level view of its roof.  This is the only building tall enough to offer this view. We discovered this restaurant after…

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