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 of a long table with us. It looked like a meeting for the first time of either the boy or girl to the other’s parents. Too bad we cannot understand what they are talking about.
To get the tapas, just go up and help yourself to as much as you want. But you are required to keep the toothpick which holds the tapas together, because the restaurant use the number of toothpicks to calculate your bill. Honor system in a restaurant !
We sat in a section of the restaurant where we could order off a menu and also take the tapas from the bar. I did not know the place served food from the Basque region until I looked it up online.
Free appetizers.
A waiter was shucking oysters at the front of the restaurant – that’s what got our attention.
We ate the following from the menu plus some more:
Here are some of the tapas on the counter:
Nuts, cheese and red wine … mmm
