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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:09:53 +0100
From: jamie_james@lineone.net
Subject: (exotica) tikibarcelonapalooza2
Hi All
this is FAO Matt Marchese or anyone else heading out to Barcelona.
So,...as promised, here are further details of Tiki places in Barcelona. I've also added details of some other really cool places we found. Please excuse any inaccuracies, it' s been a while and i didn't think to write exact addresses down at the time.
As i said in my previous post i found three Tiki bars. The first is located on either the Ronda Universitat Or Gran via De Les Corts Catalanes. ( Near the Universitat Metro station) Looking at the map i am fairly sure that the latter is correct. I seem to recall that i walked west along that road, the bar being a very short walk from the University and on the same side of the road. At the time that i visited this bar there appeared to be nothing else useful near it.( So don't let that give you the impression that you are in the wrong area. ) It has a Wooden door with a Tiki on as i recall. Short of taking you there that's about the best i can do.
The Second one has a very noticable entrance in the form of a large window display comprised of a waterfall, a pond and whole heap of live Budgies. We found this by accident while we were trying to find a restaurant called 'L'Atzavara' on C/Muntaner at number 109. The Nearest Metro is 'Hospital Clinic'. C/ muntaner is quite a long street and i am somewhat unsure of where the restaurant was. I think that it was on the southern side of the intersection with Avda Diagonal though. ( if you look at a map this will make sense )
Basically, find that restaurant then walk south as if you were walking towards Placa Catalunya, i think that if you turn right at the first corner you come to you should find it. ( or possibly the second right hand turn....sorry, just not certain )
I would say, looking at the map that the most likely streets you should check out are;
C/ Londres
C/ Paris or C/Corsega. Which ever street it was, you want to be looking near the corner junction of C/ Muntaner on the west side of that street.
Any way here are some none tiki places you may enjoy.
Barbarella ( C/Calabria 142-4, near Metro Rocafort ) , great little restaurant, with a real DIY ethos. You can guess from the name what it looks like inside, the thing i loved about this place was that you could see that it had been done with no money. It looked like the guy just had a yearning to open a cool place to eat, got all his friends together and decorated it.
When we got in, it was empty, we couldn't work out if they were closed and just liked the look of us or whether it was a VERY quiet night for them.
Anyway the owner and the chef worked out a meal for us ( as we are vegetarian ) chatted for a while, gave us some tips of cool places to drink and eat, and chatted some more. It could have been really awkward but he was such a nice guy it was like being at a friends house or something.
Salsitas ( C/ Nou de la Rambla 22 ) You will probably wanna see the Gaudi stuff on your visit, this fab restaurant is in the same street as Gaudi's Palau Guell. It's on the opposite side of the road and a little further from la Rambla. It doesn't open till around 10pm and at the time, had no sign or anything else to let you know that it is there. Look for a long white, well lit passage.
The street that this place is in is quite dodgy as it is in the red light district. Personally it wasn't a problem for us beyond the first night. ( As our hotel was at the end of this street i guess we got used to it. )
All the same be on your guard. Anyway, great food. best of the holiday i would say. Really nice decor, all white with fake white palms and a wall displaying a lava lamp type projection.
Worth a visit.
Dot ( C/ Nou de sant Francesc ) as i mentioned in the previous post this is a great little bar, my girlfriend tells me that it was actually the Thursday evening that we went here. The guy from Barbarella gave us the impression that the music differs on each night, so Thursday may be a good bet. Again the location is SCARY. There is no sign, just a door. They didn't open till about 11.30 so before you go there you could eat or drink at ;
Margarita blue ( C/ Josep Anslem Clave 6 ) this is a lively bar restaurant with a youngish crowd it's just around the corner from Dot. Good food, can't remember the music as the drink was cheap. They have a Trapeze in the bar which could have been really tacky and touristy, but was actually good fun. At somepoint in the night two members of the bar staff gave a short performance for the crowd,... er, lets just say they hadn't rehearsed much and had been drinking so it was quite a spectacle. They were having a real laugh anyway.
well thats all i have time for - i'm sure you'll have fun whether you find these places or not. Let me know how you get on.
Jim
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 06:01:05 -0400
From: David KoJen <solisMaris@bicnet.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) tikibarcelonapalooza
on 7/30/01 10:02 PM, Br. Cleve at brcleve@mindspring.com wrote:
> that's not really true. If you drink a quart a day, you'll likely get some
> complications, much as you would from a quart of gin a day. Read the book
> "Absinthe : History in a Bottle" (Barnaby Conrad III; Chronicle Books, 1988)
> for the full story.
>
Much like gin? Not what I heard. Worse. I thought absinthe has a large
amount of methanol (the poisonous kind, not just ethanol). Which is bad in
quite small doses. Also, the wormwood extract itself is alleged to be toxic.
Thanks for the book recomendation. I'll try to check it out.
Sorry for being off topic.
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David KoJen
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