365 obrador — Restaurant in Barcelona

Good morning, Barcelona!

This cafe is on the corner, 10 steps from the hotel we usually stay at in Barcelona. The staff is always friendly and happy and the line usually goes out the door.

I call this place death by pastries, because one can easily want one of each of everything!

The coffee is great. I usually start with a cafe com leche (my Spanish version of a latte) to go with a pastry in hand. My travel buddies have also had the espresso and freshly squeezed orange juice, both of which are also excellent!

With morning coffee the croissants are amazing, they come in all sizes and types (from mini to filled with cheese and ham). I cannot list everything I’ve tried here as one may end up judging me, lol, but I do want to highlight the cocas, a traditional flat bread glazed with sugar - great things do not need to be complicated. Ultimately, in a bakery, the dough is what makes a difference and this place has it under their belts!

But wait, only a couple of hours after breakfast it is also time for lunch. Their sandwiches are all great! I’ve had just about every one and my personal favorite is the jámon con queso. Starting from the fresh bread with perfectly crisp shell to the simple, yet delicious combination of jámon (ham), queso (cheese, this one is similar to Brie), and rubbed tomatoes (stressing that these are not slices of tomato, rather tinned into the bread, which is just excellent.

The only thing I have not tried here are the cakes. I can imagine how great those are too.

This is a local chain, as they have a few locations around Barcelona. But certainly does not have a chain feel to it at all. I enjoy watching the staff get the dough ready at specific times of the day, through a neatly positioned window on the street. You can sit inside or, since it is on the Rambla, you can pick a bench and just enjoy watching the locals and inhaling the great energy of the city.

Will be coming back...

Yesterday I went to try the new smoothies that they were advertising for summer, and I chose the Strawberry and Banana smoothie, which was disgusting and completely unflavored, tasted as something that was frozen for months and they just took out to blend with milk. That is the only thing I could taste, milk, not even a glimpse of strawberry or banana. It had an aftertaste of something that had been stored in the refrigerator for a long time.

I want to add that this is not the fault of the girls who work at this place, who were quite nice, but the company itself, they should distribute a better product for them to use in their smoothies, such as frozen fruit each week or, at least, they should check every now and then that the ingredients are in good condition, even more when it’s something that they might not...

the staff has very large gaps in upbringing and education, not polite. My daughter forgot to take her purse with her and came back for it after a few minutes, picked it up from the staff but unfortunately after some time it turned out that all the money had disappeared from the wallet, when I went back there and politely asked if I could talk to the manager of the premises (in order to check the monitoring) I was treated very badly by the staff and even aggressively, no willingness to help or cooperate, only sending me to the police station. I was not given information about the manager of the premises or contact to the office. after their behavior, it can be concluded that the cash from the wallet was taken by someone...