Bar Pastis — Restaurant in Barcelona

Don't expect this to be your typical bar: it's tiny, dark, chock-a-block with pictures and other ditties all over the walls, it has just a couple of tables you can sit at, and the music is eclectic but in the background so you can talk (with quite a few french songs and of those many of Edith Piaf). So, what this place offers is an out-of-the-beaten-path from the typical experience. Check out the flying woman and ask for a Pastis cocktail - (if you like the taste of anis or anisette). It had been easily 20 years since I had been and although the sound proofing on the ceiling and the coat of paint took away a little bit of it's former personality (you could imagine musicians coming here after their gigs to talk to a bohemian writer over a glass of absinthe in the long past). It's like a little of the turn of the (past) century Paris in a small bar hidden at the end of the ramblas in Barcelona. Suggestion: Get there early, or...

What a wonderful find in Barcelona. An intimate space with a big heart. Absinthe done the proper way. As visitors from another country, we were really made to feel welcome. Great bartender and wonderful singers/guitarists (en Français) on Wednesday evenings. . . We were transported to the left bank of Paris in the...

Surprisingly uncrowded given how great of a bar this is. It has been redesigned a bit from last year. Still maintains some of the old funky vibe, but gone are the hostile signs saying “tourists go home” etc. and the new bartenders can make some killer cocktails. Will be coming back more...