El Cafè d'en Víctor — Restaurant in Barcelona

So, this is a cute cafe (indoor/outdoor seating) directly in the Gothic Quarter with great people watching and clean bathrooms... the two highlights of our lunch meal here.

The service was okay, they are literally pulling people who stop and peruse the menu into the restaurant area and do charge a premium for sitting outside. Had it not been for my desperation for a clean restroom we likely would not have succumbed to the pre-fixe menu.

Service was okay. Food was okay at best. The pre-fixe consisted of starter, main and dessert with one drink. We had the lobster rice and this tempura onion dish to start. The lobster rice is more like a soup. The hubs got the Veal/potatoes and I got the sausage and beans since everyone raved that it was an authentic/common meal in this area. The sausage was literally raw on the inside so I could not eat it and quite frankly was thinking of the few bites I did take that I would get sick once I figured out it was raw. The server did (once my husband was completely done with his meal) offer to take it back to cook it some more since he saw it was raw as well... but at that point it was 30 minutes after he delivered it to the table. We did get our dessert - chocolate cake and "creme brulee". The cream brulee is more like flan or pudding, chocolate cake was okay. No discount on the raw sausage delivered which spoke volumes.

I would, as some other reviewers suggest, move on to see other dining options...

This was one of the worst tourist traps we have ever fallen for. I didn't expect much as we were in a rush to grab a little food, but I didn't expect to be asked if we wanted bread only to be charged for it without so much as a word, or the $1 Euro charged for BUTTER. That's just comical.

But then the food. My wife and I ordered one starter along with a second tapa that she wanted to be brought out as her entree along with mine (pasta carbonara). She even repeated this twice to the waitress. The waitress who was rude and snippy right from the get go.

Both tapas of course came out at the exact same time and one was inedible. My dish didn't come for another 10-15min and they brought out some kind of Bolognese pasta instead. They saw the order was for carbonara and sent it bac.. Five min later the carbonara came out.

In the end, the guy who brought the check pretended to speak English as I explained the issues and then said nothing back, so my wife explained it in Spanish. He shrugged his shoulders and laughed it off.

In any case, avoid this spot. Like so many other tourist traps in the area, it helps to preplan a little and seek out the true restaurants. Go to McDonalds before...

Bit of a tourist trap and definitely one to avoid, patatas Bravas not spicy at all, just tasted like they sprinkled a bit of paprika on Mayo and some of the bigger pieces weren’t cooked and were hard. Garlic prawns were chewy rubbery like they’d been microwaved and absolutely swimming in oil. Chicken wings were okay, but drenched in a sweet hickory style bbq sauce that tasted like it came out of a bottle and not spicy at all as was listed on the menu, choricitas were the only decent thing and even they weren’t that great. Jug of weak tasting sangria with one bit of orange and one bit of lemon floating around. Server wasn’t that friendly either, like I get that a lot of English tourists come and most are quite arrogant, but when I was trying my best at speaking Spanish she wasn’t having any of it, made us feel right stupid. We also saw her having an argument with some tourists which was very uncomfortable. Won’t be coming back because all of that left us €50 lighter (because for some reason it’s more expensive to sit outside) Absolute rip off. White washed garbage. So many better places to go, in fact, glorias round the corner is much better quality, bigger portions...