Los Bachiche — Restaurant in Barcelona

We were initially excited to try out this restaurant, but left with an awkward interaction and disappointment. Firstly, the service was slow even though the restaurant was not busy. We ordered 2 wines, the fried eggplant and riggatoni to share (it was still early in the evening and planned to save room for more tapas and drinks elsewhere). However, the bill came to €49.50! We discovered they portioned the riggatoni for two and charged us twice. Sneaky! This was more surprising because the pasta came out on only one dish. I will admit that I thought the pasta was a generous portion, but we had not eaten here before and it still could have been reasonable for the price. But I feel the server should've clarified, because I feel most customers would commonly order 2 different dishes, especially when one pasta dish is €19. I don’t believe language was a barrier because we clearly stated 1 rigatoni (gestured by our finger), but motioned with our hands we were sharing. Food was otherwise good, but the misunderstanding was unfortunate. Just a providing a fair warning to those who come here planning to...

It's a small, neighborhoody (is that a word?) type of place. The 6 of us sat on what appeared to be cardboard stools (although extremely comfortable!) At a long, low wooden table. We all ordered from the variety of Sorrentinas's offered (potato gnocchi in the manner of Sorrento), stuffed with various ingredients and offered with a variety of sauces. Incredibly delicious! All hand made in the kitchen! You could taste the fresh spinach, blue cheese, pine nuts etc. that were offered and the sauces were incredible. I could spend the rest of my life just trying to recreate the sauces. We all shared three salads, a Caprese, a Goat cheese with a mixture of leafy reds and greens and a Mediterranean salad with big but thin slices of another type of cheese. Incredible! I would go back again and again! All topped off by a couple of friendly and helpful waiters that made the whole experience the best dinner of our 5 night stay...

Truly baffling food…

I’ve never written a restaurant review before, but Los Bachiche left me compelled too, especially given the glowing reviews currently available. The food was just bizarre. The carbonara tasted faintly of soap or some strange inedible fennel adjacent herb, and the so-called “Green Rigatoni” was more like a German dish (pasta and gravy) with nothing green present.

I’m not a fussy eater at all (cannot overstate this enough), and am usually very easy to please, but I was really taken aback by how weird the food was. It looked lovely but tasted like something cooked by an experimental 14 year old.

If my Spanish were better I’d have complained. Hopefully it was just a mistake that night given the other reviews, but I honestly have not been sold food that bad in...