Orient Express Cocktail Bar - El Vagó — Restaurant in Barcelona

The Orient Express is an original idea, but its practical execution suffers from excessive complication if all you want is to enjoy a good cocktail after dinner with your partner or friends.

The bar is divided (literally, with a wide street in between) into two: a regular bar (La Estación) where you can stay as long as you like, sometimes after queuing for a long time at certain hours of the night, and the Orient Express experience (El Vagón), in a very small space with a capacity for 24 people, where you can only stay for 1 hour and whose access you have to pay for at La Estación (here they give you original tickets, marking the time you can enter). In El Vagón you may also have to wait to enter, but at least you know what time to go and you don't have to queue.

All this is original, but in practice, at night, it is complex and somewhat confusing to understand how it works and what options there are. The girl at the door of La Estación in charge of explaining the system and managing the waiting list is overwhelmed and has to explain the system over and over again to customers who already have some alcohol in their blood. Unfortunately, there is no way to reserve a seat in either establishment (with quite large letters of "no reservations accepted" on their website), so you can even end up with the bad experience of having to abandon your plan when they tell you that in El Vagón you still have to wait 45 minutes to enter.

Once inside El Vagón, it is indeed a rather interesting experience with a very original decoration and treatment. The cocktails are offered with a curious method (The Book of Forgotten Jobs) and are quite good (some are very successful combinations). All while we are sitting in a small armchair of the Orient Express and we see through a video how the train advances. There is also the possibility of ordering something to eat (ham or cheese) while enjoying our drink. That said, we have a maximum of 1 hour of enjoyment, after which we are invited to leave the premises, which barely gives us time to finish a cocktail and something to eat calmly; we didn't order a second drink because we were going to have to hurry.

In short... it's an interesting idea but its execution has some flaws. Perhaps a reservation system would allow you to ensure that you enjoy the experience without the uncertainty of whether you will have to go somewhere else for a drink. The 1-hour limit, surely imposed by the tiny size of the premises, creates a rush that significantly reduces the...

No es una coctelería, es tomar el coctel que te imponen, me hubiese gustado que antes de pagar me hubiesen informado mejor sobre la carta ya que habían pocos cocteles con ingredientes que me gustaban. La atención no está mal y esta bien decorado pero para mi no vale la pena ir. Por 20€ que cuesta la entrada me tomo una copa “premium” en cualquier otro lado y a mi gusto.

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Muchas gracias por vuestra respuesta, la verdad es que era muy ansiada por nosotros (Andrea y yo) después de que le respondierais de forma tan “amable”.

La verdad es que me quedé corto, normalmente mis reseñas son constructivas ya sean para bien o para mal 🙂✨

(Me tomo el honor de poner emojis para alegrar el trago, espero que no tan amargo (y malo😊) como el nuestro la noche del sábado, cuando leais esto, que lo leereis.) 🙆🏻‍♂️☺️

Por donde empezamos… a ver… ah si, venga vamos a empezar por “la experiencia😍” de antes de comprar el ticket, donde deberia ser obligatorio tener varias cartas, explicando los… 🤮cocteles🤮 …que preparáis en la experiencia del orient express bar✨

Seguimos para bingo 🎱, nada más entrar se informa de la alergia muy sensible, os lo repito, por que por lo que parece no os quedó muy claro esa noche, muy sensible, muy sen-si-ble💥 repetid conmigo, alergia muy sensible al cachuete🥜 Total, que para acompañar al coctel nos pusisteis… (redoble de tambor 🥁) CACAHUETE!!!! Con dos 🥚, por no decir otra cosa…🐽

La verdad es que la experiencia podría haber sido más chula, como le decíais a Andrea, en un cohete espacial 🚀, solo que esta vez podría haber sido en una ambulancia 🚑 y una denuncia por negligencia.🚓 Ya no mola tanto la vacilada, no?🙃

Si es verdad, hay mucha variedad de cocteles, para vomitar 🤢 o para no llegar a tomarnos ni un trago de lo malo que estaba… El mio se libraba, al final sabía a zumo de uva 🍇 como el que me daban de pequeño, nostálgico total. Los demás cocteles que pedimos, una 💩.

La mesa que teníamos delante con 4 chicas estaba debatiendo si tomarse el coctel o buscar otra forma más elegante de vomitar… 😇

Ni flores ni escenificaciones, os falta gracia, no por mezclar todos los colores del estuche sale un color bonito.🫣

Que me falta, que me falta… ah si, la 💩 de experiencia con las pantallas desincronizadas en todo el local, fijaros en los frames, tanto tiempo… ⏱️ Y aun no sabemos ajustar unos frames de un video.

No pasa nada, no os lo toméis muy mal 😔, en Barcelona hay mucha diversidad, personas de todos los colores y lugares del mundo 🌍… Tenemos que aceptar que hayan locales molones 😎 y locales que si dejaran de existir nadie los echaría en falta 🥰.

Sé que es vuestra tarea defender a quien os da de comer, que tarea más difícil visto lo visto…

Os deseo toda la suerte del mundo, no vaya a venir otra pandemia 😷 y empecéis a necesitar a la gente local (a la cual intentáis humillar con las reseñas😬) para subsistir, o en el mejor de los casos,...

I was not surprised, but rather depressed and tired when I left this place. We had a ticket with a time indicating our time, but we were allowed into the bar well after 35 minutes. I was very impressed at your other bar, avion express, because the atmosphere was really great and the idea was fully realized, but this train idea was not realized. We waited a long time for a cocktail and sat awkwardly, and I didn't understand why we had to wait so long and suffer the atmosphere where people around were yawning from boredom. cocktail that was a "fire lighter" profession - it was tasteless and the remaining taste of smoke gnawed at the throat. The girl who greeted us at the door of the carriages was nice, I think it was the best thing we experienced...