Restaurant Balmes 413 Marisquería — Restaurant in Barcelona

Price, service, and quality of food balance is really bad here, My wife and I went at Dec 4, 2019 8:10 pm, on our first night to barcelona. first lets start with service, the waiter that showed us to the table looked irritable with a obvious frowny face, this is especially noticeable when he smiles for spanish speaking customers versus english speaking like my wife and I. you can tell he doesnt want to deal with us. we had a seafood soup, calamari, lobster meal for two (only couple piece of losbter for both of us for almost 60 euros and its not even a whole lobster) , some wine, we spent 100 euros. however, the best part is just the soup. lobster was so so, calamari was basically covered in flour with no taste of calamari just fried flour. I highly recommend foreign travelers to AVOID this place as they arent welcoming to foreigners even though 16 million tourist past thru barcelona yearly. In contrast Restaurant Centfocs is a far superior price, service and food quality, 26 euros with complete three course meal that are both delicious, and waiter at least is smiling not frowning when we needed order or ignore you when your...

My wife and I are honeymooning in Barcelona, and this place was a second choice after we could not get off of the wait list for another restaurant that had a great reputation. But this restaurant gave us a first rate experience. The atmosphere was casual, the staff was friendly, and they were patient with us despite our knowing limited Spanish. Everything from the bread, to the wine, to the main seafood courses, to the dessert was exceptional. And the staff was warm and friendly. The prices were also affordable. I would recommend for anyone in this area of Barcelona looking for great food in a...

Great place we stopped into our first night in Barcelona. Our first attempt at using Spanish and the staff did their best to humor us and help us with the menu. Highly recommend the fried anchovies, extremy tasty and the tomato bread was top notch here. Service was good with many excellent local wine choices for cheap. We didnt have an issue getting a table but we did notice if you plan to eat later in the evening it did fill up fast so you may want...