Zona d'Ombra — Restaurant in Barcelona

After visiting wine bars and restaurants in Venice, a couple of friends decided to set up their own wine bar in Barcelona that runs on the same philosophy as our neighbouring country. Miguel Ángel, who's busy pouring glasses non-stop at Zona d'Ombra's bar, confesses that he was seduced by the abundance of mortadella set out on the bars in Italy along with the wine for everyone. Set to borrow from this joyous custom, the two friends wanted to bring the same generosity to their new spot. In fact, Zona d'Ombra is called an 'enoiteca' instead of the Catalan/Spanish 'enoteca' (wine bar/cellar) because it's the word in Italian for places where you can drink wine and have a nibble.The love of Italian culture is evident here, where, apart from selling wines from around Spain, they've also got a good selection of Italian wines they like, and they also serve up the popular Venetian aperitif, spritz.Zona d'Ombra started out on day one as a shop that sells bottles of wine, but if you want to stick around and have some goat's cheese croquettes or Iberian ham, you'll just have to pay a €4.50 corkage fee for your bottle, a point where this spot differs from its Italian counterparts, who happily pile more and more food on the bar or your table at no extra charge. Now that we've brought up food, you have got to try the exquisite bread at Zona d'Ombra that they get fresh daily from Baluard de la Barceloneta. Good wine, good bread... get some good friends and try...

Don't sit here is the summary, details below.

This is literally my first ever negative review on here. I understand that sometimes we have bad experiences at restaurants/cafes/bars because it was just a bad day, the wait staff was having a tough moment, the owners were struggling with something personal, etc. So I either write a positive review or nothing at all. This incident was just not justifiable and was totally irrational, so I feel like people should know this before choosing to sit here: the owner of this restaurant is incredibly rude, he yelled at us for waiting for our friends for about 20 minutes before ordering food (no one came to take our order in this time, we didn't even have a clue that there was an issue until the yelling began), he cursed at us, told my friend that he smelled bad (???), was spitting at the floor asking us to leave. I'm not entirely sure if this was just him being an awful business owner, or him being r@cist (we were speaking in a language that's not Spanish nor Catalan), because he was taken aback when I answered him in French (I believe he's French). In all cases, spare yourself a terrible interaction and go to any of the places within a 5-minute radius that will make you feel at home, instead of encouraging this weird aggression (shout-out to the tea place next door, where the waitress was super nice to me when I was lost in the street although I wasn't even...

This is the first review I’ve ever completed on Google. The reason being I’m so angry about the attitude of the owner of this place.

If you’ve found this place, you are off the tourist trap. It is a lovely location but the attitude of the owner is appalling. I went to look at the reviews here to see if it was a one off before posting. It wasn’t. You should note why there are so many negative reviews highlighting the attitude of the owner.

Please take note of these negative reviews. They are not lying, You may experience the attitude we did. He is a not a nice individual and that is puting it mildly.

If you want to experience true customer service go and eat and drink at Salterio. We had lunch and evening meal with them. They know how to treat customers properly. It is...