Aitor

I tried this restaurant a few days ago about 8:45 pm and I’m glad I did! I fumbled through some basic spanish and was able to get what I needed and had a great selection of tapas.
Opting for the buffet so I could try a bunch of things, each thing I had was delicious. When you walk in you can choose to sit at the bar (where the tapas are set out, you just grab a plate and pick what you’d like) or at one of the lower tables. I chose the bar and had a nice view of the TV which had a football game on and a view of the street to people watch as well. All in, for unlimited tapas and a beer was about € 17.
Definitely recommend this tapas bar — it was busy but not crowded and the service was nice and did their best to communicate with me as much as I tried to communicate with them. The food was awesome, too!

Stopped in here for lunch on our first day in Barcelona and we were pleasantly surprised! The tapas style buffet was delicious and varied, each item costs only € 1.50 and has a wooden cocktail stick in it — simply keep the sticks and you will be charged accordingly! Delicious fritatta slices, warm chorizo and rich cheeses were just some of the choices available. Washed down with a delicious Estrella and it made for a very pleasant lunch!

a local popular tapas restaurant. crowded with big local group (s).
the bike shop owner recommended it and reminded us to wait for the hot tapas.
1.4 euro per tapas
and all you can eat tapas buffet is 16 euro.

Good Food and good wine. Visit the bistro after visiting Sargada Familia. Very friendly service. The buffet was delicious.

Great little spot just a spit away from the Sagrada Familia Cathedral, which if you don’t know what that is, then you haven’t been to Barcelona. This place introduced me to Tapas. I opted for the buffet, which was a bargain considering how hungry I was. Some of the tapas included fresh fish which are housed in glass with temperature control to keep fresh. Staff was exceedingly friendly. And if your looking for good english speaking, stay home. I visited three countries and tried my hand at Italian, French and Spanish and got everything I needed. Top grade especially considering convenience to a tourist site, low cost relatively speaking (once again, very close to a major tourist site, think about it!), and speed of the meal when you opt for the buffet!

Great place for lunch. Family of 4 ate here. Service was super friendly. Sit at the bar and choose your tapas. Go to familia early and visit this place.

My wife and I stumbled upon this spot a few days ago, on the 2^nd day of our honeymoon. We’ve been back twice and are planning to go back tonight. It’s two blocks away from out hotel (Hotel Sagrada Famila on Corsega) and had become our «last stop». The tapas are so much better than the normal touristy fare that you’ll find at about 1000 places all around Barcelona.
The tapas range from the expected (cured ham and cheese) to the unexpected (salted fish stuffed peppers) to the I’m still not sure what that was and I kinda don’t really care (I think it was fried black pudding, and it was amazing). The price per tapa is 1,40 €. You grab a plate, load it up and the owned charges by how many toothpicks are on your plate. There’s an all you can eat price, but we haven’t done that yet. Out bill for 12 tapas, 3 glasses of wine and a bottle of water came out to about 23 €.
What really blows us away is the owner and how much pride he takes in running a good restaurant. He’s always moving making sure the place is clean, the tapas are fresh and the drinks are flowing. When my wife left a shopping bag of new boots at our table he put them behind the bar and had them waiting once we realized that we left them.
We’re still in the process of exploring this town and have been finding great places to eat all around the city. But our plan until we leave is to stop here every night for that last drink and snack.

Good food, good wine, good prices, idiosyncratic service. Inside and outside tables. The first place I’ve been to in Barcelona where the staffs’ English was worse than my Spanish. Still got good food and OK service.

Este era uno de los locales marcados como «pendientes» en mi lista de julio. De hecho, este bar-​restaurante está relativamente cerca de casa y por eso le iba siguiendo la estela en los últimos meses… hasta hace un par de noches.
Situémonos. Aitor está en uno de los cruces más turísticos de la ciudad. Justamente en Sardenya con Provença. Esto le ofrece una posición privilegiada para captar clientes. Las largas colas que rodean la Sagrada Familia están a escasos 100 metros.
Justamente en la entrada se anuncia un cartel donde pone: «Buffet libre de Tapas». Ahí es donde se produce la paradoja de este local… Es cierto que el precio no engaña (por 15 euros optas a esta modalidad, bebida a parte) y también es cierto que estamos delante de un Buffet (vale la pena ir con el estómago despejado), pero debo decir que el eslogan en cuestión induce a cierto error… si más no, a mi me traicionó un poco.
Es un local de pinchos en toda regla! De la escuela norteña! Unos montaditos bastante correctos y variados! Básicamente el buffet se compone de los típicos fríos y de los calientes (estos los van sacando de la cocina según demanda de la clientela). Así que… no espereis raciones o tapas de bravas, chocos, boquerones, pimientos o carrillada en está opción de Buffet. Taxativamente no. Las tapas quedan para la carta, la cual no quise ni mirar porque el precio ya se disparaba considerablemente.
Si me centro en la comida, que decir; se pueden degustar un montón de pinchos tradicionales y otros más atrevidos; los hay de embutido, de tortilla, de ensaladilla, de quesos varios, de carne y aves, etc. No escatiman en cantidad ni en calidad, si bien es cierto que el pan podría mejorar un poquito.
Dado que es un local con movimiento y ruido, hay que tenerlo en cuenta en circunstancias concretas: la típica reunión de amigos en fin de semana o cuando vienen conocidos a casa y quieres salvar los muebles sin tener que moverte del barrio.
En fin, sin ser un sitio 10, repetiré bien seguro. La opción Buffet sale muy bien calidad — precio.
*** Sólo he ido esta vez y eran las 21.30 de la noche, así que no avisté apenas turistas y mi estancia fue relajada. No se si fue debido a la hora o porqué hay un par de hamburgueserías muy conocidas a la vuelta de la esquina ***

Este sí que es un buen dato para los que nos gusta la comida vasca. Sus pinxos y su tapas son buenísimas, y están muy bien de precio, que esto es lo raro ya que se encuentra en medio de la Sagrada Familia, donde cualquier bocata vale mas de 5 euros. Lo bueno que es pequeño y acogedor, los camareros te ofrecen los pinxos recién salidos de la cocina. Los puedes comer en su barra, en su salón interior o en su terraza, que también tiene menú a 10,20euros, que incluye: la xatonada de Aitor, acelgas con patatas, arroz a la cubana, ensalada mixta, y lubina al horno. Otra carta es su buffet libre de tapas por solo 13,95.