Bodega Biarritz 1881

Well worth the wait. (They speak perfect English btw!) The service is very homie and the food is amazing! Please give this place a chance if you are a couple visiting Barcelona this place is a must! My fiancé and I love this place and enjoyed the great service!!! If I could I would rate it higher than 5 stars.

Incredibly over-​rated. I thought to myself «maybe I ordered the wrong things», but for a place with such high reviews, it can’t be a place that just has 2 good things. Majority of the food must be excellent. All this food was mediocre at best. Not terrible, which is why I don’t give it 1 star. Just nothing special. Ordered patatas bravas, 3 meatballs on a stick, sausage, flat potato/​chorizo/​cheese pizza like thing (recommended by one of the bartenders), flat potato/​jamon/​cheese pizza thing, 2 different croquettes, and a tomato/​garlic tower-​like quiche of sorts. Extremely whatever.

This couple and team provide fresh and inspirational tapas to a small group. 24 max seating (but usually 18) people at a time, is an alter of freshness. 24 man hours of daily preparation ends up with 30+ high gastro quality tapas offerings. Served until gone. With a line growing each minute.
Accompanied my fresh Mojito’s, Sangria, Jarra (beer) and others the cocktails are secondary to the creations of the partner team. From Basque region originally, note the decorations in the back, up high, this couple of four years in Barcelona will need a serious new space to serve the masses. Simple and fresh is the key element. They let the garlic dance, but not stay in the pallet. Tomatoes wonder with the peppers but not too much. Goat cheese is a hint to the broccoli filling on one and is enough. Which one to try? Tapas, Tapa, Tapas… try them all. Muchas Gracias for simplicity and fresh approach.

With endless Tapa places in Barcelona, Bodega was sure unique in every which way.
Based on service alone this place deserves 5 stars but with the limited food options and non table cloth along with semi self serve I’ll have to give it 4.
The spicy chicken satay/​on stick was the best.
They don’t accept credit cards so do carry cash. It houses 10 – 12 tables so either go earlier or be prepared for a 25 – 40 min wait which to me was totally worth it.
They have English speaking staff so language will not at all be a problem (if English is your first language).
You are seated and can order drinks. The house Rioja wine was great. You are then asked to wait until the server comes get you and walks you to the food display. You can from there on select the tapa and amount as per desired. They keep making them fresh but the ones you select are the ones you’ll be getting at your table after they have been heated up in the oven or over the grill.
Overall it’s a fun wall in the whole restaurant, great for any one looking to eat at the gothic quarter.

Stumbled upon the place during a walk through the gothic quarter. We weren’t even that hungry but once we saw the food, we decided to eat.
Service was excellent — the woman serving the food was patient with all our questions about the food. It was very quiet when we first arrived so she was devoted in her time with us.
Basically, they have lots of individual food items on plates and you choose what you’d like and they’ll heat it up for you. Items are categorized (vegetarian, beef, etc.) but they’ll happily tell you what’s in each one. I can’t decide if little signs to alleviate all the questions would be helpful or tacky?
Food quality was delicious and we left feeling very satisfied. Prices weren’t cheap but they weren’t expensive either. Overall, this was a great find on the street.

Incredible tapas. The ambiance of the restaurant is super cool & it has a great feel for being so small. The food was fresh, the employees are very entertaining & speak different languages which is helpful to those who don’t speak Spanish. We went at 8:00 pm on a Friday night & only had to wait about 15 minutes for a table. Once you get inside you don’t feel rushed at all or as if they’re trying to get customers in & out even though there’s a line. I would 100% recommend eating here!

Our final night in Spain and we capped it off with the best meal of our trip. This place is super small, recommend only for couples. If you have a bigger party, you won’t be able to sit together or will have a really long wait! I can’t say enough about how good the tapas are here. They are all warm tapas, but you have a large variety of choices, including meat and vegetarian. Everything was delicious, please eat here if you are in Barcelona!!!

Great food. This place is super small, and the setup is weird. You have to wait outside if they are busy. Then one person comes up to get you drinks. Then another person will ask you what you want to eat (everything is out on the main bar). Then another person cooks it and brings it to you. Overall pretty confusing if you don’t know what you are getting into. Also, there are no prices or descriptions on anything, but they do speak pretty good English.
I have no idea what I tried, but everything was amazing and the bill for 2 people with a mojito and sangria was $ 25 (totally worth it).
This was our best restaurant in Barcelona, highly recommend.

This is a great little restaurant to eat for some delicious tapas! It’s another small restaurant that’s popular in the area, so we did have a little bit of a wait. Fortunately, the wait was only about 20 minutes. The host came to us to see how we were doing every once in a while to chat. He kept us entertained during our wait.
When we were finally seated, we were at the bar and the restaurant was pretty packed. He explained to us how the restaurant worked. After a couple minutes, the waitress came to serve us. All of the food is displayed on the bar. We went down the bar with the waitress explained what was being served. She explained each item that we asked about, then she put anything we decided we wanted on a plate. After we’d chosen what we wanted, she took the plates of our food to the cook to be plated. Everything was plated so nicely, and the food was delicious! I enjoyed our whole meal! We definitely ate with our eyes when we picked out food, so we were completely stuffed by the end of our meal!
The only thing I didn’t like was having to go behind people while they were eating to choose my food. It felt like it would be a little disruptive having people constantly standing behind you and pointing at the food to choose what they want. But I did really like the concept of being able to see all the food and getting to choose each item individually.
It was really a great experience, and the food was delicious! If given the opportunity, I would definitely go back and eat there again!

I think other reviews have provided pretty thorough explanations of this place, so I’ll keep mine short.
We stumbled across this place while wandering the Barri Gotic and it looked intriguing. The food looked beautiful and appetizing and did not disappoint. They had a wide variety of legit vegetarian options.
What stood out to me most was that the staff was extremely nice and attentive. Additionally most, if not all, were bilingual English/​Spanish (at least!-they may know more languages). They were especially patient with people when explaining what each tapa was and ingredients it contained.
Good find!

A great first meal in Spain! If its all this good, we are moving! A small place offering different tapas every night, you’ll want to try them all! Great service and a great price, they spoke English and other languages as well. I cant wait to go back! Very unique dining experience. Have Fun.

Nous avons passé un très bon moment dans cet établissement. Les tapas sont d’une grandes qualités, frais et innovants. Personnels hyper pro et sympa. Une deco très agréable. Peu de place à l’intérieur, vous ferez sûrement la queue mais ça vaut le coup## Bref, je recommande complètement et lors de mon prochain passage à Barcelone j’y retournerai. Parle Espagnole, Français et anglais.

What a wonderfil restaurant for tapaa. All the waiters were friendly and attentive in this cosy restaurant. There was a choice of more than twenty types of flavourful tapas. I highly recommend this place. It is so popular that you will probably have to wait in line. I would easily return again.

On our first night in Barcelona my wife and I went walking along the waterfront, La Rambla and Barri Gotic looking for a decent tapas bar along the way. We stopped and looked inside this crowded little tapas bar and thought it looked promising. We went on and looked around a bit more and decided to come back and give it a shot. Que Bueno! Was it ever the right choice!
We ordered a bottle of Marques de Caceres Rioja 2010 and began selecting tapas from the bar. They warm them up for you and they were delicious. We tried the calamare, spanish tortilla, garlic chicken, pork kabob, a chorizo/​tortilla combination and zucchini with chicken. All fantastic. The small bar has so much character and the service was top notch. You just can’t go wrong here!

This review is long overdue but totally necessary and deserved. I was here back in April and it was the single BEST decision I made in the course of my entire Mediterranean vacation. We were taking a cruise, so only had 2 nights in Barcelona. The first day here, we passed by Bodega Biarritz and immediately had a good feeling about it. But it was early in the day around 4pm, before it was open or we were hungry, and so we continued on our way exploring and ended up in another section of town by dinnertime. Rather than come back here, we chose a different tapas joint that boasted a lot of good Unilocal reviews and ended up majorly disappointed. This brings us to night 2: determined not to leave without a decent tapas meal, we returned to Bodega Biarritz nervous to be burned again — and left completely satisfied and so, so happy. SO good! It was everything we wanted: good cheap food and good cheap wine. Plus it feels very much like a local place, small and not catering exclusively to tourists.
I’m pretty sure everything we had here was delicious, but some items I do remember that I recommend: house ryoja (lots of it), jamon serrano, manchego, blistered peppers, some type of doughy/​pastry item, and the CHORIZO, omg, best chorizo I’ve had in my life. I almost forgot about it because remembering that I’ve never had chorizo like it before or since makes me a little sad, but seriously it was amazing. I am very, very serious about my tapas and had high expectations coming into Spain, and Bodega Biarritz ended up being exactly what I was looking for. I will recommend this place to everyone I know planning to visit Barcelona from now on!

Diese kleine Tapas Bar direkt hinter der Placa Reial im angesagten Barri Gotic wird in vielen Portalen empfohlen. Um es vorweg zu nehmen: zu Unrecht.
Als wir ankamen war es rappelvoll. Aber nach 5 Minuten gab es einen Platz an der Bar. Der bestellte Rotwein war eiskalt wurde aber anstandslos ausgetauscht, als wir reklamierten. Die Tapas kosten zwischen 1,50 und 4 Euro/​Stück und keine einzige Sorte war richtig gut. Alles war gerade mal okay. Gesamtpreis für 2 Personen 40 Euro. Das war es nicht wert.
Dann lieber ins Cal Pep, 10 Gehminuten weiter, dem ich 5 Sterne gegeben habe.

Great food, prices and friendly service.
The team here was extremely patient and kind.
Just FYI it is a tiny little place. There is no menu, the dishes range between 1.50−4 euros a piece. They seat you and you must go along the bar and let the ‘waitress’ plate the items you would like to be warmed up. Once an item is off the bar, it is gone! There isn’t a running kitchen that will cook more of your favorite item, so grab it while you can.
This was some of the better food I had in Barcelona! The service also made us feel welcomed to the city.

Excellent traditional tapas. No menu. Just select what looks great and they warm it in the oven and bring to your table. Very small restaurant with warm service. A highlight of our trip and we are picky foodies!

In our first night in town, we tried a tapas bar just off the Royal Plaza (Playa Real). It’s called Bodega Biarritz and is insanely small. My apartment living room is almost bigger than the seating space here. Their menu is one of pretty «classic» tapas dishes so a perfect way to start the trip.
We started with an order of Patatas Bravas, a stuffed puff pastry and Cod Fritters. Patatas Bravas are fried potatoes covered with a spicy tomato «Bravas» sauce. The sauce is really the thing here… tangy at first but quite spicy in the finish. The puff pastry is good as well but nothing special. The cod fritters were wonderful — nice, fresh cod meat with a nice crispy exterior.
Next up, we ordered meatballs on top of a potato tortilla, grilled sausage and smaller meatballs covered in bravas sauce. Both meatballs were moist and tender. The sausage had a nice kick to it and the potato tortilla was great. Soft interior with a crisp exterior, the texture was much flakier than your usual corn or flour tortilla. Add to all of this some beer and a great Mojito and you have a wonderful introduction to true Spanish tapas.

Wir hatten einen Tipp bekommen: Iss Tapas in kleinen unscheinbaren nicht unbedingt stylischen oder coolen Plätzen und den haben wir uns dann auch zu Herzen genommen.
Der Service in der Bodega Biarritz war freundlich, jedoch das Angebotene unwürdig. Die Cocktails waren nicht gut, die Tapas waren nicht gut. Wir haben uns so ziemlich durch alles durchprobiert was sie hatten und vieles ist übrig geblieben.