Gasterea

Best tapes I had in Barcelona at a very reasonable (cheap!) price. The neighbourhood is a nice to walk around in, also.

Best tapas we have had in Barcelona. Innovative tapas, fresh ingredients, very friendly waiter, and great prices. Strongly recommend to everyone.

Delixious pintxos, well priced. We recommend the berengena chips, manchego with sun dried tomatoes, shrimp & artichoke kabobs. With so many tapas bar options — we still went here TWICE! Friendly service, menus with english translation & lively vibe.

⁴⁄₅ for food and a ⁵⁄₅ for service and atmosphere and ⁶⁄₅ for the price. Not a single song played and we could hardly hear our voices with how lively the staff and patrons were — in a good way. Bites included a delicious eggs, potato and ham casserole, cheeses with blueberry jam and candied figs, chorizo soaked in cider — which only covers a third of what we got to try. Great little spot.

Hubby and I found this place randomly. Since it was packed we went in. First was standing room only, but the friendly barkeep handed us some menus and tapas came flowing. All was delicious and the lovely bartenders were entertaining. Packed house at 10:30pm on a Saturday. Great find!

Our first tapas experience went well! We didn’t see the arroz con pulpo stew on the menu until the end, when we were full. Too bad! Instead, we pointed and perused and ended up with:
— Black sausage with red peppers and quail egg
— Shrimp/​artichoke/​sesame sauce
— Catalan sausage
— Chorizo
— Goat cheese with candied figs
— Vinegared anchovies with olive tapenade
— Steak with chimichurri (the bartender was offering this around, and I thought it was a gift, but it was not. Lesson learned)
— Cod salad
— Some kind of Scandinavian brand of awesome tonic water
The standouts to me were the cod (a chunky, red peppery spread of it), the black sausage (unapologetically bloody and who can argue with a quail egg?), and the shrimp, because it was supposed to be Asian style but tasted like tahini, in a good way.
My mom liked the other sausages, but I thought they were too salty and had a little too much of whatever spice makes something taste like a breakfast sausage from the freezer section at the grocery store.
I loved the no-​pressure atmosphere here. It was equally fine with them whether you got one thing or fifty things, and you could take as much time as you needed. I guess that’s commentary on tapas culture in general.

I spent three days in Barcelona and combed Unilocal for reviews on good tapas spots and EVERY SINGLE one was a tourist trap. Vaso de Oro is too old school. Senyor Parrellada has shitty food. Basically anyplace anywhere close to the main drag is going to serve you a concept of tapas that is too antiquated and contrived to meet the standards of gastronomy today.
Instead, head to the outskirts and pick up something that fits the soul of the contemporary patrons around you. The Gracia area is exactly that and is going to be a great place to find some food that retains character. No anemic looking patatas bravas here.
The service is amazing. The owner is a true gentleman who wants you to have a good experience at his restaurant, which is beyond affordable and a bargain for the quality of the product you get.
We had multiple dishes, but the stars are the cazuelitas, which are braised dishes. I had the matambre which was a beef tenderloin stewed in onions and garlic as well as a friedcodfish that was baked in a tomato pepper sauce. Super comforting! His montaditos are also great, some notables were those that included cheese, as well as the codfish and crab salad.
I highly recommend this place. Highly. Highly.

A small cozy bar that primarily serves pinchos. These are slices of bread with toppings like feta and fig, hams, salamis, salmon, etc. I particularly liked the roquefort with quince. Inexpensive, you order several. They have a few larger items (Tapas sized) like flank steak that was delicious. Put together lots of flavors and make a meal. Everything was delicious. It ends up being a very reasonably priced dinner.

Awesome Pinotxo bar! The space is limited and a lot of people just stand at the bar and order. They don’t seem to put a limit or facilitate a reservation system. If you can get in, you can order! It worked out for us since many of the places we walked by didn’t let us in because we didn’t have a reservation. Barcelona’s dinning scene can be quite busy around 9−11pm.
Back to the Gasterea! They have many different things on the menu and many of them are quite cheap! Small portions are € 1.9 and larger casseroles are € 3.25. You can fill up your stomach on a € 15 bill. A few recommendations: grilled prawn with artichokes and broken egg with ham. We didn’t even get to try their veal and steak yet. Definitely worth another visit!

The food here is outstanding and cheap. I had nearly every cold tapas, and they were all excellent — I’d heavily recommend the goat cheese and fig. Space was a bit of a concern, but with the side tables, there was plenty of space to talk and eat, and it was just so satisfying to order something and get it within 10 seconds.

Authentic, amazingly nice staff, and great food. Ate so much food and it was so cheap! Staff gave honest opinions about what to order and everything was so tasty. Go early if you want to grab a seat otherwise you may have to stand, but the food is definitely worth it!

It was our first meal in Barcelona, and four days later, it is still the best food we have had. Do yourself a favor and come hungry. 3 euro casseroles and 2 euro tapas. We had 8 different dishes that were all incredible and fantastically unique. A must visit!

Amazing place filed with locals. Friendly staff and quick service. Tapas are 1,9 euro each. Size is about 3 or 4 bites. Everything is great. Try the flank steak casserole. 5,5 euro, a bit bigger than the tapas. Finish with the goat cheese and sweet potato. 9 tapas, 2 casseroles and a bottle of wine 45 euro. Go.

Good tapas bar in Gracia. A little noisy and crowded, but food and beer were good. I’d come back for the ham, potato and runny egg plate (:

tapas extrêmement variées et délicieuses! Accueil très sympa et super accueil des enfants! Très bon rapport qualité prix et localise dans une rue hyper vivante. À né pas louper!

Tolle Pincho-​Bar, in der viel los ist. Leider haben wir die begehrten Plätze am Tresen nicht bekommen, aber auch so war es toll. Wir haben so ziemlich fast alles aus der Karte bestellt und probiert und es war alles durchweg lecker. Mir haben am besten geschmeckt: Schinken mit Kartoffel und Paprika, Hähnchenragout, Schinken und Brie mit Himbeersauce, mariniertes Steak — alles in Miniportionen auf einem Stück Brot :) Kalte und heiße Pinchos kosten alle 1,90 € und kleine Gerichte in einer Tonschale 3,25 €.
Die Mitarbeiter sind nett, es ist zwar sehr laut hier, aber eine tolle Atmosphäre — ich kann das Gasterea nur weiterempfehlen :)

I loved this place. It’s a real tapas bar in the Gracia neighborhood of Barcelona. The bartenders are nice and most of the tapas is about 2 €. My favorite was cheese with anchovies but you can’t go wrong here. Everything is great.

Un Vasco que no es una cadena, tapas buenas, Zurita mejores. Buena decoración un toque industrial. Siempre lleno. Camareros muy amables.

Authentic, filled up with locals, delicious, affordable, great service… this was my first tapas bar experience and it was a good one. Skip the tourist traps and go out of your way to visit Gasterea.
Food-​wise (duh), we ate different sausages, manchego, chèvre with candied fig, a Spanish «tortilla» (omelette), eggplant chips with feta and honey, steak… the list goes on. Oh, and two beers. All for…20 euros.
Good enough to visit two nights in a row.

Buen sitio para ir a comer un par de pintxos y tomarte una cerveza! Las cazuelitas las recomiendo! Siempre hay mucha gente y va todo con mucha prisa, pero de eso tratan los pintxos, te comes uno te tomas un zurito o una copita de vino y te vas a otro bar.

One of the best meals I had in Spain, and all I had were pinchos, which in this case were like canapes: bread topped with 2 – 3 ingredients. They were so good and fresh that they almost seemed like a tasting menu.
I don’t love shrimp, and still had two orders of an incredible one paired with arctichokes and some delicious sauce. I think we had two of sobresade which had some manchego cheese also, and was outstanding. I loved the butifara negra, which had a quail egg on it, and was as good as most morcilla I have ever had. Can’t remember all of them now, but there was nothing we didn’t like.
Melanie had a couple of great glasses of red wine… for 2.20 euros, which seemed like a ridiculously good value. The whole thing was a great deal actually.

Bar de pinchos en pleno barrio de gracia con mucha variedad de pinchos tanto fríos como calientes. Además tienen cazuelitas y diferentes tapas. Van sacando pinchos y puedes pedir sobre la marcha o tambien tienes la opción de pedir los que quieras de su extensa carta de calientes. He estado en otros bares de este tipo en Barcelona y este es el que ofrece mas variedad y donde mas trabajan el pincho.
Recomiendo el de tempura de alcachofa con romescu, entraña con chimichurri, cojonudo (un clasico) y cancrejo.
El pincho sale a 1,90 €, un poco caro en mi opinión pero con ⁵⁄₆ ya te quedas bien. Lo mejor, el txacolí!! Vale la pena pedir la botella entera son 12,50 € y te salen 6 vasos.
El servicio muy rapido y son muy majetes, esta siempre a petar de gente pero acabas haciendote el hueco sin problema.

What a way to end my stay in Barcelona! I had a fabulous time stuffing myself with pinchos at Gasterea in Gracia.
Be sure to arrive and grab your seat at the bar early in the evening — we arrived at 8:30 and it started filling up quickly. This restaurant is away from the touristy areas in Barca but it’s still tourist friendly. The menu is in Catalan and English, with the options written in Spanish on chalkboards on the walls. The server behind the bar was awesome! He spoke English very well, and was willing to elaborate on all of the different pinchos and make recommendations. Even after the restaurant filled up, he stayed organized and provided fast and friendly service.
The selection of pinchos was pretty diverse and affordable at only 1.90 euro each. There was plenty to choose from… multiple cheeses, vegetables, seafood and of course the traditional jamon iberico. The veal with chimichurri was my favorite! There are a few tapas on the menu as well. The price is right here — I had several delicious pinchos and some tinto de verano for 15 euro.
Make sure you drop in to Gasterea during your visit to Barcelona, and check out all the cool shops on Carrer de Verdi for some tipsy shopping after dinner!

Short story — if you’re passing through Barca and looking for delicious but affordable tapas, THIS IS THE PLACE.
For tapas, many places in Barca are overpriced for the quality (many are not! but come with an even higher price tag and/​or remain unknown to tourists). well-​worn travellers, we were dying for authentic but affordable tapas.
It was a goldilocks situation: We’d been to overpriced, half-​empty tourist traps (too cold), and had just found a place with *gasp* free tapas but it was totally jammed with locals and was obvious little to no english, or patience, would be thrown our way (too hot). We had just about given up hope when we ended up outfront of Gasterea thanks to Unilocal.At 1.90 euros per tapa, and looking at the vibe inside which appeared to be an appropriate mix of locals, expacts, and a smattering of tourists, we felt it was worth a shot.
It was 11pm on a saturday and it was quite full but the saving grace was along one long wall there is one ongoing, elbow high, thin counter that you can stand at and still enjoy a beer and tapas, so searching awkwardly for a stool or waiting ages for one wasn’t necessary. We simply walked in, found space along this counter, and stood there reading the chalk menus.
Gasp — a small plastic menu with english was available. We weren’t sure how to order when the barman just walked up to us. We asked for cervesas and two tapas. When i told him, in bad spanish, that i speak very little spanish, he smiled and was extremely patient and kind with us the whole night — i highly recommend *always* learning to say you don’t speak the language IN the language you don’t speak. (rather than shouting slowly in your mother tongue). He seemed to very much appreciate the meek attempt to speak spanish and i do think this helped us the rest of the night.
Well, to the real point — the tapas/​pinxtos were killer. 1.90 gets you one portion so it still adds up but as least you’re not throwing down 9 euros on calamari and getting some nasty must of it in return. If you really didnt like it, you’re only out 1.90. Luckily, even at 1.90, the tapas were pretty exquisite in quality. We enjoyed literally everything we ordered.
there was one other menu of casual plates that were 2.95 — the portions were much bigger (not huge of course but enough to share) and i think a better ratio of food for price. However, not as much variety.
We had beers, cider, and wine (4 each i think, total) and about 7 tapas (plus 1 or 2 treats on the house!) and we paid 32 euros.
And thus, Gasterea has my heart forever.

Loved this tapas bar! One of my favorite experiences in Barcelona since it’s what the locals do. We ended up eating here two days in a row since we liked it so much. The guys who work here are super friendly and were patient with us since we didn’t understand the process at first.
Get there early so you can order whatever you want or sit towards the back of the bar so you can grab the best selections right when they come out of the kitchen. It starts to get packed around 8:30. No matter how busy the bartenders get they are ALWAYS attentive and will give you whatever you need.
I recommend the chicken skewer with yogurt, fried potatoes, chicken curry, cheese with sun-​dried tomatoes, goat cheese with fig and the crab salad. The pinchos range from 1.9 — 2.9 euro each! (cash only)
If you’re really nice they might even give you free chocolate truffles! :)
Go here to experience Barcelona!

Kleine Pinxos-​Bar, in der man schnell sein muss, wenn neue Teller aus der Küche kommen. Wenn’s voll ist, sind die besten Plätze also hinten am Tresen Natürlich kann man auch bestellen!
Grundkenntnisse Spanisch oder Katalan sind hilfreich, aber es geht auch mit drauf Zeigen
Tolle Atmosphäre, sehr leckeres Essen knappe 2EUR pro heißem Pincho.

Los pintxos (o pinchos, para ser normativo, aunque a veces más vale no serlo) son un tipo de plato sufrido. Por poco que te lo curres, puedes salir bastante airoso. Y este es el caso del Gasterea. No digo que sean geniales, pero los que tienen acostumbran a estar la mar de buenos y bonitos (que no baratos), como el de chistorra, que siempre cae.
Tampoco es que haya un surtido como para reescribir las Mil y una Noches mientras te comes un pintxo cada noche, pero no está nada mal, y más teniendo en cuenta lo relativamente pequeño que es. Por otro lado, tiene el problema que tienen muchos lugares de la zona: la masificación en ciertos momentos (a la salida del cine, y es que está delante de los Cines Verdi), que habría que evitar si se quiere comer dignamente. Pero, en general, es recomendable, ¡qué caramba!