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Location: Rambla de Fabra i Puig, 1, Sant Andreu, 08030
Venue Type: Neighbourhood Café Bar / Historic Venue
Year of Inscription: 2024
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| EBG Rating: | 7.5/10 |
| Choice/ Quality of Drinks | ❤️❤️❤️ Basic café bar wares, covering bases without distinction. |
| Style/ Décor | ❤️❤️❤️❤️ An interesting venue, tight entrance where you are greeted immediately by the bar with a tiny kitchen to your left, then a wedge shape widens to a small café area with pubby lounge to the rear. Lived in and worn-in, decorated with heritage photographs and festival/cultural posters. There is also a mezzanine overlooking the bar. |
| Atmosphere/ Character | ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Characterful interior, and you can sense the distance between where you’re sat and the next tourist miles away in the city centre. Local ritual and sound, albeit with an international flavour, this is certainly not a patrician Catalans-only place. Loungey pace but relaxing and welcoming. |
| Amenities/ Events | ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Food, snacks, takeaways, newspapers, books. |
| Value For Money | ❤️❤️❤️ Fair value for pretty much everything. |
| Description | Bar Colòmbia opened in 1913 and is still run by the family that founded it, now in its third generation. Originally called Kiosko, the bar changed its name to Hispano in the 1950s. It was renamed during the Franco era. An ‘early bar’, the focus is on breakfast/brunch food and morning til siesta lounging. It closes at 4 or 5pm every day, so this is no night spot. It is however, one of Barcelona’s best examples of preserved heritage, and the service, ritual and lounge to the rear feel sufficiently pubby to be included. Certainly if you placed the bar somewhere like the Balkans it would be one of the more pubby places you’d encounter. Fair value for food and drink, so long as you’re not after anything too fancy you’ll enjoy the strong sense of place, the identity brought to it by the staff and its operation, and the loyalty of its regulars. (May 2024) |
