Sucursal Aceitera
Sant Antoni kicked off the pedestrian transformation years in the past earlier than town grew to become perpetually choked in mud and noise. In Sant Antoni, it culminated in traffic-free squares in dappled sunshine with yellow geometric shapes painted on the pavement. A saturated yellow hue that jogs my memory of these ‘hazard moist ground’ indicators. (I can’t assist picturing the black stick determine, limbs akimbo, drawn mid-fall.) Within the absence of site visitors, murmurs of dialog are carried alongside the quiet streets. Giant picket rectangles are strewn haphazardly via the neighbourhood and leggy vegetation dangle.
Sucursal Aceitera, like a number of the Sant Antoni spots, is a double-height restaurant. There are massive home windows giving technique to the seating on the pavement outdoors, sufficiently big to let via a big truck. Ought to a truck wish to cease by for a tennis ball-sized bomba, scorching from the fryer, mayonnaise cap sliding off its sizzling floor.
The bar inside has a balcony of wine glasses, hanging in orderly rows sparkly clear and catching the sunshine, like a Dionysian chandelier. Above, a neat crowd of bottles of Vermuth. The mixture of a nook place and infrequently open massive home windows at Sucursal Aceitera offers it lazy Sunday vibes, even when it’s a weekday lunch menu.
Patatas Bravas the Sucursal Aceitera manner with new potatoes trouble backed.
The spine of the menu isn’t that totally different from what most bars serve. Croquetas, bombas, bravas, artichokes in season. However the artichokes are delicately quartered, pale inexperienced, with thinly shaved trendils of pickled onions. The Bravas have been trouble backed, crimson oil seeping via the cuts, and copious quantities of mayonnaise. (Hellmans does an excellent commerce in these components) The Ensalada del huerto is KM0 AND comes from their very own huerto! Oh, and I’m certain I noticed a mustard sorbet accompanying one thing. Solely the calamares come as I anticipate, battered, crisp, with a wedge of lemon.
The ever well-liked “bomba”, a favorite at Sucursal Aceitera.
That yow will discover most of what’s listed on Sucursal Aceitera’s menu in any bar in Barcelona will not be the purpose. All a bar wants in Barcelona for the classics is a deep-fat fryer and a 10-litre tub of mayo and so they can prove edible meals that will likely be enhanced by Barcelona, the sunshine, and the collective smugness that we live within the choicest, finest a part of Europe. The metaphorical equal of the nostril* of a wheel of Brie cheese (*the most effective half). The purpose is, Sucursal Aceitera has whizzed previous the inherent qualities that any bar in Barcelona is generously endowed with (see the nostril of the Brie) to ship the entire package deal. Inside to drool over, double top house, the home windows, the service, the everyday Catalan fare with the extras (personal huerto, KM 0, a peeled beef coronary heart tomato that’s the measurement of a bull’s coronary heart.)
It’s no marvel then that after I optimistically stroll up on a weekday anticipating an out of doors desk. I find yourself with a (excellent) inside desk by the window that I’ve to provide again in an hour and a half. I’m not the one one who needs to whereas away a day. Lesson discovered.
Sucursal Aceitera
Carrer del Comte Borrell, 36
08015 Sant Antoni
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