Restaurant: Bar Lobo, Barcelona

When I was in Madrid back in May, I ate in a fantastic re-imagining of a traditional tapas joint, Bar Tomate (which I wrote about here). In a total coincidence, the excellent Hotel Omm where Miss P & I stayed in Barcelona two weeks ago is also owned by the same restaurant & hotel group, Grupo Tragaluz.

When the delightful publicist for the Hotel Omm clocked that Miss P & I were of a gourmand gourmet disposition (we eat & drink like gannets), she sent us off to meet the manager & have lunch at Barcelona’s Bar Lobo, Bar Tomate’s sister restaurant, down off the Ramblas in the El Raval area of the city (translation: within spitting distance of all the tourist hot spots.)

The ground floor is a  light, bright, double height room, with an open kitchen. The tables are clothless, with pots of herbs & plenty of space.  There’s an outside terrace, but our pale, northern European bodies couldn’t take the heat, so we sat in a sunny indoors corner and watched a fearsomely good-looking man feed his toddler tapas,  *hearts melting*, whilst diners of all ages wandered in and out, and plates of delectable food wafted past our noses.

The menu roves around: there are super-trad tapas for those who don’t like to stray from the classics, like the plate of delectable sea salt scattered pimientos padron I scarfed in seconds (below right), and modern tapas of seared tuna with guacamole (below left) & houmous with flat bread for those that do (above right). I’m not sure where the textbook tempura asparagus with Romanesco sauce (above left) fits in, but it took roughly seconds for it to disappear off the plate and into my mouth.

Here’s the delicious menu in full:

Bar Lobo. C/ Pintor Fortuny 3, 08002 Barcelona.
+34934815346
barlobo@groupotragaluz.com

LLG & Miss P were deliriously happy guests of Bar Lobo