Tapas Crawl Barcelona

The Sagardi Euskal Taberna is a stand up tapas bar that runs on the honor system.   It serves pintxos - tapas on top of slices of baguette - each with a toothpick in the top securing whatever deliciousness is on top to the baguette slice below.  The pinxtos are displayed all along the bar on two glass shelves open on both sides.   All night servers bring plates of pinxtos out from the kitchen and place them on the shelves. 

You order a drink from the bartender and pick up a plate to serve yourself.  You then walk along the bar, picking out whatever you’d like.   Secure a spot at the bar or one of the stand up tables and enjoy your tapas.  But save your toothpicks.   That is how the bartender knows how much you’ve had and what to put on la cuenta.

Amazing how quickly you can get to 25-30 toothpicks with five people!

The environment was great, because you are continually interacting with other customers as you pick tapas off the bar shelves.  Very fun and another contender for best tapas bar.

Just across the square from Sagardi is Taller de Tapas, a bit more formal tapas bar.  The food and service were good, but it would not contend for the best.

Our mini-crawl complete, we headed out into the neighborhood again for a little more exploring.   We returned to our apartment and Liam learned that cousin Danny Harper would not be able to make it to Barcelona from France, as he couldn’t make the train trip work for the time we were there.  That put a little kink in the boys’ plans to go clubbing Monday and Tuesday nights (or, rather, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings).