Barcelona · Tonight
Barcelona.One drinkat a time.
Options are easy.
A good decision is harder.
Cask does the harder part — three local stops, what to order, and when to go.
3 stops · what to order · when to go · first bar free, full night €3
The Vermouth Trail
Inside Bar Calders, Sant Antoni.
Sant Antoni · 7:00 PM
Bar Calders
The corner the neighbourhood actually sits on. Marble tables, house vermut from unlabelled bottles, and shelves of Pere Calders paperbacks nobody takes down.
Order this
House vermouth with soda, orange peel, fat green olive
Poble Sec · 8:30 PM
Quimet & Quimet
A standing-room bodega the same family has run since 1914, walls stacked to the ceiling with bottles. Montaditos built to order, no tables, no fuss.
Order this
Vermut on tap and the anchovy-and-truffle montadito
Eixample · 10:00 PM
Bodega 1900
Albert Adrià's reading of the old Barcelona bodega — the same vermut ritual, executed like a dining room. Book it; this is not a walk-in on a weekend.
Order this
House vermouth with the conservas selection
Not a booking email. A keepsake.
Send the same evening to someone else — sealed with your note, their name on it, in two styles.
Be it known — a safe passage is granted to
Elena
through the taverns of El Born, that Elena may drink as the locals do — and want for nothing.
- 19:001
El Xampanyet
El Born
OrderHouse cava at the counter — and the anchovies.
- 21:002
Dr. Stravinsky
El Born
OrderWhatever they're fermenting this week.
- 23:003
Bar Paradiso
El Born
OrderThe pastrami and a Manhattan.
Sealed with a word from Marc
Elena — go, and let this city surprise you. Save me the last toast.
— Marc
An epistle for
Sofia
Sofia — thirty looks good on you. Drink the first one slowly and the rest however you like.
— Alex
Enclosed — 3 stations for the evening
- 19:30El XampanyetThe house cava, poured cold and generous.
- 21:30Dr. StravinskyAsk the bar what's new tonight.
- 23:30Bar ParadisoRing the bell. You'll know.