Els
Quatre Gats Barcelona
 Els
Quatre Gats (4 Gats)
Montsio, 3 bis 08002 Barcelona
 Metro
Catalunya (Green Line, L3) and (Red Line, L1) 10 mins walk from the metro.
Last Christmas
my brother came over to visit me in Barcelona to do a little Christmas
shopping and after a few hours we needed a break and decided to
go for a coffee in Els Quatre Gats.
Els Quatre Gats
is a modernist cafe/restaurant/bar tucked away down a little side
street (Montsio, 3 bis) just off the main shopping walkway at Avda
Portal d' Angel in the Barri Gotic.
This cafe/restaurant
was a popular haunt for the young Picasso in the early 1900's and
here he undertook his very first commissioned work for designing
the front cover of the menu.
 Stepping
into the restaurant felt like we were stepping back in time. The
interior of the cafe was lit with antique chandeliers that gave
the feeling of what it must have been like in an old Tavern back
at the turn of the last century. Paintings filled much of the wall
space and colourful multicoloured tiles decorated the central Bar.
 We
ordered a coffee each and a naughty cream dessert topped with whipped
cream and surrounded in dark chocolate sauce which was simply irresistible
( we shared this so it wasn't that naughty). We took a quick look
at the restaurant menu but the prices looked very much inflated
compared to what we could get in other restaurants. Anyway we were
only there for the coffee and to take in a little of the modernist
atmosphere.
 We
found that the dessert and coffee were good but the service was
rather snooty and we were not made to feel very welcome. Even though
I had pointed out that they had not charged us for the dessert I
got nothing more than a superior look, a reprint of the bill, and
an almost inaudible "thank you" as the waiter turned tail
and whisked off to deal with some other important coffee making
task.
Snooty or not
it was an interesting half hour and with a little imagination you
can easily get the feeling of what it would have been like when
Picasso used to spend his free time here.
For more information
why not visit the Els Quatre Gats
snooty website?
Related Pages to Els Quatre Gats
Picasso
Musuem
Barcelona Restaurant Reviews
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