Bodega La Palma
Catalan Tapas & Wine · Barri Gòtic, Barcelona · €€
Gastro-bodega since 1935 in the Gothic Quarter. Dalí and Picasso drank here when it was an artists' winery. Croquetes de calamars en sa tinta, moixama with hazelnuts, bravas. Wineskins, marble bar, and century-old soul intact.
The Delekta Review
Bodega La Palma dates back to at least 1909 on Carrer de la Palma de Sant Just, starting as a grocery that sold wine by bulk before reinventing itself as a tapas bar and settling into its current gastro-bodega form by 1935. The room is Gothic Quarter in amber: marble tables, wine barrels still pouring, original wooden furniture intact, the kind of honest patina that newer 'vintage' bars spend fortunes trying to fake. Dalí was reputedly a regular when this was an artists' drinking room. The menu holds a few well-executed Catalan classics — patates braves, croquetes, galtes de porc estofades, mullet in its own ink, moixama amb avellanes — with the wine still flowing from the barrels behind the bar. The prices remain remarkably accessible for the Barri Gòtic, which is the quiet miracle of the place. A local pillar that somehow still reads as one, despite the obvious shifts in the neighbourhood around it. Rosalía was seen here recently. The bar barely flinched.
What the critics say
- Bodega La Palma: Gothic Pillar - Culinary Backstreets
- Restaurant Bodega La Palma Barcelona
- Bodega La Palma – Macarfi
- Bodega La Palma – TimeOut Barcelona (ES)
- Bodega La Palma – Bon Viveur
- Bodega La Palma – Directo al Paladar
Visit
- Address
- Carrer de la Palma de Sant Just, 7, Ciutat Vella, 08002 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 933 15 06 56
- Website
- instagram.com/bodegalapalma
Nearby restaurants in Barri Gòtic
- Agreste Mar — Creative Mediterranean / Foraging, €€€
- Los Caracoles — Traditional Catalan, €€€
- Can Culleretes — Traditional Catalan, €€€
- Bar La Plata — Tapas, €€
- Rasoterra — Vegetarian, €€