Cèntric
Tapas Bar · El Raval, Barcelona · €
Open since 1862
A sliver of a Raval bar on Carrer de les Ramelleres since 1862, still pouring vermut at neighborhood prices. Gordal olives, Andalusian-style fried calamari, spinach beignets with honey, queue on the pavement at aperitivo hour.
The Delekta Review
Founded around 1862; reopened in 1942 after the Civil War, when it became a regular for artists working in nearby cabarets and theatres Renovated around 2013; some of the old promotional photographs from that artistic era hang on the walls today
Tapas + vermut bar — small, traditional carta, vermut on tap at neighbourhood prices the area generally lost two decades ago
Order first: Gordal olives — enormous, buttery, the way they're meant to arrive Andalusian-style fried calamari done properly crisp, plus the spinach beignets drizzled with honey that pull regulars back Vermut on tap — the kind of detail that signals a bar isn't designed for tourists
Tiny room between Carrer Tallers and Carrer Pelai, two minutes from Plaça Universitat — the queue on the pavement at aperitivo hour is the easy way to spot it
What the critics say
- Cèntric Bar - Gastronosfera
- Time Out Barcelona (ES) — Cèntric
- Diariodesign — Cèntric
- Betevé — Cèntric
- Time Out Barcelona — Cèntric
Visit
- Address
- Carrer de les Ramelleres, 27, Ciutat Vella, 08001 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 933 06 96 62
- Website
- centricbar.com
- Reservations
- Book a table
Nearby restaurants in El Raval
- Bacaro — Venetian Italian, €€
- Cera 23 — Galician-Mediterranean Fusion, €€
- Bar Cañete — Classic Catalan Tapas, €€€
- Suculent — Creative Catalan Gastropub, €€€
- Dos Pebrots — Ancestral Mediterranean, €€€
More Tapas in Barcelona
- La Cova Fumada — Traditional Catalan Tapas, Barceloneta, €
- Fino Bar — Wine Bar / Tapas, Gràcia, €€
- Bar Tomás — Tapas & Bravas, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, €€
- Topik — Japanese-Catalan Fusion Tapas, Eixample, €€€
- Bar Mut — Classic Spanish Tapas & Wine, Eixample, €€€