This place was opened in 1820 by a native of Marseilles - who may just have changed the course of Barcelona's artistic history by introducing absinthe, still a mainstay of the bar's delights. Untapped 100-year-old bottles of the stuff sit in glass cabinets alongside old mirrors and William Morris curtains, probably covered in the same dust kicked up by Picasso and Gaudí.
Area Raval
Transport Metro Liceu
Telephone 93 442 72 63
Open 10pm-2.30am Mon-Thur; 10pm-3am Fri, Sat
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