Can Cisa / Bar Brutal

In the pleasantly cool, shadowy interior of Can Cisa, you can appreciate the care that’s gone into the restoration of a neighbourhood bar. Their reverence for the tradition of buying wine from the barrel, plus some local pressure, persuaded them to combine a classic bodega at the entrance, with a wine bar at the back. They stock 300 wines, all from organic or bio-dynamic producers around the world, ‘without chemicals or additives, at accessible prices: the same wines at the same price as before. We want older people from the neighbourhood to socialize here the way they used to, so we don’t lose that essential feeling – an old-style tavern that sells vermouth by the litre.’