Bar Mut is a famous tapas bar located in the L'Eixample neighborhood of Barcelona. When my parents and older sister came to visit me for my birthday in late October, they told me we had to eat at Bar Mut while they were there because a friend of our family recommended it to us. I got to bring two of my roommates and the three of us all agreed that this had been our most adventurous night of eating while in Barcelona. This restaurant only serves tapas and we didn't know which ones to order, so we told our waiter to bring us a sample of all of them. I had never liked sea food until I ate at Bar Mut. The first 5 tapas were all sea food such as clams, oysters, lobster, different types of fish, and muscles. I really liked the muscles, lobster and fish that they brought out to us. Next was the meat tapas which only consisted of chicken and filet of beef. This was definitely my favorite part of the dinner because ever since leaving the United States for Barcelona I had been craving a juicy piece of steak; finally I got it this night and it was cooked perfectly at medium rare! My 26 year old sister did not have the same sense of adventure that the rest of us did at dinner and so unfortunately her meal consisted of the bread that came out before dinner, and a bite of the chicken tapas.
After the dinner, our waiter told us that they have a drinks bar that they wanted us to check out. This was not a normal bar, however. We had to be escorted by a waiter of Bar Mut outside and around the corner to what looked like the door to an apartment building. Once we were let inside, there was a man in a suit and earpiece at the bottom of the apartment building. After a minute he told us to walk up the steps and enter the first door on the left. Once entering that door, there was a dim lit hallway with another lady and earpiece at the next door. She made us wait for a second and then let us in and showed us to our table. Once we sat down we asked her what kind of place this was because we were all a little creeped out. She told us that it is a "speak easy" bar, meaning not many people in Barcelona were supposed to know about it. The logo on the menu further explained this because it was a pair of lips with a finger over it, implying the "shhh" gesture. Though I'm sure this "speak easy" bar wouldn't want pictures up on my blog, I decided to put them up anyways. Shhh!
My sister's "dinner"
Everyone at the "speak easy bar"
Actual dinner
No comments:
Post a Comment