I cannot believe how didn't I realize this place existed until now!! Cassette Bar at BCN I'll try to go this weekend and then I'll update you guys with my experience. We must do a meeting sometime in this place!
And I've just discovered another one! http://translate.google.com/transla...arcelona.net/es/sonotek-bar-sonido-del-bueno/ Holy god, I'll be busy...
I've just did a simple search "cassette bar barcelona", and surprisingly two appeared. And this was the first one. I bet you guys must do that in your city; maybe you got surprised too... Anyway, you're invited to come here. We'll go to that bar I tried to go today with two friends but sadly none of them could manage to go with me. In the end I just realized that they are closed on sundays so I'll try next weekend... I'll update you with photos then!
I finally went on friday to that place. Here's a post I've just published in my Blog: The bar it self is beside the famous "Las Ramblas" street. It only opens from 19h to 3 am. The entrance is not lit and it's difficult to find it unless you specifically are searching to it, but once you find it you truly know that it's it: Excuse the low quality of my photos but there were VERY low light and I just used my phone. It was FULL of people; so was it that I had strong difficulties to even get in and find a place after 10 minutes to sit down and leave my backpack and other bags I took with me from my job. Inside it's definitely a place to enjoy the furniture: Here's the main bar with some boomboxes. One of them features a TV and it was working all the time. Sadly, there's no analog signal anymore here and there was nothing to watch. The lamps were definitely cool: Here's the menu (in english and spanish): I find it the coolest menu I've ever seen! After carefully reading it I chose the 'Autoreverse' sandwich. And here it is: The 'Autoreverse' sandwich, with artisan bread and mushrooms. Super tasty! After eating the first half, here you can see the fried mushrooms. Gosh, this was one of the most tasty sandwich I've ever eat. Highly recommendable! In the meantime, while I was eating there was a shelf over me with this stuff. There were some boomboxes and a computer. There was so low light and so many people around that I could not find a good place to take the photo. Even less to get the proper lighting to take it: In the end, after drinking two cups of very tasty 'Rioja' spanish wine, two croquettes made of Cecina de Leon and the Autoreverse bocatta, came the bill: I had the opportunity to talk with Fabio, the owner and main chief who is 'the guy', a passionated cassette collector. We talked a few minutes about our passion. I show him my DD9 and the always eye-catching AIWA HS-JX3000 and he was delighted to see them. He was so surprised that both were made from metal. We crossed our phone numbers so we can talk and share more, and I promised him to go on monday or tuesday, when it's a much calm place, so we can talk more, being few people there. So, look for an update soon...
