barcelona - 25 fitzroy street st kilda 9525 4244

it's a bar with spanish theme and the capital of spain is barcelona...can anyone see where they are going with this? punned titles aside, this place has always been full when we have passed so as the sun was setting on a warmish tuesday night, we wandered into barcelona with wine and tapas in mind.

first to greet us was pierre (so we have named him), our sexy french waiter for the night, menus in hand and overjoyed to show us to the last two seats in the house, which also happened to be the best two seats in the house. mars must have been aligned with saturn that evening. possibly something was aligned with uranus if the boys enjoying a romantic dinner outside were anything to go by.

if you've every had real tapas you will know that the shit that most places pass off as tapas just isn't. three slices of chorizo sausage and some dips is not tapas. tapas is like the french hors d'oevres or italian antipasti. spanish can do it, kostas the greek cannot. i recommend that you try barcelona before you give bazza in the local bar a go.

music was good, prices reasonable and i loved it because there are probably not too many other places where you get a frenchman asking you if you want more. all good stuff. gotta go back.