Sagardì Euskal Taberna, Barcelona

The ambience of Sargardi isn't something to rave about.. but the eating is! The system works like this... you wave at someone behind the bar while your friend tries to find a table to stand at. The waiter gives you a plate, and you pile it up with the tapas laid out along the bar. Each tapas is laid on a piece of bread, with a toothpick stuck through it.

When you want more, you just take it, and when you want to leave, you take the plate to the bar, and they add up the number of little toothpicks and charge you accordingly.

Apparently the particular type of tapas served here is basque, and the place is a regular haunt for locals. Nice to be somewhere truly local rather than one of the tourist restaurants on the rambla!

Favorite Dish: Tasty little tidbits of prawn, salmon and tortilla... explore them all!

Sagardi is a Basque Taberna that derives from the basic tapas concept, except at this place they serve a variety of yummp meats/pates/etc on slices of baguettes. Each piece costs about 1-2 Euros.

A note of caution though. This is not the kind of place to have a full-on dinner, but rather it is a good place to start up. But what am I saying? You're in Barcelona, meaning that you'll have about three dinners throughout the course of the evening anyways!

Favorite Dish: Take a look at the picture above and you'll see why.

The best kind of bar in Spain is the tapas bar and Sagardi in the Born is a good one to enjoy a few drinks. Located on Argenteria, one of the most traveled routes from Barrio Gotic to Barrio Born, makes this a great place to watch people. There is a restaurant in the back but the standing only bar is the traditional way to sample some tappas and cervesas. The bar is covered with several different mouth-size portions of typical Catalan appetizers so you can freely choice to eat as many or as few as you want.

Excellent bask tapas served on the bar. Just pick a plate, take what you want and pay at the end. Beautiful place and relaxed atmosphere. You can also have tortillas and drink Txakoli (bask white wine) or cider.

A very nice and attracting taverna in the middle of Borne area.
Normaly people come here to get an aperitive, but the pinchos were so attractive and tasty that we ended up having our aperitive, dinner and after dinner here.
You order something to drink and then take a plate where you put all the pinchos that you like, the selection is huge.
Remember that any pincho has a stick and they will make your bill counting the stick that you left on the plate, so if you eat or "lose" some sticks.......your bill will be lighter than your stomach:))