Very laid back place but don't let that fool you: the Basque pintxos here are some of the best in town. Service is fast and the food is fresh. Worth going back many times! read more

Our second night in Barcelona www were looking for an authentic tapas bar within walking distance of our hotel. So glad we found this place. It is that iconic family owned diner that you love kind of place. Very friendly service, great wine, and excellent tapas straight from the kitchen. Forget the tables in the back room filled with people ordering full meals. Sit at the bar, get a good glass of wine or beer, pick out a cold tapa or two from the glass case in front of you or go down the counter until you find the right one for you, and enjoy. Hot tapas are presented by the server. Pick what you want or order off the menu. Each one comes with a toothpick and all are inexpensive. When you have had enough the toothpicks are counted and you pay accordingly. It is so retro it's awesome. I would have given 5 stars but it was a slow night and it's more fun when crowded. I was there early in the week. I encourage you to wait closer to the weekend for better tapas selection. read more

Got so stuffed because they kept bringing around the most delicious tapas and I never wanted to pass on any of them!

Awesome experience! Loved almost everything we tried. Had the server (who we nicknamed Spanish Adam Sandler, amongst ourselves) pick for us off the menu since we arrived at 9 and could still order off the menu. Later they walked things down the line and we picked off the plates too. Husband and I each had a couple beers and stuffed ourselves for €33! Fun! read more

My favorite restaurant in Barcelona! Great hot and cold tapas for a good price. Sangrias were amazing as well.

Great tapas! Nice staff. One of the waiters was so smitten by this Harlemite (he lived in the Bronx at one time) that he gave me a discount on my bill and a free bottle of hard apple cider :-) read more

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I had a great time here. It was also a great value. We did a "only on vacation, dinner after dinner" here. I think I probably tried about six different items and two or three glasses of wine. The best was the fried blood sausage, which spawned me to go on a blood sausage rampage throughout the city. I seriously couldn't get enough. All in all this place is a good bet. Resist your Barcelona-ian instincts and go early, it gets super busy at night. read more

Wonderful spot with excellent pinchos. The staff was very friendly and explained the procedure. Take any pincho from the cases and they add up the number of toothpicks after. Fresh ones keep coming from the kitchen. Glass of wine was about 2 euros. read more

Very good food, and helpful servers that explained the basics for tapas novices (first night in Spain). Every item was delicious, especially pork nugget topped with fried egg and anything with bacon. Also artichoke heart croquets with cheese. Tasty sangria and house white wine. Total for 14 tapas and two drinks was 31€. Recommended. read more

This place was great! The staff was super helpful and pleasant. They didn't care we had no idea what we were doing. I enjoyed our tapas immensely and especially loved my dessert. I hope I have the opportunity to return someday. read more

This was my favorite place for tapas in Barcelona. Old school style with classic dishes that all tasted great. I will absolutely come back next time I'm in Barcelona! read more

Great tapas and pintxos place, thanks to fellow yelpers who gave this place good reviews, I couldn't agree more. Everything is even better with a large Estrella (or two). Try the txistorra and croquettes- yum! Quite the memorable meal in Barcelona! read more

Food is good. For 2 of us food with 3 drinks costs 32 euro. They closed for sometime for vacation without putting any sign on the door, which was the part we didn't like. read more

Albert, our waiter was very nice and helpful. We ordered a chicken dinner and it was decent size portions and nice and juicy. read more

Yes, try this place! I believe there is something waiting on the menu for each person who comes here. For me, the apple tart with cinnamon ice cream dessert was to die for. Coupled with a glass of Moscatel, I was in heaven. I loved the Moscatel so much, I immediately found the source retail store and bought a bottle to bring back to the States. Take a look at the framed lace in the back room--superb needlework, and created by family members! This place was hard to find. Its address (157) was not across the street from the even numbers in the same sequence. You had to go way up the street to find 157. Hang in there--it's worth it! read more

Really good. Found it on Yelp, right around the corner from my hotel. I'd go back in a heartbeat. Very friendly, helpful service. Ham croquettes were great, as were the patatas bravas. The little cold pinxtos were good and reasonably inexpensive. They count up the toothpicks to tally up your bill. And the cider was very tasty, too. read more

I went there with my best friend tonight around 8:30pm. We order few tapas, because the price is more cheaper than others around this district. Around 9:30pm, the waiter providing the samples of Tapas to every one for free. This is reason I want to share with everybody. read more

We stayed in Barcelona for 10 days and hit a lot of different tapas all over the city. This was the best food we had. Make sure you get your server to tell you about any off menu items. Ours told us about them after we had ordered a bunch of other items from the menu. Pork cheek was the best. Jamon wrapped foie gras was spectacular. Both of those were off menu. What really makes the five stars is the price. Three of us ate a LOT of items and had sangria too. €64! Best food at the best value. Seek it out and go! read more

So, based on Yelp and Spotted by Locals, we tried Maitea. Bonus that it was a five minute walk from our apartment. But I'd really pass next time. We eat vegetarian so perhaps that limited us, but really everything was either brie or fried. Really light on vegetables and anything with any intense flavor. Sangria was yummy and service was quick and good, but not enough to return. read more

Worth the walk away from touristy areas. Atmosphere bustling,prices reasonable, staff friendly, food fresh and tasty, lots of variety makes this little tapas bar well worth a visit. read more

Lovely setting with beautiful decor. Helpful and friendly staff. Absolutely DELICIOUS food. Great prices! We're only visiting for 3 days and definitely plan to go back before we leave! Highly recommend!! read more

Maitea - Delicious Tapas - Spanish Near Me - Barcelona, B

Amazing Basque food! Good service, friendly staff, nice decor, and good size portions!

70 Reviews, 4 stars and a half and lives up to it as well. Lining up a few 4 and 5 stars places was really helpful during our time in Barcelona. I feel the places we have been to were well worth the ratings, keeping service on the side as it is on the slow side, BUT it looked to us as a local way of doing rather than anything else. This place is a little off the beaten pass and we went there after taking the tourist bus that stops at a plaza near by. We came a little late and service was at its down time. We were seated right away and this place is perfect for groups as you have plenty of big tables. It feels very typical. ENtering the place makes you look at a loong row of pinxtos to help you decide after you sit down. We tried the croquettas, bacalau croquettas and jamon, grean peas and veal, pork in sugary sauce, as starters and we stopped there as the sizes were not accommodating us and switched to larger plates : burgers. To be honest, very not typical but filling. It was 4pm and we needed that. Very decent meat quality. I feel we did not explore the large variety of the menu if front of us but we wanted a break and it was a perfect place for it. I would like to go back to it and focus on tapas and especially pinxtos as they all looked very nice. Service was always, a tiny bit slow but again we were off normal hours. Oh and try the Barelonina beer, it is one of the best bottle beer I had in Barcelona. read more

Tapas served in a traditional fashion (i.e. cold tapas persistently available in glass cases at the counter, hot tapas periodically brought out from the kitchen, a la carte also available). Absolutely delicious! Great boquerones, lots of delicious hot items (that the kitchen served of its own accord). read more

Ass-some! Good old traditional tapas bar. When going in, get ready for the battle! Elbow in to your slice of heaven spot by the bar and order the pitcher of sangria. Dont ask for prices, because it wont break ur bank. Pretend u r local, because that what the crowd will be around u. Mostly older Spanish ppl, mixed with groups of students that flock to this bar from a university near by. some of patrons look like hey were present during Ferdinand and inquisition! Cold tapas are assorted on plates in front of u on the bar, and u need to help yourself wile sipping n your Rioja or sangria. Than every few minutes or so waiter will pass by with a plate of hot tapas, and you are welcome to grab these from the plate. You must keep the toothpicks that comes on tapas, because that's how they ll know your tab. all tapas are the same price. My personal favorites are the morzilla and the various ages cheeses with sweet marmelad on top. I didn't come across one tapa that we didn't enjoy. Wanted o go there our sat day in Barcelona, but, unfortunately, they were closed on Sunday. this place is now my must-go for all future visits to Barcelona! read more

We loved this place! Cafeteria/dinner. Cold tapas available for self service. Good wine. Clean place. Waiters go around serving hot tapas w the place gets busier. Don't eat the seafood tarte or white sausage- not good. Everything is is good. read more

So unbelievably good. Endless variety of tapas, you're going to want to and you will end up trying way more than you thought was possible because they're so good. read more

We went at 10:30pm. We paid 33 euros for: a tiny bowl of very soggy potato slices seeped in oil that were supposed to be bravas. They were boiled potato slices swimming in oil and a mayo/ketchum concoction. Another dish which was supposed to be "stuffed peppers", was exactly 3 slices of FINGER SIZE red pepper with some quinoa on top that floated off as it was in a bowl of "watery broth" that had no flavor. It's not like you could have pretended it was soup. All three slices were one mouthful together. Seriously. This isn't a figure of speech. The third dish was supposed to be smoked sardines. Two small sardines cut up in 3 pieces each. SHAME ON THEM. All those "plates" together were smaller than one tapas would normally be. Taste: no taste except for the sardines that were not even smoked. How could there be taste of anything with the so-called stuffed peppers since everything floated away in the broth/soup like water in which they swam? I have never been to such a terrible place in my entire life. It's even worse than the Croatian place I had been to in the early 80s where we got slight food poisoning. At least that place was tasty. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED. read more

Excellent service and great food. Only waited about 15 minutes on a weeknight at 9 pm. Lots of different delicious flavors in the tapas and they are are fairly large. Recommend bacon covered dates,salmon and cream cheese, figs and blue cheese. Hot and cold are wonderful. Two large glasses of the most delicious Sangria. Finished with 2 excellent ice creams. We will go back again this week! read more

To my first dinner spot in Barcelona with the wifey and I got to say its one of the best. The food was good. We just did their tapas and it was good. It just might be that we were hungry but I love the you pick your own food (literally) process. The servers were very helpful and tried to recommend some of the other tapas we were able to reach for (there are other customers sitting in from of their tapa plates so you got to ask nicely...). I felt more comfortable here than at la flauta II(in my previous review on a place in Barcelona). Will be a place to come back to with a group of friends drinking wine and socializing...if we don't find another super duper place in Barcelona. read more

f a n t a s t i c! authentic friendly down to earth but with a twist! go there!! some tourists but mostly locals enjoy the fresh food consisting of self service cold tapas and hot tapas and mains you can order. everything is just better than you expect it! read more

Perfect first meal in Barcelona. Service was great -Albert rocks! He made recommendations that were spot on and the fact that he spoke English was really helpful.Prawns, hake and little sausages (on the hot tapas menu) were especially noteworthy. Seriously considering eating there tomorrow night. read more

This place seems always to be crowded (in the positive sense) and their Basque style tapas is amazing.

Went on recommendation of our hotel desk. Great selection of cold tapas in the case in front of you (all on slices of bread). Highlights were white anchovies with olives, creamy caviar with an anchovy, jamon with Camembert, tuna salad with shredded cheese. You can also order hot ones. Also fun is that plates of hot tapas come out of the kitchen and the server brings it down the line to tempt you - various eggy things, blood sausage..... You could just sit here and stuff yourself forever. All tapas are 1.65 Euro, so great value if you can just stop! Great place! read more

codfish w garlic mousse line au gratin is really testy, same 5* goes to goat cheese w sweetened onion in port wine, honey & nuts read more

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Maitea, we are still thinking about it as we had great fresh tapas so many, in a local environment, We only regret we could not go back there once again before we leave as closed on Sunday. Great place!! read more

Catalan style tapas are great and rather authentic. Service is jot great but that's not why one should go to this place. Food quality is great and price is low. I can recommend this place. read more