Braves was a small bowl of overpriced French fries. La Bomba de La Barceloneta, basically a very small ball of potato and meat, was cold in the middle like it had come out of the refrigerator. Wasn't impressed. Overrated, in my opinion. On a positive note, it has a cool atmosphere and you get to watch the chefs cook which is fun. Admittedly, we didn't explore the menu a whole lot, but what we did have was a disappointment. It was also very unwelcoming...maybe because we only spoke English, I don't know. With so many great restaurants and pincho bars in Barcelona, I'd pass on this one. read more

Food was good but definitely overpriced! Great location. Don't get there too late. It's super busy place after 8pm.

Somehow different then typical tourist tapas but excellent quality. A little bit pricey with 34 € for three tapas but the quality is worth it. read more

The food is salty and little choices plus expensive as compare to others much better ones. Way overrated.

Place is lovely. Busy atmosphere, nice decor. Food is good I just thought it would be better. bravas just looked like chips. The egg and chips was average. Had better elsewhere. Mc foie burger is good but expensive as expected. A good spot to try for lunch but I wont be revisiting. read more

Tapas24 is sister restaurant to Comerc24 and ran by former El Bulli chef Carles Abellan, so one would expect some little twists away from the norm. It's unassuming from the front, just being a couple of tables on the pavement and a door leading downstairs, and pretty unassuming when you get inside too with a few tables dotted around and an open kitchen and bar surrounded by folk drinking wine and eating tapas. We decided to join the bar dwellers so we could watch the chefs do there thing. When we sat down the couple next to us were eating a plate of red slices of something that looked rather good so I directed a customary 'Que es?' to the waiter and failed miserably in understanding his speedy reply. Luckily for me the lady of the couple must have heard my inquiry as she pushed the plate towards us, now sporting a lone slice, and said 'Try it, it's fish' before telling us at a much more ear-friendly speed that it was called mojama. After devouring this lone slice - and deciding to order more - we turned to the menu and found the unassuming ex- and interiors belied a rather fantastic menu. Una tapeta The classics were there, sure (your patatas bravas and your tortilla), but they sat alongside mini-burgers with foie gras and ham and cheese sandwiches - bikini - with black truffle, not to mention jamon iberico and buffalo mozzarella. We decided to supplement the mojama with the bikini comerc 24, the McFoie, some Padron peppers, a Russian salad, Braves, Pa amb Tomaquet (tomato bread) and some cava and red wine to wash it down. The mojama came served with darkly toasted almonds and a drizzle of strong olive oil - it was fantastic stuff. The initial taste was like an expensive ham, salty and melting on the tongue. Up to this point you'd be forgiven for not thinking it came from the sea but the aftertaste quickly stopped these thoughts as a strong, but pleasant, fish flavour came through. A bikini is a cheap eat by the beach, EUR3 of plastic bread and plastic cheese to fill the gap between a vast late breakfast and an evening of grilled seafood. Here it was transformed to posh tapas though with some top draw ingredients. The bread was still mass produced - would anything else work? - but the ham was now jamon Iberico and the cheese buffalo mozzarella, black truffle added its inimitable muskiness. It was very good. If I was being critical the one thing I would say is the use of a squeezy bottle of melted butter to grease the outside left butter hot-spots that were literally soaked in the stuff. This was my first encounter with Padron peppers and I loved every one. The sweet earthiness was a delight and the tentative Russian roulette of waiting for a hot one certainly didn't detract. The occasional tingle of warmth suggested my time had come but then the one truly hot one showed prior peppers had been false alarms. The McFoie was billed as a mini-beefburger with foie gras minced into the patty and the fatty liver making a second appearance in thePa amb tomaquet accompanying mayonnaise. I watched this being made and at one point it did look like a normal burger, sat inside a tall bun, but a few minutes inside the contact grill left it flat and crispy. The foie gras definitely added some fat to the patty but I found the taste a bit lost, this could have been due to the preceding hot Padron pepper though. Pa amb tomaquet (pan con tomato/bread with tomato) was simply the best I've eaten. The usual slices of country style bread replaced with a thin, ciabatta like loaf cut into top and bottom. It was crunchy and sweet, which is how I like it. The low point of the meal for me was the patatas bravas (or Braves) on the menu. The potatoes were chips, and good ones at that, but there was just far too much mayonaisse for my tastes, they were literally swimming in the stuff. Braves aside it was a fantastic start to what turned out to be two days of culinary delights in Barcelona. It was pretty cheap too - a pair of cavas, a pair of red wines and all the food working out not a lot more than EUR20 a head. Definitely recommended and, if you eat at a UK time seemingly OK to get a seat - at 8.30pm on a Saturday we were seated instantly. For some photos of the food see my blog: http://cookingthebooks.typepad.com/cooking_the_books/2010/08/tapas24-barcelona.html read more

A wonderful tapas bar. We had to wait for some time but then we had very good tapas that were also very reasonably priced. The service was also excellent. An all round recommendation. read more

This place was listed in Rick Steves and near the block of discord where we were around lunch time one day, so we decided to find it and see if we could get a table. there was a line, but i went down and noticed a few seats at the bar. i am so glad we sat at the bar. it was fun to watch them cook and wait on people. our waitress was super nice and patient with us. as everyone has already said, the mcfoie burger and bikini sandwich were our highlights. really just amazing flavor on both. we also had a bomba, a few croquetas, a meat skewer, and some biscotti cookies with coffee for dessert. all of it was great. i really felt like we were experiencing true spanish tapas of the modern day. different than some of our experiences with what i would describe as old school tapas. read more

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Amazing food! Line was a bit long, but definitely worth the wait. They estimated 90 min, we waited about half an hour, and sat down. Lots of delicious food, bombas are excellent, and the Bikini Commerç was out of this world, black truffles, ham, and mozzarella...it did t last long. Great staff, plenty of cold Moritz beer...you can't go wrong!! read more

This place was so delicious, we went back for more!!! We had the Bikini, Patatas Bravas, the meatball tapas (can't remember the menu name), the bread topped with crushed tomato and olive oil, short rib in lettuce leaf... It was all amazing. The food in Spain was all pretty delicious and different. Definitely surprised our family, as we thought coming from Italy to Spain, we'd find the food second to Italy. We were pleasantly incorrect with our assumption. The food, although very different, was so mouth watering, ESPECIALLY at Tapas 24. Great food, great atmosphere, really friendly staff. Loved it!! The one downside is that we had our baby stroller with us and they don't have a ramp to get into the restaurant. We would have sat outdoors, but most people who want to smoke sit outside, thus we had to find tables inside to avoid smoke getting to our baby. We had to carry the stroller up and down the stairs to get in and out of the place, but that didn't stop us from returning for more of their delicious tapas! If given the chance to travel to Barcelona again, we will definitely come back here. I've had a few friends ask me for recommendations for places to go to for their upcoming travels to Barcelona and Tapas 24 was always one of the places I recommended for them to go. read more

Very long wait on a Tuesday night at 10:00pm. The place is too small and the lines are huge at a time. We waited for an hour after we were told half an hour wait, and we were still not seated. So we gave up and left! read more

Another amazing memorable meal in Barcelona! I had this the day after I went to the very impressive 'succulent', which was interestingly enough started by the same chef. Both amazing. You have to wait in line at tapas24. No reservations or leaving your name on a list. Well worth it. A few days earlier we didn't want to wait and we should have! Those bikinis might be the best thing I ever ate. I wish all my ham and cheese sandwiches had a layer of truffles! The tripe dish and the foie gras burger, simply perfect. The pan con tomate and the patatas bravas, possibly 2 of the most boring dishes ever, were done so well I was dreaming about them. read more

Great restaurant. But the one next door is even better. Ask for "Mikkeller" beer and you will find it.

The portions where tinny but the prices where not. The waiter wasn't welcoming and kind of rude when we complained about the the food. I also ordered a ceviche the sauce was too thick and the the fish wasn't of good quality. I wouldn't not recommend that place read more

The worst lunch and the most unworthy expensive lunch I've ate in Spain(yes!!! In Spain!!!!) if you have ate any tapas in Spain, you will feel this store doesn't have any special, and taste not the best, but charge dramatically. The service is bad, especially a waiter, I forget his name, he doesn't have a smile, as a waiter, to us, so indifferent. Over all I hate this restaurant. Bikini maybe the best and easily made( I can even make it at home) tapas in this restaurant. read more

The spicy lamb skewer and bikini sandwich were delicious. The chicken croquet was not like the usual, too much shredded chicken. Overall, the experience was of a cozy local bar/restaurant. The staff and manager were very warm. read more

After a short wait got a table that we shared with a couple from Greece. We had a variety of tapas all that were very good. Service was a bit slow at times, but overall a very good experience. I would recommend this restaurant. read more

Don't believe the hype. This restaurant isn't worth waiting 45 minutes for a seat. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't anything special. Good tapas needs no explanation. You put it in your mouth and your like "OMG this is delicious!" There was none of that for us and and that was after waiting an hour for a table. The waitstaff was fine, just really busy. This was also one of the more expensive places we went to. Considering time spent waiting for a table and over $50 for four tapas and two waters, I'd say this place wasn't a good value. read more

Came here on a Tuesday with a party of 4. There was a line and we waited for about 30-45 minutes. Little did we know it'd be ABSOLUTELY worth it. This place was amazing. Wish I had one in my home town b/c it was so great. We were able to order a bottle of wine while we waited to be seated. Then were seated outside. If the weather permits, outside was great! Our waiter was wonderful - unfortunately we didn't catch his name but he was a taller gentlemen originally from Italy. At first, he was extremely busy and didn't get to explain any of our dishes to us. He later apologized and once they slowed down, took the time to explain all of our dishes to us. He was great!! We wanted the bikini sandwich but they were out :( We got the following items and each one was as good as the other! - Las Bombas: friend potato balls with meat in the center. Perfectly fried, sauce served with them was perfection. We ordered them more than once (they're served individually). - Patatas Braves: typical of most tapas restaurants; always a good go to! - Tataki de Atún (tuna tataki): to die for. It was fantastic. If you like tuna, you MUST try this!! - Lamb: superb! Can't really put into words how much I enjoyed this! - Croquettes: we tried both the chicken and the iberíco croquettas. Yum! Again, ordered them more than once (served individually). - Foie burger: mini little foie burgers served on a toasted bun with foie ganache to spread on top. Delicious! Had to order a Second one. - Sausage pasta: cooked in a skillet, elbow noodles with several different types of sausage. Delicious! -Lastly, we had a birthday in our party. We let the staff know and they came out with their salted chocolate ganache dessert and sang "Felíz cumpleaños". The salted chocolate was amazing. Served with little salted bread pieces. Sounds a bit strange but tasted incredible! If I ever get to return to Barcelona, you bet I will return to Tapas 24!!!! read more

Great find we had to go back for round two a day later. Must haves include "the bikini" and the "Mc Foie" burger. It's close to all the shopping so it was a perfect place for us to take a quick break and grab a small bite. Oh yea the best creamiest croquettes ever! read more

Had a great lunch at Tapas 24. We sat at the bar looking into the kitchen best seat in my option. The food was outstanding. read more

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My husband and I came here for our last lunch in Barcelona. The food was great and the service was wonderful! If you sit at the bar you get a front row seat to their kitchen as well which really made the experience even more fun. We had their sangria which was delicious. My husband ordered the oyster which was 1 oyster with garnish for 5 Euros- it was a too pricey for 1 oyster. The other foods were decently priced but we decided the order the larger size of the lentil soup but honestly it was not worth it since even the large size is only a little bit larger than the tapas size. Overall our bill came out a bit more than other tapas places the total price is a reason why I didn't give 5 stars. There are other tapas places you can go to and order a majority of the same food for cheaper (and still good taste and quality). Overall I would say check it out but remember it is pricey -it should say 3 Euro signs not 2 in my opinion. If you know that going in that helps! read more

The best dish is the quail legs -- Michelin 3 star standard. Other good dishes are the lamb skewered and octopus. Service is hurried but friendly. We enjoyed the food so much that we actually went back 2 days later. read more

Wow! Fantastic. Great atmosphere. Great team! Lots of action in the kitchen and amazing Tapas dishing flying out to hungry customers. 100% satisfied!! read more

Avoid this place at all costs! The server was extremely rude from the moment we sat down - clearly hates tourists. We ordered the crab and avocado salad - it came out 1/3 of the true portion size. My fiancé ordered the oyster ceviche - they said they didn't have it, so the server recommended the bikini (for $9?! And in place of oyster ceviche?! Tourist trap rip off!!) We also ordered the tapas portion of the beef stew, but they didn't have that either, so ordered the oxtail instead. That plate didn't get served until we asked, was 1/3 the size and double the price. At this point I told the server we just want our check and he's been rude from jump. We paid and left immediately. read more

Been there alone twice, once inside (downstairs), once outside. Very very friendly staff (I speak only a little Spanish). A long leisurely people-watch, with excellent tapas and a couple of glasses of dry, zingy Spanish white wine. The tapas are large and it is easy to make a good meal. Relaxing and enjoyable; not overrun with tourists (like me); near the main street. It is reputed to be one of the best tapas places in Barcelona; I am not an expert, but I found it very enjoyable. read more

I was visiting Barcelona and I was trying to find a good place to have a nice dinner. Finally we found this place. I did not like it. Too much people and the place is very noisy. Food was ok. The waiter who attended us was a JERK...! Very expensive food.....and the portion was not good. They need to have better waiters and most of all very well educated. I was very upset and hungry so I ate the dinner but definitely I do not recommend this place. read more

Very small portions and pricy . Food is ok don't Oder the pasta it's terrible , very disappointed .

No idea why this place has 4 star reviews. As an example I ordered chips with wasabi and they brought a store bag of chips ( think similar to lays) and a homemade bottle of puesdo wasabi. The hamburgers were raw... Nothing was really noteworthy. The insult was that it cost 1.5x other really good tapas places in Barcelona. read more

Best tapas in Barcelona! Go early if you're going for dinner. There is always a line and a wait. Well worth it though! My fav dish was the ox tail stew - yummmmm! read more

Not impressed. A standard tourist spot, we ate the stuff we ordered but went for another restaurant. Glad we just ordered very little! There are so much better restaurants just 10min walk from here. Can't believe that people will satisfy for this. read more

Great food. All very fatty and unhealthy. Service is rude. But still a great way after a hangover: read more

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Very good. Lots of tapas out there, this one is the real deal. And the staff was lovely. They sang feliz cumpleaños for our birthday. Very pleased. read more

The great pretender. We came here following yelp's review but was a bad choice. The food is mediocre, almost everything is fried, the use ready to use sauce and not fresh made ones. They propose some dishes as tapas or portion but there is almost no difference. We where in 5 we took 3 'main' dishes and 4 types of tapas, 2coke, 3 beers and a bottle if water and we is if 140€!! Tonight we were 4 and we had 7 tapas 2 cokes, 1 beer , 1 sangria and 1 vermouth for 70€! And the quality of the food was light year from this costly and average found at Tapas24. Stay away! read more

Excellent. Be prepared to wait for a while. But it will worth it. The bikini sandwich is amazing! The lemon desert very good! Great place for gourmet tapas. So far one of my favorite tapas place in Barcelona read more

A complete rip-off, AVOID. At the waiters recommendation I ordered the Braves, the Bomba, and the McFoie Burger. The braves are simply below average frozen french fries. The bomba was ice cold in the middle with no flavor. The burger was also cold in the middle, and had little taste. Shame on Rick Steves for giving this horrible place publicity. read more

Delicious tapas and wonderful location! One of our favorite spots in Barcelona. Not your typical tapas, and for the "staple" tapas such as patatas bravas and croquetas, Tapas 24 version will surely not disappoint! My husband's favorite was the McFoie burger (beef patty with foie gras) - he loved the tasty twist on an American classic, which came with a savory dipping sauce on the side. My favorite was the decadent Bikini Comerç 24. This sandwich was cut into little triangles (with the crust removed - yay!), and contained jamón ibérico, mild white cheese, and flecks of black truffle. It makes my mouth water every time I think about the complex flavors on a very simple dish! Even the "basic" ham croquet was a success. The breading was light and the mashed potato and ham filling was just smooth and tasty. And I can't believe I would rave about patatas bravas - the shoestring fries smothered in spicy tomato sauce was just delicious! For dessert, I could hardly stop myself from devouring the entire order of the xocolata - three scoops of rich chocolate mousse topped with thinly sliced toasted bread, olive oil, and sea salt. This sweet and savory finale was truly a happy ending! We loved the food so much we went to Tapas 24 twice during our short stay in Barcelona. One star off for the tiny space, which almost always guarantees you'll have to wait. Can't wait to go back to Barcelona and visit Tapas 24 is again. Note that Tapas 24 is also a Carles Abellan creation as is three stars Michellin rated restaurant, Comerç 24. read more

The tapas were good and unique. A bit over-hyped.

Food was delicious. Crowded, but didn't have to wait long for a table at lunch. Staff is not the friendliest, but they're busy running around working so it's understandable. Best Patatas Bravas we had in Barcelona. read more

Strongly recommend Ceviche, fresh produce and balanced flavor. Avoid rush hours in case of long waiting time though turnover is rather fast.