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Painstakingly prepared tapas and small plates in a recently renovated space which features premium, seasonal products from the nearby Poblenou market and neighbouring shops, such as Vida Meva (national award winner for most sustainable shop). Its owners, the couple Erola Vila (from Catalonia, in the dining room) and Beltrán Sastre (from Segovia, in the kitchen), met while stu-dying in the neighbourhood at the Culinary Institute of Barcelona, and in 2019 they decided to open a restaurant where guests could eat, drink and have a good time. Every season, they write around 20 dishes on the blackboard, from patatas bravas made of aubergine to codfish kokotxas with pil-pil sauce, along with cracklings, a calamari and butifarra sausage stew, chicken cannelloni with chanterelle and muscatel sauce... It’s 100% grassroots Spanish cooking brought up-to-date, with deep roots in the neighbourhood because it sources from its market every day. The portions are generous enough to share, but you can also order half-portions. And to drink, they offer small-batch wines. In fact, Echegaray is the vermouth imbibed from bar to bar until sundown during the Cuéllar festival (Segovia).