B – Barcelona. Oliver Clay from Red Carpet tells us how it is in the most enchanting, funkiest, coolest city in Spain.
What are the best clubs to go to in your home city at the moment?
“Well, I would generally head to one of of the lounge bars until 3am before heading off into the disco world. The Opium Cinema Restaurant & Lounge Club is cool (www.opiumcinema.com), Shoko Beach Front Restaurant & Lounge Club (www.shoko.biz) or The Me Hotel Lobby Bar which is brand new (www.me-barcelona.com). Clubs that are open untill dawn include Catwalk (www.clubcatwalk.net) Opium Mar (www.opiummar.com) and The Sutton Club (www.thesuttonclub.com).”
What restaurants would you recommend we eat at?
“For fun, good vibes and cool nights – The Shoko Beach Front Restaurant & Lounge Club (www.shoko.biz), The Opium Cinema (www.opiumcinema.com), Stush & Teng, for great Jamaican food (www.stushandteng.com), fish and seafood head to El Nou Ramonet (www.elnouramonet.com/eng/elNou.html), Cal Pinxo (www.calpinxo.co) Botafumiero / www.botafumeiro.es), for Tapas go to Tapas Cuidad Condal, whose address is Cervezaria Catalana, Commerc 24, Sagardi (www.sagardi.com/origenes), for Indian dining check out Kama (www.kamabar.com) and for high end stuff get suited and booted and check out Dos Cielos – Hotel Me (www.me-barcelona.com) and El Xalet (www.gruptravi.com).”
What DJs around town are you enjoying at the moment?
“Kefren, Kieke and Freddy Love”
What are the cool bars we should be getting drunk in?
“The Why Not Cocktail Bar (www.whynotbarcelona.com), No Se and Marmalade”
What is the best clothes store we should go to?
“Depeche’ the coolest store in town for men’s and women’s.”
What’s the best part of living in Barcelona?
“Weather and sunshine. Live to work not work to live. Everything on your door step – the beach for sun and relaxing and the mountains to ski”
What’s the worst part of living in Barcelona?
“Wages. Mentality, manana,manana, manana. And the service”
What are the cooler hotels to check into?
“Neri (www.hotelneri.com), Casa Fuster (www.HotelCasaFuster.com), Jazz (www.hoteljazz.com)
Tell us somewhere in Barcelona that we don’t know about that we should go to…
“My company Red Carpet can arrange tables and guest lists at all restaurants, bars and clubs.”
