Has entered Enric Granados in hibernation mode, that is, the neighbors sleep with the windows closed. And the terraces, with the temperatures dropping, have much less magnet. The important thing is not how that street, one of the main trenches of the battle front between the right to rest and the purpose of doing business, enters the bear pit to spend the winter, but how it is raised. And in this sense, neighborhood spokespersons admit, there are tiny signs that next spring may be more peaceful than the previous one.
Three terraces have been removed from the roadterritory gained during the pandemic, and in some cases The number of tables that some establishments have on the sidewalk has been corrected downwardsexplains Jordi Badia, one of the most respected voices on the neighborhood side. Not everything, however, is good news. The street and its surroundings are literally on fire.
Before turning the coin over and seeing its reverse, it is better to mention one more positive aspect. The district promised last July night washouts extraordinary, not only for the purpose of cleaning the street, but also because the passage of municipal teams, accompanied by the Urban Guard if necessary, would be a way of underlining to the night owls that the street party was coming to an end. The wastewater remainsthe neighbors say, almost surprised, because after almost 30 years of war there have been so many unfulfilled promises that suspicion is now part of the local character.
Two fires in the same place
The situation, however, is sometimes incandescent and, as said before, literally. Twice in six months They have had to move to the area firefighters of the city to turn off the flames in the kitchens of a business on the street of Mallorca, almost on the corner with Enric Granados, who in his advertising boasts precisely that he is hell. His specialty is grilling. They aim to be the Barcelona version of that geological eccentricity of Turkmenistan called the Darvaza Well. In 1971, something went wrong when a group of engineers were searching for gas fields in the Karakum Desert. The ground sank under their feet and a crater the size of an Eixample block opened. It immediately started burning. It will be a matter of a few days, the engineers said. Half a century later, it is still on fire. It’s even a tourist attraction. Like Enric Granados.
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The fact that in half a year the firefighters have arrived with their sirens does not mean that the emergency has been serious, but the truth is that the presence of the firefighting services has been required. The serious thing, from the perspective of the neighbors, is that a business like this has added to the already oversaturated offer in the area, not because of the type of cuisine it offers, but because what happens when the waiters clear the dessert plates. It represents the entry on the scene of a DJ (a DJ, those who believe that this is a ‘boomer’ expression will say; a PD, says the adolescence that is now on the rise) and to the conversion of the restaurant into a nightclub.
They look askance at Ciutat Vella
All in all, that hell of Mallorca is not what keeps the residents of Enric Granados up at night the most. They are concerned first of all with what is close, that is, the persistence with which the intersection with Provença Street continues to be a source of noise. But they are more concerned about the signs of smoke they see rising if they look to the east. They are from Ciutat Vella, where due to defects in form (that is the reason given by municipal officials) the time restrictions that weighed on the terraces and grocery stores in the historic center of the city have been lifted, with the promise of starting another one from scratch. plan against noise. The residents of this Eixample street want to trust that this is not a symptom of laxity. They prefer to stay with the small signs that suggest that, after the current hibernation, the situation will improve. And they invite the district councilor, Jordi Valls, not to waste this opportunity.