New Year’s Eve plans (with places) for different budgets in Barcelona

  • Many restaurants and nightclubs have already posted ‘full’ for New Year’s Eve, but it is still possible to find good options with availability for dinners or parties

The fever of New Year’s Eve celebrations that lives Barcelona after two years of hiatus due to the pandemic, it has led to the hanging of the ‘full’ in many restaurants, hotels and nightclubs in the city. For those who still don’t have plans, here are some proposals with last places available, for different tastes and budgets.

Magic Fountain of Montjuïc: light, water and music in a free ‘show’

The most massive event of the night is the celebration of the chimes at the foot of the Font Màgica, which returns after two years of absence. More than 20,000 people are expected on Avenida de la Reina Maria Cristina, many of them tourists, to enjoy a pyromusical ‘show’ which has a budget of 480,000 euros, and will last 25 minutes. The show will be provided by the French company ‘Group F‘ under the direction of Christophe Berthonneau, of the greatest experts in pyrotechnics in the world. will have fireworks, music and drones, with twinning between towns as the theme. Will have Two partsthe first 12 minutes before the chimes, when 12 cultures will be evoked through the representation of their ritual masks with drones and the soundtrack made of scott gibbons. After midnight there will be another 12 minutes of fireworks. There is no after party.

La Textil Collective: fire, beer and rhythm

This recent space multifunctional (bar, restaurant and brewery) offers preparations with fire as the central element and informal recipes, along with craft beers. But it’s not just eating and drinking, it’s set with a DJ while a large central fire turns the kitchen into a show in itself. To end the year they propose two options. In restaurants: duck cannelloni and foie sauce; stewed mushrooms with Jerusalem artichoke puree and veal broth; lamb, forest tartlet, yogurt and date juice; and nougat ganache, for 120 euros. At the bar, shredded lamb, Creole and fries; and the same dessert, for 85 euros. The two menus include wine, beer and cava. The venue ensures a unique musical experience for the big night.

Doppietta: à la carte Italian dinner

Doppietta is one of the last restaurants open in Sant Antoni, from the same creators of the successful Benzina. With a very Italian but contemporary ‘salumeria’ format, it is inspired by the legendary Brescia car race, the Mille Miglia. On New Year’s Eve it will be one of the few establishments where you can eat à la carte and not from a set menu. The Italian chef Nicola Valle, forged in some of the restaurants of this specialty in New York and who has spent four years in his other establishment, here offers select cold meats, cheeses and preserves, as well as hot dishes designed to be shared, such as aubergine a la parmigiana, mushroom ravioli, red prawns and goat cheese and ‘cavatelli’ with pagés chicken ragout and Tuscan pecorino, among other temptations. The ticket is usually from 30 euros per person. Passatge de Pere Calders, 4.

Tracatrá: tapas festival to the sound of the Catalan rumba

One of the new restaurants that are taking off in Barcelona gracefully fuses good Mediterranean tapas with live music and dance to the rhythm of rumba. On the last night of the year they will dress up with a gala menu for 175 euros that includes: as an appetizer, oyster from Normadia No. 2 with gin and citrus gelée; Mediterranean red shrimp salad; Galician sea urchin royal with creamy truffle. As a starter, artichokes from El Prat with romesco and slices of reserve 5J ham. Next, lobster cream with asparagus and leek sprouts; red mullet over mille-feuille with sanfaina and hot chili; Navarra sirloin with foie gras and pecan crumble. Nougat mousse with chocolate and pistachio, lucky grapes and drinks. After the chimes, party atmosphere until 3:00. Round of Sant Pere, 7.

Wolf Barcelona: Dance and breakfast as an auction

The well-known room poblenou has prepared a New Year’s Eve party in which it will sound “the best reggaeton” –promise–hits & electronic music by Jaidek DJ and Nesi DJ. will be held from 1:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. and the entrance includes 3 glasses Y breakfast of chocolate croissants and donuts at closing. Be careful, only people over 18 years of age can enter and you will not be able to enter with sportswear. Almogàvers, 88. From 30 euros, advance ticket on their website.

Casa Ràfols: dinner and then drinks

The most iconic establishment of the Balcastro group, which occupies a space that was once a neighborhood hardware store, has set up a special night, with a feast and drinks. Its menu offers as starters, 100% acorn-fed Iberian ham toast with tomato foam and kalamatas Toast; and wonton of lobster and smoked shrimp. For main courses, grilled wild turbot with truffle parmentier and basil oil; suckling lamb stuffed with rovellons and lime with cava demiglace. And to finish, baked apple pie, calvados and toasted Catalan cream; pineapple sorbet, lime and artisan nougat. With wines it costs 120 euros, and with a selection of premium wines and champagne in Club 61 (basement floor), 150 eruos. After dinner, the club will be a cocktail bar (not included). In round of Sant Pere, 74.

Sutton: Super Party Until Dawn

The popular club on Calle de Tuset, 13 will have its resident DJs to welcome 2023 by dancing until dawn. In its more than 1,000 square meters, its large dance floor and its large VIP areas that house 58 tables to enjoy the party more comfortably stand out. Carlos Ramos and Gerard Roig will play. The entrance will cost 50 euros with two drinks, and the tables from 1,000 euros. Elegant ‘look’ is required, and be over 23 years old.

Via Veneto: Food Festival

With a Michelin star and 55 years of history in the upper area, Via Veneto is one of the most elegant options in the city to say goodbye to the year in style. José and Pere Monje, two generations hand in hand, guarantee first class Catalan and international cuisine, with service and atmosphere to match. His New Year’s Eve feast consists of an aperitif with a selection of the best tapas of 2022 and escudella broth with truffled mini pilota. It will continue with a Galician spider crab cocktail; aspic of prawns, sea urchins and Iranian caviar with ajoblanco of pine nuts and mandarin; mushroom coulant with white truffle and Calaf egg yolk, comté cheese and walnuts; coast sole ‘crouté’ and creamed spinach ingot; rossini tournedó sirloin with foie and black truffle; And as a climax, a surprise dessert that will be revealed before 12 chimes. With three types of possible wine and champagne pairing, from 285 euros. Includes the after party with open bar. Ganduxer, 10.

La Paloma: an expected return after 16 years

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Behind 16 years closed, The emblematic La Paloma room returns for New Year’s Eve after having undergone many improvements and soundproofing that guarantees its future without problems of neighborhood coexistence. The music poster? Carlitos Sarduy, DJ Sound Tupinamba, Discos Paradiso, Guille de Juan and Virginie. The oldest leisure space in Europe returns in good shape to greet 2023, and then it will reopen permanently for Carnival, as this newspaper advanced. In calle el Tigre 27. From 38 euros.

The Hoxton Hotel: dinner and/or party until the wee hours

The coolest hotel opened in 2022 in Barcelona promises a “naughty and exuberant” New Year’s Eve party, under the name of Cava 54, inspired by the Mythical Studio 54 club. The most glamorous and ‘trash’ New York of the late 70s will be your inspiration. There is an option for dinner and/or party. The gastronomic proposal will convert the ‘lobby’ in Soho with shots of Oscietra caviar and Ketel OneHRGB vodka, Amélie oysters and solid cocktails, among other starters. The Bodega will become Chinatown, with a selection of baos and gyozas. Four Corners reinvents itself in Little Italy, with Detroit-style pizzas, ‘raviolini in brodo’ or buttered risotto in parmiigiano reggiano, among others. The terrace It will be Hell’s Kitchen, where the robata will illuminate ‘lobster rolls’, cocochas of hake and marrow or Galician blonde chop, to give a few examples. The sweet final stretch of the hotel poblenou will have a proposal from the pastry chef Christian Escriba. And after the grapes, the party will continue to a ‘disco’ rhythm in another space. Dinner costs 120 euros, and with a party 160. (from 9:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m., in this case). There is a party-only option for 60 euros, from 00:00 with an open bar and ‘recena’.

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