“Its time to BeReal!” shouts a voice in a crowded Bull’s Bar (Sant Vicenç, 13). A dozen centennials pull out their phones faster than the paparazzi spotting Vasile leaving Mediaset. “Nothing more real than this,” says Ane, 21, posing with her fingers in victory in front of one of the bull’s heads hanging on the wall as she uploads a photo to the fashionable ‘app’.
It is the daily bread in the place: a decoration to the taste of Jesulín de Ubrique, but with a clientele younger than the euro. And he’s not the only one caught up in this anachronism. A few blocks away The chicken (Tigre, 31), a bar with high stools and a long bar where you can rest your elbows whose patrons, instead of being retirees having a carajillo, have just started university and do tiktoks.
Best potato omelette in Barcelona El Bar del Pollo
– ROSALÍ A (@rosalia) July 2, 2022
“I discovered this bar by the tweet of Rosalia saying that the best omelette Its the The chicken», tells Claudia, 25 years old. Since then, she has not stopped coming. “It’s super authentic,” she says. Centennials feel the same way when they discover The Xampanyet (Montcada, 22), bar of the Born with covers exposed in a glass showcase, walls that scream horror vacui and that, despite this traditional aesthetic, has become a TikTok starwith dozens of videos praising him.
Precisely, this spirit trapped in time is the attraction that Generation Z and millennials find in these bars. “I don’t want ‘brunch’, ‘latte’, or ‘afterworks’, I want to go to the bar with my friends to play briscola”, said a tweeter, summarizing this trend that she is looking for lifelong venues that, in times of gentrification, allow them to experience a time unknown to them, in which experiences were genuine and not designed to attract masses of tourists, Instagram in hand.
@m.xrei Best!!!! Spot tapas in Barcelona. They have their own Cava and everything is super fresh. Make sure you get there on time ’cause it’s always super busy but definitely worth it ? #Barcelona #girlstrip #hotspot #tapas #fyp #fy ♬ original sound – ?♡?
The journalist Tom C. Avendaño already pointed it out: now it takes back to the countrysidea village life, and the success of ‘Alcarràs’ or ‘As Bestas’ corroborate this. It is one of the reasons why Andrea, 28, frequently does this Ravalera route that passes through The bull, The chicken Y Berlanga Winery (Joaquín Costa, 39), among others. “It reminds me of when I go to town with my friends,” she adds, fed up with the “pretentious bars that abound in Barcelona,” as she defines them.
Bingos full of young people
And it’s not just bars. Bingo is also part of this trend of places anchored in time. “I feel like before Zapatero, before the anti-tobacco law”, jokes Andrea, who was 12 years old when it came into force, while she lights a cigarette in the smoking room of the Bingo Billiards (Gran Via, 724) which, together with the august bingo (Via Augusta, 6-8, Badalona), is one of the most frequented by young people, promises. The success? Open until dawn, food and alcohol all night, and guaranteed entertainment. “It is like the town fair“, Add. Of course, here it is time to be silent, or so they indicate with constant “sh” that the neighbors at the table release as their blood alcohol level increases.
@marinagilm Thousand Stars Hotel #bubbles #antares #lens #srk #vibes #edit #asmr #sees it #t #asmr #what in #hello #holiday #hollyh ♬ Surrender – Natalie Taylor
Latest booming plans that are part of the trend of seeking authenticity: the ornithology and the astronomy. The first, as she warned ‘Every layer of the atmosphere‘, the singer’s podcast Mary Arnalthe investigator Joseph Louis de Vicente and the CCCBIt is because with the loss of ecosystems sounds are also lost. There are entire generations that have not heard birds sing in nature and, for this reason, outings such as those organized by the Catalan Institute of Ornithology are booming.
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Also the astronomy, whose reason is obvious: to live in Barcelona is to do it under an orange sky, and many young people have not been able to enjoy a starry night worthy of Van Gogh. To remedy this, bubble hotels are born, like thousand stars (Girona) or the Nomad Camp Andorra (Lleida), through whose transparent domes you can see a clear sky that even Greta Thunberg would approve of.