Tiberi Bar
By Michael Mueller
After years of pop-ups and suppers, the Tiberi Club collective finally has a room of its own on Vila i Vilà. H3O Architects built the space centered around a green marble bar set to cool lighting, around 80 square meters in all – intimate enough that you might find yourself chatting with someone on the stool next to you.
The wine list comes natural and from close to home: regional growers from the Penedès as well as Tarragona, with imports from southern France. It’s an easy wine list to navigate, with well-mixed cocktails available for too.
The kitchen serves up Mediterranean plates meant for sharing, with vegetables doing the heavy lifting: try pumpkin with labneh, or grilled polenta and sage – finish with a house-made ice cream. Their calling card is the gilda – the classic vermouth accompaniment – a skewer of olive, guindilla and anchovy, here with a cube of cheese plus radish. It’s the kind of creativity that raises eyebrows in San Sebastián but empties plates in Poble Sec.
The bar shares its building with a cinema and a nightclub – Casa Montjuïc is next door and Laut nightclub beyond it, so you can combine dinner a movie with drinks and dancing.