Owners Sasa Mahr-Batuz and Andy Pforzheimer began with a thirty-eight-seat wine bar and graduated to swank, roomy restaurants whose designs incorporate reclaimed commercial materials. This is the first Southeast location of a seven-unit, Connecticut-based operation that launched in 1995. Restaurants line this freshly urbanized stretch of North Highland Avenue between Elizabeth Street and Boulevard, but not since Sotto Sotto opened down the street in 1999 has an Inman Park newcomer so skillfully captured Atlanta’s zeitgeist.īarcelona’s buzzy frisson, broad menu of tapas and sharable plates, and especially its love letter of a wine list are hard to resist-though as a champion of local independents, part of me wants to try. As soon as it opened in October, Barcelona became a beacon for the thirty-plus set that has outgrown Day-Glo martini troughs like Buckhead’s Twist. In the adjoining dining room and on the patio, where a massive fireplace roared and rows of space heaters gleamed red, the throngs seemed more diverse in gender and race, but the age range remained steady. Scores of other coiffed, forty-something women prowled the central bar, their spiky heels on the wooden floors adding snare-drum rim shots to the growing din of voices. She was eyeing a table of six preternaturally blond girlfriends, clinking sloshy glasses of red wine and shrieking “Happy Birthday” to one of their pack. “Hello, and welcome to Cougar Town,” a friend said as we jostled through the crowd at Barcelona Wine Bar.
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