Bacoa

Price guide: Budget

C/Colomines 2, Barcelona, 08009

Price guide: Budget

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Bacoa

By Sally Davies, your Barcelona expert

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#38 of 40
expert-rated restaurants in Barcelona
Expert overall rating:3.7 out of 5
Food and drink:
4.9
4.9
Ambience:
4
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Service:
4.5
4.5
Location:
4.5
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Value for money:
4.9
4.9
Recommended for:
Families with teenagers, Nightlife

Best for Cheap eats - Expert review of Bacoa

Last updated 22 February 2011

A burger bar for the gastronomically discerning.

Bacoa is my guilty pleasure, a quick fix when I realise it’s mid-afternoon and I forgot to have lunch. Or even when I didn’t. It’s only been open a few months but its juicy half-pounders have a huge following – which is no more than they deserve.

Food and drink: 

Succulent slabs of prime beef, served in various ways. The clásica is the basic model, with tomato, lettuce and onion, slathered in the garlicky home-made house sauce (there’s a spicy version for foreign palates only). The Manchego comes with the Spanish cheese of the same name and a sticky onion confit, there’s a chicken burger, a japonesa (with teriyaki sauce), the suiza (with gruyere and potato rösti) and the mighty Bacoa, a double-decker with bacon, Manchego cheese and caramelised onions.

Ambience: 

A real favourite with the expat cognoscenti and others from the neighbourhood, who stop in and chat on the way to and from the nearby market.

Service: 

It’s primarily a takeaway joint, so don’t expect silver, or indeed any, service – just help yourself to beers from the fridge and Aussie chef Brad will pass the burgers over when they’re done.

Location: 

Alongside the Gaudi-esque Mercat Santa Caterina on a quiet pedestrian street.

Price advice: 

You’ll struggle to spend more than 10 euros in here, and you have my personal guarantee you’ll be full for the rest of the day.

More information on Bacoa:

Price guide:
Budget
Type:
Restaurant
Food:
Burgers
Address:
C/Colomines 2, Barcelona, 08009
Telephone:
no phone
Serves:
Lunch, Dinner
Opening times:
Tue-Thu 1pm-11pm, Fri-Sat 1pm-1am. Closed Sundays and Mondays.
Accepts Credit Cards:
No
Reservations:
Not necessary
Free tags / Keywords:
Cheap eats, Quick bites, Takeaway

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Community comments (1)

Tue, 20/11/2012 - 20:53 Posted by Gingerbread

Tasty expert gourmet burgers. It gets very busy so expect to queue and you might not always get a seat. Check the opening times as I'm sure it's closed on Mondays.