Window seating at Glug restaurant
Glug possible refers back to the wine dispenser in bubble gum pink that serves as a function factor on the wall dealing with the entrance door. Six faucets with a neat indexing of the wine choices affixed to the wall above the faucets. Native varieties like Garnatxa and Xarello but additionally Italian Nebbiolo and French Gamay. A glass of wine is 4.5€ – 5.5€ across the identical value as a cup of espresso in Barcelona as of late and a 3rd of what you’ll pay in Paris or London.
The menu at Glug, November 2024
Pricing has lots to do with Glug’s success as do the daring design selections taken. Glug is reasonable. Eight dishes to share, a glass of wine every and we’re nonetheless solely at 35€ a head and fail to work up the urge for food to share multiple dessert. Though the need is there.
In the meantime, the inside is a string of unlikely choices that unite to create a definite house. Chief amongst them is the usage of purple grout to set off the drab gray tiles that type the in depth wrap-around bar. The color is echoed within the burgundy the window frames are painted in. The ground is a pseudo terrazzo. A easy rendition of chunky granite floating on a strawberry sundae pink background on massive tiles.
Quail gnocchi and inexperienced beans at Glug.
They are saying you must by no means evaluate your youngsters and so it stands to cause that may be prolonged to eating places however I’ve by no means managed to remain inside the strains. I’m going to write down this beneath my breath: Glug feels prefer it might flip into Berbena when it grows up. Right here is one other one, for those who put Berbena, Suru Bar and Bar el Pollo in a ven diagram the overlap within the center may become Glug.
Wine on faucet at Glug
I haven’t even instructed you in regards to the meals. There’s cheek within the menu, playfulness. The croqueta at Glug is a tennis ball sized and crammed with macaroni (3.5€). Without delay usurping the scrumptious proposition of each macaroni cheese and the croqueta. (Dare I say, that is the punch Arancini balls want they may ship.) Equally, Glug sidesteps the complete dialog of “Bravas a nuestra manera” by eliminating the spud fully and changing it with flattened battered and fried white shrimp crunchy sufficient that they could possibly be a potato chip.
Shaved celeriac with hazelnut sauce and smoked stracciatella.
The celeriac is a miss. I’ve but to see celeriac mastered in Barcelona (the celeriac at each Mantis and Xavier Pellicier have been each a mistreatment of the ugly root). It’s shaved thinly and folded like a ribbon in a salty hazelnut sauce with a smoked stracciatella. I pick the stracciatella and drape it on bread.
The superbly executed tortelini speaks to some critical expertise within the kitchen as does the broth the sleek buttons float in. Once more the filling is on the salty aspect. The chef have to be in love alternatively they have to be attempting to navigate the intense reputation that Glug is within the throes of. Glug went from unknown to not possible to get a desk at immediately. I naively walked in after they pulled up the shutter at 7 pm a few months in the past solely to face the fact, that reservations are made on-line and there may be at the very least a month to attend. I comply with process, securing a two-top for a future date and discovering my lunch date a few weeks earlier than. After I misplace my reservation and DM Glug on Instagram, I get a reply at 3 am. Are any of the employees at Glug sleeping? Not for the primary time I marvel on the dedication and grit it takes to open and run an unbiased kitchen.
Dessert needs to be ordered in multiples. The “we’re not hungry so let’s share one dessert” sentiment evaporates immediately once we meet the banana popcorn ice cream sandwich. Don’t make the identical mistake as us, you’ll have to wait two entire months for an additional probability.
Banana popcorn ice cream sandwich at Glug.
The irony of Glug’s predicament is that it has spontaneous neighbourhood restaurant costs and vibes however is sort of as onerous to get a desk at as Disfrutar. None of this could stand in opposition to it. The good friend I had lunch with had a intelligent technique.
“Deal with it as you’d the dentist. If you end your check-up, make the appointment on your subsequent appointment in your means out.”
Invoice for 2 folks for lunch at Glug
Glug
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Carrer de Viladomat, 289 and Carrer de París, 77
08029 Eixample
