The Picasso Museum….for Lunch
art and quiche
Those who come to Barcelona should visit the Picasso Museum. Along with the Miró Museum and the MANC, the Picasso Museum is one of the city’s best. The building in of itself is a grand place, set in the heart of the hip Borne barrio, deep in the city’s gothic center.
Besides peeking at the works of the Malaga-born painter, the museum offers a fabulous new café to have lunch. Creatively named, Café Museu Picasso, the café specializes in crepes of all flavors, perhaps bringing in Picasso’s years spent in Paris, as crepes are not normally a common Catalan dish. Like the French tend to do, the menu is simple and good, offering salads and crepes and something to drink. What more do you need? Among the creative crepes on the menu are mixes of Brie, Spanish ham, choco-banana, orange and cream, and more. The café also does a mean salmon and spinach quiche.
Sometimes eating at a museum café can leave something to be desired, the ambiance resembling a high school cafeteria. Not so at the Café Museu Picasso, where a modern meets sophisticated design style creates a comfortable atmosphere which lends itself well to the museum’s building and overall vibe. Tables are covered in linen tablecloths and there are sofas to lounge on with cappuccinos after a tiring tour of Picasso’s sketches. There’s also an outside terrace with tables in the sun, perfect for a spring or summer afternoon clara. Indeed, the last time I went to the café, I did not tour the museum (I’ve already seen it). The café stands on it’s own as a nice place to get lunch, with or without Pablo. The surrealist painter only makes it that much better.
Info:
Contact: Montcada, 15-23 (separate entrance from that of the museum)
93 310 31 18
Times: Tuesday to Sunday from: 10am to 8pm.
Price: About €20.00 p/p