It took the pandemic for everyone to come out of the closet, take off their masks and openly admit: yes, I use Tinder too. No one hides anymore, and having a tinderazo or a Grindr date (or Bumble, Hinge or Okcupid) is a more than usual plan to find a partner or whatever comes up.
Finding love in an app is nothing unusual and now that Valentine’s Day is approaching, the swipes are accelerating. But that said, if finding time to meet up in these hectic lives is difficult,finding a good place for the spark to emerge is even more so.
Keep it intimate, but don’t stick your elbow in the table next to you. Ambient, but not noisy. That they have good drinks, but it’s not a bar; good food, but not a fine restaurant… Anyway, finding the perfect place is difficult, but that’s why we are here to help you, with this amazing list with the best bars for a Tinder date that will make you find love (or whatever you’re looking for) in Barcelona.
Bandinis
Intimate atmosphere , absolutely excellent food and a good bar where you can have a drink and a delicious snack overlooking Sant Antoni. Of course, good natural wines and all Parlament at your side to extend the date if things go well.
📍 Manso, 42.
Kasparo
Or actually, any of the Plaça Vicenç Martorell. Its porticoed terrace invites to a relaxed coffee or to a beer that is extended, and it is a pleasant place where you can not miss. Perfect to dive into the bowels of the Raval if things go well.
📍 Plaça de Vicenç Martorell, 4.
Bormuth
El Borne is full of places, but not necessarily good ones. Bornuth is one of the few places that welcomes the local public well, with a reasonable tapas menu, a very comfortable terrace to start everything and indoor tables in a cave-like local typical of Borne pleasant, atmospheric, but comfortable and where everything flows quite a bit. A good option to start in the Borne before diving into the cocktail bars to follow it later.
📍 Plaça Comercial, 1.
Café del Teatre
Gracia is full of places that meet the ideal conditions for a Tinder date. Cute bar, intimate atmosphere, drinks and tapas suitable for everyone. Café del Teatre is one of them, a small bar with a French cafeteria feel where you can go from afternoon tea to beers in the evening, tapas for dinner and cocktails that confirm the success of the appointment.
📍 Torrijos, 41.
Cal Soci
Menorcan food in Sant Antoni in another one of those places that serve for a broken and for a descosido. Have a quiet drink at the bar or at the high tables, snack on some of the food well brought and lovingly prepared or stay until the end between cocktails in a bar that closes late and where the staff is nicer than the place and make everyone feel, even those who meet for the first time, as if they were already family… or whatever.
📍 Viladomat, 27.
Madame Jasmin
Having a date in the Raval is the choice of night owls, those who give the date to the ups and downs of the night. And in that Madame Jasmin is perfect. Bar that brings together the essence of the Raval, LGTBI+ and with a lewd atmosphere and dark lights that beg for more. Excellent choice for the second drink on date night.
📍 Rambla del Raval, 22.
The Monroe
Next to Madame Jasmin, perfect to go just before and see if things take off. The bar at the Filmoteca has a large terrace and a room at street level that also looks like a terrace. Their giant nachos are for everyone (they are filling, but not that filling) and the atmosphere is very easy going. To start by winning.
📍 Plaça de Salvador Seguí, 1-9
Textile
Sometimes simple is the easiest and Textile is just that, a place for all tastes where it is hard to go wrong in an area, the right Eixample, where there are not many great night bars. La Textil is spacious, they have a good selection of craft beers for you to make your own list, a good food menu and large tables so that everything flows and you can always find a place. Because sometimes you don’t want to complicate your first date.
📍 Casp, 33.
Manchester
Trash, grunge, rock… Call it what you want. But if your date doesn’t like it, there’s no match. Post-Punk music, Eighties atmosphere, good place for a good drink and interesting conversations in the subdued atmosphere. The audience comes and goes and won’t notice those hands under the table. Not suitable for thin butts.
📍 Milans, 5.
Coco’s Secrets (formerly Coco Vintage)
The uptown Zone also deserves its appointments, and Coco Vinatge offers the perfect place. A place that calls itself a social and gastronomic club, elegant and well decorated, with nightlife, DJs and cocktails to make your night go well.
📍 Passatge de Josep Llovera, 7.
Le Cucine Mandarosso
Intimate restaurant, small as they come, with dim lighting and an antique aesthetic that invites you to talk, listen to each other and enjoy a good evening. Nor can we ignore the good starters and the great pasta dishes they prepare. For dessert, you must try their tiramisu. Ideal for vintage lovers and for those who find beauty in cozy spaces.
📍 C. de Verdaguer i Callís, 4.
Soma Restaurant
A small bar that offers natural wines and delicious dishes to share in a place whose aesthetics we love: Verde walls full of paintings and antique objects combine perfectly with an elegant wooden bar. A place where the service is close and where, we don’t know for what reason, everything always flows as it should. Is there anything better than that?
📍 Provença, 179.
Mirablau
A classic of Barcelona courtship. How many couples (rather from the upper Zone A) will have been forged there, having a drink with Barcelona at their feet. Unbeatable views in a restaurant born to give birth to love.
📍 Plaça del Doctor Andreu.