OFFICIAL FREE BCN GUIDE! FREE ISSUE_MAY 2014_N. 22 2014_N. ISSUE_MAY FREE BcnGuide IN ENGLISH IT’S SPRINGTIME IN BCN ENJOY ALL THE CITY HAS TO OFFER, MUSIC, SHOPS, SUNSHINE... DOWNLOAD FREE TIME OUT BARCELONA APP! THE BEST OF BARCELONA ON YOUR Contents IPHONE! May 2014 ;20 Ajoblanco Tapas done right 08 Feature 20 Food and drink Everything you need to Ajoblanco offers top tapas enjoy Primavera Sound. and more, at extremely tempting prices. 16 Around town CosmoCaixa’s brand-new 24 Shopping science exhibit. Presenting Passage, a concept store in the barrio 18 Arts of Sarrià. Photographer Colita at La Pedrera gallery. 27 Listings TIME OUT BARCELONA TIME OUT BCN GUIDE ([email protected]), Via Laietana, 20 [email protected] Mercè Llubera 932955400 www.barcelonaturisme.com ([email protected]), Pere www.timeout.cat Editor Andreu Gomila Ribalta ([email protected]) Design Irisnegro Edited by 80 MES 4 Publicacions Publisher Eduard Voltas Producer Jan Fleischer & Turisme de Barcelona Finance Manager Judit Sans Designer Eduard Forroll Printed by Gràfica Impuls 45 Editor-in-chief Andreu Gomila Writers Josep Lambies, DL B.21656-2012 Art director Diego Ricard Martín, Marta Salicrú, ISSN 2014-7546 Piccininno Eugènia Sendra Supported by Features and web editor Translations Nick Chapman Maria José Gómez Advertising Ex. Nuria Gómez May 2014 Time Out BCN Guide 3 Get out your diaries! We Monthly present just a handful of the cultural highlights of planner the month ahead. Friday 02 Friday 09 Sunday 11 D’A CINEMA FRIDAY’S BLUES SANT PONÇ FESTIVAL AL PALAU GOMIS Stalls selling herbal Arthouse film fest. Blues inside the remedies and glacé ‘When Evening falls palace that houses fruit mark the feast on Bucharest or the European day of Saint Pontius Metabolism’ shows Museum of Modern of Cimiez. tonight. See p.34 Art. See p.37 See p.38 Friday 16 Saturday 17 BCN COMICS MUSEUMS NIGHT CONVENTION Almost 70 Comic fans from all museums across over Spain gather the city open their for the convention doors until the wee that premiered in hours. 1981. See p.40 See p.41 Saturday 24 Monday 26 CATALAN PRIMAVERA HITS TRADITION THE CLUBS Take in sardana A preview of the dancing, the daring Primavera Sound castellers (human music festival at towers) and giants. clubs all over the See p.44 city. See p.45 DANI CANTO DANI Tuesday 27 Saturday 31 THE VALKYRIE DO YOU WANT TO One of Wagner’s DANCE? greatest operas, Swing dance at the which debuted in MNAC museum, 1870, comes to the with live music from Gran Teatre Liceu. the Taller de See p.46 Musics. See p.48 4 Time Out BCN Guide May 2014 The Hot Seat MARIA DIAS Luki Huber This Swiss product designer catalyses creative teamwork. By Jordi Bianciotto You grew up in a house without TV. that it’s easier to do good work if Does that explain it all? you surround yourself with the It meant I spent a lot of time best people. drawing and making things. I Cooking can be a form of poetry. wanted to be a product designer Do you aspire to that with your before I even knew what it was. products? Then you studied the subject in I’m more focused on making new, Barcelona. functional products that offer the When I first came to La Massana user a tangible benefit. This is why art school, I fell in love. It was the we’ve created a workspace where start of a three-year course, but on we invite key clients to generate the very first day I met my future huge numbers of new ideas, up to wife, so there was no turning back. 800 in a single day. Later you designed kitchen You like to create useful things. equipment for El Bulli. Yes, products that really offer For five years. But I think designers something to the user. are specialists in not specialising. Like a wall of boxes? Yet the kitchen provided you with Yes, by fixing boxes to the wall you the space to invent things. can organise things in a highly A kitchen is a great place for visible way. We’d like to create creativity: it’s like a miniature classrooms with this kind of wall, factory. because too often they’re What did you learn from depressing, empty spaces. I have Ferran Adrià? one in the bathroom at home. To approach creative work with the There are 20 boxes – 18 for my utmost precision. I also realised wife and 2 for me. 6 Time Out BCN Guide May 2014 May 2014 Time Out BCN Guide 7 PRIMAVERA BCN All you need to know to survive Primavera Sound (and have the time of your life) in five easy steps. By María José Gómez, Ricard Martín, Marta Salicrú, Eugènia Sendra 8 Time Out BCN Guide May 2014 WEAR IT ON YOUR CHEST GETTING READY Primavera Sound is a sea of T-shirts. If you need to replenish your EVERYTHING YOU NEED supplies of the short-sleeved TO SEE AND BE SEEN wardrobe staple, drop in at Chandal for some Spanish retro nostalgia, or FASHION FORWARD FEET Duke, for up-to-the minute designs – Primavera Sound gets bigger every like the print of Kate Moss with a year. Not just in terms of the line-up moustache (and still looking and the crowds, but the space it ravishing). occupies. To trek miles from stage to Chandal: Valldonzella, 29 stage, Vice to Heineken, Pitchfork to Y 93 302 84 71 Rockdelux, you need footwear that’s Duke: Del Duc, 12 comfy and cool, and you’ll fi nd it at: Y 93 318 56 56 Le Coq Sportif: Boters, 6 Y93 412 41 34 CUT SOME RUG UK-Look: Ample, 27 If your image is as important to you Y 93 315 02 34 as your musical tastes, you’ll want to Sivasdescalzo: Marina, 229 arrive at the Fòrum venue without a Y 93 531 21 22 hair out of place. And if you don’t have a trusted hairdresser in the city, we suggest three who can practically read your minds to create the ideal style for you. 89.9: Carme, 89 local 9 Y 669 392 975 Hed: Plaça Vicenç Martorell, 3 Y 93 270 34 57 Bot Hair: Carrer d’en Bot, 4 Y 93 342 63 39 EYES ON THE PRIZE Whether you show up at 5pm, or stay until the sun rises, you’ll need sunglasses. If you’d rather not be wearing the same shades as half the crowd, take a look at Wild Vintage, where you’ll find styles your mum would recognise, which have come right back into fashion. Another good option is Les Lunettes – it’s hard to leave without spotting a pair you like. Les Lunettes: Rec, 56 Y 93 268 98 70 Wild Vintage: Joaquín Costa, 2 Y 654 455 057 BOT HAIR May 2014 Time Out BCN Guide 9 also some stellar creative cuisine. AT THE FESTIVAL They close only on Mondays, and the kitchen stays open until BARS AND RESTAURANTS midnight. FOR PRE-FESTIVAL FUEL Platja de la Nova Mar Bella, s/n. Y 93 225 01 00 L’ESCOLA Barcelona’s catering school offers an SAGARDI DIAGONAL MAR outstanding lunchtime set menu, A tapas bar in Diagonal shopping worth every cent of its €19. Warning: centre that does pintxos (Basque- closed Sat and Sun. style tapas on bread) every day of Passeig del Taulat, 243 the week from 2pm until midnight. Y 93 453 29 04 Ideal for a quick energy boost to keep going. ELS PEIXATERS Diagonal, 3 Great seafood restaurant: our Y 93 356 04 75 recommendation is their arròs a la cassola (rice in a clay casserole), which CAN CANYES they cook Costa Brava style. This bar-restaurant, strategically Passeig García Faria, 33 located one street back from the sea near Y 93 266 38 84 the Fòrum boasts a hearty lunch menu and speedy service every day of the JIN DA LE week. On the top floor of the Diagonal Mar Llull, 394 shopping centre, this Japanese- Y 93 266 46 09 Korean restaurant has curries, noodles and decent sushi. RIBS Diagonal, 3 Again in the shopping centre, here Y 93 356 39 18 you’ll find whole barbecued pork ribs and chunky hamburgers, served BOO BEACH CLUB all day. This Ibiza-style beach bar serves Diagonal, 3 up not just tasty rice dishes but Y 93 356 09 20 10 Time Out BCN Guide May 2014 PRIMAVERA SOUND FESTIVAL! MARIA DIAS May 2014 Time Out BCN Guide 11 GOOD VIBRATIONS COMING DOWN Everyone needs a chance to recover from festival excesses and lack of TAKE TIME TO RECOVER... sleep, and Primavera Sound could be OR JUST KEEP ON GOING the perfect excuse for the spa visit you’ve always promised yourself. FEED YOURSELF You could book a treatment at Aires If you’ve been living on a music-only de Barcelona or SpaciOmm, or if you diet for the last few days, with your prefer a more active (and cheaper) bodily needs coming a distant second, option, put in some lengths in the it’s time to put things right with a open air pool at the Club Natació decent breakfast. In Barcelona they Atlètic Barceloneta, where a day come in all shapes and sizes, from a ticket costs €12, and for €6.50 more traditional dish of salt cod to start the you can use their basic but day – at Pa i Trago in Sant Antoni – or satisfactory spa (jacuzzi, sauna and the imported notion of brunch, which steam room.) you’ll find just across the road at Aires de Barcelona: Federal Café.