Can Cisa

Creative tapas, a unique and impressive selection of local and natural wines, and knowledgeable staff. A delicious experience!

Fantastic food and wine. I appreciated the great vegetarian options available. The pumpkin dish was particularly wonderful.

What a great place! I was in Bcn during the off-​week with a group of friends, and as we had not idea where to have dinner that first night, of course I checked Unilocal and try to find something pretty close from the place we were staying at. Can Cesa appeared to be the One: 2min walking in the Born area, let’s go.
Annnd…we were not disappointed at all! I loved the place at first sight: large wooden tables, visible wine cellar, and cosy and friendly atmosphere. We ordered different tapas and mains to be able to share and taste the maximum. I cannot remember something I wouldn’t like! Everything was tasty and delicious. Tapas are qualitative and uncommon. Just one remark about the quantities… they could have been a bit more generous. Especially for the men at the table, who were still a bit hungry at the end.
But maybe it is also because we were literally starving :-)
Anyway, definitely a place I keep in mind for my next trip in Barcelona!

Fantastic food and as a natural wine lover this place was heaven for me. I wish I could come back every night to try more of the wine and eat the buretta.
Have had most of the menu now and everything was incredible.

Extensive wine selection at premium prices. Hard to pin down the vibe, but a mix of international hipsters bordering on modern yuppies seeking a scene to be seen. Hard to figure out who to flag to get a table or bar stool, and service went from hot to cold but mostly cool, distant, and abrupt. Only had drinks, so can’t comment on the food.

Al entrar te encuentras a la derecha con una pared de vinos que forman parte de la decoración, las mesas son al estilo cervecería alemana, compartidas, además de las barras altas distribuidas por el local, las paredes tienen mensajes escritos por los comensales, todo pintaba bien, sin embargo no hemos elegido el mejor día para ir, finde a tope con Primavera Sound, copa del Rey y cocierto de ACDC, vamos todo BCN con los carteles de ocupación colgados, y este sitio no se libraba; el servicio fue lento, teníamos reserva aún así nos hicieron esperar media hora, para pedir tardaron 20 minutos más y para rematar, los platos los traían a cuenta gotas.
La comida poquísima y nada fuera de lo normal, lo recomendaría quizás para una copa de vino y poco más, yo definitivamente no volveré.

This is also known as Bar Brutal. Don’t know why there are two of them as everyone seems to call it by the bar name, but same diff, my review stands the same as Bar Brutal.
The worst. Don’t get the appeal as it’s just full of tourists who are willing to pay these crazy expensive prices. Staff are über annoying, disorganized, and arrogant. I guess this just keeps getting written up because they probably pay for advertising and everything else has already been covered to death in Barcelona. But seriously avoid it if you want to hang to your euros and want to have an enjoyable time in Barcelona because you won’t find it here. Not going back like ever.

I was really looking forward to visiting this place with 4.5star on Unilocal.My husband and I had a bit of hard time to find as we got lost on our scooter and the entrance of Can Cisa had a different name on it for some reason. I believe it said «Bar Brutal» and so did the menu. So I wasn’t even sure if it was Can Cisa until I looked at the pictures on Unilocal.
The food is great. No doubt about it. However the service was questionable. It took really long time until we were able to order for one. Then we were waiting another 20 min to get our bill… we finally decided to get up from our table and went up to the waitress to pay. Then she told us to wait at our table. One minus star…
I accidentally left my purse and walked out of the restaurant. But fortunately I noticed a minute later and walked back into the restaurant. The waitress we had saw me, took out my purse behind the bar counter and handed to me. I know it is my fault to leave my personal belongings, however I was standing right in front of the restaurant so she could have just followed me and gave it back to me. Instead she hoped that I wouldn’t come back and she could keep my cash and credit cards??? I know it is Spain and all but this place is not cheap and has 4.5 star… something like this shouldn’t happen. So for that, another star has to be taken off.

This place doesn’t even deserve a star!
I can’t understand why this place has 4.5 stars on Unilocal.Service is so scrambled and unorganized. Food and presentation is below average and it was very pricey.
Maillet Chautagne: taste like apple juice with alka seltzer and soda water. This is their sparkling cava? Horrible! $ 5.5 €
P Crues vino tinto: this is their best red wine by the glass and it taste like vinegar! $ 5.9 €
Escoda wine 2007: good for its vintage $ 24.60 €
Burratta Huerta: I could’ve bought this back home at whole foods market. It’s just burratta and tomatoes seasoned with salt. $ 10.50 €
Emperador Ahumado: Thinly sliced salted fish with pomegranate and grapefruit. It was not satisfying. $ 16 €
Zamburinas: 6 itsy bitsy scallops the size of the nail bed of my thumb. Salty and sandy! $ 8.50 €
Cogollos: grilled romaine lettuce… Tasty? Nope! You should pass on this. $ 5.50 €
And of course, Pan. 6 slices of baguette $ 2 €
Overall experience, we left hungry and upset. The following day I had a big rash on my arm! Definitely got it after eating there!
Never coming back again!

Excellent presentation and takes on tapas plates. Every dish we had was very well thought out from a culinary perspective, and the ingredients worked together very nicely — not just as an amalgamation of flavors but as a good presentation of a concept. Service was also excellent; we started with my broken Spanish, but after a few sentences, the server graciously transitioned to English and was able to hold a rather detailed conversation about the wine list in English. Speaking of the wines, they specialize in organic micro-​producers. I was a bit skeptical at first, but the waitress led me to a wonderful syrah from Jamilla.

I have to say that I am not gonna give the fifth star because I have found it a bit too expensive. It is a tapas place with italian roots. The quality of the food is very, very, very high, and they have an incredible wine selection (all ecological). Service is slow and sometimes you need to fight to get noticed by the busy waiters. but, overall, a place worth to try at least once. Here you can find some dishes hard to find outside Italy. Must try burrata, porchetta, tomino and the mussels.

This place was very interesting. I actually thought it was a wine shop because of its entrance and walked around trying to find the place using the Unilocal map aimlessly.
The wines are all unfiltered and natural. I had the steak tartar which was minced not chopped. It was flavourful but an odd texture.
I also had the scallops which were so tiny for 9 Euros it really didn’t seem worth it to order.
Service was great. I enjoyed the experience

A-​mazing!!! Hands down the best place in town! It was so good that we had to come a second time! The staff is so nice and they really take the time to describe each bottle of wine.
But even more impressive than their natural wine — which is apparently a step up from organic — is the food! We had smoked tuna, olives, autumn salad, smoked sardines, roasted pumpkin, steamed mussels and clams, and burrata cheese with tomatoes and basil. Everything was divine!!! Interestingly the vegetarian dishes were my favorites. If you have to pick one thing on the menu, I recommend the buratta! It melts in your mouth! We ate it so fast that I forgot to take a photo. A close second was the roasted pumpkin.
The place itself is very casual and has a hip atmosphere. But you must make a reservation if you want to have dinner there. You won’t need one for lunch.
This is THE place to go in Barcelona!

What a perfect place for a traditional, original Barcelona dinner. The spot isn’t big, so a reservation is necessary. When you enter there are two big community tables with about 10 seats each. Behind the tables you can see the wines they offer, all ‘more than organic’ and they are able to tell you story and flavor of each bottle.
The wines are really tasty and not expensive. We’ve chosen a 7yrs. Old red one for 24 €.
At 8:15 we were brought to our table.
The place is very crowded, but it’s not disturbing at all. We had a (like smoked) tuna, salad burrata with tomatoes and olives. Aside delicious bread… and that’s all you need. We ended with around 50 € and that was more than ok.
All together with the frienfly staff, the best I experienced in Barcelona, therefor 5*

Good choices for cold cuts of bull, Iberian ham, monkfish. Very nice setting. It was a cold winter day and we were looking for hot food, and the only choice was porcetta. It was delicious! Excellent place for wines. Close to the Barcelona history museum.

Exceptional tapas with Italian flair. Besides deliciously creative food they have an impressive wine selection, specializing in natural and organically grown wine. At first this place doesn’t look anything special and certainly doesn’t stand out from the rest. Oh, but wait till you get your food! I usually have a favorite dish, the one that stands out through out the dinner. But not here. Every single plate we ordered was my favorite :)) and bursting with flavor. This is my «go to“place whenever friends or family are visiting. Everyone gets impressed every single time.

This is a small but perfectly wonderful kitchen and restaurant. Love the atmosphere, and I sincerely don’t know what us not perfect with today’s meal…

Found this small hole in the wall by luck. So we didn’t have reservations l waitress let us sit at the Bar. We didn’t know what to order. Our server Borja was awesome told him the kind of Wine we wanted. Picked out a nice white. We ordered a few tapas and he had them for us within 5minutes. We weren’t planning on ordering Desert but Borja started telling us and they sounded great. When we return to Barcelona. We are totally coming back here. The vibe was great my kind of spot.

Lo descubrí paseando y entramos porque justamente nos apetecían vinos y picar algo. Había un buen ambiente y el local era bonito. Madera oscura, luz ténue, mesas diferentes entre ellas, paredes llenas de botellas de vino.
La carta de vinos es muy extensa. Solamente tienen vinos «naturales”(como los llaman ellos), es decir, ecológicos. Tienen botellas desde los 14 € a los 100 €. Los productores son pequeñas bodegas poco conocidas con un producto muy cuidado.
Los camareros conocen los vinos y te recomiendan, cosa que es muy de agradecer.
En cuanto a la carta de comida, no es muy extensa pero los platos son lo suficiente apetecibles y variados como para querer probarlos todos.
Probamos la burrata con albahaca y tomate, la anchoa con manzana y setas «trompetes de la mort» y el steak tartar de buey.
Muy bueno todo. Platos sencillos pero con productos de alta calidad.
Recomiendo el Brutal para cenas informales-​íntimas con amigos o pareja. Es un lugar muy acogedor pero a la vez de ambiente distendido. Un buena descubrimiento, la verdad. Repetiré seguro.
Cena: 3 platos, botella de vino=40 €. Relación calidad-​precio buena (los precios de los platos algo caros).

Me ha gustado mucho este lugar por la atmósfera intimista y a la vez moderna sin ser vulgar que han conseguido inferirle. Ya la primera estrella la gana con solo poner el primer pie en el bar. Es un ambiente muy agradable. Perfecto para ir con un grupo de amigos reducido o con pareja.
Una amplísima oferta de vinos naturales de bodegas pequeñas de varios puntos de Europa hace que te creas el concepto. Es una apuesta fuerte por tener una bodega amplia. La carta de vinos es extensa y los rangos de precio suficientemente amplia para que te sientas comodo adaptando tus gustos al precio que quieres. Es una oportunidad para probar vinos de producción limitada muy especial. Dejarse aconsejar por los encargados es una buena opción porque tienen bastante idea de los secretos que guarda cada vino. Sin duda, esto completa la experiencia.
La comida, quizá algo cara, pero de una calidad muy alta también. La burrata es una maravilla. El tartar de buey también es de notable. No he probado más que eso, pero todo lo que iba viendo salir tenía muy buena pinta.
Me ha dejado muy buen sabor de boca el sitio y seguro que volveré. Tiene opción bar y opción restaurante. No puedo opinar del restaurante todavía. Es una apuesta segura para quien aprecia comer bien sin renunciar a la modernidad de conceptos emergentes.

Excelente experiencia tanto a nivel de servicio, ambiente, y calidad. La carta de bebidas es amplia. Son los detalles que destacan, tienen una mesa con variedad de panes que van cortando para servir en la mesa, están todos buenísimos. Los platos creativos tienen mucho que ofrecer, como la buratta con salmón, y el salami de chocolate.

Had an amazing experience here. The staff was extremely friendly and helpful. The tapas were divine — we had the cured beef, porchetta and eggplant. The cured beef just melts in your mouth. The porchetta was served with fig jam and 2 slices of bread underneath, soaking up the sweet and salty juices from the porchetta and the fig jam. The eggplant was paired with a mint purée, which made it very refreshing. The olive bread was delicious as well.
This place is tucked away in a small alley near Picasso museum.

Try everything. Really.
Every dish is far different from the last. A great experience and great food.
The waitress was very knowledgeable about all wines and food. I was impressed! And the bread. ah the bread was fresh and very well made. It’s hard not to fill up up the bread alone!
Great food, great service, great experience. I can’t resist giving it 5 stars.

Se ha convertido en uno de mis preferentes en Barcelona, Con una bodega de vinos naturales ecológicos impresionante.
Además su carta deja satisfecho a cualquiera.
El precio no es económico pero merece la pena.
El servicio del personal inmejorable y la decoración muy divertida y alternativa (me recuerda un poco al estilo Swiss).

I cannot recommend this place enough. We wandered in on the advice of our hotel at 11pm on a Saturday night, and it was absolutely packed. We had made the mistake of not making a reservation, but we got very lucky and a waiter squeezed us in in the corner after 20 mins, but first making sure we got some wine while we waited. Despite the place being absolutely hectic, our waiter made sure we had all the time we needed with him, checking to see how we were getting on with each glass of wine, would we like the same again or to try a different one and explained the flavours in each bottle.
Everything sounded so good on the menu that we decided to let him choose some tapas for us, and were delighted we did so. The sardines with apple salsa was amazing, and I think our favourite was the salmon with a creamy italian cheese, I can’t remember the exact. And order the cheesecake, you won’t regret it! The bill came to 60 euro for 4 decent sized tapas, 5 glasses of wine, olives, bread and a slice of cheesecake for 2 people, which was very much worth it.

Amazing & extensive wine variety. We had a table of 9 in the wine room and it was an amazing experience. We tried everything from Cava, Pinot, Cabs, to so much more I can’t remember… Which is a great testament to our delight in the variety and suggestions.
Staff here is passionate and knowledgeable about wines and seasonal dishes. We tried practically everything on the menu. My favorites were the burratta and the eggplant.
Local vibe & we made reservations due to the large party.

En uno de mis periplos por la calle Princesa, mi vista se esforzó más de lo habitual y vi una tienda de vinos.
Vi el escaparate y me llamó la atención; entonces, vi las botellitas de coleccionista –yo no las tendría, pero hacen gracia, por qué negarlo-​, y me llamaron la atención; me fijé en la disposición de la tienda por dentro, con esa bota presidiendo el escenario (y las otras botas para el vino a granel), y me llamó la atención; y me llamó la atención la frase de Pasteur sobre las bondades del vino («El vino es el más saludable e higiénico de los brebajes», o similar), que tienen pintada en la pared. Así que, con todas estas justificaciones, entré.
Tienen multitud de botellas de vino y licores (yo no soy mucho de licores, que conste), y la mujer es la mar de amable y conocedora. Tampoco es que preguntara mucho; aquel día no tenía ganas de hablar, sino de ver, comprar e irme. Tenía prisa para llegar a casa y abrir la botella de vino, un brebaje saludable e higiénico.
Otro de los lugares históricos de esta calle, princesa.

Esta bodega de venta de vino cuenta con una gran variedad de botellas del elixir derivado de la uva fermentada. Frecuentado por locales y turistas, se caracteriza por además ofrecer vino «suelto» almacenado en barricas que están ahí mismo a la vista.
Su dueña explica que «puedes traer tú una botella o llevártelo en las que tengo yo de 1; 1,5; 3 y 5 litros.
La calidez de esta señora no sólo se extiende en el buen trato, sin oque además parece deleitarse con cada conversación que tiene con los clientes habituales. Con quienes compara calidades y pregunta sobre la satisfacción obtenida tras una compra.
Su buena predisposición lo convierte en un buen lugar para iniciados en este arte.