{"id":364,"date":"2007-02-12T10:55:24","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T10:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2007-02-12T10:55:24","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T10:55:24","slug":"barceluna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2007\/02\/barceluna\/","title":{"rendered":"Barceluna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been too long since our visit to be able to write a proper review of Barceluna &#8211; but we went during the holiday season when my life was pretty crazy.  Still, I figure I should write a couple about it.<br \/>\nFirst of all, it&#8217;s not really a restaurant.  It&#8217;s a lounge where they serve food.  We went early a weekday night, before the music started (at 8PM, I think) and there was nobody there.  They didn&#8217;t even have waitstuff, instead we were served by the cocktail waitress from the adjoining bar.  She was nice and the service was good, but didn&#8217;t know anything about the menu.  It was pretty weird dining in the restaurant alone &#8211; if you want to go, I&#8217;d recommend you do it when they&#8217;re playing the music.<br \/>\nThe menu consists mostly of tapas, though they have larger dishes as well.  We like tapas and we went for them.  Unfortunately, I can&#8217;t recall all of what we ordered. I know we enjoyed the garlic french fries, we ordered a small size but I think they must have served us the larger one &#8211; the plate was huge.  We didn&#8217;t, however, liked the pork back-ribs, which had a strong and bitter glace, which made it very difficult to taste the actual ribs.  The tri-tip strips with blue cheese suffered from a similar affliction, the blue cheese was too strong and made it impossible to taste the meat.  Alas, I don&#8217;t remember what else we had, but our whole impression was that the dishes were off. We really wanted to like the place, as we were out in a rare date, but ultimately we couldn&#8217;t and I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;d go again.<br \/>\nBarceluna at Kelly&#8217;s<br \/>\n1313 Park Street<br \/>\nAlameda, CA 94501<br \/>\n510-522-7425<br \/>\n510-769-1011<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/barceluna.org\/\">http:\/\/barceluna.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been too long since our visit to be able to write a proper review of Barceluna &#8211; but we went during the holiday season when my life was pretty crazy. Still, I figure I should write a couple about it. First of all, it&#8217;s not really a restaurant. It&#8217;s a lounge where they serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}