Restaurant - La Flauta

Restaurant - La Flauta

March 11, 2014

After listening to one of the groups present and talk about their favorite restaurants in their area, my roommates and I decided to try a restaurant they talk about: La Flauta.  We took the metro from Sagrada Familia to Universitat on the purple line and only had to walk a few blocks to get there.  We had tried to go there a few nights before but the line was out the door.  This time since we went on a Tuesday, we only had to wait five minutes before sitting.  While waiting for the table, I noticed that were many locals there as well as tourists.  I saw this as a good sign because if local people go there for good tapas, we knew we were in the right place.  From the minute we walked in, we saw all the foods people were eating and we couldn't wait to look at the menu and decide what kind of tapas we wanted to order.

We got the menu and were overwhelmed by how many choices of tapas there were!  We always have our go to foods we like to eat when we get tapas: patatas bravas and calamari but we wanted to try something else too.  We looked around at all the other tables and what they were eating and everything looked so good!  We were trying to be good about not spending too much money which made it really hard since we wanted to get everything on the menu.  We finally decided on pan con tomate, calamari, two orders of patatas bravas, prosciutto and cheese sandwiches on croissants and a new dish we had never tried before, a thinly sliced potatoes with two sunny side eggs mixed into it.  It was a special of the day so we had to try it.  

Pan con tomate

Prosciutto sandwiches

Calamari

Patatas bravas

Potato and egg dish

Everything we had was delicious!  As usual, the calamari was my favorite but the patatas bravas came close behind it.  I find it interesting that every place that I try the patatas bravas at tastes a little different and is served a little differently.  It keeps things interesting.  I wasn't a big fan of the potato and egg dish but was happy I tried something new.  Since we didn't get to try as many dishes as we would have liked, we talked about coming back again and getting some fish tapas, shrimp and ordering desert because they all looked so good!

Overall, my experience at La Flauta was a great one.  The environment was really nice and modern, the waiters and hostess were very nice and friendly and explained tapas we didn't understand to us in English.  The people who presented about this restaurant in their group project have great taste and didn't steer us wrong with this restaurant!  I would highly recommend people to this restaurant and I definitely want to come back here again.