Konnichiwa…

Des de maig de 2010, amagat al carrer Rosselló a prop de la cantonada amb bailén hi trobaràs Can Kenji, un petit restaurant de tapes Japoneses, benvinguts!

Obert de dilluns a diumenge de 13:00 a 15:30 i de 20:30 fins a les 23:00.

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising

Asia

by Mohsin Hamid

The novel follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on that most fluid, and increasingly scarce, of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises along with his, their paths crossing and recrossing, a lifelong affair sparked and snuffed and sparked again by the forces that careen their fates along.
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a striking slice of contemporary life at a time of crushing upheaval. Romantic without being sentimental, political without being didactic, and spiritual without being religious, it brings an unflinching gaze to the violence and hope it depicts. And it creates two unforgettable characters who find moments of transcendent intimacy in the midst of shattering change

(Source: http://www.goodreads.com)

Bar Pinotxo

Un bar muy auténtico dentro de la Boqueria de Barcelona.

Mercat de la Boqueria, 466-470
Barcelona · Catalunya
Tel.+34 933 171 731
info@pinotxobar.com
Horarios
06.30h - 16h · No Reservations

WOKIMARKET

Es un lugar de comida fresca, sana y orgánica, hecha al momento, a la vista y para llevar. Con el añadido que es también un market especializado en productos ecológicos, asíaticos y latinoamericanos.

El concepto de WOKIMARKET nace de recrear los puestos comida callejera del mundo, acercando a Barcelona al encanto de este tipo de comida.

Platja de la Barceloneta: Passeig Maritím 1
Gracia: Asturies 22
Born: Carders 6
93 224 1251 / 93 292 03 99 / 93 315 2795

Snow

An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek’s ex-husband to a charismatic terrorist. A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness. A theatrical evening climaxes in a massacre. And finding god may be the prelude to losing everything else

(source: http://www.goodreads.com & photo credits: Mehmet Aksoy Associated Press)

EL KILO

COME BEBE QUE LA VIDA ES BREVE

Balmes, 165
(altura Balmes/París)
08006 Barcelona

Horario:
Mediodías: Martes a sábado
Noches: Miércoles a sábado

93 222 17 95

info@kilorestaurante.com

Behind Beautiful Forevers

by Katherine Boo

In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.

Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter—Annawadi’s “most-everything girl”—will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call “the full enjoy.”

But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi.

Nou single del segon disc del grup revelació del moment, Amelie!

Pensar en siglo XX

Tony Judt

El siglo XX se erige como la edad de las ideas, un tiempo en el que, para bien o para mal, el pensamiento de unos pocos se impuso sobre la vida de muchos. De una claridad y lucidez sin precedentes, el último libro de Tony Judt, está destinado a convertirse en un clásico del pensamiento moderno.

(www.lacentral.com)

COSMOS

Como nos explican sus propios creadores: Nuestra visión fue el crear un espacio que alojara una galería de arte y una cafetería como 2 partes individuales, pero que a través del diseño interior, conseguir una atmósfera  en la que pudieran funcionar juntas y en perfecta armonía.

Las instalaciones de la  galería de arte cuentan con toda la  normalidad de una galería de arte profesional, además, queremos ayudar a artistas establecidos y también a jóvenes con nuevas propuestas, es por eso que ofrecemos el espacio con unas condiciones económicas muy favorables y atractivas para cualquier artista.

La cafetería contiene una área acogedora de sofás, y una atmósfera muy relajada, también ofrecemos una variedad de comida simple como humus, guacamole, queso manchego, jamón ibérico etc.
Además nos hemos especializado en zumos naturales, cada tipo de refresco y copas y mojitos en el fin de semana.

C/ Enric Granados 3
08007 Barcelona

Tel. 931 057 992

Monday – Thursday 09.00 – 23.00

Friday 10.00 – 23.00

Saturday 12.00 – 23.00

Sunday 12.00 – 22.00

Immediate Family

by Sally Mann

This is a book of remarkable images, intense and intimate, recording the photographer’s children as they explore their woodland home in Virginia. The photographs show the ambiguities and dramas of family life and hauntingly evoke the mysteries of childhood.

(source: http://www.goodreads.com)

Rosa Negra y Rosa del Raval

Para un ambiente único y unos mojitos y margaritas espectaculares (con happy hour)!

Carrer dels Àngels, 6
933 042 681

Via Laietana, 46
933 10 17 98

This Living Hand: Essays, 1972-2012

La Pepita

La especialidad de La Pepita: bocadillos de ternera que en esta tapería se toman con un pan especial y cualquier relleno. Un lugar acogedor y singular, con unas tapas divertidas y muy muy buenas.

Còrsega, 343

93.238.48.93

Lunes 7.30 p.m. A 1 a.m.

Martes-Jueves 9 a.m. A 1 a.m.

Viernes 9 a.m. A 2.30 a.m.

Sabados 10 a.m. A 2.30 a.m.

Domingos cerrado

A Free Man 

by Aman Sethi

A Free Man chronicles Sethi’s investigation of the life of a Delhi laborer. While reporting on a bill to provide health insurance for construction workers, Sethi encounters a worker named Mohammed Ashraf. When Ashraf’s bombastic quotes catch the attention of Sethi’s Hindu editors, Sethi returns to find out more. Ashraf works as a painter, but before that, he sold eggs, lemons, and lottery tickets, worked as a butcher and a tailor, repaired television sets and studied biology. Sethi hangs around Bara Tooti, the hub of Delhi’s day-labor market, with Ashraf and his friends Lalloo and Rehaan, and little by little learns how these men live and where they came from. He also learns his way around the city’s byzantine liquor laws and crumbling hospitals as he follows his new friends deeper into their lives. What results is a stunningly original portrait of the city’s underclass—a revealing look at urban India told with humor, compassion, and verve.

(source: http://www.thedailybeast.com)

BAR LOBO

Bar de comidas, tapas y copas en el centro del Raval.

Calle Pintor Fortuny 3

93 481 53 46

On the Road

By Jack Kerouac

On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac’s years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, “a sideburned hero of the snowy West.” As “Sal Paradise” and “Dean Moriarty,” the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac’s love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting importance.

(source: http://www.goodreads.com)

Meatpacking

Nos gusta la carne. Sola o acompañada, nos gusta de todas las maneras. 
Para disfrutarla como debe ser controlamos su procedencia y la preparamos a diario, pieza a pieza. 

Se nota, cuando se hace con cariño sabe mejor.

Travessera de Gràcia 50-52

Lunes – Miércoles
9:00 – 0:30
Jueves – Sábado
9:00 – 3:00
Domingo
11:00 – 17:00

1968: Marching in the Streets

Nineteen sixty-eight. A radical wave swept the world. From Washington to London, Paris to Saigon, Berlin to Lahore, Chicago to Mexico City, people took to the streets demanding emancipation. In Vietnam, the guerrilla armies launched the Tê t (New Year) offensive, which shattered the United States’ military confidence and changed the course of history. A peace movement without precedent arose in the United States and united men and women, blacks and whites, soldiers and civilians against the war-makers in the Pentagon and the White House.

In “1968: Marching in the Streets,” Tariq Ali and Susan Watkins capture the mood of this pivotal year and the feelings that motivated those who wanted to change the world. These were days of hope and love, of satire, music, poetry and a new wave in cinema. “1968: Marching in the Streets” is a celebration of the people and an explanation of the events that marked that year. Firsthand accounts from every continent reveal the universal nature of the ferment of ’68. It was a year in which millions fought shoulder to shoulder against war, dogma and repression of every sort. This book is their story.

(source:www.goodreads.com)

Be Delight

Ganas de un cupcake o un pastel capricho…Be Delight es tu sitio. Para merendar, llevar o hasta hacer cursos Be Delight es el paraíso.

Ronda General Mitre, 39
932 80 15 06

Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, 
And what I assume you shall assume, 
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

(Song of Myself – Walt Whitman)

Considered to be one of the greatest poets of the United States, Walt Whitman expresses the power of one’s self, both body and spirit, the power of nature, gender equality and democracy, among many more. His work explores the world of poetry, form and content from a whole new perspective. When published, Whitman’s work caused great debate, controversy and enthusiasm among readers. And it is still today that his master piece stirs up deep feeling. Leaves of Grass is a collection of some of Whitman’s greatest works.

(Hojas de Hierba – Walt Whitman)

El Xampanyet

En el corazón del bron mezcla turistas y locales. El plan: tomarse unas buenas tapas y un xampanyet.

Carrer de Montcada, 22
933 19 70 03

Terrats de Barcelona

Autors: Delgado, Juan, Pinarelli

Un llibre que ens porta a les alçades, on la ciutat acaba i comença el cel.
Els terrats vistos com una part més del paisatge urbà, poques vegades accessibles a tothom però escenaris privilegiats i històrics de la vida quotidiana, de diversos oficis, de festes, amors furtius, i també protagonistes en els conflictes urbans.
De la roba estesa als franctiradors en temps de guerra passant per les revetlles de Sant Joan, una imatge poc habitual de Barcelona.

(www.nusdellibres.com)

Joséphine

Un local en barcelona que tiene algo que te lleva a NYC. Es urbano, moderno y tiene una carta que te permite combinar varios platos en uno, cosa que lo hace muy divertido. Situado en plena Eixample es una experiencia muy recomendable. 

Carrer de Pau Claris, 147
Tel: 934 877 560

Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d like to go abroad. Dreaming no farther than Czechoslovakia, the young reporter found himself sent to India. Wide-eyed and captivated, he would discover in those days his life’s work—to understand and describe the world in its remotest reaches, in all its multiplicity. From the rituals of sunrise at Persepolis to the incongruity of Louis Armstrong performing before a stone-faced crowd in Khartoum, Kapuscinski gives us the non-Western world as he first saw it, through still-virginal Western eyes.

(source: http://www.goodreads.com)