Tables, chairs and pallets line up this Monday on the Gregal dock in Port Olímpic in entrance of the elimination vans. The final eating places on the touchdown stage closed their doorways this Sunday, January 8, after 30 years of exercise. The area the place they had been because it was opened earlier than the Barcelona 92 Olympic Games will disappear. It will reopen in the summertime of 2024, after greater than a yr of renovations to host the America’s Cup.
The 4 longest-lived will return. They are La Fonda, La Taberna Gallega, El Cangrejo Loco and La Barca del Salamanca. They have received the tender to settle within the so-called “gastronomic balcony” of Barcelona introduced by the Barcelona City Council and which will likely be on the Gregal quay itself. The two most up-to-date shut. The most up-to-date, Empire and Tocca Ristorante, shut. The renovated pier will home a complete of 11 shops.
“We have obtained the tender and we are going to open in the summertime of 2024,” explains Eva Bertran from La Fonda to NIUS. “They will likely be smaller venues and there will likely be no nightlife. They have advised us that the whole lot will likely be centered on the blue and sustainable financial system,” she provides.
New rental charges skyrocket
Some shoppers visited them this weekend to quickly say goodbye. Eva believes that the picture of the day after is even sadder: “We have by no means seen it like this, with out tables and with all the images off the hook. It could be very unhappy,” she says. Sadder is, they are saying, that the 50 restaurant employees have gone to ERTE.
The reworking of the pier will final 18 months and brings the rise in rental costs. The restaurateurs see it with skepticism: “We will go from paying 11,000 euros a month in lease to paying 40,000 euros and we’ve needed to pay a deposit of 105,000 euros. The costs are by means of the roof,” explains Eva. “We do not know if we should increase menu costs with these leases and if the client will be capable to pay them,” she says.
Toni’s household has run La Taberna Gallega since 1996. They belief that the celebration of the Copa de América will profit them: “We see it as optimistic. This occasion brings a shopper with excessive buying energy,” he explains. The 46 native employees have been in ERTE since Monday: “Yesterday was a tragic day after so a few years however we promised to see one another once more quickly. We are on the lookout for different locations close to the ocean and we hope to open in a few months,” they are saying.
The first restaurant to open on the pier
El Cangrejo Loco is the one restaurant on the Gregal pier that has owned the property since 1992 when it opened the gastronomic stroll for the Olympics. “It has been 30 years, we’re the one ones who’ve resisted and we are going to return in 2024,” says Santi. “We had been the primary to open in Port Olímpic and the entire household has been pulling the bandwagon” he provides.
The hotelier explains that town council has given the locals 10 days to dismantle the amenities and of their case they’ve added work: “We open a brand new restaurant on the 14th on Aribau road. If all goes nicely, in 2024 we may have two premises, one within the middle of town and one other on the same old pier,” he provides.
The Gremi de Restauració de Barcelona needed to honor the employees of the Moll Gregal eating places with a Christmas spot starring the actor Joan Pera the place he invited them to go to the areas for the final time in the course of the Christmas holidays.