Wanting an ice cream and finding your favorite ice cream parlor closed, when you are now at a very high level of sugar need, could change the mood on an almost perfect Sunday. There was nothing left to do but go in search of something else that would appease our craving for sweets here at Barcelona.
Strolling, we remember a pastry shop that opened last year, but which we never tried and which is just a stone's throw from home, in what is one of our favorite streets in Gracia: The Calle Torrijos.
We then head at a brisk pace (perhaps imagining the calories we would then ingest and trying in a preventive way to dispose of them), towards the Nanà Yoti pastry shop and entering we ask ourselves: how is it that we have never done it before?
The showcase lets you glimpse what's inside and promises wonders. In addition to the sweets, two smiling boys are seen with a child, intent on smiling as they look at the computer screen. We overcome our reticence towards Spanish patisseries (which often made us fall in love with aesthetics and then disappoint us about the quality of the desserts) and enter.
Il local is delicious, furnished with vintage furniture and pastel colors, but without that excessive point typical of the fashion clubs that sprout every day like mushrooms throughout the city.
Without the chemical smell of overly sugary sweets and all with the same flavor.
A confectionery, wrapped in the warmth and color of a “de toda la vida” pastry shop, but with a modern touch that you like because it is beautiful, familiar, elegant. The showcase is full of mysterious jars and beautiful and the caring owner explains what is inside each one. We decide in the end for one Lemon Cheesecake and a rum cream with chocolate. We eat them at home (they don't have tables for tasting on site) and they are perfect. Creamy, not too sweet, they taste good and not of dyes and / or additives.
They also have cakes, cookies, nougats and meringues. Now I finally know where to buy my weekly sugar fix.
What: Nanà Yoti pastry shop
Where: Calle Torrijos, 37 (Gracia)
How to get there: Metro L3, green, Fontana stop.
When: for timetables, check the facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/nanayotibarcelona/info
