Derby Hotels Collection Blog Magazine , » mutis http://www.derbyhotels.com/blog/en Fri, 17 May 2013 08:27:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mutis, best bar in Europe http://www.derbyhotels.com/blog/en/mutis-best-bar-in-europe/ http://www.derbyhotels.com/blog/en/mutis-best-bar-in-europe/#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:15:42 +0000 Derby Hotels Collection http://www.derbyhotels.com/blog/en/?p=2109 ¿Who has not ever thought about opening a different bar? The typical ideal bar where all your friends would go and they would make themselves at home. Well, Kim Diaz has made it, classy and with an impeccable savoir faire.

In a flat in the Eixample of Barcelona the Mutis Bar is located. It is private club where you can enjoy of an absolute privacy, a place for night owls which has seduced swines like Russell Crowe, Robert De Niro and Woody Allen, among others. But beware; we’re just talking about funny swines. A club where it doesn’t matter where you come from or what you have, it only matters who you are and your attitude. A cocktail bar whose location is the largest of its secrets, where you can listen to live music, where you can become a stand-up comedian, or even a singer. It is a bar where customers and members make things happen.

It has been open for four years now, and it has been awarded with the Best European Bar by the prestigious magazine Drinks International. Its position in the Global ranking is the 16th. According to the jury, the private club, created by Kim Diaz in November 2009, has managed to become the number one in Europe thanks to its atmosphere and the concept of the local.

A speakeasy that you have to live, but we cannot tell you where. The silence and the discretion are two of its tops. Education, tolerance, complicity and attitude are the rest.

You will find the list of best bars in the world according to the magazine, with over 40 years of history, it is considered the world’s leading magazine in the field of wine and liquors. Check it out!

1. Artesian at thel Langham Hotel

World’s Best Bar and Best Bar in the UK (London)

2. PDT

Best Bar in North America (New York)

3. Nightjar (London)

4. Connaught Bar (London)

5. American bar at the Savoy Hotel (London)

6. Death & Co (New York)

7. The Baxter Inn

Best Bar in Asia Pacific and Highest New Entry (Sidney)

8. 69 Colebrooke Row (London)

9. Callooh Callay (London)

10. Bramble (Edinburgh)

11. Employees Only (New York)

12. Happiness Forgets (London)

13. Drink (Boston)

14. The Varnish (Los Angeles)

15. Zetter Townhouse (London)

16. Mutis

Best Bar in Europe and Highest Climber (Barcelona)

17. Black Pearl (Melbourne)

18. Clover Club (New York)

19. Dry Martini (Barcelona)

20. La Capilla

Best Bar in Latin America and Caribbean (México)

 

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It’s great to see the places we usually frequent, depending on who inhabit them, can make you think for a moment you are visiting another city.

Barcelona is great for these games.

Cool night but with the summer atmosphere.

It’s a long weekend in France and you can tell it,

Already in the afternoon having a Gin Tonic (without gin, there is nothing as chic as to enjoy something
simple with the best paraphernalia) we meet Javier Bardem in Claris Hotel’s the EAST 47.
Suddenly I thought … Am I in LOS ANGELES? Is he COMING along with anyone?

Javier Bardem

Javier Bardem

Later, I had arranged to meet for a drink with the boys from HERCULES, Francesco and David, we had
much to tell each other and since the last issue of the magazine I hadn’t been able to see them.

They were accompanied by HUMBERTO LEÓN and PATRICK WILSON.
Humberto León is currently the Creative Director of KENZO and along with CAROL LIM
they created the fantastic universe of OPENING CEREMONY.

WHOA! With the HERCULES’s you never
know who you’ll be able to meet.
And we all went out for a drink at BOCA CHICA, early
in the evening, and it was like being in someone’s living room with an excellent taste in the heart of Barcelona.
The second floor has been very well resolved despite not serving cocktails and the lack of music,
The place is great to have a chat with some friends.

We were in New York, but everyone around us spoke French!!!

Along with HERCULE’s arrived David de Quevedo and Miguel Ruiz,
and the seven of us went to see Quim & Eva at MUTIS,
that place where there’s ALWAYS SOMETHING GOING ON.

It was magical, it always turns out exotic even  for those who are from here.
That singer: JAULA, always bewitches  all our guests, and Humberto & Patrick,
did not resist.

…Of course to finish off the night, Javier Bardem was also there!

We left, and I have the impression that at MUTIS they continued partying until late

The next morning I called our guests to remind them that they couldn’t leave Barcelona without having

a good rice dish at the Barceloneta.

Sometimes we fail to see the wonder that surrounds us and that is why I like to discover our city,
with its corners, and what better way than to observe it
with curious eyes, surrounded by good friends.

Bar East 47 hotel Claris

Bar East 47 hotel Claris

 

Pepe García Communications Manager Derby Hotels Collection

 

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