Pile 43, the curious little furniture shop-cum-cocktail bar – smoky and jammed full of retro classics, all for sale – was long our favourite mojito haunt. But sadly, its reasonable prices and proximity to backpacker epicenter Plaça Reial always made it susceptible to a tourist invasion.

And boy, did they come: reveling in their ‘new-found’ secret spot. So we had to move on. And thankfully Fran, the bear of a man who owns the place, came to the rescue, setting up this equally pop-kitsch bar just a few blocks away.