Travel Reference
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Say It With Chocolate
A sleek and modern temple to the brown stuff,
Cacao Sampaka
doubles as a shop and cafe
and is the perfect place to stock up with gifts to take back home. Select from every conceiv-
able flavour (rosemary, anyone? Curry?), either in bar form or as individual choccies to fill
your own elegant little gift box.
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Fine Wines
of wine with some 3000 wines in its cellar, including some extremely rare finds. Try before
you buy in the wine bar, and ask them to make you up a gift box for someone special back
home.
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Chill Down
Cosmo
is a bright, white cavernous space, dotted with colour from the exhibitions that adorn
its high walls. It has a nice selection of teas, cakes and snacks. Set on a pleasant pedestrian
strip, it's perfect for an evening tipple outside or in.
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Shopping
Most of the city's classy shopping spreads across the heart of L'Eixample, in particular along
Passeig de Gràcia, Rambla de Catalunya and adjacent streets. All about are dotted a surpris-
ing array of speciality stores, selling anything from gloves to glues.
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area - from the windows and terrace you get close side views of La Pedrera.
