Cafe Laie: Snacks
Need some down time after criss-crossing the city? Take a breather at Cafe Laie, and pick up a book while you're at it.

The café-bookstore combo is the perfect place to kick back, sip a cafe con leche (coffee with milk), have a hearty lunch, read the local papers or grab that novel you'll need for the plane ride home. Downstairs is a book shop, stocked mostly with Spanish and Catalan titles, but you'll find a small, decent selection of English tomes on the front shelves. Upstairs, you can hang out in the café section or chat with the bartender at the bar. In the back, there are more tables and a outside terrace for a longer sit-down affair. If you're staying for lunch, check out the better-value Menu of the Day, which often includes a first and second course with dessert. In the evenings, you may stumble on some local music performances or "Jazz with Dinner" events. The Web site should have some more information, although it's currently only Spanish or Catalan.

Besides the Pau Claris location, you'll find Cafe Laie at that Caixa Forum, not far from Montjuïc; at L'Illa shopping center on Diagonal, and at Can Caralleu sports complex, up in the hills on the city's west side. (Not all the cafes have bookstores, and not all bookstores - Llibreria Laie - have cafes.)

Metro: L4 or L1 Urquinaona
Location

Pau Claris, 85

L'Example Dret

Barcelona, 08010

Spain (Espana)