Barcelona's first cocktail bar, it was opened in 1933 by Miguel Boadas, who'd learned his trade mixing up Hemingway's daiquiris at El Floridita in Havana.

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James Morrison's debut album Undiscovered made him a star in his native U.K. last summer, and the disc's release here portends similarly big things: Mixing the smoky soul of Terence Trent D'Arby with the catchy crooning of James Blunt, the 22-year-old is nothing if not commercially viable.

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