The region of a thousand bars
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End of the ban on consuming in bars: "Wines are drunk standing up"
CAESAR WHO
The bar counters were filled again to the delight of customers and hoteliers
30 Jan 2022 . Updated at 00:01 h.WhatsappMailFacebookTwitterComment ·The opening of the bars came on the wrong day. One of those that makes you want to be on the terrace, under the sun and without a jacket. And even so, the bars of A Coruña were filled at aperitif time. The tripe was taken as before the restriction, which filled so many customers with happiness who like to consume with their elbows supported. The counters were sorely missed. “Those of us who are from the bar, are from the bar,” César said this morning at the Ambigú bar. Together with Maika and Carmen, who also prefer to stand, he admits that during these months when the bars were prohibited, they caught his attention many times because "like an automaton, he went straight, without realizing it." For him, “wines are drunk standing up”. Carmen points out that when one goes alone or accompanied by a friend, she "always throws herself towards the counter." Another thing, she adds, is "going as a family." What these clients think was what they thought this Saturday that seemed like summer in all the neighborhoods of the city. In the wine street, in the center, the bars returned to what they were to the delight of the hoteliers. For Andrés Frías, "it is something we wanted a lot."
Vigueses still do not consume in bars: "They still only come to order"
Despite the lifting of restrictions, in Vigo cafeterias it is still not consumed in bars
Zip
After noon nobody had leaned yesterday on one of the oldest bars in Vigo. «The approaches are anecdotal, just to ask. People have gotten used to the tables, ”say the waiters at the Maracaibo cafeteria, in Plaza de Compostela. The place has not even recovered the stools. “By not being able to use the bar, what has grown is the demand for coffee to go,” they comment, although they assure that many regular customers who continue to telecommute are missing.
M.Moralejo
«We opted to put tables attached to the bar while it could not be used. There are those who like to be close to talk to us, although for those who do not have a way with words in the morning, we put the coffee on them, they take it in one sip and leave," they say at the Revi brewery in Balaídos. Only one person consumed in its 20 meters of bar.
“We will have to get used to it again,” says the waiter at La Espera, in the Navia neighborhood, who certifies that no one had sat at the counter in the morning. Not across the street at Mammuzza Mia, where Vitrasa drivers clamored to be able to drink coffee standing up again on their brief stops.
Ourenses timidly return to the bars: "People are still very afraid"
Despite the removal of restrictions, customers continue to prefer the tables and, above all, the terraces
Miguel Ascon
Although it is already allowed to consume at the bar counter, it will be difficult for the people of Ourense to recover that space. "People are still very afraid," explains Javier González, from Miudiño. The first night after the elimination of the restriction was more comfortable for the hoteliers, but the clients did not dare to return to the bars.
"For us, it's a blessing because what we want is to work, not have to call people's attention when they got confused, like until now," says González, who believes that there is still a long way to go to get back to normal. For example, his pub could open until 4:30 in the morning, but "at two in the morning people start to leave." The hotelier hopes that with the passing of the months and the rise in temperatures, the situation will normalize. "For now, the night is very weak," he says.
Already during the day, this Saturday in the wine area of the capital of Ourense, the atmosphere in the bars was also scarce, although some locals had already removed the high tables that had been placed next to them for months. They did so at the Lord, on Calle Valle Inclán, where this morning there was already a coffee and beer atmosphere at the bar. At times, normality seemed recovered.
The Arousan hotel industry celebrates it: “We Galicians are bar people; here is where you go to caixa»
The Arousan hotel industry celebrates the return to consumption at counters, especially in small establishments such as O Tranquilo
SERXIO GONZALEZ
Let's jump. The pandemic unleashed by the coronavirus and the way, on so many peculiar occasions, to combat it through the changing restrictions has turned the day-to-day of the hospitality industry into a two-year gymkhana, which now takes, at least, a good breather . If on February 25, 2021 the bars returned to serve their clientele even on the terraces, after the Christmas rush of infections, on January 29, 2022 it will go down in the annals of the sector for having meant the reopening of the nuclear element of any establishment of these characteristics: the eternal bar.
The data will have to be updated again, because in times of pandemic the mortality of businesses is also great, but, according to Turismo de Galicia, in the eleven municipalities that make up the southern shore of the Arousa estuary they remained active at this point in the year passed 1,222 licenses for bars and cafes. Although the bar is important for each and every one of the businesses, by pure logic it acquires the category of essential in the smallest premises. We go to one of them to see what's going on on the day of his resurrection, and the response we find in O Tranquilo, on the way up to the Vilagarcía de Arousa railway station, couldn't be more complete: «Os galegos we are bar people; here is where you go to caixa, home».
This is Estanislao García speaking, who since the 1980s has run a bar whose squid, zorza and roast ham sandwiches have made it an essential reference. Tanis insists that the true core of the business is in the counter meters where around noon he serves a tea, a cup of treixadura and another of the country's red wine. Around, barely half a dozen tables that are completed with a single row outdoor terrace. Guillermo López, a fellow sufferer, provides another good reason to celebrate its reopening: «It is not the first time that at each table there is only one client, so with six people you have a bar and you never stop walking from here to there» . It seems that, in its current meaning, the term comes from the English bar, which denoted the bar where drinkers rested their feet. It's all pluses, bless you.
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