The names of the cocktails are all subtle references to the alternative music of Blur, Verve, Fools Garden. Important details that sum up and anticipate the news that you will find in the drink list: the result of the collective commitment of the entire team of the bar. Then from the novelties in the menu that are not only content-related, but also structural: if the vinyl from which you ordered the cocktails has remained, while changing appearance, now you’ll find the lunch menu on the back of a CD-ROM while the bill arrives in an audiocassette case.
First of all the beautiful mural of the street artists duo Nabla & Zibe which depicts a girl who listens to music from a typical stereo of those years while the color spots of her thoughts fly away on the wall. The temporal shift is pesent in small and large details. Barba, after all, has never been a place stuck in the past, if anything it’s a place that looks at the past but only to improve the present. It’s precisely by virtue of their immortal charm that one of the most eclectic bars in Milan, Barba, decided to undergo a makeover.īack to the past, one would say, and instead it’s a return to the future because, if you remember that the previous mood of Barba was inspired by the vintage world of the ’60s and’ 70s, moving forward a decade (not only aesthetically, but also musically, as you’ll discover by listening to the playlist inside) the bar moves towards the future and not towards the past.
Everything that could happen, happened: international intrigues, cult films, bright colors, improbable hairstyles and many, many synthesizers. Not surprisingly, even those who have never even seen them feel a twinge of nostalgia each time they are mentioned.
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