Almodobar

Almodobar is a 210-capacity club in Barcelona’s Gràcia district, built around a two-level night out: a ground-floor dance space and an upstairs karaoke room. Its distinguishing feature is that split personality. A concert can lead into DJs downstairs, while the upper room keeps a public mini-stage ready for karaoke singers and a catalogue of 1,500-plus songs. For audiences seeking a compact, social setting, the room places live music inside a fuller late-night format.

A Gràcia fixture with a concert thread

Co-founder Techu Martín says Almodobar has operated in Gràcia since 1995, giving the club three decades of local nightlife behind its current format. The live side reaches back at least to May 31, 2013, when Spanish-Canadian songwriter Luthea Salom played the Grassot address on a Barcelona run following dates in Puigcerdà, Vic, Igualada and Andorra la Vella. That booking captures the scale of the room’s musical role: a close-up stop for songwriters and small touring bills. In June 2020, during Spain’s pandemic-era nightclub restrictions, El País photographed the dancefloor reshaped with chairs and a table-football game; Martín described the pressure of operating at sharply reduced attendance. The scene showed a venue adapting its sociable, open-floor premise to an unusually constrained moment.

The room today

Almodobar presents its concert programme as Acústics Almodobar, a stable series for national pop, rock and soul artists. Outside gig hours, the main room centres on a bar, DJ booth and dancefloor, with pop-rock, house and funk in the rotation. Upstairs, the karaoke room is a spacious communal setup with its own mini-stage, cocktails and songs in Catalan, Spanish and English. Expect club-scale proximity to performers, then a natural route into dancing or singing after the set.