Right Side Coffee Bar sits on a narrow Gothic Quarter street and makes its case quickly. The room is bright, compact, and stripped back to the counter, the beans, and the daylight. That feels right for a coffee bar tied to a roastery: you come here to see the coffee clearly, not to disappear into the room for hours.
The Castelldefels roastery matters in the background, but the Barcelona bar is the sharper public face of the project. It is the address that turns the brand into something you can test in one short stop: walk in, order at the bar, take a seat if one opens, and keep the visit centered on the cup.
Coffee style
Filter and espresso both make sense here, but the room reads most convincingly as a precise short-stop bar. The cups lean clean and direct, the menu keeps the attention on coffee rather than on syrup-heavy clutter, and the retail beans make it easy to leave with more than one drink's worth of the visit.
Food
Food stays in support. Pastries and breakfast items are enough to turn the stop into a neat morning plan, but this is not a brunch room trying to compete with larger all-day cafes. The smaller menu is part of the edit: coffee first, pastry second, then back into the old streets.
The feel
The bar feels self-contained and coffee-led, with enough natural light to keep the room open even when the seating is tight. That comes with clear tradeoffs. There is no real invitation to spread out, the visit works best when kept brief, and the house rules against wifi and decaf make the room more specific rather than more forgiving.
Why Right Side Coffee Bar is shortlisted by Filter Notes
Right Side Coffee Bar is shortlisted because it gives Barcelona a sharper, less obvious coffee-person pick: house-roasted coffee, a bright Gothic Quarter bar, retail beans, and a visit that knows it is strongest in one well-made cup. Cross town for the coffee and the old-city setting; know before going that the room is compact and built for a shorter stop.