Where to get Dr Pepper in Barcelona

(Updated December 2018)

Taste of America (Two Locations in the city)
C/ Aragó, 231
Barcelona
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Calle Balmes, 322

Barcelona 08006
There is also a location near Barcelona at:
C/ Nord, 62 - bajo
Esplugues de Llobregat 08950

A Taste of Home: The English Supermarket
C/ Floridablanca 78
Barcelona 08015
(They also have a location in Sitges at Calle Sant Josep, 32)

Krakoviak Polish Specialties.
Calle de Sicília 324-332
Barcelona 08025

Carrefour Market Ramblas
Rambla de los Estudios, 113
Barcelona 08002
(Dr Pepper lovers have me to thank for this: I kept asking and asking and asking until someone  finally actually looked into it and got the store to start stocking it. It seems to be a very popular item. Unlike the Dr Pepper sold in the Carrefour Planet locations below, it is usually stocked in the regular soft drink section, not in the foreign foods section AKA Sabores del Mundo.)

Carrefour Planet Hipermercado La Maquinista
La Maqunista Shopping Center

Paseo Potosí, 2

Barcelona 08030

Carrefour Planet  Hipermercado Gran Vía 2

Avda. Gran Vía 75-93

L´Hospitalet del Llobregat 08908
(This one is just a few blocks outside Barcelona city limits, not far from Plaza de España. One pain in the neck about these two locations is that they don't stock as much as the Ramblas location does, so don't be surprised if they are out. Sometimes they are out for one week, sometimes several weeks. I have only seen the Dr Pepper supply at the Ramblas location out of stock once, and that was only for a few days.)

The little Carrefour Express location at Calle Nou de la Rambla also sells Dr Pepper.

The Carrefour hypermarket location at Las Glories (which is not as huge as the Planet stores) has never stocked Dr Pepper that I know of. I only asked a couple of times, but that was because it was not a location I went to much.

These CoAliment stores sometimes have Dr Pepper:

CoAliment
Via Laietana 15

CoAliment
C/ Diputacion 314

The following little Pakistani-owned convenience stores sometimes have Dr Pepper:

Sol Bruc 70

Calle Bruc 70

Barcelona 08037

Frutas y Verduras

Calle Trafalgar 48

Barcelona 08010

Colom

Psg. de Colom 2

Barcelona  08002

La Bodegueta
Calle Joaquin Costa 28
El Raval
Barcelona 08001
(Some other Pakistani-owned shops on this same street also sell Dr Pepper.)

In Barceloneta, near the beach, the following Pakistani-owned convenience stores sometimes have Dr Pepper:

Supermercat
Calle Dr. Aiguader 1
08003 Barcelona
(Literally just outside the Barceloneta Metro station. There are two little stores next to each other. The one to the right usually has Dr Pepper.) 

Supermercat

Psg. Joan de Borbo 1

Barcelona 08003

Supermercat

Psg. Joan de Borbo 26

Barcelona 08003

Supermarket (that's the name over the door)

Corner of C/ Andrea Doria and C/ Atlantida

Barcelona 08003

(Located on the eastern side of Barceloneta's Public Market)

Supermercat del Mar

C/ Miquel Boera 11

Barcelona 08003

(Where Sant Carles street ends at the steps to the seafront)

The Bangladeshi community is much smaller than the Pakistani one in Barcelona, but at least on Bangladeshi business sometimes sells Dr Pepper:

Supermercat
Av. Marina 94
Barcelona 08018

Please leave a comment or email me in order to update this list.

Click here for my Dr Pepper in Madrid and more list, as well as to read about how Dr Pepper can have different flavors depending on where it is imported from. 

P.S. There is also little Pakistani store on Ronda Universitat (31? 33?) near Pl Catalunya that sells Dr P. If anyone knows the name and exact address, please let me know so I can add the details.

Barcelona - Pakistani "capital" of Spain

Sometimes after a long day, like today, I don't feel like cooking dinner nor am I hungry enough to go out to eat. In this situation I sometimes pop down to the Pakistani owned convenience store next to my apartment building to pick up a couple or three of the large, generously stuffed homemade samosas on offer there for 75 cents a piece. Mmm, delicious! This little convenience store is one of several owned by Pakistanis in my neighborhood -- indeed, throughout Barcelona.

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My first contact with such a business occurred not long after moving to Barcelona. It happened one Sunday when I was looking for a convenience store because here, as in all of Spain, larger stores are not allowed to open on 'the day of rest.' So, I stopped a policeman on the street to ask if he knew a place that was open where I could buy bread and milk. I can still hear his reply, "Quieres decir un Pakistani?" (Do you mean to say a Pakistani?)

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I wasn't sure what that meant, but I replied something to the effect that, if that's what he called a convenience store with Sunday hours, then, yes. It turned out to be exactly how locals refer to such shops and my first introduction to Barcelona's large, thriving Pakistani community.
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After living here a bit I began to sense that Barcelona probably had the highest concentration of Pakistani immigrants in all of Spain, consisting mostly of men, many of whom seemed to come from the Punjab. Recently I discovered a couple of interesting reports that actually confirm these perceptions: Multiculturalism and Health and Immigration, Education and the Labour Market. For example, the first one states that 95% of Pakistanis in Barcelona are male and are not only from the Punjab but from a particular city there - Gujrat. The second report claims that 69% of Pakistanis living in Spain live in the province of Barcelona.
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Although it looks to me like the convenience store is the major business they are involved in, they also seem to be heavily represented in 'locutorios' (small businesses where you can pay to use a phone by the minute), Internet cafes (often combined with locutorios) and restaurants. In addition the local gas company's butane delivery staff appears dominated by Pakistanis and the many construction sites around the city usually have at least some Pakistani laborers. Obviously, Barcelona is a place where many Pakistani immigrants are establishing a life for themselves.
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I would love to know more about the history of this community and how Barcelona came to be the destination of so many. (I've heard estimates as low as 10,000 and as high as 60,000.) I have asked a few Pakistanis about this, but have not discovered much other than things like, "I had a friend/neighbor/relative who lived here" or "who knew someone who lived here."
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Although I don't know when the immigration began, I believe the majority have arrived relatively recently. (Another perception verified by the Multiculturalism and Health report.) However, I do know one man from Pakistan, an owner of an electronics shop, who has lived here for over 25 years and who has raised his children here.
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If anyone knows anything about the history of this community, please feel free to share it here. It would be another piece in the puzzle about how Barcelona has become (or maybe I should say, is becoming) such a diverse and interesting place.
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Chao amig@s
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Carloz