"It’s not quite 1 p.m. on a Saturday when I step into Bodega La Peninsular, a classic vermutería, or vermouth bar, hidden on an inconspicuous side street in Barcelona’s Barceloneta district. While the beachfront of this former fishing village is now one of the most tourist-trodden spots in the city, its narrow alleyways are still packed with old school vermouth haunts that were here decades before the hordes of foreign visitors arrived."