Later History
The bar closed in 1903, when Romeu was unable to keep it open because of debts. It was later used by the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc until the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. In the 1970s, a group of restaurateurs took steps to revive it, and it reopened in 1989.
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