The Opera Coffee was inaugurated at the end of the eighteenth century as the Tasca-hostel, the departure point of the carriages to towns in the region and other cities such as Zaragoza, Madrid, etc. Many years later, it transformed into a Viennese-style Chocolateria.

And years later it changed again to become a café-restaurant and meeting point of the aristocracy and high bourgeoisie of Barcelona.

With the phenomenon of modernism, the cafe undertook a great reform of style to follow what was the new trend in architecture and decoration. Since then, it has never closed, and there passed from kings to politicians, intellectuals, writers, bohemians, musicians, singers, painters and hundreds and hundreds of anonymous characters from all over the world.