El Rey De La Gamba-1 turned their fire on a sunny morning in 1972 and later in 2002 taken over by the landlord Juan Manuel Camps, giving a fresh and innovative making a niche among the greats. It's rumored that the King of the Gamba-1 has the same spell as the "Font de Canaletes", everyone who visits him back again.

King of the Gamba-1 has become an icon of tourism Catalan and a meeting point for thousands and thousands of tourists who visit Barcelona every year, matching the Sagrada Família, Barcelona FC museum, the Monastery of Montserrat or La Pedrera.