Luis Suarez opens fast-food restaurant in Barcelona (Details, pics)

Barcelona star attacker, Luis Suarez, has launched a home-feel restaurant in the heart of the city.

The Urugyuan striker opened the Chalito Barcelona restaurant on the trendy Rambla de Catalunya.

It is the former Liverpool striker's second business venture of its kind in Barcelona after the Chiringuito (beach bar) in his local neighbourhood of Castelldefels.

The 30-year-old who was nicknamed El-Gordo says his passion for food was inspired by a beachside bar, El Chalo de Tapas, in the neighbourhood.

He and team mate Lionel Messi are regulars at the bar which specialises in South American and Italian cuisine. First they opened a bar at the beach side together in the same part of Barcelona and now they have opened a larger venture in the heart of the city together with two other businessmen.

Suarez, a friend of the Argentine brothers Leo and Mariano who ran the restaurant and decided to go into business with them.

Chalito Barcelona is a hearty home-made fast food restaurant located in a large two-storey building in the heart of the Catalan capital.

The classy restaurant boast of a high ceilings, decorated with wooden furniture and trimmed with wrought iron, the Chalito Barcelona aims to give off a warm homely atmosphere.