Restaurant in Barcelona

Jordi Cruz's three-star flagship in an uptown garden estate

Seasonal vegetarian and vegan cooking with global accents

The Istanbul Anatolian grill, transplanted to the Eixample

Jordi Vila's Catalan cuisine inside the Moritz brewery

Valencian rice mastery in a former textile factory

Tiny Venetian taberna beside the Boqueria

Catalan-meets-London fusion with a Bib Gourmand

Theatrical classic-Spanish bar dining steps off La Rambla

Vinyl-soundtracked family tapas bar since the 1950s

Sarria's no-nonsense temple to the city's best patatas bravas

Dani Lechuga's meat-obsessed counter bistro

Bib Gourmand micro-restaurant where Gracia's best cooking meets natural wine

Family wine-warehouse turned Catalan taberna

Easygoing modern tapas on the Born's Plaça Comercial edge

Legendary no-menu seafood counter run on the chef's whim

Half-century Les Corts classic for fish and grills

Vintage family fish bar, plancha and chalkboard prices

Barceloneta's oldest house, seafood since the 1750s building

1903 fishermen's tavern, fourth-generation rice house

Galician seafood tapas from the Rias de Galicia family

Ten-table owner-run seafood and rice locals' room

Glamour-free family seafood gem by Santa Caterina market since 1981

The benchmark all-day tapas bar of the Eixample

Two-star modern Catalan from Canadian-Catalan chef Jordi Artal

Three Michelin stars in a theatre of open kitchens

Miquel Pardo's fun, value-driven modern-Catalan rice and tapas

Three-star elBulli alumni at the creative peak of Spanish gastronomy

Michelin-starred Asian-Spanish tapas behind a Raval bar

Mediterranean food history reimagined by Albert Raurich

Seasonal Franco-Catalan tapas on Rambla del Poblenou

Poblenou's seafood benchmark on a postcard plaza

Albert Adria's 25-course labyrinth, the El Bulli idea reborn

Born's original Basque pintxo bar inside a cultural centre

Where Barcelona's top chefs eat on their night off

Oriol Ivern's quietly inventive modern-Catalan room since 2001

Michelin-starred restaurant-school with an open kitchen of chefs in training

Matsuhisa's robata izakaya across from Santa Caterina market

Hideki Matsuhisa's Michelin-starred Japanese counter

Thirty-year Neapolitan wood-fired pizza institution

Modern Barceloneta rice and seafood kitchen

Inventive Catalan tapas off the upper-Gracia tourist grid

Market-driven Catalan cooking opposite Mercat de la Llibertat

Candlelit wine jewel-box in the old Jewish quarter

Irish-owned brunch-and-cocktails fixture of 20 years

Two-star cooking served at a counter, not a white-tablecloth room

Wine shop, deli and snug restaurant with a local list

Inland 1959 paella house where Barceloneta families eat

El Bulli-trained Catalan cooking on the Rambla del Raval

Belle-epoque grand classic where moneyed Barcelona has dined since 1967

Seasonal Catalan small plates with a coveted garden terrace in Sarria

Venetian cooking by twin brothers below Montjuic

Design-led vegetarian kitchen near the old port