Lokale in Barcelona

The Istanbul Anatolian grill, transplanted to the Eixample

Valencian rice mastery in a former textile factory

Tiny Venetian taberna beside the Boqueria

Catalan-meets-London fusion with a Bib Gourmand

Born's natural-wine cult bar behind the Can Cisa cellar

Theatrical classic-Spanish bar dining steps off La Rambla

Dani Lechuga's meat-obsessed counter bistro

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

Barcelona's oldest cocktail bar, founded 1933

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

Half-century Les Corts classic for fish and grills

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

Intimate tasting-menu dining on a quiet Gracia corner

Mediterranean food history reimagined by Albert Raurich

A Born cocktail laboratory of ferments and distillates

Poblenou's seafood benchmark on a postcard plaza

Javier de las Muelas's classic uptown cocktail bar since 1982

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

Modern Barceloneta rice and seafood kitchen

Inventive Catalan tapas off the upper-Gracia tourist grid

Domenech i Montaner's UNESCO Modernista concert hall

A speakeasy behind a pastrami-shop freezer door, Born

Inland 1959 paella house where Barceloneta families eat

World's-best-ranked cocktail bar with an open-kitchen drinks counter

El Bulli-trained Catalan cooking on the Rambla del Raval

Creative-district stay with strong social spaces

Seasonal Catalan small plates with a coveted garden terrace in Sarria

Venetian cooking by twin brothers below Montjuic