Lokale in Barcelona

The Istanbul Anatolian grill, transplanted to the Eixample

Valencian rice mastery in a former textile factory

Vintage gastro-cocktail bar with weekend vermut and jazz

Wood-fired artisan bakery in the fishermen's quarter

The Sant Antoni vermut terrace locals actually claim

Family seafood-tapas bar and vermut since 1955

Barcelona's 1820 absinthe bar, gloriously unchanged

Wild natural wine on tap in the heart of Gracia

Barcelona's oldest cocktail bar, founded 1933

Born's restored 1852 pastry house

Monastery sweets above medieval baths

Scandi-minimal café at the heart of Sant Antoni

Reborn Gothic classic for honest Catalan cooking

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

Barcelona's centre for contemporary culture and ideas

The benchmark all-day tapas bar of the Eixample

Belle-epoque cotton-guild palace turned design hotel

A Born cocktail laboratory of ferments and distillates

A 19th-century market hall built over excavated 1700s ruins

Tiny, tile-walled coffee counter since 1909

Narrow 1962 beer-and-griddle bar, house brews and solomillo

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

Anna Bellsola's fourth-generation Barceloneta bakery

A foundation devoted to Iberian photography

Miro's own museum on Montjuic, by Josep Lluis Sert

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

Century-old bodega turned surrealist vermut den

The serious business base of the Les Corts belt

The 1870 granja where Cacaolat was born

A Port Vell waterfront stay where Picasso once worked

Matsuhisa's robata izakaya across from Santa Caterina market

Hideki Matsuhisa's Michelin-starred Japanese counter

Candlelit Moorish-mood tapas and cocktail den

Filmoteca cafe-bar with a vast Raval terrace

Gracia's neighbourhood vermouth ritual, done properly

Candlelit wine jewel-box in the old Jewish quarter

Richard Meier's white-glass temple of contemporary art

Catalonia's house of contemporary dance on Montjuic

Roman-walled boutique hotel with a cathedral-view roof

New-wave vermut bar that helped revive the ritual

Wine shop, deli and snug restaurant with a local list

Domenech i Montaner's UNESCO Modernista concert hall

A speakeasy behind a pastrami-shop freezer door, Born

Catalonia's most-awarded croissants, off the Passeig del Born

Fifth-generation montadito bodega, standing-room only

Baranowitz+Kronenberg-designed hotel a step off Passeig de Gracia

A 22-room adults-only hideaway down a Gothic alley

Slow-food vermut terrace at the foot of Montjuic

Plant shop, gallery and Nomad-coffee cafe in one raw warehouse

Tapies's foundation in a Domenech i Montaner landmark

Pioneer Gracia roaster pouring single-origin filter and espresso

Roastery and cafe built on slow, transparent specialty coffee

Veteran specialty-coffee roaster-café on Viladomat

Creative-district stay with strong social spaces