Venues similar to La Monroe

Gracia's neighbourhood vermouth ritual, done properly

The Sant Antoni vermut terrace locals actually claim

Marble micro-bar on Carrer Blai, wines and creative classics

1912 confectioner's shop, now a vermut and cocktail landmark

Barcelona's 1820 absinthe bar, gloriously unchanged

Vintage gastro-cocktail bar with weekend vermut and jazz

New-wave vermut bar that helped revive the ritual

Catalan bar food with a deep, low-intervention wine list

1929 cava-and-anchovy bar, gloriously unchanged

Wild natural wine on tap in the heart of Gracia

Richard Meier's white-glass temple of contemporary art

Barrel-table wine taberna with serious Catalan bottles

Retro cocktail-and-wine room off Plaça Sant Just

Candlelit Moorish-mood tapas and cocktail den

Fifth-generation montadito bodega, standing-room only

Former dairy turned 1950s-Buenos-Aires tango bar

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