Στέκια in Barcelona

The Istanbul Anatolian grill, transplanted to the Eixample

Tiny Venetian taberna beside the Boqueria

Vintage gastro-cocktail bar with weekend vermut and jazz

The Sant Antoni vermut terrace locals actually claim

Theatrical classic-Spanish bar dining steps off La Rambla

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

Reborn Gothic classic for honest Catalan cooking

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

Candlelit Art Nouveau bodega of cheese, charcuterie and art

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

Seasonal Franco-Catalan tapas on Rambla del Poblenou

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

Poblenou's seafood benchmark on a postcard plaza

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

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

Retro cocktail-and-wine room off Plaça Sant Just

Century-old bodega turned surrealist vermut den

The serious business base of the Les Corts belt

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

Thirty-year Neapolitan wood-fired pizza institution

Filmoteca cafe-bar with a vast Raval terrace

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

Gracia's neighbourhood vermouth ritual, done properly

Candlelit wine jewel-box in the old Jewish quarter

Peruvian-Asian-Mediterranean fusion off Carrer Blai

Catalonia's house of contemporary dance on Montjuic

Roman-walled boutique hotel with a cathedral-view roof

Domenech i Montaner's UNESCO Modernista concert hall

A speakeasy behind a pastrami-shop freezer door, Born

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

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

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

Former dairy turned 1950s-Buenos-Aires tango bar

Venetian cooking by twin brothers below Montjuic

Slow-food vermut terrace at the foot of Montjuic

Tapies's foundation in a Domenech i Montaner landmark

Andalusian-Catalan tapas, north-meets-south kitchen

Creative-district stay with strong social spaces