Στέκια in Barcelona

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

Family wine-warehouse turned Catalan taberna

Easygoing modern tapas on the Born's Plaça Comercial edge

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

All-day Raval canteen for brunch, craft beer and house brews

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

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

Born's original Basque pintxo bar inside a cultural centre

Three-floor Aussie-style brunch with a rooftop

Anna Bellsola's fourth-generation Barceloneta bakery

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

In-house roasting and pour-overs on a quiet Born lane

Candlelit Moorish-mood tapas and cocktail den

Filmoteca cafe-bar with a vast Raval terrace

Gracia's neighbourhood vermouth ritual, done properly

Catalonia's house of contemporary dance on Montjuic

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

New-wave vermut bar that helped revive the ritual

Barcelona's specialty-coffee pioneer down a hidden passage

Wine shop, deli and snug restaurant with a local list

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

Fifth-generation montadito bodega, standing-room only

Specialty espresso and brunch behind a red-striped Eixample canopy

The Gothic-quarter cafe that kicked off the city's coffee wave

Morning bar for specialty coffee and house viennoiserie

Direct-trade espresso from a 1972 Citroën inside a design studio

Polished third-wave coffee on Rambla del Poblenou

Calm coffee, matcha and sustainable goods in 22@

Tapies's foundation in a Domenech i Montaner landmark

Roastery and cafe built on slow, transparent specialty coffee

Veteran specialty-coffee roaster-café on Viladomat

Design-led vegetarian kitchen near the old port