Στέκια in El Born

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

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

Easygoing modern tapas on the Born's Plaça Comercial edge

Born's restored 1852 pastry house

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

Glamour-free family seafood gem by Santa Caterina market since 1981

A Born cocktail laboratory of ferments and distillates

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

1929 cava-and-anchovy bar, gloriously unchanged

Born's original Basque pintxo bar inside a cultural centre

A foundation devoted to Iberian photography

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

Matsuhisa's robata izakaya across from Santa Caterina market

Barcelona's specialty-coffee pioneer down a hidden passage

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