Στέκια in Barcelona

The Istanbul Anatolian grill, transplanted to the Eixample

Jordi Vila's Catalan cuisine inside the Moritz brewery

Wood-fired artisan bakery in the fishermen's quarter

The Sant Antoni vermut terrace locals actually claim

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

Family seafood-tapas bar and vermut since 1955

Slow-food vermut terrace at the foot of Montjuic

Sarria's no-nonsense temple to the city's best patatas bravas

Barcelona's oldest cocktail bar, founded 1933

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

Calm coffee, matcha and sustainable goods in 22@

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

1929 cava-and-anchovy bar, gloriously unchanged

Barrel-table wine taberna with serious Catalan bottles

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

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

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

A foundation devoted to Iberian photography

Tapies's foundation in a Domenech i Montaner landmark

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

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

Market-driven Catalan cooking opposite Mercat de la Llibertat

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

Gracia's neighbourhood vermouth ritual, done properly

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

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

New-wave vermut bar that helped revive the ritual

Pioneer Gracia roaster pouring single-origin filter and espresso

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

Pioneering Japanese-Catalan patisserie since 1983

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

Morning bar for specialty coffee and house viennoiserie

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

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

Roastery and cafe built on slow, transparent specialty coffee

Veteran specialty-coffee roaster-café on Viladomat

Creative-district stay with strong social spaces

Polished third-wave coffee on Rambla del Poblenou

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