Places in Barcelona

The Istanbul Anatolian grill, transplanted to the Eixample

Vintage gastro-cocktail bar with weekend vermut and jazz

Barcelona's 1820 absinthe bar, gloriously unchanged

Barcelona's oldest cocktail bar, founded 1933

Easygoing modern tapas on the Born's Plaça Comercial edge

Born's restored 1852 pastry house

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

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

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

Landmark hall and Nitsa, a DJ Mag Top 100 club

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

Slow-food vermut terrace at the foot of Montjuic

Tapies's foundation in a Domenech i Montaner landmark

Creative-district stay with strong social spaces