Places in Barcelona

The Istanbul Anatolian grill, transplanted to the Eixample

Jordi Vila's Catalan cuisine inside the Moritz brewery

Tiny Venetian taberna beside the Boqueria

Vintage gastro-cocktail bar with weekend vermut and jazz

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

Theatrical classic-Spanish bar dining steps off La Rambla

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

Family seafood-tapas bar and vermut since 1955

Wild natural wine on tap in the heart of Gracia

Slow-food vermut terrace at the foot of Montjuic

Bib Gourmand micro-restaurant where Gracia's best cooking meets natural wine

Barcelona's oldest cocktail bar, founded 1933

Easygoing modern tapas on the Born's Plaça Comercial edge

Born's restored 1852 pastry house

Scandi-minimal café at the heart of Sant Antoni

Reborn Gothic classic for honest Catalan cooking

Vintage family fish bar, plancha and chalkboard prices

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

Candlelit Art Nouveau bodega of cheese, charcuterie and art

Galician seafood tapas from the Rias de Galicia family

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

Intimate tasting-menu dining on a quiet Gracia corner

Belle-epoque cotton-guild palace turned design hotel

Michelin-starred Asian-Spanish tapas behind a Raval bar

Mediterranean food history reimagined by Albert Raurich

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

Barrel-table wine taberna with serious Catalan bottles

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

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

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

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

Candlelit Moorish-mood tapas and cocktail den

Thirty-year Neapolitan wood-fired pizza institution

1912 confectioner's shop, now a vermut and cocktail landmark

Modern Barceloneta rice and seafood kitchen

Filmoteca cafe-bar with a vast Raval terrace

Inventive Catalan tapas off the upper-Gracia tourist grid

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

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

Wine shop, deli and snug restaurant with a local list

Domenech i Montaner's UNESCO Modernista concert hall

Andalusian-Catalan tapas, north-meets-south kitchen

A speakeasy behind a pastrami-shop freezer door, Born

Fifth-generation montadito bodega, standing-room only

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

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

El Bulli-trained Catalan cooking on the Rambla del Raval

Design-led vegetarian kitchen near the old port

Creative-district stay with strong social spaces

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