Venues similar to La Alcoba Azul

Retro cocktail-and-wine room off Plaça Sant Just

A Born cocktail laboratory of ferments and distillates

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

Barcelona's 1820 absinthe bar, gloriously unchanged

Vintage gastro-cocktail bar with weekend vermut and jazz

Barrel-table wine taberna with serious Catalan bottles

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

Former dairy turned 1950s-Buenos-Aires tango bar

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

A speakeasy behind a pastrami-shop freezer door, Born

1929 cava-and-anchovy bar, gloriously unchanged

Barcelona's oldest cocktail bar, founded 1933

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

Javier de las Muelas's classic uptown cocktail bar since 1982

Seasonal Franco-Catalan tapas on Rambla del Poblenou

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

Gracia's neighbourhood vermouth ritual, done properly

Wild natural wine on tap in the heart of Gracia

Tiny Venetian taberna beside the Boqueria

Filmoteca cafe-bar with a vast Raval terrace