Venues similar to Sips

Barcelona's oldest cocktail bar, founded 1933

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

A speakeasy behind a pastrami-shop freezer door, Born

A Born cocktail laboratory of ferments and distillates

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

Michelin-starred restaurant-school with an open kitchen of chefs in training

Creative-district stay with strong social spaces

Belle-epoque cotton-guild palace turned design hotel

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

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

1929 cava-and-anchovy bar, gloriously unchanged

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

Gracia's neighbourhood vermouth ritual, done properly

Wild natural wine on tap in the heart of Gracia

Barcelona's 1820 absinthe bar, gloriously unchanged

Filmoteca cafe-bar with a vast Raval terrace

Vintage gastro-cocktail bar with weekend vermut and jazz

The Sant Antoni vermut terrace locals actually claim

Barrel-table wine taberna with serious Catalan bottles

New-wave vermut bar that helped revive the ritual