Adresses in Barcelona

Jordi Cruz's three-star flagship in an uptown garden estate

Seasonal vegetarian and vegan cooking with global accents

The Istanbul Anatolian grill, transplanted to the Eixample

Jordi Vila's Catalan cuisine inside the Moritz brewery

Valencian rice mastery in a former textile factory

Tiny Venetian taberna beside the Boqueria

Vintage gastro-cocktail bar with weekend vermut and jazz

Catalan-meets-London fusion with a Bib Gourmand

Wood-fired artisan bakery in the fishermen's quarter

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

The Sant Antoni vermut terrace locals actually claim

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

Barcelona's 1820 absinthe bar, gloriously unchanged

Vinyl-soundtracked family tapas bar since the 1950s

Wild natural wine on tap in the heart of Gracia

Slow-food vermut terrace at the foot of Montjuic

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

Dani Lechuga's meat-obsessed counter bistro

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

Barcelona's oldest cocktail bar, founded 1933

Family wine-warehouse turned Catalan taberna

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

Legendary no-menu seafood counter run on the chef's whim

Half-century Les Corts classic for fish and grills

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

1903 fishermen's tavern, fourth-generation rice house

All-day Raval canteen for brunch, craft beer and house brews

Galician seafood tapas from the Rias de Galicia family

Ten-table owner-run seafood and rice locals' room

Glamour-free family seafood gem by Santa Caterina market since 1981

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

Two-star modern Catalan from Canadian-Catalan chef Jordi Artal

Three Michelin stars in a theatre of open kitchens

Intimate tasting-menu dining on a quiet Gracia corner

Belle-epoque cotton-guild palace turned design hotel

Miquel Pardo's fun, value-driven modern-Catalan rice and tapas

Three-star elBulli alumni at the creative peak of Spanish gastronomy

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

A 19th-century market hall built over excavated 1700s ruins

Tiny, tile-walled coffee counter since 1909

Raval's serious taqueria and mezcaleria, late and loud

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

1929 cava-and-anchovy bar, gloriously unchanged

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

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

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

Where Barcelona's top chefs eat on their night off

In-house roasting and pour-overs on a quiet Born lane

Oriol Ivern's quietly inventive modern-Catalan room since 2001

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

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

Sign-less 1944 tavern, birthplace of the bomba

Modern Barceloneta rice and seafood kitchen

Filmoteca cafe-bar with a vast Raval terrace

Inventive Catalan tapas off the upper-Gracia tourist grid

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

Candlelit wine jewel-box in the old Jewish quarter

Martin Berasategui's three-star Basque temple inside the Monument Hotel

Richard Meier's white-glass temple of contemporary art

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

Two-star cooking served at a counter, not a white-tablecloth room

New-wave vermut bar that helped revive the ritual

Barcelona's specialty-coffee pioneer down a hidden passage

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

Andalusian-Catalan tapas, north-meets-south kitchen

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

Fifth-generation montadito bodega, standing-room only

Inland 1959 paella house where Barceloneta families eat

Specialty espresso and brunch behind a red-striped Eixample canopy

Landmark hall and Nitsa, a DJ Mag Top 100 club

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

Morning bar for specialty coffee and house viennoiserie

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

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

El Bulli-trained Catalan cooking on the Rambla del Raval

Veteran specialty-coffee roaster-café on Viladomat

Design-led vegetarian kitchen near the old port

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

Former dairy turned 1950s-Buenos-Aires tango bar

Belle-epoque grand classic where moneyed Barcelona has dined since 1967

Seasonal Catalan small plates with a coveted garden terrace in Sarria

Venetian cooking by twin brothers below Montjuic