Adresses in Barcelona

Vintage gastro-cocktail bar with weekend vermut and jazz

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

Barcelona's 1820 absinthe bar, gloriously unchanged

Wild natural wine on tap in the heart of Gracia

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

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

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

Barrel-table wine taberna with serious Catalan bottles

Anna Bellsola's fourth-generation Barceloneta bakery

Miro's own museum on Montjuic, by Josep Lluis Sert

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

Candlelit Moorish-mood tapas and cocktail den

Filmoteca cafe-bar with a vast Raval terrace

Gracia's neighbourhood vermouth ritual, done properly

Candlelit wine jewel-box in the old Jewish quarter

Richard Meier's white-glass temple of contemporary art

Catalonia's house of contemporary dance on Montjuic

Wine shop, deli and snug restaurant with a local list

Catalonia's most-awarded croissants, off the Passeig del Born

Fifth-generation montadito bodega, standing-room only

Tapies's foundation in a Domenech i Montaner landmark

Roastery and cafe built on slow, transparent specialty coffee

Veteran specialty-coffee roaster-café on Viladomat

Design-led vegetarian kitchen near the old port