Venues similar to El Mesón del Café

The 1870 granja where Cacaolat was born

Monastery sweets above medieval baths

Barcelona's oldest cocktail bar, founded 1933

Slow-food vermut terrace at the foot of Montjuic

Wood-fired artisan bakery in the fishermen's quarter

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

Vinyl-soundtracked family tapas bar since the 1950s

Century-old bodega turned surrealist vermut den

Sign-less 1944 tavern, birthplace of the bomba

Vintage family fish bar, plancha and chalkboard prices

Family seafood-tapas bar and vermut since 1955

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

Specialty espresso and brunch behind a red-striped Eixample canopy

Pioneering Japanese-Catalan patisserie since 1983

Barcelona's specialty-coffee pioneer down a hidden passage

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

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

Roastery and cafe built on slow, transparent specialty coffee

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

Direct-trade espresso from a 1972 Citroën inside a design studio