Locali in Barcelona

The Istanbul Anatolian grill, transplanted to the Eixample

Jordi Vila's Catalan cuisine inside the Moritz brewery

Vintage gastro-cocktail bar with weekend vermut and jazz

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

Barcelona's 1820 absinthe bar, gloriously unchanged

Wild natural wine on tap in the heart of Gracia

Slow-food vermut terrace at the foot of Montjuic

Barcelona's oldest cocktail bar, founded 1933

Easygoing modern tapas on the Born's Plaça Comercial edge

Born's restored 1852 pastry house

Reborn Gothic classic for honest Catalan cooking

Candlelit Art Nouveau bodega of cheese, charcuterie and art

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

Belle-epoque cotton-guild palace turned design hotel

A Born cocktail laboratory of ferments and distillates

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

Barrel-table wine taberna with serious Catalan bottles

Albert Adria's 25-course labyrinth, the El Bulli idea reborn

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

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

Filmoteca cafe-bar with a vast Raval terrace

Gracia's neighbourhood vermouth ritual, done properly

Candlelit wine jewel-box in the old Jewish quarter

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

Domenech i Montaner's UNESCO Modernista concert hall

Andalusian-Catalan tapas, north-meets-south kitchen

A speakeasy behind a pastrami-shop freezer door, Born

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

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

Design-led vegetarian kitchen near the old port

Creative-district stay with strong social spaces

A 22-room adults-only hideaway down a Gothic alley

Former dairy turned 1950s-Buenos-Aires tango bar