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

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

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

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

Where Barcelona's top chefs eat on their night off

Dani Lechuga's meat-obsessed counter bistro

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

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

The benchmark all-day tapas bar of the Eixample

Specialty espresso and brunch behind a red-striped Eixample canopy

Pioneering Japanese-Catalan patisserie since 1983

Belle-epoque cotton-guild palace turned design hotel

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

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

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

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

1929 cava-and-anchovy bar, gloriously unchanged

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

Easygoing modern tapas on the Born's Plaça Comercial edge

Born's original Basque pintxo bar inside a cultural centre

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

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

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

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

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

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

Seasonal Catalan small plates with a coveted garden terrace in Sarria

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