Plekken in Barcelona

The Istanbul Anatolian grill, transplanted to the Eixample

Valencian rice mastery in a former textile factory

Tiny Venetian taberna beside the Boqueria

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

Theatrical classic-Spanish bar dining steps off La Rambla

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

Barcelona's oldest cocktail bar, founded 1933

Barceloneta's oldest house, seafood since the 1750s building

Galician seafood tapas from the Rias de Galicia family

Mediterranean food history reimagined by Albert Raurich

A Born cocktail laboratory of ferments and distillates

Poblenou's seafood benchmark on a postcard plaza

Javier de las Muelas's classic uptown cocktail bar since 1982

Matsuhisa's robata izakaya across from Santa Caterina market

Modern Barceloneta rice and seafood kitchen

Inventive Catalan tapas off the upper-Gracia tourist grid

Domenech i Montaner's UNESCO Modernista concert hall

A speakeasy behind a pastrami-shop freezer door, Born

El Bulli-trained Catalan cooking on the Rambla del Raval

Venetian cooking by twin brothers below Montjuic

Creative-district stay with strong social spaces