Plekken in Barcelona

Seasonal vegetarian and vegan cooking with global accents

Vintage gastro-cocktail bar with weekend vermut and jazz

The Sant Antoni vermut terrace locals actually claim

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

Barcelona's 1820 absinthe bar, gloriously unchanged

Vinyl-soundtracked family tapas bar since the 1950s

Wild natural wine on tap in the heart of Gracia

Family wine-warehouse turned Catalan taberna

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

Candlelit Art Nouveau bodega of cheese, charcuterie and art

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

Ten-table owner-run seafood and rice locals' room

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

Calm coffee, matcha and sustainable goods in 22@

Barcelona's centre for contemporary culture and ideas

The benchmark all-day tapas bar of the Eixample

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

Seasonal Franco-Catalan tapas on Rambla del Poblenou

Raval's serious taqueria and mezcaleria, late and loud

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

1929 cava-and-anchovy bar, gloriously unchanged

Barrel-table wine taberna with serious Catalan bottles

Plant shop, gallery and Nomad-coffee cafe in one raw warehouse

Born's original Basque pintxo bar inside a cultural centre

Three-floor Aussie-style brunch with a rooftop

Anna Bellsola's fourth-generation Barceloneta bakery

Tapies's foundation in a Domenech i Montaner landmark

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

Retro cocktail-and-wine room off Plaça Sant Just

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

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

Market-driven Catalan cooking opposite Mercat de la Llibertat

Marble micro-bar on Carrer Blai, wines and creative classics

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

Peruvian-Asian-Mediterranean fusion off Carrer Blai

Catalonia's house of contemporary dance on Montjuic

Irish-owned brunch-and-cocktails fixture of 20 years

New-wave vermut bar that helped revive the ritual

Barcelona's specialty-coffee pioneer down a hidden passage

Pioneer Gracia roaster pouring single-origin filter and espresso

Wine shop, deli and snug restaurant with a local list

Andalusian-Catalan tapas, north-meets-south kitchen

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

Pioneering Japanese-Catalan patisserie since 1983

Fifth-generation montadito bodega, standing-room only

Specialty espresso and brunch behind a red-striped Eixample canopy

Landmark hall and Nitsa, a DJ Mag Top 100 club

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

Morning bar for specialty coffee and house viennoiserie

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

Roastery and cafe built on slow, transparent specialty coffee

Veteran specialty-coffee roaster-café on Viladomat

Design-led vegetarian kitchen near the old port

Polished third-wave coffee on Rambla del Poblenou

Former dairy turned 1950s-Buenos-Aires tango bar