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

Theatrical classic-Spanish bar dining steps off La Rambla

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

Poblenou's seafood benchmark on a postcard plaza

Where Barcelona's top chefs eat on their night off

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

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

Matsuhisa's robata izakaya across from Santa Caterina market

Modern Barceloneta rice and seafood kitchen

Domenech i Montaner's UNESCO Modernista concert hall

A speakeasy behind a pastrami-shop freezer door, Born

Inland 1959 paella house where Barceloneta families eat

El Bulli-trained Catalan cooking on the Rambla del Raval

Venetian cooking by twin brothers below Montjuic

Creative-district stay with strong social spaces