Plekken in Barcelona

Vintage gastro-cocktail bar with weekend vermut and jazz

Barcelona's 1820 absinthe bar, gloriously unchanged

Easygoing modern tapas on the Born's Plaça Comercial edge

Born's restored 1852 pastry house

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

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

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

Retro cocktail-and-wine room off Plaça Sant Just

Candlelit Moorish-mood tapas and cocktail den

1912 confectioner's shop, now a vermut and cocktail landmark

Catalonia's house of contemporary dance on Montjuic

Landmark hall and Nitsa, a DJ Mag Top 100 club

Tapies's foundation in a Domenech i Montaner landmark

Andalusian-Catalan tapas, north-meets-south kitchen