Plekken in Barcelona

The Sant Antoni vermut terrace locals actually claim

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

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

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

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

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

Barrel-table wine taberna with serious Catalan bottles

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

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

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

Filmoteca cafe-bar with a vast Raval terrace

Gracia's neighbourhood vermouth ritual, done properly

Richard Meier's white-glass temple of contemporary art

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

Pioneer Gracia roaster pouring single-origin filter and espresso

Wine shop, deli and snug restaurant with a local list

Specialty espresso and brunch behind a red-striped Eixample canopy

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

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