Plekken in Barcelona

Seasonal vegetarian and vegan cooking with global accents

The Istanbul Anatolian grill, transplanted to the Eixample

Valencian rice mastery in a former textile factory

Tiny Venetian taberna beside the Boqueria

Catalan-meets-London fusion with a Bib Gourmand

Wood-fired artisan bakery in the fishermen's quarter

The Sant Antoni vermut terrace locals actually claim

Theatrical classic-Spanish bar dining steps off La Rambla

Family seafood-tapas bar and vermut since 1955

Vinyl-soundtracked family tapas bar since the 1950s

Sarria's no-nonsense temple to the city's best patatas bravas

Dani Lechuga's meat-obsessed counter bistro

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

Barcelona's oldest cocktail bar, founded 1933

Family wine-warehouse turned Catalan taberna

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

Legendary no-menu seafood counter run on the chef's whim

Half-century Les Corts classic for fish and grills

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

1903 fishermen's tavern, fourth-generation rice house

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

Barcelona's centre for contemporary culture and ideas

The benchmark all-day tapas bar of the Eixample

Belle-epoque cotton-guild palace turned design hotel

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

Mediterranean food history reimagined by Albert Raurich

Seasonal Franco-Catalan tapas on Rambla del Poblenou

A 19th-century market hall built over excavated 1700s ruins

Tiny, tile-walled coffee counter since 1909

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

Poblenou's seafood benchmark on a postcard plaza

Albert Adria's 25-course labyrinth, the El Bulli idea reborn

Born's original Basque pintxo bar inside a cultural centre

Anna Bellsola's fourth-generation Barceloneta bakery

A foundation devoted to Iberian photography

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

Century-old bodega turned surrealist vermut den

The serious business base of the Les Corts belt

Where Barcelona's top chefs eat on their night off

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

A Port Vell waterfront stay where Picasso once worked

Matsuhisa's robata izakaya across from Santa Caterina market

Hideki Matsuhisa's Michelin-starred Japanese counter

Candlelit Moorish-mood tapas and cocktail den

Thirty-year Neapolitan wood-fired pizza institution

Modern Barceloneta rice and seafood kitchen

Filmoteca cafe-bar with a vast Raval terrace

Inventive Catalan tapas off the upper-Gracia tourist grid

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

Catalonia's house of contemporary dance on Montjuic

Roman-walled boutique hotel with a cathedral-view roof

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

Two-star cooking served at a counter, not a white-tablecloth room

New-wave vermut bar that helped revive the ritual

Wine shop, deli and snug restaurant with a local list

Domenech i Montaner's UNESCO Modernista concert hall

A speakeasy behind a pastrami-shop freezer door, Born

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

Inland 1959 paella house where Barceloneta families eat

Specialty espresso and brunch behind a red-striped Eixample canopy

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

Baranowitz+Kronenberg-designed hotel a step off Passeig de Gracia

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

Polished third-wave coffee on Rambla del Poblenou

A 22-room adults-only hideaway down a Gothic alley

Belle-epoque grand classic where moneyed Barcelona has dined since 1967

Seasonal Catalan small plates with a coveted garden terrace in Sarria

Venetian cooking by twin brothers below Montjuic

Slow-food vermut terrace at the foot of Montjuic

Calm coffee, matcha and sustainable goods in 22@

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

Tapies's foundation in a Domenech i Montaner landmark

Pioneer Gracia roaster pouring single-origin filter and espresso

Andalusian-Catalan tapas, north-meets-south kitchen

Roastery and cafe built on slow, transparent specialty coffee

Veteran specialty-coffee roaster-café on Viladomat

Creative-district stay with strong social spaces