Venues similar to El Mesón del Café

Monastery sweets above medieval baths

Barcelona's oldest cocktail bar, founded 1933

Slow-food vermut terrace at the foot of Montjuic

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

Century-old bodega turned surrealist vermut den

Sign-less 1944 tavern, birthplace of the bomba

Family seafood-tapas bar and vermut since 1955

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

Specialty espresso and brunch behind a red-striped Eixample canopy

Barcelona's specialty-coffee pioneer down a hidden passage

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

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

Roastery and cafe built on slow, transparent specialty coffee

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

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

Polished third-wave coffee on Rambla del Poblenou