Venues similar to Balius

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

Gracia's neighbourhood vermouth ritual, done properly

New-wave vermut bar that helped revive the ritual

Retro cocktail-and-wine room off Plaça Sant Just

Filmoteca cafe-bar with a vast Raval terrace

The Sant Antoni vermut terrace locals actually claim

Candlelit Moorish-mood tapas and cocktail den

Marble micro-bar on Carrer Blai, wines and creative classics

Barrel-table wine taberna with serious Catalan bottles

Former dairy turned 1950s-Buenos-Aires tango bar

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

1929 cava-and-anchovy bar, gloriously unchanged

Wild natural wine on tap in the heart of Gracia

Barcelona's 1820 absinthe bar, gloriously unchanged

Fifth-generation montadito bodega, standing-room only