Places in Barcelona

Vintage gastro-cocktail bar with weekend vermut and jazz

Barcelona's 1820 absinthe bar, gloriously unchanged

Wild natural wine on tap in the heart of Gracia

Easygoing modern tapas on the Born's Plaça Comercial edge

Born's restored 1852 pastry house

Candlelit Art Nouveau bodega of cheese, charcuterie and art

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

Thirty-year Neapolitan wood-fired pizza institution

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

Filmoteca cafe-bar with a vast Raval terrace

Gracia's neighbourhood vermouth ritual, done properly

Candlelit wine jewel-box in the old Jewish quarter

Catalonia's house of contemporary dance on Montjuic

Former dairy turned 1950s-Buenos-Aires tango bar

Tapies's foundation in a Domenech i Montaner landmark

Design-led vegetarian kitchen near the old port