Venues similar to Bardeni - El Meatbar

Venetian cooking by twin brothers below Montjuic

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

Theatrical classic-Spanish bar dining steps off La Rambla

Where Barcelona's top chefs eat on their night off

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

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

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

Intimate tasting-menu dining on a quiet Gracia corner

Inventive Catalan tapas off the upper-Gracia tourist grid

Tiny Venetian taberna beside the Boqueria

Michelin-starred Asian-Spanish tapas behind a Raval bar

Peruvian-Asian-Mediterranean fusion off Carrer Blai

Jordi Vila's Catalan cuisine inside the Moritz brewery

Hideki Matsuhisa's Michelin-starred Japanese counter

The Istanbul Anatolian grill, transplanted to the Eixample

Michelin-starred restaurant-school with an open kitchen of chefs in training

Seasonal Catalan small plates with a coveted garden terrace in Sarria

El Bulli-trained Catalan cooking on the Rambla del Raval

Mediterranean food history reimagined by Albert Raurich

Poblenou's seafood benchmark on a postcard plaza