Venues similar to Cotton House Hotel

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

Creative-district stay with strong social spaces

Roman-walled boutique hotel with a cathedral-view roof

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

A Port Vell waterfront stay where Picasso once worked

Three-floor Aussie-style brunch with a rooftop

The serious business base of the Les Corts belt

A speakeasy behind a pastrami-shop freezer door, Born

World's-best-ranked cocktail bar with an open-kitchen drinks counter

Three-star elBulli alumni at the creative peak of Spanish gastronomy

Martin Berasategui's three-star Basque temple inside the Monument Hotel

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

Two-star modern Catalan from Canadian-Catalan chef Jordi Artal

1929 cava-and-anchovy bar, gloriously unchanged

Roastery and cafe built on slow, transparent specialty coffee

Design-led vegetarian kitchen near the old port

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

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

Born's restored 1852 pastry house

Jordi Cruz's three-star flagship in an uptown garden estate