Venues similar to El Pachuco

Miquel Pardo's fun, value-driven modern-Catalan rice and tapas

The benchmark all-day tapas bar of the Eixample

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Market-driven Catalan cooking opposite Mercat de la Llibertat

Barcelona's 1820 absinthe bar, gloriously unchanged

Seasonal vegetarian and vegan cooking with global accents

Candlelit Art Nouveau bodega of cheese, charcuterie and art

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Candlelit wine jewel-box in the old Jewish quarter

Wine shop, deli and snug restaurant with a local list

Reborn Gothic classic for honest Catalan cooking

Irish-owned brunch-and-cocktails fixture of 20 years

Family wine-warehouse turned Catalan taberna

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Thirty-year Neapolitan wood-fired pizza institution

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El Bulli-trained Catalan cooking on the Rambla del Raval