Venues similar to Mercer Hotel Barcelona

The serious business base of the Les Corts belt

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

A Port Vell waterfront stay where Picasso once worked

Belle-epoque cotton-guild palace turned design hotel

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

Creative-district stay with strong social spaces

Candlelit wine jewel-box in the old Jewish quarter

Monastery sweets above medieval baths

Tiny, tile-walled coffee counter since 1909

Barcelona's oldest cocktail bar, founded 1933

The 1870 granja where Cacaolat was born

Barcelona's 1820 absinthe bar, gloriously unchanged

Three-floor Aussie-style brunch with a rooftop

Fifth-generation montadito bodega, standing-room only

Century-old bodega turned surrealist vermut den

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

1903 fishermen's tavern, fourth-generation rice house

Inland 1959 paella house where Barceloneta families eat

Barceloneta's oldest house, seafood since the 1750s building

Sign-less 1944 tavern, birthplace of the bomba