Venues similar to Gresca

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

Dani Lechuga's meat-obsessed counter bistro

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

Inventive Catalan tapas off the upper-Gracia tourist grid

Tiny Venetian taberna beside the Boqueria

Venetian cooking by twin brothers below Montjuic

The Istanbul Anatolian grill, transplanted to the Eixample

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

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

Seasonal Catalan small plates with a coveted garden terrace in Sarria

Theatrical classic-Spanish bar dining steps off La Rambla

Mediterranean food history reimagined by Albert Raurich

Poblenou's seafood benchmark on a postcard plaza

Catalan-meets-London fusion with a Bib Gourmand

Valencian rice mastery in a former textile factory

Half-century Les Corts classic for fish and grills