I migliori ristoranti di Barcelona

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

Where Barcelona's top chefs eat on their night off

Dani Lechuga's meat-obsessed counter bistro

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

The benchmark all-day tapas bar of the Eixample

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

Glamour-free family seafood gem by Santa Caterina market since 1981

Easygoing modern tapas on the Born's Plaça Comercial edge

Born's original Basque pintxo bar inside a cultural centre

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

Belle-epoque grand classic where moneyed Barcelona has dined since 1967

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

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

Seasonal Catalan small plates with a coveted garden terrace in Sarria

Sarria's no-nonsense temple to the city's best patatas bravas

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

Market-driven Catalan cooking opposite Mercat de la Llibertat

Intimate tasting-menu dining on a quiet Gracia corner

Inventive Catalan tapas off the upper-Gracia tourist grid

El Bulli-trained Catalan cooking on the Rambla del Raval

Michelin-starred Asian-Spanish tapas behind a Raval bar

Theatrical classic-Spanish bar dining steps off La Rambla

Mediterranean food history reimagined by Albert Raurich

Tiny Venetian taberna beside the Boqueria

Poblenou's seafood benchmark on a postcard plaza

Seasonal vegetarian and vegan cooking with global accents

Candlelit Art Nouveau bodega of cheese, charcuterie and art

Seasonal Franco-Catalan tapas on Rambla del Poblenou

Vinyl-soundtracked family tapas bar since the 1950s

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

Three Michelin stars in a theatre of open kitchens

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

Family wine-warehouse turned Catalan taberna

Peruvian-Asian-Mediterranean fusion off Carrer Blai

Venetian cooking by twin brothers below Montjuic

Galician seafood tapas from the Rias de Galicia family

Thirty-year Neapolitan wood-fired pizza institution

1903 fishermen's tavern, fourth-generation rice house

Modern Barceloneta rice and seafood kitchen

Inland 1959 paella house where Barceloneta families eat

Ten-table owner-run seafood and rice locals' room

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

Vintage family fish bar, plancha and chalkboard prices

Design-led vegetarian kitchen near the old port

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

Jordi Vila's Catalan cuisine inside the Moritz brewery

Hideki Matsuhisa's Michelin-starred Japanese counter

Matsuhisa's robata izakaya across from Santa Caterina market

Raval's serious taqueria and mezcaleria, late and loud

The Istanbul Anatolian grill, transplanted to the Eixample