Plekken in Barcelona

Seasonal vegetarian and vegan cooking with global accents

The Istanbul Anatolian grill, transplanted to the Eixample

Jordi Vila's Catalan cuisine inside the Moritz brewery

Valencian rice mastery in a former textile factory

Tiny Venetian taberna beside the Boqueria

Wood-fired artisan bakery in the fishermen's quarter

Theatrical classic-Spanish bar dining steps off La Rambla

Catalan bar food with a deep, low-intervention wine list

Family seafood-tapas bar and vermut since 1955

Vinyl-soundtracked family tapas bar since the 1950s

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

Dani Lechuga's meat-obsessed counter bistro

Barcelona's oldest cocktail bar, founded 1933

Family wine-warehouse turned Catalan taberna

Easygoing modern tapas on the Born's Plaça Comercial edge

Born's restored 1852 pastry house

Monastery sweets above medieval baths

Scandi-minimal café at the heart of Sant Antoni

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

Half-century Les Corts classic for fish and grills

Vintage family fish bar, plancha and chalkboard prices

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

1903 fishermen's tavern, fourth-generation rice house

All-day Raval canteen for brunch, craft beer and house brews

Galician seafood tapas from the Rias de Galicia family

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

Barcelona's centre for contemporary culture and ideas

The benchmark all-day tapas bar of the Eixample

Three Michelin stars in a theatre of open kitchens

Belle-epoque cotton-guild palace turned design hotel

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

Seasonal Franco-Catalan tapas on Rambla del Poblenou

A 19th-century market hall built over excavated 1700s ruins

Tiny, tile-walled coffee counter since 1909

Narrow 1962 beer-and-griddle bar, house brews and solomillo

Poblenou's seafood benchmark on a postcard plaza

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

Born's original Basque pintxo bar inside a cultural centre

Three-floor Aussie-style brunch with a rooftop

Anna Bellsola's fourth-generation Barceloneta bakery

A foundation devoted to Iberian photography

Miro's own museum on Montjuic, by Josep Lluis Sert

Century-old bodega turned surrealist vermut den

The serious business base of the Les Corts belt

The 1870 granja where Cacaolat was born

In-house roasting and pour-overs on a quiet Born lane

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

A Port Vell waterfront stay where Picasso once worked

Matsuhisa's robata izakaya across from Santa Caterina market

Hideki Matsuhisa's Michelin-starred Japanese counter

Candlelit Moorish-mood tapas and cocktail den

Sign-less 1944 tavern, birthplace of the bomba

Modern Barceloneta rice and seafood kitchen

Filmoteca cafe-bar with a vast Raval terrace

Market-driven Catalan cooking opposite Mercat de la Llibertat

Marble micro-bar on Carrer Blai, wines and creative classics

Gracia's neighbourhood vermouth ritual, done properly

Candlelit wine jewel-box in the old Jewish quarter

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

Richard Meier's white-glass temple of contemporary art

Catalonia's house of contemporary dance on Montjuic

Roman-walled boutique hotel with a cathedral-view roof

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

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

New-wave vermut bar that helped revive the ritual

Barcelona's specialty-coffee pioneer down a hidden passage

Wine shop, deli and snug restaurant with a local list

Domenech i Montaner's UNESCO Modernista concert hall

A speakeasy behind a pastrami-shop freezer door, Born

Catalonia's most-awarded croissants, off the Passeig del Born

Pioneering Japanese-Catalan patisserie since 1983

Fifth-generation montadito bodega, standing-room only

Inland 1959 paella house where Barceloneta families eat

Specialty espresso and brunch behind a red-striped Eixample canopy

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

Morning bar for specialty coffee and house viennoiserie

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

Direct-trade espresso from a 1972 Citroën inside a design studio

El Bulli-trained Catalan cooking on the Rambla del Raval

Polished third-wave coffee on Rambla del Poblenou

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

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

Seasonal Catalan small plates with a coveted garden terrace in Sarria

Venetian cooking by twin brothers below Montjuic

Slow-food vermut terrace at the foot of Montjuic

Calm coffee, matcha and sustainable goods in 22@

Tapies's foundation in a Domenech i Montaner landmark

Roastery and cafe built on slow, transparent specialty coffee

Veteran specialty-coffee roaster-café on Viladomat

Design-led vegetarian kitchen near the old port

Creative-district stay with strong social spaces