Lugares in Barcelona

The Istanbul Anatolian grill, transplanted to the Eixample

Valencian rice mastery in a former textile factory

Wood-fired artisan bakery in the fishermen's quarter

The Sant Antoni vermut terrace locals actually claim

Family seafood-tapas bar and vermut since 1955

Barcelona's oldest cocktail bar, founded 1933

Born's restored 1852 pastry house

Monastery sweets above medieval baths

Scandi-minimal café at the heart of Sant Antoni

Reborn Gothic classic for honest Catalan cooking

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

Belle-epoque cotton-guild palace turned design hotel

A Born cocktail laboratory of ferments and distillates

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

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

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

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

Filmoteca cafe-bar with a vast Raval terrace

Gracia's neighbourhood vermouth ritual, done properly

Candlelit wine jewel-box in the old Jewish quarter

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

New-wave vermut bar that helped revive the ritual

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

Specialty espresso and brunch behind a red-striped Eixample canopy

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

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

Polished third-wave coffee on Rambla del Poblenou

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

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

Creative-district stay with strong social spaces