Lugares in Barcelona

Vintage gastro-cocktail bar with weekend vermut and jazz

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

Barcelona's 1820 absinthe bar, gloriously unchanged

Wild natural wine on tap in the heart of Gracia

Easygoing modern tapas on the Born's Plaça Comercial edge

Born's restored 1852 pastry house

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

Seasonal Franco-Catalan tapas on Rambla del Poblenou

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

1929 cava-and-anchovy bar, gloriously unchanged

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

Candlelit Moorish-mood tapas and cocktail den

Thirty-year Neapolitan wood-fired pizza institution

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

Filmoteca cafe-bar with a vast Raval terrace

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

Peruvian-Asian-Mediterranean fusion off Carrer Blai

Catalonia's house of contemporary dance on Montjuic

Wine shop, deli and snug restaurant with a local list

Fifth-generation montadito bodega, standing-room only

Tapies's foundation in a Domenech i Montaner landmark

Design-led vegetarian kitchen near the old port