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A matcha-obsessed Eixample café sourcing first-harvest ceremonial powder from Japan, stone-ground to order – with proper coffee alongside.
The best restaurants, bars and cafes in Barcelona – tapas, brunch, natural wine, craft beer and everything in between. Curated by locals.

A matcha-obsessed Eixample café sourcing first-harvest ceremonial powder from Japan, stone-ground to order – with proper coffee alongside.

A creative Japanese-inspired café blending coffee, design and food in Poblenou.

The Escribà family’s Bogatell-beach paella house, cooking over wood fires since 1992.

A tiny, fiercely authentic Thai kitchen in Les Corts, packed with homesick regulars.

Fellow Italophiles rejoice – we can now enjoy authentic sourdough pizzas right here in Barcelona.

The lesser-known world of ferments is positioned center stage by this food shop.

Single-source beans are freshly roasted on-site and expertly ground to craft espresso, Aeropress, V60 and Chemex-based beauties.

If you’re a lover of Italian cuisine, you’re in for a treat at Isabella’s.

Barcelona’s first completely egg-based brunch spot – inventive eggs from benedicts to scrambles to bowls, with serious specialty coffee to match.

The newest wine bar in town, head to Bocanariz and indulge in some of the best wines of the region and abroad.

Spain’s first fully plant-based Mexican eatery.

Enjoy good food with a local feel at Santamasa in Sarrià.

Four spaces in one, including the new D.F. Mexican restaurant.

The tapas are prepared raw, marinated, grilled or lightly blow-torched.

Steps away from Santa Maria del Mar sits this gem of a café.

Have your seafood grilled or fried up, Andalucía-style – you pay according to the weight of the product.

An elegant café with proper patisserie and a French-Catalan-Argentine streak, one of the center’s prettiest coffee stops.

A Pluma is what happens when a trained chef takes on the humble concept of rotisserie chicken.

This Mexican restaurant offers “good food, good drinks and good reads.”

A family-run Barceloneta paella house since 1968, with a terrace on the beach.

Barcelona’s newest dessert shop, Jon Cake, serves up artisan cheesecakes to die for.

Melissa’s wine studio – tastings, bottles and subscription boxes from €39.

This takeout and delivery-only pizzeria makes Roman-style gourmet pizza at fast food prices.

Barcelona’s legendary cava and tapas bar.

A classic Catalan seafood restaurant in La Barceloneta.

The newest and most beautiful café-cum-brunch place to hit the Eixample.

Tapas at La Ravala are homemade daily and can be found traditionally displayed in a glass case on top of the bar.

Head to Barceloneta beach with a takeaway bowl or smoothie packed with protein and superfoods.

Costa Pacífico brings Mexican varieties of ceviche to Barcelona, plus other national favorites that aren’t so well-known here.

This restaurant pays tribute to fishermens’ favorite tapas.