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Bonsai
A matcha-obsessed Eixample café sourcing first-harvest ceremonial powder from Japan, stone-ground to order – with proper coffee alongside.
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The best restaurants, bars and cafes in Barcelona – tapas, brunch, natural wine, craft beer and everything in between. Curated by locals.
Barcelona
food & drink
The best restaurants, bars and cafes in Barcelona – tapas, brunch, natural wine, craft beer and everything in between. Curated by locals.
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Xiringuito Escribà
The Escribà family’s Bogatell-beach paella house, cooking over wood fires since 1992.
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Apluma
A Pluma is what happens when a trained chef takes on the humble concept of rotisserie chicken.
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Boa-Bao
Boa-Bao takes diners on a culinary journey through flavors of Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines and beyond.
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Bristol Café
An elegant café with proper patisserie and a French-Catalan-Argentine streak, one of the center’s prettiest coffee stops.
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Buenos Aires
An Argentinean steakhouse importing Black Angus, Nebraska beef and New Zealand lamb.
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Camping Mar
If you’re looking for a place to try some top-quality seafood, then check out Camping Mar.
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Can Recasens
Five generations have been providing the neighborhood with traditional fare.
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Chivuo’s
They have gained a following for their “slow” street food and craft beer.
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El Chiringuito de Casa Bonay
A plant-filled terrace on the roof of Casa Bonay, trading panoramic drama for a beach-bar mood and Istanbul-inspired sharing plates.
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El Filete Ruso
Thank (or blame) these guys for kicking off Barcelona’s gourmet burger boom.
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Garage Bar
The creators of the Vella Terra food and wine fair founded this wine bar to celebrate excellent natural wines and natural, artisanal foods.
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La Dentellière
This French-owned restaurant is perfect for romantic meals, group celebrations and those times when you need somewhere “nice but affordable.”
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La Europea
This bodega doubles as a café with familiar favorites with a twist, or from further afield.
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Les Truites
A tortilla institution since 1978 with 180 varieties, now on Viladomat.
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Lluritu
Ocean-fresh, seasonal seafood takes center stage at Lluritu. More than that, they want, by their own admission, to “make seafood sexy.”
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Makamaka
Burgers and cocktails meet surf decor on a big terrace near Barceloneta beach.
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Mog
A Goan tapas bar where Indian spice meets Barcelona’s sharing-plate habit.
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NAP Antic
“Neapolitan Authentic Pizza”: thin-crust, doughy delights cooked in proper wood-fired ovens.
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Raó
Locally sourced and seasonal products are favored to create modern delights that are based on a selection of Mediterranean and traditional local dishes.
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Ripa Coffee
A hugely popular Eixample microroastery – it roasts what it pours, from rotating single origins to flat whites and cult cinnamon rolls.
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Taquerías Tamarindo
Serving up some of the city’s best tacos.
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A Casa Portuguesa
A little corner of Portugal in Gràcia – cheeses, patés, wines, port and Ginjinha to carry off with a pastel de nata. Or two.
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Azimuth
Perched atop the glitzy Almanac – a five-star rooftop built for Manhattans by the pool and sunsets that flatter everyone in them.
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Bar Brutal
A Born natural-wine institution – Can Cisa’s Bar Brutal pours biodynamic, sulphite-free bottles alongside sharing plates to a clued-in crowd.
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Bar Cañete
Step inside it feels like traveling through time to Spain’s glory days.
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Bembi
Bembi serves regional Indian dishes with house-ground spices in the Eixample.
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Can Codina
Long one of Gràcia’s stalwarts, this “old man” bar has been brought up-to-date by the founders’ grandkids.
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Can Luc
Artisanal European cheeses as well as quality crackers, jams, mustards and more.
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Cheriff
A Barceloneta seafood house since 1959, newly refreshed – the paella the regulars swear by.