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The Escribà family’s Bogatell-beach paella house, cooking over wood fires since 1992.
Restaurants in Barcelona – from local tapas joints to fine dining, curated by people who actually live here.

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

Two Gràcia sushi restaurants trading tradition for inventive fusion rolls.

This supermod tortillería hasn’t changed much in five decades.

The Raffaelli family’s Tuscan trattoria in Gràcia – handmade pasta, Lucca recipes.

This family-run restaurant has set itself up as a jewel in the Barcelona curry scene.

If you’re looking for a place to try some top-quality seafood, then check out Camping Mar.

Take a journey to Ethiopia without leaving Barcelona.

Ocean-fresh, seasonal seafood takes center stage at Lluritu. More than that, they want, by their own admission, to “make seafood sexy.”

Market-fresh Mediterranean food is their game, but Asian influences assert themselves too.

Try an arancini, fried rice balls stuffed with beef, mushrooms, Iberian ham or prawns.

This gastrobar offering Catalan dishes with a genuine Lebanese touch.

Step inside it feels like traveling through time to Spain’s glory days.

Head to Chi Nanit for Shanghai-style Chinese food from the same people that owned the popular Nanit on Balmes.

An Argentinean steakhouse importing Black Angus, Nebraska beef and New Zealand lamb.

Homemade food, great music, local beers and what they bill as “the best terrace of the @22 district.”

Market-cuisine tapas named for the great-grandmother whose cooking started it.

The tacos, micheladas and margaritas leave no doubt this is a Mexican must.

Sant Antoni’s newest addition to the thriving Thai restaurant scene.

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

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

Vegan restaurant Fat Veggies serves up barbecue and smoked vegetables.

A Venezuelan-run gastrobar on Carrer Riego, one of the reasons Sants is rising.

Meat ordered by weight in the Alexandra hotel, with a bar for Iberian cold cuts.

After opening their first location in Madrid, elBulli alumni Nino Redruello and Patxi Zumárraga decided to open their second location in Barcelona.

This Barceloneta restaurant, founded in 1921, specializes in seafood.

A restaurant serving up recipes from the North West of Spain.

A contender for the best ramen shop in Barcelona has cropped up in the unlikely neighborhood of Sants.

Down towards Barceloneta’s beach, you’ll come across a place that serves what is arguably the best paella in the city: La Mar Salada.

A gastronomic oasis in an otherwise bleak desert of tourist traps.

Five generations have been providing the neighborhood with traditional fare.