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Big Bang Bar
Big Bang Bar has long been a mecca for local musicians and traveling tunesmiths looking to share music on an intimate stage.
Barcelona nightlife at its best – the bars, clubs, parties and late nights that make this city unforgettable.

Big Bang Bar has long been a mecca for local musicians and traveling tunesmiths looking to share music on an intimate stage.

This hidden cocktail bar in Gràcia offers coffee in the morning, vermouth in the afternoon and a killer cocktail by night.

Paradiso serves up unusual and creative cocktails.

This self-dubbed “cocktail bar and book collection” is the latest gem to appear in Les Corts.

A gallery, bar and rooftop on top of Raima, Europe’s largest paper shop.

The order of the night is techno.

Casa Bonay’s space has been designed with the assistance of audiophiles Amit and Aneesh Patel, owners of London bar Brilliant Corners.

Good music, strong cocktails and lots of locals at this Raval dive bar.

Electronic beats are eschewed in favor of funk, disco, soul and Afrobeat rhythms.

Founded by Javier de las Muelas, Gimlet was the first of what is now a global empire of cocktail bars.

A central rooftop that books real DJs instead of a house playlist, May to October.

Casa Bonay’s hotel bar hosts DJs from Thursday thru Saturday.

This “five-star dive bar” is the result of Moe and AJ’s dedication and love for cocktail shaking.

Merchant of some the finest hop-derived beverages in the world.

A tiny Raval cocktail bar with no menu – tell Javier and Eduard what you like.

Named for the 17°C wine is best served at – Catalan bottles by the glass, in Born.

This charmingly grimy Raval bar is famous for its absinthe, and said to be Barcelona’s oldest.

One of Barcelona’s most exciting craft beer utopias.

This UK-style brewery is one of Barcelona’s most central stops for quality brews.

You’ll find one of Barcelona’s best music venues in the basement of a Greek restaurant.

A brewery and a beautiful bar where you can quaff your way through the Belgian-Catalan inspired brews.

This tiny nightclub packs a mighty electronic punch.

Cannabis clubs are proliferating as readily as the weed itself.

Urban art, a soul kitchen plus live concerts and DJs.

They serve no less than 10 versions of the much-loved drink.

The space is an embodiment of the founders’ passion for American craft beer and food.

The Barcelona Edition hotel was designed by the world’s hottest hotelier Ian Schrager (of Studio 54 fame) and Barcelona tastemaker Lázaro Rosa-Violán.

The Barceló Raval’s 360° rooftop – pool, loungers and a full turn of the city, over a lounge doing Mediterranean tapas below.

This expat-owned bar sits in part of a 450-year-old Modernist palace.

This tiny cocktail bar was inspired by the American tradition of Kentucky bourbon and rye whiskey.