Still the best of the various café terraces now sitting on the edges of the quiet, traffic-free Plaça Vicenç Martorell, Kasparo serves tapas, bocadillos, salads and a varying...

A peerless spot for alfresco seaside dining, with tiered wooden decking and ancient olive trees. Bestial's dining room is also a stylish affair, with black-clad waiters...

It claims to serve the best patatas bravas in Barcelona, but really we love Bo for its terrace on one of Gràcia's most lively and emblematic squares. Its reasonably original...

An assured approach to the classics of Catalan cuisine, combined with the sunny terrace tables on the pretty Plaça Sant Just, make this one of the best-value restaurants...

Famous for its fresh-from-the-nets selection of oysters, scallops, Galician clams, whelks and just about any other mollusc you care to mention. While the menu reads much as...

An ancient rambling farmhouse clad in bougainvillea and perched high above the city, Can Travi Nou offers wonderfully rustic dining rooms with roaring log fires in winter,...

With this alfresco terrace café the Parc de la Ciutadella finally has a healthy alternative to the kioskos serving overpriced beer and bags of rainbow popcorn. Not much more...

In a forgotten, almost rustic square of Poblenou lies this first-rate fish restaurant, with tables under the canopy formed by two huge and ancient ombú trees. Suspend your...

A superb new tapas bar, with a smart, classy look in the one remaining pocket of charm left in the neighbourhood of Les Corts. Sit on the tables in the square or the bar's own...

With its simple look, missable façade and paper tablecloths, Kaiku looks a world apart from the upmarket seafood restaurants that pepper this barrio, but its dishes are in fact...

Completely alfresco, high up in a clearing among the pines, this is a magical space, scattered with deckchairs, hammocks and candlelit tables. DJs spinning funk, rare groove...

An unassuming but jolly neighbourhood joint, with a sunny terrace on the Plaça del Sortidor. There's barely a continent that isn't represented on the menu, which holds houmous,...

Perfect for fans of the thin and the crispy, Ravalo's table-dwarfing pizzas take some beating, thanks to flour (and a chef) imported from Naples. Most of the pizzas come with...

When this was a taxidermist's, Dalí ordered 200,000 ants, a tiger, a lion and a rhinoceros - the latter was wheeled into the Plaça Reial so that he could be photographed atop...