Set up in 1933 by Miguel Boadas, born to Catalan parents in Havana (where he became the first barman at the legendary La Floridita), this classic cocktail bar has changed...

Patchwork graffiti meets rustic in this tranquil café/bar. If you don't want to wait until midnight to get your evening started, this is a cosy spot to start with a drink, a...

The 'Champagne Bar' as it's invariably known, has a huge following among young Catalans and legionforeigners who think they discovered it first. It can be impossible to talk,...

The basement of a Greek restaurant is the unlikely setting for this cosy and wildly popular club. There's no plate-throwing but instead, from Thursday through Saturday nights,...

A shrine to the famous cocktail, which is honoured in Martini-related artwork and served in a hundred forms. All the trappings of a trad cocktail bar are here (bow-tied staff,...

Ginger manages to be all things to all punters: a swish art deco cocktail bar with comfortable buttercup yellow banquettes; purveyor of fine tapas and excellent wines, and,...

Possibly Barcelona's only reliable girl bar for a little weekend glam. Early on, the music is beach house; as the crowd starts to roll in, pop and commercial house take over....

After a sustained campaign the threat of demolition has been lifted from this former chocolate factory turned café. Just as well, since it's a real find, with good vegetarian...

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...

Papered with posters of vintage Spanish sexpot Sara Montiel and filled with hookah smoke and the sounds of Bollywood balladry, La Concha is a gem of dusty fabulousness that...

Gorgeous, glamorous, popular (with the young, hair-gel-and-heels brigade), La Terrrazza is a nightclub that Hollywood might dream of. Wander through the night-time silence of...

Formerly a strip club, this place was recently reborn as the city's hottest, biggest, newest, most over-hyped nightspot. Its former incarnation hasn't been forgotten - the...

Opened in 1820 by a native of Marseilles, who may just have changed the course of Barcelona's artistic history by introducing absinthe, still a mainstay of the bar's delights....

Seamlessly subsumed into the ever-expanding Matinee empire (D-Boy, Space, L'Atlantida in Sitges, among others), Sweet has subtle lighting, ultra cool design and a young trendy...