Since opening in 1995, this mall, office and leisure centre has become a focus of local life. There's a seven-screen cinema (foreign films are mostly dubbed into Spanish) and...

Possibly the only café of its type left in the Eixample, with a delightfully dusty air, Modernista wooden banquettes, walls stained with the nicotine of ages and marble tables...

Casa Calvet allows the time-strapped visitor to sample some excellent cooking and appreciate the master of Modernisme at the same time. One of Gaudí's more understated...

The 'Catalan Beerhouse' lives up to its name with a winning selection of brews from around the world, but the real reason to come is the tapas. A vast array is yours for the...

Talented chef Jordi Artal shows respect for the classics (flat coca bread with foie gras and crispy leeks, duck magret with apple), while adding a personal touch in dishes such...

In this charming little ice-cream parlour, with its antique-strewn mezzanine, around 20 authentically Italian flavours are made daily, ranging from zingy mandarin to impossibly...

Heaven on earth for the sweet of tooth, Dolso is a 'pudding café', where even the fabulously on-trend retro baroque wallpaper is chocolate-coloured. Desserts run from light (a...

Ferran Adrià's take on a fast-food restaurant is for people of taste in a hurry. There are great-quality burgers (garnished with mint and tarragon, say, or roquefort, rocket...

A potentially great new restaurant let down by a dining room rendered clamorous by a steel floor. The lighting, too, is a bit spotty and unforgiving, but sympathetic, if...

This little sister of the frenetic and slightly kitsch original branch of Hanoi on C/Enric Granados is a muted version, with low lighting, teak chairs, elevator music and...

As well as the endless racks of excellent toys that made Imaginarium famous, the new three-floor flagship store for Spain's biggest toy chain has a hairdresser's, shoe...

Brother (and pastry chef) to Ferran Adrià, Albert, opened Inopia a couple of years ago, and it's been rammed ever since. The emphasis has been on a revival of old tapas...

This monolithic mall is designed to look like the Rockefeller Center fallen on its side, stretching 334m (1,100ft) along Avda Diagonal. It features all the usual fashion...

This delightful old bodega, with a pretty tiled floor, is unreconstructed, dusty and welcoming, supplying students, businessmen and pretty much everyone in between with...