This quintessentially Gallic bar once served pastis to visiting sailors and denizens of the Chino underworld. It still has a louche feel, with...

Ah - comfy. This is a pretty place done up with throw rugs, vintage lamps that don't do a whole lot (the lighting concept is the uncomplicated 'dark') and...

An old-style café-bar that's good for lazy Sunday mornings, with its battered leather seats, ceiling fans and shady tables outside, although staff can...

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...

The 'Champagne Bar', as it's invariably known, has a huge following among young Catalans and the legion foreigners who think they discovered it first. It...

Not much more than a hole-in-the-wall with a handful of zinc tables outside, Casa Paco is the improbable nerve centre for a young and thrusting scene that...

Although strictly speaking a tapas bar, with a wide range and a useful menu in English, the Cervecería has tried to fill a gap in the market by providing a...

A good place to come for information, the headquarters of this local gay association is home to an easygoing, quiet and unpretentious bar, with cheap drinks...

A classic - although now somewhat careworn - club, Dietrich generally attracts a mixed and lively crowd. Acrobats and drag artists perform on the...

A shrine to the famous cocktail, which is honoured in Martini-related artwork and served in a hundred forms. All the trappings of a traditional cocktail bar...

If you can ignore first impressions based on the decor (which looks as if Gaudí sneezed violently), you'll find a lively and friendly bar. It tends to...

The eponymous bubbly is actually a pretty low-grade cava, if truth be told, but a drinkable enough accompaniment to the house tapa; a saucer of Cantabrian...

On quiet nights, this discreet little wood-panelled cocktail bar, its long mahogany counter burnished by the same well-clad elbows for years, has something...

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...