Artkuisine's French credentials do not leap out sporting berets and strings of onions. Instead, they make themselves known in other, more subtle ways: the buttermilk Regency...

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...

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...

Carles Abellan trained under Ferran Adrià but now ploughs his own, very successful, furrow in this urbane and sexy restaurant. A selection of tiny playful dishes changes...

Darling of the Sunday papers, El Bulli is possibly the most talked-about restaurant in the world today; thus it merits a mention here, despite its location up on the Costa...

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...

Run by two young, enthusiastic and talented chefs, Hisop aims to bring serious dining to the non-expense-account masses by keeping its prices on the low side and its service...

In a coolly designed space under the NH Constanza, Icho (in Japanese it means gingko tree - of which three graceful examples sit outside) fuses Japanese with Spanish cooking....

If you're curious to try some of the more extreme experiences in postmodern haute cuisine (we're talking tripe and brains rather than the latest flights of fancy from the...

The tables at Moo are as desirable as the rooms in its parent, Hotel Omm. Inventive cooking, overlooked by the celebrated Roca brothers, is designed as half portions, the...

These days, any Barcelona restaurant worth its fleur de sel has an alumnus of acclaimed chef Ferran Adrià heading up its kitchens, and the Neri is no exception. Jordi Ruiz has...

Recently transplanted here from a space in its associated cookery school in the Born, Hofmann puts its pupils to good use in its top-class kitchens and dining room. The...

Top-notch but unstuffy, Saüc ('elderberry') is overlooked by the section of international media crazy for 'Spain is the new France' restaurant stories. This may be down to chef...