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Discover the best places to drink in Catalonia's capital. Reviews of bars, pubs and tapas bars in Barcelona

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Barcelona's best bodegas

Barrels and casks, taps, wineskins, anchovies and contentment. Discover the material and liquid heritage of Barcelona with an extra dose of novelty – classic wines sold from the barrel with their essence preserved in wood, in places where you're treated like family.

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Top beach bars on the Barcelona coast

We've travelled from Castelldefels to Montgat in search of the best urban 'xiringuitos'

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Spectacular cocktails

Presenting five amazing and innovative concoctions and where to get them

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Vermouth: the happiest hour

Time Out brings you the modern, as well as the classic, temples of vermouth

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Barcelona bars with free tapas

These generous bars serve up free tapas when you order drinks

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El Chigre

Now that 'populism' is the biggest insult you can hurl, let's try to remember it's also got a positive meaning: power, for the people. El Chigre is a cider...

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Icebarcelona

Icebarcelona is one of those places you'll never forget. What's the dress code? A down anorak provided for you with the price of admission. You do have to be...

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Pan & Oli

Sants is earning a well-deserved reputation as a neighbourhood full of pleasant surprises. One of them is the second phase that's started at Pan & Oli,...

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El Cinco

Don Chufo, Nitsa, BeCool ... and now, El Cinco. This space in Plaça de Joan Llongueras has reinvented itself to give Sant Gervasi just what it needed....

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Jardín del Alma

The Jardín del Alma restaurant is located in Barcelona's Eixample. In the restaurant you can taste a Catalan cuisine with creative touches.

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El 58

Poblenou needed a creative and youthful tapas bar that didn’t play bait and switch. El 58 serves a quality product with some imaginative recipes like...

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Two Schmucks

Two Schmucks was built by Moe Aljaf and A.J. White with their own four hands. With recycled materials and sweat. And they keep growing with the money coming...

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Sky Bar at Grand Hotel Central

Many of Barcelona's rooftops offer a rather restricted view of the city's major sights. The terrace at the top of the Grand Hotel Central is a sure way to...

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The Pulitzer Terrace at Hotel Pulitzer

Only a stone's throw away from Barcelona's busiest square, Plaça Catalunya, this urban garden is the perfect place to kick back and relax on a...

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Pastrami Bar / El Paradiso

Pastrami Bar is pretty much what it sounds like, a sandwich place where you can get a mean pastrami, the likes of which you won't find anywhere else in...

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Bodega 1900

Albert Adrià provides the brains behind this spot, and his restaurant Tickets is just across the road. You know that with an Adrià at the helm...

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Bodega lo Pinyol

Lo Pinyol is a beautiful spot, with high ceilings, colourful tiled floors, a lovely marble sink, and wine and vermouth barrels suspended over a...

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Mitja Vida

Fans of sayings and stuffed olives, the Morro Fi locals (blog and bar), there's a new spot for you in Mitja Vida. Much bigger than its predecessor, Mitja...

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Can Cisa / Bar Brutal

In the pleasantly cool, shadowy interior of Can Cisa, you can appreciate the care that’s gone into the restoration of a neighbourhood bar. Their...

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