Bars

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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Schilling Café-Bar

Gay-friendly, hetereo-friendly, all-are-welcome café-bar in the Gothic Quarter where you can get food and drink, plus catch some live music from time...

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Karl’s Imbiss

La proposta del Karl's Imbiss és un viatge al menjar popular d'Alemanya, amb un producte 100% germànic i de qualitat a un preu molt assequible.

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La Taverna del Ciri

Sucadors de pa irredimibles, aixecadors de cullera, puristes catalans aclaparats: festa grossa!

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Iakni

El Iakni ha posat la cirereta exòtica a un barri de frondosa oferta gastronòmica. No fa ni dos mesos que va aixecar la persiana i aquest local...

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Karl’s Imbiss

La proposta del Karl's Imbiss és un viatge al menjar popular d'Alemanya, amb un producte 100% germànic i de qualitat a un preu molt assequible.

Time Out says

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La Taverna del Ciri

Sucadors de pa irredimibles, aixecadors de cullera, puristes catalans aclaparats: festa grossa!

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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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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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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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O'Barquiño

This is a secret worth knowing: this Galician bar, apparently vulgar, has a second floor that becomes the Twilight Zone on Saturday nights: A group of people...

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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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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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Bar Nostàlgic

Although located in the fashionable area around the Sant Antoni market, on Viladomat between Manso and Parlament, this bar does not mimic the Nordic...

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