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

Barcelona's best bodegas
Bars and pubs

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.

Top beach bars on the Barcelona coast
Restaurants

Top beach bars on the Barcelona coast

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

Spectacular cocktails
Bars and pubs

Spectacular cocktails

Presenting five amazing and innovative concoctions and where to get them

Vermouth: the happiest hour
Bars and pubs

Vermouth: the happiest hour

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

Barcelona bars with free tapas
Bars and pubs

Barcelona bars with free tapas

These generous bars serve up free tapas when you order drinks

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Bar Mandri
Bars and pubs

Bar Mandri

With more than 50 years in the same spot, working at the same business, Bar Mandri reigns in its uptown Barcelona district with an invariable formula that...

Time Out says
4 out of 5 stars
Bolero Bar
Bars and pubs

Bolero Bar

In the words of Heraclitus, 'There is nothing permanent except change', so don’t be afraid of it. The Bolero Bar, formerly L’Alegria, has...

Time Out says
4 out of 5 stars
Nota 79
Bars and pubs

Nota 79

Just a five-minute walk from the Lesseps metro, in Sant Gervasi, you'll find this spot that puts on an eclectic programme of live music that includes pop,...

Antigua Compañía de las Indias
Bars and pubs

Antigua Compañía de las Indias

After being awarded the title of the best Spanish bartender in the 2016 World Class Competition, Adriana Chía left her post behind the bar at Solange...

Time Out says
5 out of 5 stars
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El 58
Bars and pubs

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...

Time Out says
3 out of 5 stars
Users say
4 out of 5 stars
Pastrami Bar / El Paradiso
Bars and pubs

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...

Time Out says
4 out of 5 stars
Users say
4 out of 5 stars
Gata Mala
Bars and pubs

Gata Mala

This 'Bad Cat' bar with is one of the best-kept secrets in the Gràcia neighbourhood. Friendly prices, generosity when it comes to the tapas –...

Time Out says
4 out of 5 stars
LaBar
Bars and pubs

LaBar

A laundromat that's also a neighbourhood café and bar. You'll never again have to feel lonely watching your laundry spin.

Pan & Oli
Bars and pubs

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,...

Time Out says
4 out of 5 stars
Bellavista del Jardín del Norte
Restaurants

Bellavista del Jardín del Norte

This restaurant from the Iglesias brothers (Rías de Galicia, Kru, Cañota, Bobo Pulp...) and the Messi brothers (yes, you've probably heard...

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Wine bars

Sant Antoni Gloriós
Bars and pubs

Sant Antoni Gloriós

Let's get right to it: in Sant Antoni, where you have to pay for tap water and the charge you €13 for a plate of meatballs, there was a need for a place...

Bodega lo Pinyol
Bars and pubs

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...

Time Out says
4 out of 5 stars
Bodega 1900
Bars and pubs

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...

Can Cisa / Bar Brutal
Bars and pubs

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...

Users say
4 out of 5 stars
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