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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
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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.

Top beach bars on the Barcelona coast
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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'

Spectacular cocktails
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Spectacular cocktails

Presenting five amazing and innovative concoctions and where to get them

Vermouth: the happiest hour
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Vermouth: the happiest hour

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

Barcelona bars with free tapas
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Barcelona bars with free tapas

These generous bars serve up free tapas when you order drinks

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Antigua Compañía de las Indias
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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...

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5 out of 5 stars
El Chigre
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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...

LaBar
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LaBar

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

Icebarcelona
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Icebarcelona

Since 2007, Icebarcelona has been tops among original and different bars to visit. We're talking about an ice bar located right on the beachfront, and the...

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Icebarcelona
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Icebarcelona

Since 2007, Icebarcelona has been tops among original and different bars to visit. We're talking about an ice bar located right on the beachfront, and the...

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El 58
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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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3 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
Pastrami Bar / El Paradiso
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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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4 out of 5 stars
Two Schmucks
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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...

O'Barquiño
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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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5 out of 5 stars
El Cinco
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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Sant Antoni Gloriós
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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 1900
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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...

Bodega lo Pinyol
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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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4 out of 5 stars
Can Cisa / Bar Brutal
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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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4 out of 5 stars
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