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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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Hidden Café Barcelona

Hidden Café Barcelona is a a micro roaster of specialty coffees, and they travel to the origins of the coffees to select the best ones and to work...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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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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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London Bar [Closed]

Since it had its live music licence revoked, this classic old bar has had to rely on its pool table or the odd football match to entertain its patrons. The...

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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 –...

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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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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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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...

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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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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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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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