The Top 64 Places to Eat in Barcelona
The best places to eat in Barcelona, by the professional record: Michelin Guide, 50 Best, and The Infatuation have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Cocina Hermanos Torres comes out on top.
Enigma and Disfrutar hold the next two places. Eater shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The Infatuation next.
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Rank 1. Cocina Hermanos Torres
Mediterranean
Three cooking stations rise from the center of the dining room like a stage set, with tables arranged around them under drifting clouds of softly lit fixtures. This is a fine dining restaurant from the Torres twins, and it holds two Michelin stars and a spot on the World's 50 Best list. The menu leans into seasonal Mediterranean cooking with a light hand, and five sommeliers manage the wine cellar, which is either reassuring or mildly intimidating depending on your relationship with wine lists.
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The ceiling looks like it's floating, and that's before the food starts. Albert Adrià's tasting menu restaurant carries two Michelin stars and a spot on the World's 50 Best list, and the roughly 25-course menu is divided into chapters named for ingredients, with many preparations finished tableside. The lineage from elBulli is not subtle. Book months out, and don't expect to know what you ordered until they tell you.
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- 50 Best #34 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- 50 Best Estrella Damm Chefs’ Choice Award 2025 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants · Albert Adrià
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Rank 3. Disfrutar
Creative
The "living table" changes shape as the meal unfolds, which sets the tone for what this three-Michelin-star tasting menu restaurant is doing in Eixample. The three chefs came up through El Bulli and brought the obsession with it, turning out courses that bend texture and form in ways that are genuinely hard to describe sober. Book well ahead, then book again, because the waiting list is not a rumor.
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Rank 4. Caelis
Creative
The hotel facade studded with sculptural eyeballs watching you arrive sets the tone for Romain Fornell's one-Michelin-star fine-dining room inside the Ohla Barcelona. Copper pans hang over an open kitchen, and a U-shaped chef's table seats fourteen around the action. The cooking tilts French but roots itself in the Mediterranean, with tasting menus that lean into the theatrics of getting guests involved rather than just feeding them quietly.
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Rank 4. Kamikaze
Fusion, Creative
The name refers to "divine wind," which gives you a sense of the ambition level before you sit down. This Eixample tasting-menu spot is the project of a chef trained at Disfrutar, and it holds a Michelin star for a kitchen that runs Asian technique through a Mediterranean filter, leaning hard on seasonal Catalan ingredients. A single evolving menu changes each season, so returning guests have a reason to come back, and first-timers have no decisions to make.
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Rank 6. Brabo
Grills
The bread arrives first, grilled in a pan over coals and served with smoked butter, and the chefs at this wood-fire steakhouse are the first to admit nobody forgets it. Open flames handle everything from Friesian chuletón to whole fish to seasonal vegetables, and the dry-aged beef programme takes provenance seriously enough to include rare Gascón pigs from France. The room is dim, warm, and close to the kitchen, which is the point.
- World's 101 Best #101 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Barcelona
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Rank 6. Maleducat
Contemporary
A block from the Sant Antoni market, Maleducat lands somewhere between a neighborhood vermouth bar and a genuinely ambitious Catalan kitchen. The menu wanders freely from sea to mountain, mixing tapas and sharing plates with daily specials, and the cooking draws on fine dining technique without putting on any airs. Regulars fill the room early, which tells you something about the prices and the portions both.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation The 25 Best Restaurants In Barcelona
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Barcelona
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Rank 8. Berbena
Creative
A sourdough-and-smoked-butter opener sets the tone at this small, informal creative restaurant in the Eixample: seasonal Catalan cooking with quiet detours through Asia and South America, all available in half or even quarter portions so you can cover more ground. The wine list runs to over 600 bottles with 30-plus by the glass, and the coffee comes from a nearby specialty roaster. The Michelin Guide has awarded it a Bib Gourmand.
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Rank 9. Alapar
Fusion
Two omakase menus anchor this Mediterranean-Japanese restaurant, where the kitchen finds common ground between suquet and dashi with enough conviction that you stop second-guessing the pairing. Grilled dishes, marinades, and pickled things move between both traditions without making a thesis statement about it. The space was once the celebrated Pakta, and the bones of something serious are still there.
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Rank 9. Albé
Fusion
The name means "heart" in Arabic, in the fuller, more emotional sense of the word, and the gastrobar in L'Eixample seems to take that seriously. The kitchen pairs Catalan produce with Lebanese touches, and the menu is built for sharing, which suits the unhurried, Slow Food ethos. A short à la carte and two set menus keep the choices manageable without feeling like homework.
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Rank 9. âme
French Contemporary
A Franco-Mediterranean bistro where the kitchen works squarely in French technique but sources everything it can from Catalonia: prawns from Palamós, artichokes from Prat, duck and trout from the Pyrenees. Two tasting menus are the only path in, so there's no à la carte hedging. The sommelier co-runs the place, which explains why the wine feels as considered as the food. It's a small room with a focused point of view, and the menu shifts with whatever the season hands over.
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Rank 9. Batea
Seafood, Farm to table
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Rank 9. Besta
Farm to table, Contemporary
A neo-bistro on Aribau where Galician coastline meets Catalan market and, somehow, a stint in Sweden. The chef pulls all three threads into a short à la carte and tasting menus that run from nine courses up, with a seafood course that works through Atlantic shellfish in decidedly modern ways. The chef's table bar lets you watch the kitchen finish dishes while you eat, which is either charming or slightly stressful depending on your personality.
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Rank 9. Casa Fiero
Traditional Cuisine
A cosy Eixample dining room where the grill does most of the talking and the daily specials change with whatever looks good at the market. The team behind Maleducat runs this one too, cooking traditional Catalan food with just enough modern restraint to keep it from feeling like a museum piece. Soups, stews, and beautifully charred things share the menu. The crowd tends to know what they want before they sit down.
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Rank 15. Amar Barcelona
Contemporary, Catalan
The chandeliers in the Palace hotel have been watching over formal dinners since before your grandparents were born, and Amar leans into every inch of that history. Rafa Zafra, who made his name at El Bulli before becoming Barcelona's seafood obsessive at Estimar, shifts registers here into full-dress fine dining: ornate plating, caviar runs deep on the menu, and a section of dishes pays explicit tribute to the old Ritz kitchen.
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Rank 15. Gresca
Modern Cuisine
Offal appears on the menu here with the same casual confidence as roasted chicken, which tells you everything about the chef's priorities. Gresca is a modern Catalan restaurant where the cooking is seasonal and nose-to-tail, the service is relaxed, and the portions are sized for actual hunger. The menu shifts constantly, so regulars tend to trust whatever's in front of them. A favorite among Barcelona's working chefs, which is its own kind of recommendation.
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Rank 15. Martínez
Seafood
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The pitch here is Catalan comfort food, the kind a grandmother might recognize, rebuilt from scratch with a serious kitchen behind it. Nose-to-tail cooking sits alongside Asian and Latin American detours, and the menu shifts with the seasons without losing its footing. Off the Rambla del Raval, it draws the sort of crowd that eats for a living, which tells you something about the kitchen's reputation among people who have options.
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Rank 15. Suru Bar
Japanese
No sign on the door, no name on the window, just a narrow counter bar in Eixample where the kitchen is close enough to watch the yakitori grill smoke. Suru runs on Japanese technique, seasonal produce from the Ninot market across the street, and a cheerful willingness to char the parts of the animal most menus quietly omit. The wine list is long for a room this small, and offal skeptics tend to leave converted.
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Rank 15. Ultramarinos Marín
Farm to table
A wood-fire asador in the Eixample that's only open for breakfast and lunch, which means the open kitchen seats are gone before most people have finished their coffee. The chef trained at Etxebarri and Noma, and the menu reads accordingly short and direct: grilled langoustines, smoked beef tongue, sea urchin toast. The room looks deceptively unfussy. Product-driven Catalan cooking with nothing to hide behind, which turns out to be the whole point.
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A trompo slowly charring spiced pork is a rare sight in Barcelona, and at this taco spot in Eixample it's the main event. The al pastor arrives on handmade blue corn tortillas alongside carne asada, but the kitchen also runs wilder, with sea bass in black beer batter and sautéed lobster tail with cilantro emulsion. Seasonal specials keep regulars coming back, and the micheladas are not optional.
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The Gascón pig is an endangered breed, and this Gràcia pizzeria raises, butchers, and cures it in-house, which tells you everything about where Sartoria Panatieri's head is at. The menu splits into classics, including a stracciatella and pine nut pizza that regulars order without looking, and more technically ambitious plates shaped by time in serious kitchens. Flour milled to spec in Catalunya, fermented vegetables, a tight list of small Spanish producers. It landed at number five on 50 Top Pizza Europe.
- 50 Top Pizza #20 · 50 Top Pizza World
- 50 Top Pizza #5 · 50 Top Pizza Europe
- 50 Top Pizza 2026 · Green Oven · 50 Top Pizza Europe Special Awards
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Rank 23. Balmesina
Natural Pizza
Long-fermented, naturally leavened dough is the whole premise at this Eixample pizza spot, where the crust gets a 72-hour head start before anyone touches a topping. The sourcing leans local and obsessive, with cheese from a dairy a few streets away and a short but considered list of natural wines and craft beers alongside. It ranks on both 50 Top Pizza Europe and 50 Top Pizza World, and the room is packed at lunch and dinner to prove the point.
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Rank 23. Carnal
Steakhouse
A wood-fired steakhouse on a pretty Eixample pedestrian street, Carnal brings a Uruguayan sensibility to the Spanish parrilla format. Dry-aged beef from Spain, South America, and Japan goes over oak embers, and the room, all dark tones and warm light around an open kitchen, matches the menu's intensity. The chef's background spans Montevideo and the Basque Country, which lands him somewhere between campfire and precision.
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Rank 25. Punta
Neapolitan Pizza
A Neapolitan pizza spot on the leafy Granados pedestrian strip, designed around the sacred and profane iconography of Naples with lighting that puts each table at the center of the room, which sounds theatrical until you're sitting in it. The dough uses a biga preferment for a lighter, open crumb, and the menu carves cleanly into reds, whites, and a few Margherita variations. There's a year-round terrace, which in Barcelona is not a minor detail.
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Rank 25. TRAFALGAR
Pizza
The menu is organized like a record, twelve tracks plus two bonus sides, which tells you everything about how seriously Trafalgar Pizza Club takes its own atmosphere. It's a pizzeria and cocktail bar in L'Eixample, dressed up in neon and industrial fittings with a cyber noir edge that makes the whole room feel like a DJ booth someone forgot to stock with decks. The pizzas run from straightforward classics to house riffs, and the cheesecake has its own following.
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Rank 27. Achaar Bar
Natural wine Indian
An Indian canteen and natural wine bar named for the pickled vegetable condiment they make in-house, Achaar Bar sits in a stripped-back former warehouse in Poblenou, Barcelona's post-industrial neighborhood that has somehow become the city's coolest. The menu roams the subcontinent, with Pakistani touches nodding to the team's Punjabi roots, while the sommelier has built a list of 150 natural wines specifically to hold their own against bold spice and heat.
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Rank 27. Akiro
Nikkei Japanese
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Rank 27. Bar Canyí
Catalan
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Rank 27. Bar Mut
Wine Bar
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Rank 27. Bemba Smash Burger
Smash Burger American
The Bemba Burger arrives with a smashed chorizo criollo patty alongside the beef, plus chimichurri, and that one decision tells you everything about the ambition here. This is a compact smash burger counter in Gràcia with a menu short enough to fit on a napkin: three burgers, cold draught beer, fries, and homemade pickles. The regulars have clearly done the math and liked the answer.
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Rank 27. BENZiNA
Modern Italian
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Rank 27. Bismillah Kebabish
Pakistani Middle Eastern
Fresh naan pulled by hook from a tandoor oven is the move at this halal kebab shop on one of Ciutat Vella's busiest streets. The chicken shawarma, bright-red spiced thigh meat carved from a rotating skewer and wrapped with roasted peppers and garlic sauce, is what keeps the tables packed and the strangers sharing seats. Lamb curry and tandoori skewers round out a menu that's been feeding Barcelona's Pakistani community for what feels like forever.
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Rank 27. Bodega Bonay
Mediterranean Wine Bar
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Rank 27. Cal Pep
Spanish
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Rank 27. Casa Costa
Mediterranean
A beachside Mediterranean restaurant that's been in the same family forever, just with a fresh name and sharper edges. The menu leans into the classics, whole roasted seabass, clams in green sauce, seasonal calçots, but the natural wine list and the playful branding signal that someone in the family read a few things. The room feels like Barcelona at its least self-conscious, which is harder to find down here than you'd think.
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Rank 27. Casa Maians
Catalan Seafood
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Rank 27. Colmado Wilmot
Spanish
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Rank 27. Compà Barceloneta
Calabrian
A panini shop a few streets from Barceloneta beach, Compà is devoted to the flavors of Calabria, which means 'nduja, smoked provolone, stracciatella, and lardo all showing up between bread. That bread matters: everything is pressed and served piping hot on slow-fermented focaccia. A rotating menu of nearly a dozen sandwiches keeps regulars guessing, and a second location has since opened in Gràcia for anyone uptown who can't stop thinking about it.
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Rank 27. El Camarote de Tomás
Catalan Seafood
The day's catch arrives on heaps of bar ice before you've even sat down, which tells you everything about where this marisqueria's priorities lie. Just off Plaça d'Espanya, El Camarote de Tomás is a traditional Catalan seafood restaurant, intimate and unfussy, where wild-caught fish comes roasted whole and the esqueixada de bacallà alone is reason enough to show up. An old-school institution with no apparent interest in modernizing, and no reason to start.
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Rank 27. franca
Catalan
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Rank 27. Funky Eatery
Northern European Mediterranean
Half gourmet deli, half bistro, Funky Eatery splits its Eixample space between shelves of carefully chosen groceries and a dining room turning out colorful, creative cooking that wanders freely between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean. Natural wines are poured throughout. The team behind it came from engineering and marketing, which might explain why the whole operation feels more considered than most places this cheerful have any right to.
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Rank 27. Gelida
Catalan
Heaps of fried potatoes crowned with a runny egg and chorizo land on tables while regulars wash down their stewed tripe with a cafe con leche and a small draught beer, sometimes at the same time. Gelida is an old-school Catalan restaurant in Eixample that keeps the tradition of the "fork breakfast" alive, the kind of hearty early meal built around veal, snails, or pig's trotters that modern Barcelona mostly forgot.
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Rank 27. Gringa All Day
Modern New American
A modern American diner in Eixample run by a Mexican American Angeleno and her partners, Gringa All Day keeps things simple: fluffy pancakes, crispy bacon, a hearty breakfast burrito, and bottomless filter coffee from Three Marks. In a city where brunch spots often lean on the aesthetic and quietly hope you don't notice the food, this one takes the opposite approach. No reservations, so expect a line on weekends.
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Rank 27. La Cova Fumada
Catalan
The bomba, that fried potato croquette stuffed with ground beef and hit with aioli and hot sauce, was invented here, and you'll find its descendants on menus all over Barcelona. This old-school Catalan tavern in La Barceloneta keeps the original alongside grilled squid, summer sardines, and cap i pota for anyone who wants tripe and veal trotters in tomato. Cash only, no reservations, and the line out front is part of the deal.
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Rank 27. La Fonda de Pirenaicas
Catalan
A broiler-caramelized pasta gratin named after someone's grandmother Alberta sets the tone at this Gràcia neighborhood spot. La Fonda de Pirenaicas is a casual Catalan dining room built around the kind of slow-cooked, braised, and stewed food that home cooks used to make before everyone got busy. The Spanish omelet that made the parent shop famous shows up here too, and the room fills with locals who already know the menu by heart.
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Rank 27. La Mundana
Mediterranean
A neighborhood restaurant in Sants that slides easily between a quick beer and tapas and a full multicourse dinner, which says something about how comfortable it is in its own skin. The kitchen pulls from Catalan, Mediterranean, French, Asian, and Latin American traditions all at once, yet nothing on the plate reads like a concept pitch. Regulars fill the room on weeknights without consulting the menu.
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Rank 27. La Plata
Seafood
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Rank 27. Little Andaman
Indian
The restaurant takes its name from a small island deep in the Bay of Bengal, and the cooking follows that logic: coastal India, light on the cream, heavy on coconut, fresh herbs, and seafood. The menu roams beyond the island to pull in dishes from shorelines all across the subcontinent. The room is chic enough for a date but relaxed enough for lunch, and the kitchen is unusually good to vegetarians and vegans without making a fuss about it.
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Rank 27. Los Tortíllez
Spanish
The red banquettes, popcorn stucco walls, and tile-clad bar look like they belong in an Almodóvar film, but this tortilla specialist on the pedestrianized stretch of Consell de Cent is a recent arrival wearing vintage clothes well. The menu runs sixteen personal-sized Spanish omelets, from the classic to the quietly unhinged, with truffle and Thai curry sharing space alongside chorizo and manchego. A narrow focus, executed with real conviction.
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Rank 27. Margarit
Mediterranean Greek
A Greek chef cooking Mediterranean on a narrow, tree-lined slope of Montjuïc, Margarit is a sit-down dinner spot where the open kitchen turns out dishes rooted in Hellenic tradition without feeling like a taverna theme park. The wine list leans into natural bottles and some potent Greek reds you won't find most places. It's the kind of room where the food tastes like it comes from somewhere specific, which is rarer than it should be.
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Rank 27. Masa Vins Barcelona
Mediterranean Wine Bar
A Mediterranean wine bar in the Poblenou warehouse belt where the 250-bottle list leans hard into Eastern European natural wines you won't find anywhere else on the menu. The food rotates with the seasons and roams freely, seabass crudo with mandarin oil one moment, a kimchi grilled cheese the next. The crowd comes to hang, not to impress, and the music is loud enough that nobody's whispering about tannins.
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Rank 27. MIKAN
Northeast Asian Chinese
Chef Tan built this Northeast Asian restaurant out of pandemic-era private dinners and lunchbox deliveries, which explains why it feels less like a project and more like someone's actual cooking finally finding a room. The Eixample spot pulls from Northern China, Japan, and Korea without making a theme park of it. Lunch is a fixed-price spread; evenings go à la carte and sharing-friendly, with natural wines from small European producers alongside.
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Rank 27. Parking Pita
Mediterranean Middle Eastern
The pitas come straight from a wood-fired oven inside what used to be a parking garage, the signage deliberately subtle enough that you feel clever for finding it. This is a fast, casual Levantine and Mediterranean spot where the menu roams from falafel and lamb kofta to chicken tandoori, with North African and South Asian detours along the way. The long communal table fills with Eixample office workers at noon, so go early or embrace the wait.
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Rank 27. Pompa
Mediterranean
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Rank 27. Queviures Múrria
Catalan
An old-school colmado in Eixample that somehow found room for a dining room behind the storeroom doors, Queviures Múrria has been stacking 200-plus cheeses and serious conservas since forever. The kitchen, guided by the chef behind Alkimia, turns that pantry tradition into Catalan cooking that leans elegant without losing the nostalgia. Come for the shelves, stay for the lamb.
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Rank 27. Restaurante Casa Luz
Spanish
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Rank 27. Rooq
American
A fried chicken sandwich shop in Eixample where everything, the brioche buns, fermented pickles, herb breading, dipping sauces, and brownies, comes out of their own kitchen. The menu is refreshingly short: a handful of sandwich styles, nuggets, twice-cooked fries, and coleslaw in two camps (vinegar or mayo, pick a side). Corn-fed Catalan chicken is the through-line, with jackfruit and tofu options that don't feel like an afterthought. Craft beers round it out.
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The dough starts with local organic flour, and the toppings go somewhere unexpected from there, sobrasada with honey, pork jowl with Brazil nuts, apple with bleu cheese. This Eixample pizzeria describes itself as "farm to pizza," which sounds like marketing until you taste how seriously they mean it. The house-made salumi is worth ordering alongside. Expect a wait, because the rest of Barcelona has already figured this out.
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Rank 27. Shoronpo GRACIA 小籠包
Noodles
A ramen and soup dumpling shop in Gràcia where the shoronpo, the Japanese take on xiaolongbao, come stuffed with everything from classic minced pork to foie gras to chocolate with olive oil and sea salt. The tantanmen, a sesame-laced, creamy chicken broth with ground pork and springy noodles, draws a devoted following. Ten ramen varieties are on offer, with vegetarian options among them. Book online; walk-ins are optimistic at best.
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Rank 27. Soma
Catalan Mediterranean
The corner space in Eixample has been a bar for longer than anyone can remember, and Soma slipped into it without disturbing the bones. It's a Catalan tapas spot with a strong Italian lean and a Parisian-style terrace, where the kitchen turns out things like risotto cooked until it gets the crispy bottom of a paella. The crowd that fills it skews local and opinionated, which in Barcelona means you're probably doing something right.
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Rank 27. Taberna Nardi
Seafood
A wave-like mirrored ceiling does most of the decorating at this self-described "irreverent seafood tavern" in Ciutat Vella, where the day's catch sits on ice at an open bar and a robata grill does the heavy lifting. The menu runs from cured horse mackerel to braised tuna cheek, and the oyster-infused dry martini has developed its own small reputation. A handful of tables keeps it intimate, which is a polite way of saying book ahead.
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Rank 27. Taktika Berri
Basque
Platters of pintxos line the well-polished bar here, but the real move is opening the menu and ordering from the longer list of Basque classics behind them. This old-school Basque bar and restaurant in Eixample feels airlifted from Bilbao, down to the jai alai baskets on the walls and the sour cider on the bar. The after-work crowd packs the entrance; quieter tables in back are where the roasted hake and txultetón tend to land.
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Rank 27. Tiberi Bar
Mediterranean
The sharing plates rotate with the seasons, but the vibe stays fixed: a light-filled, high-ceilinged room on a quiet Poble Sec street where natural wines from small local producers do most of the talking. Tiberi Bar grew out of a creative events collective, and the food still has that spirit, riffing on Catalan staples with genuinely unexpected turns. The kind of casual Mediterranean spot where you order more than you planned to.