The Best Places to Drink and Stay in Sant Antoni & around

A family restaurant that quietly became a boutique hotel, sitting at the seam where El Raval meets L'Eixample. The rooms mix Barcelona's modernist past with clean contemporary lines, and bathrooms come stocked with Natura Bissé products, which feels like a reasonable trade for the compact footprint. Some rooms spread across two levels; some have balconies. The in-house Casa de Comidas opens onto a terrace near Plaza Goya. Michelin awarded it one Key.

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The rooftop pool sits above Montjuïc with unobstructed views over the Mediterranean, which is the kind of thing that makes unpacking feel worthwhile. This luxury hotel has the full card: white marble common areas, a subterranean spa, a lobby cocktail bar, and a restaurant helmed by a celebrated young chef. Rooms follow the same clean, modern line as the rest of the building. Guests who never leave the property still manage to feel smug about the neighborhood.

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A boutique hotel where the restaurant clearly came first and the rooms are the responsible adult keeping things together. Fifty-eight monochrome and hardwood rooms sit in the Eixample, close enough to the Sant Antoni market that you feel like a local and far enough from Las Ramblas that you won't get trampled. The Michelin Guide has it in their Selected Hotels list, and the price holds up even against that kind of scrutiny.

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A 44-room boutique hotel in Eixample that earns its reputation through restraint rather than spectacle, which in Barcelona takes a certain nerve. The design is quietly elegant, the service scaled to actually feel personal, and the location, just off Parc de Joan Miró and a short walk from the old city, does a lot of heavy lifting in place of an in-house restaurant. Stylish enough to draw both road-warriors and design-conscious leisure travelers without catering too obviously to either.

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Graffiti walls, mismatched furniture made from recycled odds and ends, and a cocktail menu where the drinks have names like Wasabi Wan Kanobi. Two Schmucks, tucked down a side street in El Raval, calls itself a five-star dive bar, which is both accurate and the best possible pitch. Ice-cold beers go out as fast as cocktails, and nobody is keeping score either way.

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The glass bar counter at this El Raval cocktail bar is etched with what looks like idle doodling until you notice it's the story of Paris and Helen of Troy playing out from one end to the other. The street outside has a rough-around-the-edges reputation, but inside things run elegant: polished decor, considered cocktails, and a crowd that dresses accordingly. Negronis are, unsurprisingly, the move.

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