Where to Eat
Here’s all the info you’ll need on typical Barcelona dishes and our personal restaurant recommendations whether they’re traditional, modern, vegetarian, gluten free, or whatever else… que aprovechen!
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52 Best Restaurants in Barcelona: Where to Eat in BCN
Here’s my guide on the best restaurants in Barcelona. Whether you’re looking for value tapas bars, local Catalan cuisine, or tasting menus at Michelin star stunners I’ll have it listed here – I might even throw in the odd street food joint. Let’s take a deeper look at the Barcelona restaurants dominating the local food […]
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The Best Tapas in Barcelona + 7 Bars with Free Food
As you walk around the city looking for food you may find yourself thinking of the old Catalan proverb: Barcelona és bona si la bossa sona (Barcelona is only good if you’ve got money). But don’t let anybody tell you there’s not good cheap food out there. In my list of the best tapas in Barcelona […]
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17 Best Breakfast Restaurants in Barcelona
The best breakfast in Barcelona can set you up for a hell of a day – or get things off on the wrong foot. In fact, with so many wannabe Barcelona breakfast places ripping off tourists it’s no wonder they haven’t outlawed the meal altogether. That’s why I’m rounding up the top breakfast spots in […]
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The 15 Best Paella Restaurants in Barcelona
Navigate the maze of impostors with local advice on where to eat a mouthwatering paella while on holiday in Barcelona – without getting ripped off.
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The Best Pintxos in Barcelona from €1.00
Where else but Spain could you sample eight or nine local delicacies and wash it down with a cold beer for less than a tenner? Here are the best pintxo spots in Barcelona – remember to save the toothpicks!
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Gluten Free in Barcelona: 16 Restaurants and Local Tips
The doorman at the office I work usually doesn’t get much past the weather as a topic of conversation until one day he gave me a menacing look and said… “You’ve got nothing for celiacs on your blog!” What surprised me though is when I came back down later in the day: he’d had a little note […]
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Get the Best Kebab in Barcelona at 7 Legit Restaurants
It’s 3 am at the kebab roulette wheel. Armed with only a crumpled up fiver, an iron stomach, and a hope for a better tomorrow, you begin the sacred inebriated plea to Saint Shawarma… Oh ye doner kebab, greasy companion of the night, do me no harm for I come in peace. My faithful readers […]
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What to Eat in Barcelona: 12 Local Dishes + Where to Go
Eating well can make a good vacation great, it’s just too bad tourists come to Spain blind and can’t make a decision with a menu in front of them. That’s why you’re here, and since you want to know what to eat in Barcelona I’m gonna help you separate the savory from the stale and […]
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The Best Vegetarian Restaurants in Barcelona
Call it a trend, a greater awareness about meat, or just plain love of tasty food. Vegetarian restaurants in Barcelona have really taken off recently, and I must confess they’ve even roped in stubborn meat-eaters like myself. Guilty. So since I’ve already given you cracking culinary council listing Barcelona’s best restaurants, I think it’s time we […]
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9 Places with the Absolute Best Churros in Barcelona in 2023
Those with a sweet tooth aren’t going to want to miss this one – we’ve found a street in Barcelona which has multiple cafes serving the best churros con chocolate you’ll ever have in your life!
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8 Barcelona Pizza Joints You’ll Be Glad Took Your Money
A massive Italian migrant population has created perhaps the best Italian food scene outside of Italy – we count down the best Italian restaurants in Barcelona.
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The 11 Best Cafes in Barcelona for Coffee Lovers & Work
Coffee is nature’s drinkable on-switch, so getting to the best cafes in Barcelona is essential for keeping holiday mode on full blast. Unfortunately, the Barcelona café scene is famous for two things: poor roasts and too much milk. Given that, does our city actually have an answer to Rome, Melbourne, or Vienna? Let’s go through […]
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El Nacional – Barcelona’s Gastronomic Graceland
With four restaurants and four bars under one roof El Nacional is the hottest thing to hit Barcelona since the Mediterranean sun.
