Every Venue We’ve Reviewed
101 restaurants and wine bars across Barcelona — visited anonymously, paid in full, scored without mercy.
Wine Bar·Gràcia · 55€
We return in 2026 to find something unexpected: the décor has changed. The walls, once lined with…
THE EXPERIENCE 10/10 · 2026
Restaurant·Eixample · 70€
Something has shifted at Bardeni. For us, the scarcity of new dishes from chef Dani Lechuga was never the…
THE EXPERIENCE 10/10 · 2026
Restaurant·Ciutat Vella · 180€
Dos Palillos is one of those rare rooms where intelligence reads as hospitality, not hauteur. We like it a…
THE EXPERIENCE 9.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 90€
Alkostat is, simply, one of Barcelona’s best restaurants. The cooking is modern fine dining rooted in product…
THE EXPERIENCE 9.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 90€
If 2025 closed with Xavier Pellicer at the top of its game, 2026 has opened in much the same way. On the…
THE EXPERIENCE 9.5/10 · 2026
Restaurant·Ciutat Vella · 60€
La Sosenga cooks Catalan food with a contemporary hand: seasonal product, classic foundations, and flavors…
THE EXPERIENCE 9/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Sants Montjuic · 50€
Granja Elena is the kind of Barcelona restaurant we don’t want to lose: a neighborhood spot in Zona Franca…
THE EXPERIENCE 9/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 60€
Topik is one of those Barcelona restaurants that never needed the spotlight to be excellent. The cooking sits…
THE EXPERIENCE 9/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Sarrià-Sant Gervasi · 215€
Via Veneto is the kind of restaurant cities quietly lose when they mistake “classic” for “dated.” This is…
THE EXPERIENCE 9/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Sant Martí · 25€
L’Artesana de Poblenou is a disorienting little place: not especially pretty, not especially comfortable, and…
THE EXPERIENCE 8.5/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Ciutat Vella · 140€
The original outpost of Vila Viniteca feels like a temple built by—and for—people who actually drink. The…
THE EXPERIENCE 8.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Sant Martí · 65€
Can Pineda is the kind of Barcelona classic that wears its age like a well-cut jacket: the years show in the…
THE EXPERIENCE 8.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 110€
Direkte practices modern, chef-driven Mediterranean cooking: seasonal product, sharp technique, and plates…
THE EXPERIENCE 8.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Les Corts · 65€
Can Ugal sits firmly in the traditional Catalan “menú and casa de comidas” lane: straightforward dishes,…
THE EXPERIENCE 8.5/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Ciutat Vella · 40€
L’Ànima del Vi feels like it comes from a different era of Barcelona’s natural-wine scene—in the best way.…
THE EXPERIENCE 8.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 45€
Gresca is one of those Barcelona spots that actually earns its reputation: focused cooking, strong product,…
THE EXPERIENCE 8.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 45€
Melo Jia feels like a small, modern take on Chinese home-style cooking, with a menu that leans into warmth…
THE EXPERIENCE 8.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 100€
Mantis came out swinging: one of those openings that felt genuinely promising, powered by two serious chefs…
THE EXPERIENCE 8.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Sants Montjuic · 60€
We found slight but noticeable improvements in cleanliness, order, and overall organization. The food is…
THE EXPERIENCE 8.5/10 · 2026
Restaurant·Sarrià-Sant Gervasi · 55€
Monocrom is a wine-led bistro in the best sense: the room is built around bottles, and the kitchen plays…
THE EXPERIENCE 8.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Sarrià-Sant Gervasi · 85€
Coure is Barcelona bistronomy at its most confident: contemporary Catalan-Mediterranean cooking,…
THE EXPERIENCE 8.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 80€
Suru is doing a lot of things right. The cooking leans modern and product-led: clean technique, strong raw…
THE EXPERIENCE 8.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 65€
Nairod cooks in that rare zone where tradition feels alive, not nostalgic. The style is market-driven and…
THE EXPERIENCE 8.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Sarrià-Sant Gervasi · 70€
New year, same Hisop. The food remains delicious, the room balanced, the atmosphere warm, the price…
THE EXPERIENCE 8.5/10 · 2026
Restaurant·Ciutat Vella · 45€
Bellafilla now feels like it’s finally pulling in the same direction. After the latest changes, the lingering…
THE EXPERIENCE 8/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 110€
Sun Taka feels like a place you have to work a little to reach—physically and conceptually. The space is…
THE EXPERIENCE 8/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Gràcia · 110€
Agreste Mar feels like Barcelona taking a deep breath at the waterline. Set inside the Serras, facing Port…
THE EXPERIENCE 8/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Eixample · 230€
Mont Bar has the rare talent of feeling like a neighborhood hideaway while cooking with the focus of a…
THE EXPERIENCE 8/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Eixample · 60€
Pepa Bar a Vins is a good-looking, easy-going wine bar that gets the fundamentals right: pleasant room,…
THE EXPERIENCE 8/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Barcelona · 50€
Bacaro cooks in a Venetian-trattoria lane: Italian small plates, pastas, and market-driven mains that lean on…
THE EXPERIENCE 8/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Ciutat Vella · 100€
Dos Pebrots plays in a rare lane: cooking that looks backward to move forward. The food leans into…
THE EXPERIENCE 8/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 70€
Maleducat lives in that modern Barcelona lane of Catalan-Mediterranean plates for sharing: seasonal product,…
THE EXPERIENCE 8/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 30€
Entrepanes Díaz plays the “just a sandwich spot” card, then quietly overdelivers. It’s a proper Eixample bar…
THE EXPERIENCE 8/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 110€
Besta cooks between two seas: a Galician–Catalan dialogue with a serious seafood focus, Atlantic depth…
THE EXPERIENCE 8/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 85€
Teòric Taverna is modern Catalan cooking with old roots: seasonal, local-minded, and built around a…
THE EXPERIENCE 8/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Gràcia · 45€
Shoronpo is a tight little Japanese spot built around two comfort pillars: shoronpo soup dumplings and ramen.…
THE EXPERIENCE 8/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Gràcia · 45€
Contracorrent Gràcia feels like a chef-led place that’s trying to give us a lot without making it feel…
THE EXPERIENCE 8/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 55€
The Eixample Sartoria Panatieri isn’t the kind of place you visit for coziness or beauty—at least not in the…
THE EXPERIENCE 7.5/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Gràcia · 50€
In a city crowded with carefully rehearsed “canalla” attitudes, Bodega Bonavista is refreshing for what it…
THE EXPERIENCE 7.5/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Ciutat Vella · 70€
Assalto began life as a wine bar and, like so many good nights in Barcelona, it gradually turned into…
THE EXPERIENCE 7.5/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Gràcia · 30€
Extra Bar feels less like a restaurant than a neighborhood compressed into four walls. It’s small, casual,…
THE EXPERIENCE 7.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Les Corts · 85€
Ribera Manero greets you with a certain chill—not in temperature, but in feeling. The space reads a bit cold…
THE EXPERIENCE 7.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Sants Montjuic · 110€
Alapar is, first and foremost, a room. You walk in and immediately feel the care—light, texture, and design…
THE EXPERIENCE 7.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 150€
Melòs arrives with the poise of a chef who’s already done the hard part—finding a voice—and now wants to…
THE EXPERIENCE 7.5/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Eixample · 55€
Bodega Bonay is the sort of place you recommend when you want to avoid both disappointment and commitment.…
THE EXPERIENCE 7.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Ciutat Vella · 55€
Rasoterra is one of Barcelona’s vegetarian institutions: plant-based cooking with years of practice behind…
THE EXPERIENCE 7.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Gràcia · 35€
Hermòs Bar de Peix lives inside a fishmonger stall in a market, and that sets the tone: the product is…
THE EXPERIENCE 7.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Gràcia · 80€
Berbena does a lot right. The product is good, the cooking is clean, and the room runs smoothly—the kind of…
THE EXPERIENCE 7.5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Sarrià-Sant Gervasi · 60€
Bambarol has the kind of reputation that suggests a bigger payoff than it actually delivers. The room itself…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Ciutat Vella · 70€
Bar Cañete is one of those places that still feels like a proper night out in Barcelona: bright lights, a…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 20€
The Fish and Chips Shop has expanded into a small Barcelona mini-chain, and it’s earned that status the…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Sant Martí · 150€
Aürt is the kind of place that makes you question, immediately, whether context is part of the meal. It sits…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Sants Montjuic · 60€
Bodega Amposta sits firmly in the category of “traditional done traditionally,” with just enough modern nods…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 55€
Taktika Berri trades in the reassuring language of Euskadi: classic dishes, solid portions, and the quiet…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Sant Martí · 65€
Tres Porquets feels like a veteran Barcelona address that knows how to run a dining room. The style is…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Eixample · 45€
Garage Bar wears its identity loud and proud: this is a natural-wine-first place, from the way the list is…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Eixample · 45€
Mon Vínic is a wine-and-cheese bar with a shop attached, and it still feels like a benchmark for drinking in…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 55€
La Gormanda is the kind of place that wins you over before the first bite: a pretty, well-decorated room and…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Sants Montjuic · 40€
La Mundana sits in modern Barcelona bistronomy: Mediterranean small plates, a few global touches, and that…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 35€
Casa Alfonso is a classic casa de comidas: straightforward, traditional food built for everyday dining. The…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Gràcia · 40€
Bocanariz, like a some other venues, replied to our 2025 review with impeccable politeness. They told us,…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2026
Restaurant·Sarrià-Sant Gervasi · 110€
Ultramarinos Marín is a product-driven Spanish grill house: market seafood and top meats cooked over embers,…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Ciutat Vella · 65€
Fismuler is contemporary, product-driven Spanish cooking with a global accent: market ingredients,…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 45€
Bar Canyí feels engineered for the feed: vinyl spinning, crowd buzzing, and that “neo-traditional” Barcelona…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 170€
Slow & Low is modern Barcelona cooking with the volume turned up: open-kitchen intensity, contemporary…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Sants Montjuic · 30€
Macot is a charming, well-kept wine bar in the “modern Catalan small plates” lane: shareable dishes, good raw…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Ciutat Vella · 125€
Suculent cooks the way Barcelona often wishes it did: Mediterranean and Spanish “platos de siempre” rebuilt…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Eixample · 30€
We went back to Sin Mala Uva, despite the fact that it did not exactly thrill us in 2025, and this time we…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2026
Wine Bar·Ciutat Vella · 40€
Bar del Pla sells a Barcelona-bohemian fantasy really well: tight room, high energy, tapas built to share,…
THE EXPERIENCE 7/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Ciutat Vella · 60€
Llambèr has settled into that coveted Barcelona category: the “new classic.” The location does half the…
THE EXPERIENCE 6.5/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Sarrià-Sant Gervasi · 40€
El Petit Celler is undeniably good-looking, but it’s a little emotionally distant—more display than…
THE EXPERIENCE 6/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Sarrià-Sant Gervasi · 100€
Incorrecte is committed—almost heroically—to its own idea of “canalla.” The wrongness is curated, the…
THE EXPERIENCE 6/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Gràcia · 55€
Bodega Solera feels like it’s trying to transport us to Jerez, right in the center of Barcelona. We get the…
THE EXPERIENCE 6/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Gràcia · 150€
Botafumeiro is classic Barcelona marisquería: Galician-leaning seafood and Mediterranean staples, built…
THE EXPERIENCE 6/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Gràcia · 30€
La Graciosa has one undeniable asset: the terrace. It’s genuinely pretty, the kind of place that makes us sit…
THE EXPERIENCE 6/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 40€
Bar Mut still looks like the kind of place you’d text a friend about: warm lighting, handsome wood, that…
THE EXPERIENCE 6/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Eixample · 40€
Doga Wine Bar looks like it wants to belong to that modern Barcelona category of “natural wine + small plates…
THE EXPERIENCE 5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Gràcia · 35€
Pepa Tomate looks like it should be a win: lively Gràcia energy, a warm little room, and that familiar…
THE EXPERIENCE 5/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Ciutat Vella · 30€
Agüita Wine Specialist presents itself like a polished little oasis: warm lighting, curated corners, that…
THE EXPERIENCE 5/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Sant Martí · 45€
Achaar Bar arrives wearing the current Barcelona uniform—casual defiance, curated roughness, the promise of…
THE EXPERIENCE 5/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Sarrià-Sant Gervasi · 55€
Hijos de Javier positions itself inside Barcelona’s now-standard “canalla” current, but with an acrobatic…
THE EXPERIENCE 5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Gràcia · 50€
Fonda Pirenaicas has cracked a tricky modern formula: serve “normal” food, make it feel like a revelation,…
THE EXPERIENCE 5/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Sarrià-Sant Gervasi · 45€
There’s a particular kind of contemporary Barcelona venue that insists it’s giving you “the basics,” when…
THE EXPERIENCE 5/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Ciutat Vella · 55€
Ziryab presents itself as a crossroads—fusion, dialogue, borders dissolving into something new. The space…
THE EXPERIENCE 5/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Gràcia · 30€
Bar Salvatge leans hard into the natural-wine identity: low-intervention bottles, lots of attitude, and a…
THE EXPERIENCE 5/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Sant Martí · 35€
Masa is a very defined proposition: natural wines, a design-forward “living room” vibe, and a small-plates…
THE EXPERIENCE 5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 85€
Público is a large, polished wine bar built around a simple promise: lots of bottles, plenty by the glass,…
THE EXPERIENCE 5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 35€
Torpedo is a late-night Barcelona bar built around the classics done “chef-style”: gourmet sandwiches, a…
THE EXPERIENCE 5/10 · 2025
Restaurant·Eixample · 55€
Colmado Murria is pure Barcelona postcard in the best way: a centenary space with real charm, gorgeous…
THE EXPERIENCE 5/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Ciutat Vella · 40€
Bar Brutal looks the part: busy room, loud confidence, and a vibe that’s constantly telling us we’re in the…
THE EXPERIENCE 5/10 · 2025
Wine Bar·Eixample · 45€
Prime location, handsome room, utterly senseless concept. We went back to Vertical a few months after its…
THE EXPERIENCE 5/10 · 2026
Restaurant·Barcelona · 115€
After all the noise surrounding the opening of this new restaurant from chef Artur Martínez — formerly of…
THE EXPERIENCE 5/10 · 2026
Wine Bar·Barcelona · 30€
Behind a handsome space that is oddly hard to get into — physically, if not metaphorically — lies the…
THE EXPERIENCE 5/10 · 2026