Where to eat in Barcelona

Restaurants, cafés and street food in Barcelona, Spain that locals actually go to — plus the local names for the chains you already know.

• Quimet & Quimet — Montaditos, Poble-sec (2). Order the Salmon-yogurt-truffle honey montadito. Fourth-generation standing-room bar; montaditos built like jewelry.
• Can Paixano (La Xampanyeria) — Cava bar, Barceloneta (1). Order the Rosé cava + chorizo bocadillo. Elbow-to-elbow pink cava and sausage sandwiches — gloriously chaotic.
• Bar Cañete — Tapas / Andalusian, El Raval (3). Order the Ortiguillas + jamón croquetas. White-jacket service, Raval energy, product-first tapas.
• Granja M. Viader — Granja / chocolate, El Raval (1). Order the Suís (hot chocolate + cream). Since 1870 — birthplace of Cacaolat; order the suís.
• Disfrutar — Avant-garde, Eixample (4). Order the Tasting menu. The elBulli heirs' playground — one of the world's great meals.
• El Xampanyet — Tapas / cava, El Born (1). Order the Anchovies + xampanyet. Anchovies and house cava in a tiled 1929 time capsule.
• Els Quatre Gats — Catalan café, Gothic Quarter (2). Order the Coffee + pa amb tomàquet. Picasso's haunt (1897) — go for coffee and the room itself.
• La Cova Fumada — Tapas, Barceloneta (1). Order the La bomba + grilled artichokes. The 1944 family bodega where the bomba was invented.
• Cal Pep — Seafood tapas, El Born (3). Order the Trust the counter (clams, tuna tartare). Counter-only seafood theatre — trust Pep's crew and order nothing yourself.
• Bodega 1900 — Vermuteria, Sant Antoni (3). Order the Spherified olives + vermut. Albert Adrià's ode to the vermouth hour.

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