Guidebook for Barcelona

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Guidebook for Barcelona

Food Scene

It's really close, nice, and with a great assortment.
Farina & sons
264 Carrer Gran de Gràcia
It's really close, nice, and with a great assortment.
Great place for take away woks. It's also a great organic supermarket, where you can get some stuff while you wait for your noodles
46 locals recommend
Organic Market Gràcia
22 Carrer d'Astúries
46 locals recommend
Great place for take away woks. It's also a great organic supermarket, where you can get some stuff while you wait for your noodles
My favorite tapas restaurant in the city. Average cost but very good quality, big serves and a great assortment of regular tapas and season specials.
Bar Morryson
162 Carrer de Girona
My favorite tapas restaurant in the city. Average cost but very good quality, big serves and a great assortment of regular tapas and season specials.
My favorite burger place in the district. (for enthusiasts please ask, there're other 3 or 4 nice places around).
21 locals recommend
La Vespa Burger bar
99 Carrer del Torrent de l'Olla
21 locals recommend
My favorite burger place in the district. (for enthusiasts please ask, there're other 3 or 4 nice places around).
Catalan food restaurant. Small but nice place, to get some mid-price local food.
18 locals recommend
La Llesca
6 Carrer de Terol
18 locals recommend
Catalan food restaurant. Small but nice place, to get some mid-price local food.
Typical Catalan food restaurant. It's quite nice and big, but it's also getting lately a bit expensive, due to its success.
69 locals recommend
Taverna El Glop
24 Carrer de Sant Lluís
69 locals recommend
Typical Catalan food restaurant. It's quite nice and big, but it's also getting lately a bit expensive, due to its success.
Nice hipster place for some extrasweet breakfast.
24 locals recommend
Lukumás
169 Carrer del Torrent de l'Olla
24 locals recommend
Nice hipster place for some extrasweet breakfast.
Nice place for a breakfast/brunch
19 locals recommend
SMS Delícies
33 Carrer d'Astúries
19 locals recommend
Nice place for a breakfast/brunch
Don't get fooled for the way it looks: you'll find a lot of ice cream places around the city, but this is one of the best ones!
16 locals recommend
Gelateria Italiana Deliziosa
2 Plaça Revolució de Setembre 1868
16 locals recommend
Don't get fooled for the way it looks: you'll find a lot of ice cream places around the city, but this is one of the best ones!
This might be the best ice creams in the city. Worth trying it if you're around.
32 locals recommend
DeLaCrem
15 Carrer d'Enric Granados
32 locals recommend
This might be the best ice creams in the city. Worth trying it if you're around.
This street is the very center of chinatown, with several amazing restaurants. If you like real Chinese cuisine you might wanna try this one, or ask me for other authentic places.
DaZhong
34 Carrer d'Alí Bei
This street is the very center of chinatown, with several amazing restaurants. If you like real Chinese cuisine you might wanna try this one, or ask me for other authentic places.
Hidden Japanese restaurant. Hard to find but really nice food!
10 locals recommend
Sushi Ya 2
3 Carrer del Cometa
10 locals recommend
Hidden Japanese restaurant. Hard to find but really nice food!
Totally off the touristical-route Japanese restaurant. Ideal for a very quiet and romantic dinner, or for a slow-food luch during the week.
Katafuchi
16 Passatge de Batlló
Totally off the touristical-route Japanese restaurant. Ideal for a very quiet and romantic dinner, or for a slow-food luch during the week.
This is not exactly a tapas bar, but a pintxo bar! Amazing place to sit at the bar (not on a table) and get some small pieces of fish on bread and other cool Basque food specials.
Jaizkibel
180 Carrer de Sicília
This is not exactly a tapas bar, but a pintxo bar! Amazing place to sit at the bar (not on a table) and get some small pieces of fish on bread and other cool Basque food specials.

Parks & Nature

2138 locals recommend
Park Güell
2138 locals recommend
Great view from this spot. You can access easily there Carretera de les Aigües (water road), a 9km path along the hill next to the city.
Plaça Doctor Andreu
Great view from this spot. You can access easily there Carretera de les Aigües (water road), a 9km path along the hill next to the city.
The city has many kilometers of beach… but the closest to the center are more crowded, and there might be more burglars. This one is nice and a bit more quiet.
279 locals recommend
Bogatell Beach
279 locals recommend
The city has many kilometers of beach… but the closest to the center are more crowded, and there might be more burglars. This one is nice and a bit more quiet.

Shopping

Verdi street is the classic shopping one in the neigorhood, with all kinds of original shops
63 locals recommend
Carrer de Verdi
Carrer de Verdi
63 locals recommend
Verdi street is the classic shopping one in the neigorhood, with all kinds of original shops
Pestrian street full of shops. Easy access to other supershopping streets around, like Portaferrissa
308 locals recommend
Avinguda del Portal de l'Àngel
Avinguda del Portal de l'Àngel
308 locals recommend
Pestrian street full of shops. Easy access to other supershopping streets around, like Portaferrissa
Not sure if it's the biggest mall in the city, but it's definitely the poshest one.
383 locals recommend
L'illa Diagonal
557 Avinguda Diagonal
383 locals recommend
Not sure if it's the biggest mall in the city, but it's definitely the poshest one.
Big shopping mall, built inside an old bullfighting ring
800 locals recommend
Arenas de Barcelona Multicines
385 Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes
800 locals recommend
Big shopping mall, built inside an old bullfighting ring
Another big shopping mall, with plenty of restaurants.
391 locals recommend
Goofretti Glories
208 Avinguda Diagonal
391 locals recommend
Another big shopping mall, with plenty of restaurants.
Forget Boqueria, it has become a tourist trap! If you want to see how we still buy groceries in an old-style market, the "Gracia central market" is the place to go.
79 locals recommend
Abaceria Market
168 Pg. de Sant Joan
79 locals recommend
Forget Boqueria, it has become a tourist trap! If you want to see how we still buy groceries in an old-style market, the "Gracia central market" is the place to go.

Drinks & Nightlife

Sol square is totally surrounded by bars and terraces. People at night even sit on the floor with drinks.
163 locals recommend
Plaza del Sol
Plaça del Sol
163 locals recommend
Sol square is totally surrounded by bars and terraces. People at night even sit on the floor with drinks.
Escudellers is "the street". In gothic district, it's just one bar next to the other, with some pubs or small discos too
Carrer dels Escudellers
Carrer dels Escudellers
Escudellers is "the street". In gothic district, it's just one bar next to the other, with some pubs or small discos too
Blai street has quickly become the hipster place to be, to be seen and to meet friends. Pedestrian street with one bar next to the other. It's very cheap, but don't expect much quality tapas or food there.
474 locals recommend
Carrer de Blai
Carrer de Blai
474 locals recommend
Blai street has quickly become the hipster place to be, to be seen and to meet friends. Pedestrian street with one bar next to the other. It's very cheap, but don't expect much quality tapas or food there.
Small but supercool place. Ideal for a quiet and nice drink.
14 locals recommend
Timeline Bar
3 Carrer de la Providència
14 locals recommend
Small but supercool place. Ideal for a quiet and nice drink.
Very old tavern. Nice place for a beer or a "vermut", or maybe some small tapas too.
15 locals recommend
Bar Bodega Quimet
23 Carrer de Vic
15 locals recommend
Very old tavern. Nice place for a beer or a "vermut", or maybe some small tapas too.
The temple of clubbing in Barcelona. Mostly techno and minimal, but with concerts and other styles inbetween the week
656 locals recommend
Sala Apolo
113 Carrer Nou de la Rambla
656 locals recommend
The temple of clubbing in Barcelona. Mostly techno and minimal, but with concerts and other styles inbetween the week
That's my favorite square in Gracia. Only 3 bars with their terrace, but a very quiet and nice place for a drink, and right next to Torrijos street (with some other cool bars, sweet places and Mexican food)
102 locals recommend
Plaça de la Virreina
42 Carrer de l'Or
102 locals recommend
That's my favorite square in Gracia. Only 3 bars with their terrace, but a very quiet and nice place for a drink, and right next to Torrijos street (with some other cool bars, sweet places and Mexican food)

Getting Around

Big square, with metro station and several bus lines.
41 locals recommend
Lesseps station
41 locals recommend
Big square, with metro station and several bus lines.
Small train station, but easy to access from home. It's possible to take trains to some destinations there.
982 locals recommend
Passeig de Gracia
Passeig de Gràcia
982 locals recommend
Small train station, but easy to access from home. It's possible to take trains to some destinations there.
"The center" of the city. It also serves as public transport node: train station (some destinations only), bus to the airport, several metro lines, a lot of buses, and exchange point of almost all night buses of the city.
1289 locals recommend
Catalonia Square
Plaça de Catalunya
1289 locals recommend
"The center" of the city. It also serves as public transport node: train station (some destinations only), bus to the airport, several metro lines, a lot of buses, and exchange point of almost all night buses of the city.
Main train station. Suitable mostly for long distance trains. To get trains to closer areas it might be better to go to other stations, closer to your lodgment.
331 locals recommend
Sants Estació
331 locals recommend
Main train station. Suitable mostly for long distance trains. To get trains to closer areas it might be better to go to other stations, closer to your lodgment.

Sightseeing

This is a big museum of old Catalan art, but also has an amazing view of the city from the South
861 locals recommend
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC
s/n Parc de Montjuïc
861 locals recommend
This is a big museum of old Catalan art, but also has an amazing view of the city from the South
This square hosts what used to be the town hall when Gracia was an independent town. Currently is full of bars and usually children playing or eating ice-cream. You'll not believe you're just 5 minutes away of the one of most transited and snob crossings in the city.
102 locals recommend
Plaça de la Vila de Gràcia
102 locals recommend
This square hosts what used to be the town hall when Gracia was an independent town. Currently is full of bars and usually children playing or eating ice-cream. You'll not believe you're just 5 minutes away of the one of most transited and snob crossings in the city.

Essentials

You don't need to go too far for a supermarket… Condis is cheap and you'll find anything you need.
18 locals recommend
CondisLife
166 Carrer del Bruc
18 locals recommend
You don't need to go too far for a supermarket… Condis is cheap and you'll find anything you need.
Classic, it's 9pm, Sunday or holidays, you need something and supermarkets are closed… In this street you'll find 2 supermarkets that are open till night and on Sundays.
Supermercat Express
40 Carrer de Pérez Galdós
Classic, it's 9pm, Sunday or holidays, you need something and supermarkets are closed… In this street you'll find 2 supermarkets that are open till night and on Sundays.